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Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

210 points by anigbrowl 7h ago 89 comments

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)

688 points by booleanbetrayal 2d ago 476 comments

A year of funded FreeBSD development (daemonology.net)

216 points by cperciva 10h ago 76 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)

116 points by cratermoon 7h ago 44 comments

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)

377 points by immortaljoe 13h ago 151 comments

Why are smokestacks so tall? (practical.engineering)

30 points by azeemba 4h ago 1 comments

Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise (blog.pkh.me)

32 points by ux 14h ago 1 comments

Getting Past Procrastination (spectrum.ieee.org)

23 points by WaitWaitWha 2h ago 5 comments

Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

73 points by mooreds 7h ago 27 comments

Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)

87 points by timmyd 10h ago 26 comments

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)

141 points by amrrs 11h ago 65 comments

Weebly is decaying (articulation.blog)

19 points by dustywusty 5h ago 7 comments

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)

166 points by rbanffy 14h ago 56 comments

What “working” means in the era of AI apps (a16z.com)

56 points by Brysonbw 7h ago 31 comments

I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits (maxemitchell.com)

73 points by maxemitchell 7h ago 47 comments

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)

197 points by achtaitaipai 15h ago 45 comments

A masochist's guide to web development (sebastiano.tronto.net)

191 points by sebtron 15h ago 23 comments

Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)

59 points by lyogavin 10h ago 47 comments

Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks (sutro.sh)

50 points by cmogni1 10h ago 15 comments

NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon (theedgemalaysia.com)

7 points by bookmtn 2h ago 2 comments

Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE (ycombinator.com)

1 points by yuhongsun 8h ago 0 comments

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)

59 points by todsacerdoti 8h ago 21 comments

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed (mozillafoundation.org)

455 points by speckx 14h ago 192 comments

Series C and scale (cursor.com)

69 points by fidotron 12h ago 49 comments

Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)

105 points by furkansahin 14h ago 86 comments

Curate your shell history (esham.io)

106 points by todsacerdoti 15h ago 66 comments

Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (heise.de)

130 points by doener 3d ago 18 comments

What you need to know about EMP weapons (aardvark.co.nz)

120 points by flyingkiwi44 18h ago 148 comments

4-7-8 Breathing (breathbelly.com)

216 points by cheekyturtles 14h ago 88 comments

SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding (rwsdk.com)

176 points by pistoriusp 11h ago 97 comments

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest (boostsecurity.io)

91 points by chha 18h ago 43 comments

Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012) (simonwillison.net)

15 points by thunderbong 1h ago 4 comments

United States Digital Service Origins (usdigitalserviceorigins.org)

139 points by ronbenton 9h ago 63 comments

Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells (theguardian.com)

191 points by colinprince 12h ago 23 comments

Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake (layer22.com)

85 points by pusewicz 18h ago 78 comments

Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup (freightwaves.com)

66 points by Ozarkian 20h ago 90 comments

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device (networkedartifacts.com)

456 points by 256dpi 1d ago 180 comments

CRDTs #4: Convergence, Determinism, Lower Bounds and Inflation (jhellerstein.github.io)

12 points by iamwil 7h ago 0 comments

A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square (thisiscolossal.com)

20 points by surprisetalk 10h ago 16 comments

AMC Says It Will Show More Ads Before Movies (nytimes.com)

7 points by cebert 2h ago 11 comments

An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting (blog.sagyamthapa.com.np)

126 points by sagyam 14h ago 40 comments

How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app (edm115.dev)

41 points by EDM115 18h ago 30 comments

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data (nbcnews.com)

109 points by anigbrowl 8h ago 70 comments

The Agentic Systems Series (gerred.github.io)

5 points by ghuntley 7h ago 1 comments

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data (bloomberg.com)

112 points by speckx 8h ago 63 comments

Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off (doc.searls.com)

108 points by PaulHoule 9h ago 105 comments

Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction (economist.com)

6 points by rbanffy 7h ago 2 comments

Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction (zju3dv.github.io)

65 points by trueduke 14h ago 11 comments

Show HN: Mustardwatch: Detect what files a program uses, rerun when they change (github.com)

8 points by shachaf 7h ago 0 comments

The Coleco Adam Computer (dfarq.homeip.net)

42 points by rbanffy 19h ago 23 comments

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