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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
749 points by akanet 20 hours ago | 179 comments
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
313 points by pr337h4m 22 hours ago | 31 comments
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Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
411 points by sshh12 19 hours ago | 85 comments
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Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control (figure.ai)
288 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 163 comments
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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
837 points by perihelions 1 day ago | 1612 comments
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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
437 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 121 comments
7.
The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
168 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 115 comments
8.
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/openrakis)
164 points by alberto-m 1 day ago | 36 comments
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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com)
367 points by clumsysmurf 1 day ago | 192 comments
10.
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
285 points by sebg 20 hours ago | 96 comments
11.
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation (humanaigc.github.io)
165 points by ToJans 5 days ago | 47 comments
12.
Customizable HTML Select (chrome.com)
218 points by dsego 1 day ago | 137 comments
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When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
250 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 283 comments
14.
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog)
312 points by ingve 1 day ago | 67 comments
15.
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax (kyunghyuncho.me)
177 points by jxmorris12 5 days ago | 105 comments
16.
How browsers really load web pages [video] (fosdem.org)
168 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 65 comments
17.
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com/lox-space)
112 points by ElFitz 1 day ago | 40 comments
18.
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com/rt64)
113 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 45 comments
19.
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (sylver.dev)
212 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments
20.
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
112 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 28 comments
21.
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
107 points by jeffreyip 1 day ago | 24 comments
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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
299 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 68 comments
23.
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise (obscura.net)
221 points by lostin01010101 1 day ago | 159 comments
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Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic (github.com/vlm-run)
164 points by EarlyOom 1 day ago | 28 comments
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What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf] (washington.edu)
93 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 48 comments
26.
New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)
204 points by leephillips 23 hours ago | 68 comments
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F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org)
76 points by mpweiher 3 days ago | 46 comments
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Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
65 points by mefengl 5 days ago | 25 comments
29.
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com)
261 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 605 comments
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Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev)
48 points by emykhailenko 3 days ago | 14 comments

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