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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
795 points by akanet 2 days ago | 190 comments
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Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
448 points by sshh12 2 days ago | 89 comments
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
334 points by pr337h4m 2 days ago | 31 comments
4.
Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control (figure.ai)
296 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 167 comments
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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
865 points by perihelions 2 days ago | 1648 comments
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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
445 points by isaacfrond 2 days ago | 129 comments
7.
The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
169 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 120 comments
8.
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/openrakis)
169 points by alberto-m 2 days ago | 41 comments
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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com)
374 points by clumsysmurf 3 days ago | 192 comments
10.
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
309 points by sebg 2 days ago | 110 comments
11.
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation (humanaigc.github.io)
166 points by ToJans 6 days ago | 48 comments
12.
Customizable HTML Select (chrome.com)
224 points by dsego 2 days ago | 146 comments
13.
When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
266 points by impish9208 2 days ago | 291 comments
14.
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog)
325 points by ingve 2 days ago | 69 comments
15.
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax (kyunghyuncho.me)
182 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 110 comments
16.
How browsers really load web pages [video] (fosdem.org)
183 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 74 comments
17.
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com/lox-space)
117 points by ElFitz 2 days ago | 42 comments
18.
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com/rt64)
118 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 49 comments
19.
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (sylver.dev)
215 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 26 comments
20.
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
127 points by BerislavLopac 3 days ago | 31 comments
21.
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
113 points by jeffreyip 2 days ago | 26 comments
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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
302 points by SerCe 3 days ago | 68 comments
23.
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise (obscura.net)
222 points by lostin01010101 3 days ago | 159 comments
24.
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic (github.com/vlm-run)
167 points by EarlyOom 3 days ago | 29 comments
25.
What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf] (washington.edu)
94 points by azhenley 3 days ago | 48 comments
26.
New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)
210 points by leephillips 2 days ago | 76 comments
27.
F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org)
76 points by mpweiher 5 days ago | 46 comments
28.
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com)
284 points by ghuntley 3 days ago | 622 comments
29.
Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
65 points by mefengl 6 days ago | 25 comments
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Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev)
49 points by emykhailenko 4 days ago | 16 comments

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