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

1227 points by jbredeche 3d ago 522 comments

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

1020 points by Fysi 4d ago 264 comments

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android (holdtherobot.com)

948 points by mikenew 4d ago 357 comments

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo (github.com)

851 points by thefilmore 6d ago 461 comments

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

841 points by turrini 5d ago 809 comments

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me)

814 points by domenicd 18h ago 440 comments

What is HDR, anyway? (lux.camera)

796 points by _kush 4d ago 336 comments

Human (quarter--mile.com)

722 points by surprisetalk 4d ago 266 comments

Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

684 points by mikerg87 5d ago 139 comments

Thoughts on thinking (dcurt.is)

672 points by bradgessler 2d ago 424 comments

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

565 points by bearsyankees 6d ago 307 comments

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

564 points by amanchanda 5d ago 350 comments

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down (matklad.github.io)

531 points by goranmoomin 1d ago 193 comments

Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh)

507 points by plam503711 2d ago 189 comments

A Research Preview of Codex (openai.com)

499 points by meetpateltech 2d ago 426 comments

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

492 points by anigbrowl 5d ago 353 comments

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

483 points by richards 2d ago 344 comments

I don't like NumPy (dynomight.net)

482 points by MinimalAction 3d ago 205 comments

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law (techradar.com)

464 points by taubek 1d ago 206 comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

453 points by birdculture 5d ago 393 comments

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

450 points by r4um 5d ago 60 comments

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

444 points by logic_node 5d ago 413 comments

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

439 points by crawshaw 3d ago 317 comments

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

439 points by Vinnl 5d ago 701 comments

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

425 points by gnabgib 3d ago 163 comments

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

419 points by alberto-m 5d ago 212 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

415 points by st_goliath 5d ago 259 comments

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

414 points by gpi 3d ago 492 comments

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

410 points by morsch 5d ago 166 comments

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

406 points by todsacerdoti 4d ago 313 comments

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

399 points by jaypatelani 4d ago 144 comments

Mystical (suberic.net)

386 points by mmphosis 1d ago 44 comments

Databricks acquires Neon (databricks.com)

386 points by davidgomes 4d ago 224 comments

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

376 points by carabiner 2d ago 197 comments

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

376 points by nmgycombinator 6d ago 251 comments

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

373 points by jakevoytko 3d ago 366 comments

France Endorses UN Open Source Principles (social.numerique.gouv.fr)

370 points by bzg 8h ago 82 comments

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

370 points by simonpure 4d ago 254 comments

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

367 points by nhod 6d ago 74 comments

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

356 points by a7fort 2d ago 217 comments

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

354 points by ingve 5d ago 200 comments

Material 3 Expressive (design.google)

351 points by meetpateltech 5d ago 546 comments

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

350 points by LorenDB 3d ago 83 comments

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

346 points by wqtz 5d ago 212 comments

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

340 points by nullhole 3d ago 86 comments

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

338 points by beeburrt 3d ago 312 comments

AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model (komiko.app)

332 points by PaulineGar 1d ago 202 comments

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful (aruarian.dance)

332 points by aecsocket 3d ago 283 comments

If nothing is curated, how do we find things (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

331 points by nivethan 1d ago 242 comments

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call (mastdatabase.co.uk)

331 points by kragniz 1d ago 67 comments

Who Did This (Etymonline)?

3 mmooss 2 5/18/2025, 10:46:55 PM etymonline.com ↗

Comments (2)

skellystudios · 30m ago

Really lucid writing, an absolute pleasure to read - especially as someone who has used etymonline for many decades without even considering who was behind it.

kazinator · 1h ago

Google should really not be ripping off this guy's work in their search engine. It's a bad look.