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1.
Getting forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)
1838 points by phillebaba 5 days ago | 997 comments
2.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (github.com/nari-labs)
644 points by toebee 5 days ago | 191 comments
3.
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (infected.systems)
616 points by edent 5 days ago | 103 comments
4.
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (herecomesthemoon.net)
370 points by Mond_ 5 days ago | 348 comments
5.
Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (github.com/ericjenott)
560 points by harryvederci 5 days ago | 190 comments
6.
Pope Francis has died (reuters.com)
906 points by phillipharris 5 days ago | 769 comments
7.
LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them (matthewsinclair.com)
343 points by matthewsinclair 5 days ago | 238 comments
8.
Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org)
612 points by tambourine_man 5 days ago | 463 comments
9.
A new form of verification on Bluesky (bsky.social)
383 points by ink_13 5 days ago | 296 comments
10.
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (phys.org)
239 points by wglb 5 days ago | 170 comments
11.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state (nber.org)
501 points by imakwana 5 days ago | 497 comments
12.
Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM (github.com/lukasogunfeitimi)
410 points by xfeeefeee 5 days ago | 120 comments
13.
AI assisted search-based research works now (simonwillison.net)
279 points by simonw 5 days ago | 145 comments
14.
FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices (ftc.gov)
425 points by pinewurst 5 days ago | 264 comments
15.
Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent (ieee.org)
317 points by gslin 5 days ago | 115 comments
16.
How encryption for Cinema Movies works (serverless.industries)
229 points by perryflynn 6 days ago | 120 comments
17.
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
184 points by alexdanilowicz 5 days ago | 114 comments
18.
Cheating the Reaper in Go (mcyoung.xyz)
184 points by ingve 5 days ago | 32 comments
19.
A M.2 HDMI capture card (interfacinglinux.com)
175 points by Venn1 5 days ago | 90 comments
20.
Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs (github.com/codingmoh)
105 points by codingmoh 5 days ago | 37 comments
21.
How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent (citizenlab.ca)
207 points by gnabgib 6 days ago | 182 comments
22.
Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry (arxiv.org)
70 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 23 comments
23.
Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad (columbia.edu)
118 points by hackandthink 7 days ago | 29 comments
24.
Show HN: Keep your PyTorch model in VRAM by hot swapping code (github.com/valine)
77 points by valine 5 days ago | 7 comments
25.
Layered Design in Go (jerf.org)
140 points by misonic 6 days ago | 39 comments
26.
Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing (elborai.me)
119 points by dgellow 5 days ago | 44 comments
27.
X-Ray Defence (lichess.org)
58 points by fzliu 9 days ago | 7 comments
28.
How I use Kate editor (akselmo.dev)
226 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 82 comments
29.
I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video] (youtube.com)
352 points by qingcharles 5 days ago | 235 comments
30.
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record (ember-energy.org)
341 points by xnx 5 days ago | 344 comments

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