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1.
Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine (porffor.dev)
477 points by bpierre 3 months ago | 138 comments
2.
Our audit of Homebrew (trailofbits.com)
845 points by zdw 3 months ago | 184 comments
3.
C Macro Reflection in Zig (jstrieb.github.io)
302 points by jstrieb 3 months ago | 136 comments
4.
Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact (bristol.ac.uk)
258 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | 65 comments
5.
SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (github.com/facebookresearch)
824 points by xenova 3 months ago | 147 comments
6.
The Truth About Linear Regression (2015) (cmu.edu)
306 points by sebg 3 months ago | 79 comments
7.
Swift Homomorphic Encryption (swift.org)
322 points by yAak 3 months ago | 122 comments
8.
Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post (bbc.com)
290 points by Archelaos 3 months ago | 113 comments
9.
Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022) (siliconfolklore.com)
224 points by edward 3 months ago | 141 comments
10.
FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python (fastht.ml)
867 points by bpierre 3 months ago | 210 comments
11.
Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag (cmpxchg8b.com)
227 points by janvdberg 3 months ago | 55 comments
12.
Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper (152334h.github.io)
303 points by 152334H 3 months ago | 150 comments
13.
Show HN: Stempad – Fast Online Scientific Writing (stempad.io)
144 points by ralph_r 3 months ago | 45 comments
14.
Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) (darpa.mil)
363 points by steveklabnik 3 months ago | 389 comments
15.
Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU (davidar.io)
322 points by diggan 3 months ago | 104 comments
16.
Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source (github.com/ssoready)
317 points by ucarion 3 months ago | 98 comments
17.
Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission (texastribune.org)
426 points by perihelions 3 months ago | 247 comments
18.
A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization (maartengrootendorst.com)
310 points by raymond_goo 3 months ago | 18 comments
19.
LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear (ieee.org)
210 points by jnord 3 months ago | 411 comments
20.
Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems (github.com/jodigiordano)
205 points by j0d1 3 months ago | 65 comments
21.
Lewis Lapham has died (nytimes.com)
197 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 65 comments
22.
Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget (arxiv.org)
208 points by fzliu 3 months ago | 27 comments
23.
Microjs (microjs.com)
274 points by breck 3 months ago | 60 comments
24.
Canarytokens: Honeypot for critical credentials, get notified when they are used (2015) (canarytokens.org)
152 points by Kovah 3 months ago | 42 comments
25.
If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity (strongtowns.org)
565 points by philips 3 months ago | 643 comments
26.
A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023) (nightingaledvs.com)
378 points by skadamat 3 months ago | 196 comments
27.
Why doesn't advice work? (dynomight.substack.com)
320 points by yarapavan 3 months ago | 321 comments
28.
Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS (gingerbeardman.com)
115 points by msephton 3 months ago | 68 comments
29.
DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation) (digicert.com)
141 points by vitaliyf 3 months ago | 49 comments
30.
Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web (orca-app.dev)
138 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | 90 comments

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