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1.
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)
330 points by frays 17 hours ago | 310 comments
2.
Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)
163 points by jibcage 4 days ago | 76 comments
3.
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)
206 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | 70 comments
4.
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
123 points by lukeplato 2 days ago | 10 comments
5.
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)
184 points by tomjakubowski 1 day ago | 223 comments
6.
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)
404 points by mpweiher 14 hours ago | 264 comments
7.
δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
189 points by 44za12 14 hours ago | 51 comments
8.
SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (nvlabs.github.io)
284 points by mjgil 12 hours ago | 119 comments
9.
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (phoboslab.org)
164 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 26 comments
10.
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019) (refractor.io)
283 points by breve 14 hours ago | 200 comments
11.
Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)
234 points by eamag 12 hours ago | 136 comments
12.
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution (github.com/chiennv2000)
217 points by FranckDernoncou 1 day ago | 43 comments
13.
Futhark by example (futhark-lang.org)
107 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 26 comments
14.
Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)
97 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 62 comments
15.
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)
308 points by redbell 1 day ago | 124 comments
16.
Erlang/OTP 29.0 (erlang.org)
246 points by pyinstallwoes 1 day ago | 54 comments
17.
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)
99 points by ednaordinary 2 days ago | 32 comments
18.
'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens (kevinpatel.xyz)
414 points by alligatorplum 23 hours ago | 203 comments
19.
ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board (autodidacts.io)
66 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 16 comments
20.
England Runestones (wikipedia.org)
80 points by cl3misch 3 days ago | 32 comments
21.
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (theregister.com)
224 points by _____k 15 hours ago | 212 comments
22.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)
199 points by Brajeshwar 9 hours ago | 67 comments
23.
Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI (ljtn.github.io)
83 points by jolaflow 23 hours ago | 45 comments
24.
 [dupe] Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (codeberg.org/hails)
212 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 105 comments
25.
HTML Lists (frankmtaylor.com)
276 points by speckx 7 hours ago | 62 comments
26.
Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)
94 points by ricochet11 12 hours ago | 42 comments
27.
Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations (github.com/acceleratehs)
72 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 17 comments
28.
After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library (github.com/noahgolmant)
69 points by noahgolmant 2 days ago | 1 comment
29.
I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan (gardinerbryant.com)
86 points by Kate0CoolLibby 4 days ago | 47 comments
30.
PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools (parttelescopes.web.app)
102 points by openrockets 9 hours ago | 28 comments

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