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1.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
1074 points by milkglass 17 hours ago | 756 comments
2.
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
735 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 512 comments
3.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
406 points by chiefalchemist 23 hours ago | 280 comments
4.
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
279 points by Nrbelex 4 days ago | 149 comments
5.
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
527 points by _-x-_ 23 hours ago | 178 comments
6.
OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
287 points by tanelpoder 3 days ago | 63 comments
7.
America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
155 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 162 comments
8.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
586 points by elisaado 13 hours ago | 274 comments
9.
Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
206 points by iamwil 2 days ago | 53 comments
10.
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
160 points by zdkaster 20 hours ago | 55 comments
11.
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
328 points by gasull 20 hours ago | 183 comments
12.
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
270 points by sph 14 hours ago | 77 comments
13.
Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
145 points by signa11 3 days ago | 22 comments
14.
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
201 points by yak32 3 days ago | 47 comments
15.
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
74 points by jger15 3 days ago | 14 comments
16.
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
161 points by offbyone42 23 hours ago | 24 comments
17.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
511 points by jamesponddotco 7 hours ago | 202 comments
18.
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
81 points by subset 16 hours ago | 11 comments
19.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
230 points by kmdupree 10 hours ago | 135 comments
20.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
393 points by jeremyccrane 7 hours ago | 547 comments
21.
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
72 points by tosh 3 days ago | 3 comments
22.
Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
186 points by j0r0b0 7 hours ago | 118 comments
23.
Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)
497 points by skullone 1 day ago | 296 comments
24.
GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup (github.com/orgs)
223 points by luckman212 9 hours ago | 117 comments
25.
Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
77 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 55 comments
26.
Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE (coalton-lang.github.io)
100 points by Jach 2 days ago | 5 comments
27.
Cheating at Tetris (chalkdustmagazine.com)
58 points by t-3 4 days ago | 20 comments
28.
Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 (dillo-browser.org)
145 points by rodarima 6 hours ago | 24 comments
29.
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
94 points by 2DcAf 8 hours ago | 28 comments
30.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
227 points by koshyjohn 3 hours ago | 186 comments

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