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1.
Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue (news.mit.edu)
199 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 24 comments
2.
Making my first robot as a software engineer (github.com/robertleoj)
375 points by robertleoj 11 days ago | 68 comments
3.
Donald Bitzer has died (computerhistory.org)
221 points by sohkamyung 9 days ago | 24 comments
4.
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (meta.com)
325 points by ilaksh 8 days ago | 63 comments
5.
Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn (the-scientist.com)
305 points by conqueso 9 days ago | 239 comments
6.
Exotic new superconductors delight and confound (quantamagazine.org)
231 points by ernesto95 13 days ago | 70 comments
7.
Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 (langworth.com)
202 points by statico 9 days ago | 28 comments
8.
The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered (oldbytes.space)
213 points by croes 10 days ago | 51 comments
9.
A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (ieee.org)
332 points by sohkamyung 9 days ago | 90 comments
10.
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (mercurynews.com)
1040 points by mmorearty 8 days ago | 428 comments
11.
Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
256 points by sirobg 8 days ago | 167 comments
12.
Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made (weborigami.org)
222 points by ayoreis 9 days ago | 69 comments
13.
Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016) (kennyballou.com)
225 points by justinludwig 9 days ago | 112 comments
14.
Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder (velofuso.com)
797 points by smeeeeeeeeeeeee 9 days ago | 477 comments
15.
Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications (npmjs.com)
155 points by smoores 8 days ago | 43 comments
16.
Test (defense.gov)
608 points by ajdude 9 days ago | 145 comments
17.
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit (openai.com)
582 points by arvindh-manian 8 days ago | 640 comments
18.
Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software (souzatharsis.com)
167 points by sebg 9 days ago | 30 comments
19.
MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown (github.com/microsoft)
329 points by Handy-Man 8 days ago | 80 comments
20.
Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers (quantamagazine.org)
199 points by nsoonhui 9 days ago | 88 comments
21.
Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation (medium.com/tomysshadow)
264 points by davikr 12 days ago | 70 comments
22.
Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish (theguardian.com)
160 points by n1b0m 12 days ago | 128 comments
23.
An Italian town that built its own sun (2021) (vice.com)
143 points by Amorymeltzer 13 days ago | 42 comments
24.
"All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk (jgc.org)
112 points by jgrahamc 13 days ago | 28 comments
25.
Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use (anthropic.com)
132 points by simonw 9 days ago | 40 comments
26.
The age of average (2023) (alexmurrell.co.uk)
250 points by synergy20 9 days ago | 171 comments
27.
Librebooting the ThinkPad T480 (ezntek.com)
193 points by axiologist 14 days ago | 80 comments
28.
What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf] (bitbashing.io)
195 points by ibobev 9 days ago | 102 comments
29.
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences (science.org)
286 points by zdw 9 days ago | 519 comments
30.
A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects (ieee.org)
115 points by TaurenHunter 9 days ago | 108 comments

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