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

1195 points by jbredeche 2d ago 499 comments

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

1005 points by Fysi 3d ago 262 comments

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo (github.com)

848 points by thefilmore 4d ago 460 comments

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

829 points by turrini 4d ago 801 comments

What is HDR, anyway? (lux.camera)

780 points by _kush 3d ago 332 comments

The Barbican (arslan.io)

722 points by farslan 5d ago 254 comments

Human (quarter--mile.com)

716 points by surprisetalk 2d ago 266 comments

Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

674 points by mikerg87 4d ago 138 comments

Thoughts on thinking (dcurt.is)

607 points by bradgessler 1d ago 379 comments

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

560 points by bearsyankees 5d ago 306 comments

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

556 points by amanchanda 4d ago 350 comments

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

507 points by JSLegendDev 5d ago 485 comments

Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh)

498 points by plam503711 1d ago 188 comments

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

489 points by anigbrowl 3d ago 353 comments

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

480 points by jxmorris12 5d ago 150 comments

I don't like NumPy (dynomight.net)

478 points by MinimalAction 2d ago 203 comments

A Research Preview of Codex (openai.com)

477 points by meetpateltech 1d ago 410 comments

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

461 points by richards 23h ago 315 comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

451 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

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

443 points by r4um 3d ago 60 comments

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

440 points by logic_node 4d ago 412 comments

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

437 points by Vinnl 4d ago 696 comments

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

429 points by crawshaw 2d ago 310 comments

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

419 points by gnabgib 1d ago 158 comments

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

417 points by alberto-m 4d ago 211 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

414 points by st_goliath 4d ago 259 comments

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

408 points by gpi 2d ago 486 comments

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

408 points by morsch 3d ago 165 comments

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

404 points by todsacerdoti 3d ago 313 comments

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

396 points by jaypatelani 3d ago 144 comments

Databricks acquires Neon (databricks.com)

383 points by davidgomes 3d ago 223 comments

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

376 points by nmgycombinator 5d ago 251 comments

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

372 points by jakevoytko 2d ago 364 comments

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

369 points by simonpure 2d ago 248 comments

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

367 points by nhod 4d ago 73 comments

MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery (economics.mit.edu)

363 points by carabiner 1d ago 183 comments

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

356 points by todsacerdoti 5d ago 189 comments

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

353 points by ingve 4d ago 200 comments

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

349 points by LorenDB 1d ago 83 comments

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

346 points by a7fort 1d ago 212 comments

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

346 points by wqtz 4d ago 212 comments

Material 3 Expressive (design.google)

344 points by meetpateltech 4d ago 538 comments

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

339 points by nullhole 1d ago 86 comments

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

339 points by speckx 5d ago 212 comments

BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024) (zverok.space)

334 points by beeburrt 1d ago 307 comments

Why Bell Labs Worked (1517.substack.com)

334 points by areoform 6d ago 233 comments

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

330 points by maelito 5d ago 206 comments

Continuous Thought Machines (pub.sakana.ai)

314 points by hardmaru 5d ago 36 comments

Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges (github.com)

309 points by stefankuehnel 4d ago 104 comments

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