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1.
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/jacksaur)
419 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 117 comments
2.
What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
314 points by goldenskye 1 day ago | 194 comments
3.
Oberon Pi (hansotten.com)
171 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 30 comments
4.
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
420 points by amichail 1 day ago | 419 comments
5.
Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection (bbc.co.uk)
194 points by neversaydie 4 days ago | 68 comments
6.
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
266 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 89 comments
7.
I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)
660 points by claytonwramsey 9 hours ago | 438 comments
8.
Pascal for Small Machines (hansotten.com)
107 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 22 comments
9.
In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use (news.mit.edu)
116 points by LorenDB 4 days ago | 70 comments
10.
TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs (github.com/foreseerr)
120 points by zX41ZdbW 15 hours ago | 27 comments
11.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (matthewjbrown.net)
177 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 128 comments
12.
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (space.com)
175 points by spchampion2 2 days ago | 158 comments
13.
Design for 3D-Printing (rahix.de)
436 points by q3k 11 hours ago | 127 comments
14.
Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (rentry.co)
177 points by nkko 12 hours ago | 29 comments
15.
Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy (programmablemutter.com)
161 points by akkartik 23 hours ago | 187 comments
16.
Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
185 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 159 comments
17.
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
101 points by Kobayashiii 3 days ago | 43 comments
18.
Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com/pncnmnp)
190 points by pncnmnp 2 days ago | 50 comments
19.
DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs (github.com/kalldrexx)
63 points by ingve 2 days ago | 17 comments
20.
A Survey of AI Agent Protocols (arxiv.org)
89 points by distalx 1 day ago | 56 comments
21.
Elvish – Scripting language and interactive shell (github.com/elves)
74 points by kartikarti 4 days ago | 45 comments
22.
Minimal Linux Bootloader (2018) (githubusercontent.com)
66 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 12 hours ago | 16 comments
23.
Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
62 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 18 comments
24.
A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING (shayon.dev)
54 points by namanyayg 1 day ago | 49 comments
25.
A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray (esa.int)
74 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 3 comments
26.
Orders of Infinity (terrytao.wordpress.com)
69 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | 6 comments
27.
Load-Store Conflicts (zeux.io)
88 points by ashvardanian 11 hours ago | 5 comments
28.
The Speed of VITs and CNNs (lucasb.eyer.be)
65 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago | 17 comments
29.
The complicated business of electing a Doge (theballotboy.com)
68 points by dr_dshiv 9 hours ago | 33 comments
30.
A simple Common Lisp web app (scotto.me)
59 points by silcoon 4 days ago | 19 comments

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