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1.
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data (arstechnica.com)
1243 points by gameshot911 3 days ago | 884 comments
2.
Understanding Reasoning LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
470 points by sebg 3 days ago | 186 comments
3.
[dupe] Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor (macrumors.com)
1139 points by throw0101d 3 days ago | 4 comments
4.
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel (lkml.org)
892 points by Mond_ 2 days ago | 988 comments
5.
Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line (soranews24.com)
517 points by edward 5 days ago | 322 comments
6.
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (youtube.com)
407 points by esbudylin 3 days ago | 66 comments
7.
A brief history of code signing at Mozilla (hearsum.ca)
245 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 85 comments
8.
Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences (theretowhere.com)
311 points by WiggleGuy 2 days ago | 97 comments
9.
Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js (github.com/aifanatic)
215 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 35 comments
10.
Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker (github.com/tanq16)
211 points by import-base64 2 days ago | 83 comments
11.
Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019) (carto.com)
182 points by voxadam 2 days ago | 129 comments
12.
Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm (sciencealert.com)
143 points by jandrewrogers 2 days ago | 59 comments
13.
Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing (github.com/c0stya)
258 points by c0nstantine 2 days ago | 93 comments
14.
The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997) (ieee.org)
169 points by theamk 2 days ago | 247 comments
15.
The superconductivity of layered graphene (newscientist.com)
133 points by westurner 3 days ago | 32 comments
16.
Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math (nature.com)
196 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 256 comments
17.
The evolution of annunciator signaling for telephones (calling315.com)
90 points by Kovalick 6 days ago | 13 comments
18.
Robust autonomy emerges from self-play (arxiv.org)
139 points by reqo 3 days ago | 61 comments
19.
There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015) (v8.dev)
122 points by beepill 6 days ago | 76 comments
20.
Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser (orgsoft.org)
147 points by mattvr 5 days ago | 71 comments
21.
Why LLMs still have problems with OCR (runpulse.com)
212 points by ritvikpandey21 3 days ago | 142 comments
22.
The inevitability of the borrow checker (yorickpeterse.com)
139 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 76 comments
23.
Transformer – Spreadsheet (byhand.ai)
249 points by next_xibalba 3 days ago | 20 comments
24.
Easy 6502 (skilldrick.github.io)
149 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 20 comments
25.
Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology (abeljansma.nl)
89 points by abelaer 4 days ago | 17 comments
26.
Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) (floydhub.ghost.io)
101 points by eamag 6 days ago | 24 comments
27.
German civil activists win victory in election case against X (reuters.com)
289 points by josefresco 2 days ago | 244 comments
28.
TKey – Security for the New World (tillitis.se)
100 points by diggan 3 days ago | 42 comments
29.
When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago (honest-broker.com)
97 points by paulpauper 2 days ago | 14 comments
30.
Announcing the data.gov archive (law.harvard.edu)
379 points by govideo 3 days ago | 129 comments

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