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1.
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com/voideditor)
948 points by sharjeelsayed 14 days ago | 343 comments
2.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (hayman.net)
1209 points by mattl 14 days ago | 293 comments
3.
Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)
532 points by chrisdemarco 14 days ago | 105 comments
4.
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)
606 points by saikatsg 14 days ago | 1040 comments
5.
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)
232 points by sam 14 days ago | 142 comments
6.
June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (quantamagazine.org)
219 points by bpierre 15 days ago | 139 comments
7.
When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)
228 points by impish9208 16 days ago | 79 comments
8.
How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (electrospaces.net)
220 points by lastdong 18 days ago | 82 comments
9.
How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)
334 points by lucasfcosta 17 days ago | 101 comments
10.
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
336 points by doener 15 days ago | 125 comments
11.
Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)
308 points by c16 15 days ago | 69 comments
12.
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (anthropic.com)
234 points by namukang 14 days ago | 277 comments
13.
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
530 points by troupo 15 days ago | 372 comments
14.
Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (engadget.com)
217 points by thibautg 15 days ago | 326 comments
15.
A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser (martypc.net)
158 points by GloriousCow 18 days ago | 25 comments
16.
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)
678 points by nrvn 15 days ago | 654 comments
17.
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (catern.com)
194 points by aquastorm 17 days ago | 244 comments
18.
Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US (github.com/ivanbelenky)
114 points by ivanbelenky 15 days ago | 26 comments
19.
Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days (phys.org)
136 points by pseudolus 16 days ago | 45 comments
20.
Static as a Server (overreacted.io)
115 points by danabramov 14 days ago | 116 comments
21.
Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
194 points by doener 15 days ago | 53 comments
22.
Stability by Design (potetm.com)
132 points by potetm 14 days ago | 65 comments
23.
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com/qpoint-io)
259 points by tylerflint 14 days ago | 78 comments
24.
How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)
218 points by moyer 17 days ago | 71 comments
25.
Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)
291 points by aburan28 15 days ago | 356 comments
26.
Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (artnet.com)
125 points by isaacfrond 15 days ago | 105 comments
27.
Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector (github.com/jart)
104 points by gone35 18 days ago | 6 comments
28.
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (m-arriola.com)
72 points by t55 14 days ago | 16 comments
29.
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)
189 points by jermaustin1 14 days ago | 104 comments
30.
NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (nbcnews.com)
278 points by __natty__ 17 days ago | 155 comments

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