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1.
Getting forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)
1865 points by phillebaba 15 days ago | 998 comments
2.
Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue (github.com/nari-labs)
652 points by toebee 15 days ago | 191 comments
3.
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (infected.systems)
622 points by edent 15 days ago | 104 comments
4.
Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature (herecomesthemoon.net)
372 points by Mond_ 15 days ago | 348 comments
5.
Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life (github.com/ericjenott)
566 points by harryvederci 15 days ago | 194 comments
6.
Pope Francis has died (reuters.com)
916 points by phillipharris 16 days ago | 769 comments
7.
LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them (matthewsinclair.com)
345 points by matthewsinclair 15 days ago | 238 comments
8.
Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org)
620 points by tambourine_man 16 days ago | 466 comments
9.
A new form of verification on Bluesky (bsky.social)
384 points by ink_13 15 days ago | 296 comments
10.
Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (phys.org)
241 points by wglb 15 days ago | 172 comments
11.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state (nber.org)
506 points by imakwana 16 days ago | 498 comments
12.
Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM (github.com/lukasogunfeitimi)
412 points by xfeeefeee 16 days ago | 120 comments
13.
AI assisted search-based research works now (simonwillison.net)
283 points by simonw 15 days ago | 147 comments
14.
FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices (ftc.gov)
428 points by pinewurst 15 days ago | 267 comments
15.
Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent (ieee.org)
318 points by gslin 16 days ago | 115 comments
16.
How encryption for Cinema Movies works (serverless.industries)
230 points by perryflynn 16 days ago | 120 comments
17.
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams
185 points by alexdanilowicz 15 days ago | 114 comments
18.
Cheating the Reaper in Go (mcyoung.xyz)
188 points by ingve 15 days ago | 32 comments
19.
A M.2 HDMI capture card (interfacinglinux.com)
175 points by Venn1 15 days ago | 90 comments
20.
Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs (github.com/codingmoh)
106 points by codingmoh 15 days ago | 37 comments
21.
How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent (citizenlab.ca)
207 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 182 comments
22.
Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry (arxiv.org)
70 points by PaulHoule 15 days ago | 23 comments
23.
Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad (columbia.edu)
118 points by hackandthink 17 days ago | 29 comments
24.
Show HN: Keep your PyTorch model in VRAM by hot swapping code (github.com/valine)
77 points by valine 16 days ago | 7 comments
25.
Layered Design in Go (jerf.org)
141 points by misonic 17 days ago | 39 comments
26.
Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing (elborai.me)
121 points by dgellow 15 days ago | 44 comments
27.
X-Ray Defence (lichess.org)
58 points by fzliu 19 days ago | 7 comments
28.
How I use Kate editor (akselmo.dev)
228 points by todsacerdoti 16 days ago | 85 comments
29.
I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video] (youtube.com)
354 points by qingcharles 16 days ago | 237 comments
30.
Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record (ember-energy.org)
341 points by xnx 15 days ago | 345 comments

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