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1.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
1104 points by milkglass 21 hours ago | 791 comments
2.
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
747 points by pr337h4m 1 day ago | 525 comments
3.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
408 points by chiefalchemist 1 day ago | 288 comments
4.
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
284 points by Nrbelex 4 days ago | 154 comments
5.
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
539 points by _-x-_ 1 day ago | 179 comments
6.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
599 points by elisaado 16 hours ago | 298 comments
7.
OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
287 points by tanelpoder 4 days ago | 63 comments
8.
America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
158 points by sleepyguy 1 day ago | 163 comments
9.
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
291 points by sph 18 hours ago | 79 comments
10.
Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
215 points by iamwil 2 days ago | 54 comments
11.
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
331 points by gasull 23 hours ago | 185 comments
12.
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
165 points by zdkaster 1 day ago | 56 comments
13.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
519 points by jeremyccrane 11 hours ago | 669 comments
14.
Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
148 points by signa11 3 days ago | 23 comments
15.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
262 points by kmdupree 13 hours ago | 148 comments
16.
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
208 points by yak32 3 days ago | 50 comments
17.
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
162 points by offbyone42 1 day ago | 24 comments
18.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
560 points by jamesponddotco 10 hours ago | 223 comments
19.
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
74 points by jger15 3 days ago | 14 comments
20.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (ca98am79.medium.com)
502 points by ca98am79 6 hours ago | 273 comments
21.
Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
99 points by gurjeet 1 day ago | 62 comments
22.
Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
204 points by j0r0b0 11 hours ago | 123 comments
23.
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
81 points by subset 20 hours ago | 11 comments
24.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
319 points by koshyjohn 7 hours ago | 263 comments
25.
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
290 points by berkeleyjunk 6 hours ago | 208 comments
26.
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
117 points by 2DcAf 12 hours ago | 30 comments
27.
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (acm.org)
73 points by tosh 3 days ago | 3 comments
28.
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
114 points by PLenz 10 hours ago | 21 comments
29.
Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
177 points by dd23 7 hours ago | 46 comments
30.
Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)
500 points by skullone 1 day ago | 302 comments

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