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1. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website (naya.lol)
1435 points by fintler 54 days ago | 514 comments
2. Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features (github.com/quackduck)
435 points by humanperhaps 54 days ago | 105 comments
3. Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
427 points by overclock351 54 days ago | 276 comments
4. Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes (swtch.com)
254 points by rsc 54 days ago | 45 comments
5. Polychromatic Pixels (compoundsemiconductor.net)
203 points by bluehat974 54 days ago | 142 comments
6. USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (techcrunch.com)
405 points by leotravis10 54 days ago | 206 comments
7. The Objects of Our Life (1983) (stevejobsarchive.com)
284 points by Brajeshwar 54 days ago | 147 comments
8. SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat (wiz.io)
254 points by todsacerdoti 55 days ago | 66 comments
9. What would it take to recreate Bell Labs? (construction-physics.com)
335 points by nickwritesit 54 days ago | 259 comments
10. Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text (github.com/soupslurpr)
165 points by thebiblelover7 54 days ago | 60 comments
11. Premature Abstraction (arendjr.nl)
182 points by arendjr 54 days ago | 114 comments
12. Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves (ninjakoa.la)
114 points by NinjaKoala 55 days ago | 47 comments
13. Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool (github.com/seddonm1)
128 points by seddonm1 55 days ago | 21 comments
14. Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study (abc.net.au)
151 points by Brajeshwar 54 days ago | 93 comments
15. Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? (kb6nu.com)
168 points by austinallegro 54 days ago | 106 comments
16. The only tourist in Moldova (telegraph.co.uk)
151 points by dotcoma 58 days ago | 391 comments
17. Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013) (acm.org)
97 points by NavinF 58 days ago | 25 comments
18. Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020) (arxiv.org)
65 points by luu 57 days ago | 9 comments
19. Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map' (twitter.com/mutableai)
162 points by oshams 54 days ago | 55 comments
20. Overcoming the limits of current LLMs (seanpedersen.github.io)
119 points by sean_pedersen 55 days ago | 106 comments
21. Mistral NeMo (mistral.ai)
418 points by bcatanzaro 54 days ago | 162 comments
22. Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser (ieee.org)
44 points by jnord 57 days ago | 5 comments
23. Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf] (shopify.com)
80 points by kickofline 59 days ago | 21 comments
24. Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands (github.com/randombk)
67 points by RandomBK 55 days ago | 21 comments
25. 60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV (rfi.fr)
169 points by belter 54 days ago | 32 comments
26. What Materials Are Magnetic? (sciencenotes.org)
75 points by rwmj 54 days ago | 42 comments
27. A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system (ruudvanasseldonk.com)
30 points by todsacerdoti 54 days ago | 8 comments
28. The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland (undark.org)
51 points by LinuxBender 56 days ago | 64 comments
29. Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp (cmu.edu)
52 points by interpunct 59 days ago | 17 comments
30. Evolving the ASF Brand (apache.org)
66 points by Tomte 54 days ago | 82 comments

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