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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
614 points by akanet 14 hours ago | 157 comments
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Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control (figure.ai)
282 points by Philpax 21 hours ago | 159 comments
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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
428 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 120 comments
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Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/openrakis)
160 points by alberto-m 20 hours ago | 36 comments
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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
823 points by perihelions 1 day ago | 1578 comments
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The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
168 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 115 comments
7.
When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
231 points by impish9208 23 hours ago | 258 comments
8.
Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
250 points by pr337h4m 16 hours ago | 25 comments
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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com)
363 points by clumsysmurf 1 day ago | 192 comments
10.
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog)
309 points by ingve 1 day ago | 67 comments
11.
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation (humanaigc.github.io)
164 points by ToJans 5 days ago | 44 comments
12.
Customizable HTML Select (chrome.com)
211 points by dsego 23 hours ago | 129 comments
13.
Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
332 points by sshh12 13 hours ago | 76 comments
14.
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax (kyunghyuncho.me)
176 points by jxmorris12 5 days ago | 98 comments
15.
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com/lox-space)
109 points by ElFitz 20 hours ago | 40 comments
16.
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com/rt64)
112 points by klaussilveira 22 hours ago | 42 comments
17.
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (sylver.dev)
209 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 24 comments
18.
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
104 points by jeffreyip 19 hours ago | 21 comments
19.
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
232 points by sebg 13 hours ago | 80 comments
20.
Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
299 points by SerCe 1 day ago | 68 comments
21.
How browsers really load web pages [video] (fosdem.org)
139 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 58 comments
22.
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
97 points by BerislavLopac 1 day ago | 24 comments
23.
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise (obscura.net)
219 points by lostin01010101 1 day ago | 157 comments
24.
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic (github.com/vlm-run)
162 points by EarlyOom 1 day ago | 28 comments
25.
What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf] (washington.edu)
92 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 48 comments
26.
New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)
196 points by leephillips 16 hours ago | 62 comments
27.
F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org)
75 points by mpweiher 3 days ago | 46 comments
28.
Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
65 points by mefengl 5 days ago | 25 comments
29.
Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev)
47 points by emykhailenko 2 days ago | 14 comments
30.
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com)
249 points by ghuntley 1 day ago | 591 comments

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