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1.
The Origins of DS_store (2006) (arno.org)
554 points by edavis 7 months ago | 266 comments
2.
Should this be a map or 500 maps? (escapethealgorithm.substack.com)
340 points by cromulent 7 months ago | 107 comments
3.
Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C (salykova.github.io)
392 points by p1esk 7 months ago | 81 comments
4.
Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes (lazamar.github.io)
232 points by lazamar 7 months ago | 88 comments
5.
Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers (securityweek.com)
663 points by mindracer 7 months ago | 396 comments
6.
Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back (ieee.org)
279 points by cyberlimerence 7 months ago | 156 comments
7.
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash (nelhage.com)
247 points by brianyu8 7 months ago | 36 comments
8.
Analyzing my electricity consumption (zdimension.fr)
287 points by skadamat 7 months ago | 277 comments
9.
SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet (github.com/andmarti1424)
420 points by emersonrsantos 7 months ago | 122 comments
10.
Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics (ncsu.edu)
217 points by gnabgib 7 months ago | 98 comments
11.
Oldest cave art found (bbc.com)
193 points by rntn 7 months ago | 84 comments
12.
The sad state of property-based testing libraries (stevana.github.io)
208 points by nequo 7 months ago | 121 comments
13.
Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion (boyuan.space)
214 points by magoghm 7 months ago | 12 comments
14.
Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reefs (wiley.com)
100 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago
15.
Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o (tamerc.com)
465 points by comcuoglu 7 months ago | 160 comments
16.
Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services (firezone.dev)
233 points by wh33zle 7 months ago | 86 comments
17.
The Origin of Ambergris (2012) (uchicago.edu)
74 points by EndXA 7 months ago | 33 comments
18.
The Sphere (mssv.net)
171 points by adrianhon 7 months ago | 69 comments
19.
Batteries: How cheap can they get? (aukehoekstra.substack.com)
297 points by hoerensagen 7 months ago | 303 comments
20.
The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania (hallofdreams.org)
123 points by Philpax 7 months ago | 23 comments
21.
Ready Player Mode (lmno.lol)
74 points by xenodium 7 months ago | 8 comments
22.
NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop (nexdock.com)
180 points by Bluestein 7 months ago | 212 comments
23.
Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf] (github.com/udlbook)
88 points by teleforce 7 months ago | 15 comments
24.
Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell (corecursive.com)
262 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 250 comments
25.
Katharine Way, John Wheeler, and the Dawn of Nuclear Fission (amphilsoc.org)
45 points by drdee 7 months ago | 1 comment
26.
Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery (gla.ac.uk)
159 points by ulrischa 7 months ago | 102 comments
27.
Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (theguardian.com)
228 points by thunderbong 7 months ago | 94 comments
28.
GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome (frguthmann.github.io)
71 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 14 comments
29.
Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me (columbia.edu)
71 points by luu 7 months ago | 103 comments
30.
Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms (jogmekeebs.com)
85 points by jogme 7 months ago | 77 comments

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