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1503 points by andrewrn 5d ago 678 comments

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

1177 points by jbredeche 1d ago 491 comments

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

999 points by Fysi 2d ago 261 comments

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844 points by thefilmore 4d ago 460 comments

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825 points by turrini 4d ago 797 comments

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777 points by _kush 2d ago 332 comments

The Barbican (arslan.io)

720 points by farslan 4d ago 254 comments

Human (quarter--mile.com)

713 points by surprisetalk 2d ago 265 comments

Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

666 points by mikerg87 4d ago 138 comments

Leaving Google (airs.com)

561 points by todsacerdoti 6d ago 378 comments

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

560 points by bearsyankees 4d ago 306 comments

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

555 points by amanchanda 4d ago 350 comments

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

519 points by MrBruh 6d ago 241 comments

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509 points by bradgessler 17h ago 317 comments

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504 points by JSLegendDev 4d ago 483 comments

Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh)

492 points by plam503711 1d ago 185 comments

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

487 points by anigbrowl 3d ago 353 comments

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

480 points by jxmorris12 4d ago 150 comments

I don't like NumPy (dynomight.net)

469 points by MinimalAction 1d ago 201 comments

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465 points by rntn 5d ago 810 comments

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

459 points by jger15 6d ago 227 comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

450 points by birdculture 3d ago 388 comments

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

450 points by croes 5d ago 393 comments

A Research Preview of Codex (openai.com)

446 points by meetpateltech 21h ago 380 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 410 comments

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

435 points by Vinnl 4d ago 693 comments

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

428 points by crawshaw 1d ago 304 comments

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

417 points by alberto-m 3d ago 211 comments

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

415 points by gnabgib 1d ago 155 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

413 points by st_goliath 4d ago 260 comments

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

407 points by morsch 3d ago 165 comments

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

404 points by gpi 1d ago 486 comments

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

402 points by todsacerdoti 2d ago 313 comments

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

395 points by jaypatelani 2d ago 143 comments

Getting AI to write good SQL (cloud.google.com)

389 points by richards 15h ago 225 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)

382 points by davidgomes 3d 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)

370 points by jakevoytko 1d ago 361 comments

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

367 points by simonpure 2d ago 247 comments

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

367 points by nhod 4d ago 73 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 199 comments

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

347 points by LorenDB 1d ago 83 comments

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

343 points by wqtz 3d ago 212 comments

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain (albertofortin.com)

341 points by a7fort 1d ago 205 comments

Material 3 Expressive (design.google)

340 points by meetpateltech 3d ago 529 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)

336 points by nullhole 1d ago 86 comments

Williams Syndrome: The people who are too friendly

14 bookofjoe 1 5/17/2025, 1:36:21 AM bbc.com ↗

Comments (1)

sandspar · 5h ago

A guy on Reddit had a sister with this. He described her personality as like "a Golden Retriever who can text".