Plain Vanilla Web (plainvanillaweb.com)

1500 points by andrewrn 5d ago 678 comments

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (nytimes.com)

1160 points by jbredeche 1d ago 486 comments

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (deepmind.google)

994 points by Fysi 2d ago 259 comments

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo (github.com)

844 points by thefilmore 3d ago 459 comments

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority (twitter.com)

820 points by turrini 3d ago 796 comments

What is HDR, anyway? (lux.camera)

774 points by _kush 2d ago 331 comments

The Barbican (arslan.io)

719 points by farslan 4d ago 254 comments

Human (quarter--mile.com)

710 points by surprisetalk 2d ago 264 comments

Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

661 points by mikerg87 3d ago 137 comments

Leaving Google (airs.com)

560 points by todsacerdoti 6d ago 378 comments

I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) (alexschapiro.com)

558 points by bearsyankees 4d ago 306 comments

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

553 points by amanchanda 3d ago 350 comments

One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software (mrbruh.com)

516 points by MrBruh 5d ago 241 comments

The great displacement is already well underway? (shawnfromportland.substack.com)

500 points by JSLegendDev 4d ago 482 comments

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes (sixthtone.com)

486 points by anigbrowl 3d ago 353 comments

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

479 points by jxmorris12 4d ago 150 comments

Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh)

474 points by plam503711 16h ago 181 comments

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war (insideevs.com)

465 points by rntn 5d ago 810 comments

I don't like NumPy (dynomight.net)

463 points by MinimalAction 1d ago 197 comments

Observations from people-watching (skincontact.substack.com)

458 points by jger15 6d ago 227 comments

US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired (theregister.com)

449 points by croes 4d ago 393 comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

447 points by birdculture 3d ago 387 comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages (bernsteinbear.com)

440 points by r4um 3d ago 60 comments

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode (androidauthority.com)

437 points by logic_node 3d ago 409 comments

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York (nytimes.com)

433 points by Vinnl 3d ago 691 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (sketch.dev)

422 points by crawshaw 1d ago 299 comments

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions (comsec.ethz.ch)

416 points by alberto-m 3d ago 211 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

411 points by st_goliath 3d ago 260 comments

A leap year check in three instructions (hueffner.de)

409 points by gnabgib 1d ago 154 comments

The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android (nextcloud.com)

405 points by morsch 2d ago 165 comments

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people (blog.stillgreenmoss.net)

400 points by todsacerdoti 2d ago 313 comments

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom (cnbc.com)

399 points by gpi 1d ago 484 comments

A Research Preview of Codex (openai.com)

392 points by meetpateltech 13h ago 317 comments

A server that wasn't meant to exist (it-notes.dragas.net)

392 points by jaypatelani 2d ago 140 comments

I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) (github.com)

384 points by toxi360 5d ago 234 comments

Databricks acquires Neon (databricks.com)

379 points by davidgomes 2d ago 221 comments

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? (wts.dev)

375 points by nmgycombinator 4d ago 251 comments

Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room (clientserver.dev)

369 points by jakevoytko 1d ago 361 comments

FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models (github.com)

367 points by nhod 4d ago 73 comments

LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation (arxiv.org)

365 points by simonpure 2d ago 246 comments

I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC (blog.es3n1n.eu)

355 points by todsacerdoti 5d ago 189 comments

PDF to Text, a challenging problem (marginalia.nu)

353 points by ingve 3d ago 198 comments

Thoughts on thinking (dcurt.is)

345 points by bradgessler 9h ago 228 comments

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models (ollama.com)

343 points by LorenDB 1d ago 82 comments

In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships (wqtz.bearblog.dev)

341 points by wqtz 3d ago 212 comments

The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule (theverge.com)

339 points by speckx 4d ago 212 comments

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix (theregister.com)

334 points by nullhole 1d ago 84 comments

Why Bell Labs Worked (1517.substack.com)

333 points by areoform 5d ago 232 comments

Material 3 Expressive (design.google)

332 points by meetpateltech 3d ago 519 comments

A community-led fork of Organic Maps (comaps.app)

329 points by maelito 4d ago 206 comments

They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More

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Comments (4)

neonate · 5h ago

https://archive.ph/lMAj6

Loughla · 3h ago

So this is just an ad for a book.

roywiggins · 3h ago

It's a book review.

micromacrofoot · 2h ago

I am now writing to you about this writer's article which was written about a writer's book about these two writers who were beloved by many writers