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1. I still like Sublime Text (ohdoylerules.com)
1025 points by james2doyle 1 day ago | 532 comments
2. Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs (youtube.com)
714 points by m348e912 1 day ago | 271 comments
3. [flagged] OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us (404media.co)
1288 points by latexr 16 hours ago | 12 comments
4. Composable SQL (borretti.me)
258 points by earnestinger 3 days ago | 135 comments
5. What's OAuth2, anyway? (romaglushko.com)
312 points by roma_glushko 3 days ago | 80 comments
6. An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1 (arcprize.org)
489 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 191 comments
7. Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression (science.org)
403 points by Luc 21 hours ago | 178 comments
8. Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history (wiz.io)
537 points by talhof8 10 hours ago | 353 comments
9. We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer (utcc.utoronto.ca)
174 points by epakai 23 hours ago | 109 comments
10. SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch (github.com/om-alve)
262 points by amrrs 13 hours ago | 35 comments
11. Discovery Coding (jimmyhmiller.github.io)
238 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 84 comments
12. Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy (nasa.gov)
296 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 18 hours ago | 233 comments
13. A new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts (news.berkeley.edu)
72 points by gmays 1 day ago | 10 comments
14. Why DeepSeek had to be open source (getlago.com)
497 points by AnhTho_FR 16 hours ago | 270 comments
15. Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance (ebpf.foundation)
136 points by ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago | 17 comments
16. Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch (andrewchilds.com)
299 points by andrewchilds 1 day ago | 39 comments
17. Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)
329 points by 6581 18 hours ago | 198 comments
18. Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones (bloomberg.com)
230 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 243 comments
19. Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019) (illinois.edu)
73 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 22 comments
20. Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs (github.com/arthi-chaud)
152 points by arti_chaud 1 day ago | 45 comments
21. Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library (lithub.com)
227 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 137 comments
22. A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime (instantdb.com)
155 points by stopachka 14 hours ago | 47 comments
23. Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013) (discovermagazine.com)
209 points by 1970-01-01 13 hours ago | 147 comments
24. Making the video that made Gorillaz (animationobsessive.substack.com)
182 points by darekkay 10 hours ago | 41 comments
25. A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000 (celso.io)
132 points by doener 16 hours ago | 35 comments
26. Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update (androidcentral.com)
265 points by bmaupin 16 hours ago | 256 comments
27. Recreating Delicious Library in 2025? (dingyu.me)
64 points by felixding 1 day ago | 51 comments
28. Soviet Shoe Factory Principle (c2.com)
115 points by dccoolgai 11 hours ago | 92 comments
29. I do not want AI to "polish" me (thebloggess.com)
396 points by doodpants 17 hours ago | 252 comments
30. Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust (chriis.dev)
114 points by bustylasercanon 10 hours ago | 11 comments

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