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1.
Microsoft’s original source code (gatesnotes.com)
617 points by EvgeniyZh 13 days ago | 330 comments
2.
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden (nature.com)
421 points by ascorbic 16 days ago | 307 comments
3.
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (huji.ac.il)
449 points by Anon84 13 days ago | 53 comments
4.
An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips (dmitry.gr)
441 points by dmitrygr 12 days ago | 147 comments
5.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016) (eater.net)
398 points by jcartw 17 days ago | 62 comments
6.
The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition (filfre.net)
286 points by cybersoyuz 13 days ago | 115 comments
7.
Gumroad’s source is available (github.com/antiwork)
486 points by philipjoubert 13 days ago | 205 comments
8.
Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)
240 points by abelanger 14 days ago | 74 comments
9.
Kerosene did not save the sperm whale (2024) (edconway.substack.com)
190 points by baud147258 13 days ago | 69 comments
10.
The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)
446 points by walterbell 14 days ago | 231 comments
11.
Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being (phys.org)
287 points by PaulHoule 16 days ago | 121 comments
12.
Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation? (fi-le.net)
139 points by fi-le 16 days ago | 82 comments
13.
Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA (thenewstack.io)
460 points by apples2apples 13 days ago | 192 comments
14.
Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video] (youtube.com)
106 points by akavel 12 days ago | 27 comments
15.
Why do we need modules at all? (2011) (groups.google.com)
151 points by matthews2 15 days ago | 88 comments
16.
Microsoft employees recall their early years (seattletimes.com)
162 points by rmason 16 days ago | 129 comments
17.
Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB (github.com/leeoniya)
121 points by leeoniya 13 days ago | 21 comments
18.
How Airbnb measures listing lifetime value (medium.com/airbnb-engineering)
96 points by benocodes 16 days ago | 123 comments
19.
The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition) (magicsplat.com)
134 points by teleforce 12 days ago | 103 comments
20.
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing (bair.berkeley.edu)
71 points by saeedesmaili 15 days ago | 21 comments
21.
Show HN: Transputer emulator in JavaScript (fast enough to be useful) (nanochess.org)
55 points by nanochess 13 days ago | 7 comments
22.
What is Local first development (alexop.dev)
119 points by yonz 13 days ago | 55 comments
23.
Bored of It (paulrobertlloyd.com)
573 points by NotInOurNames 13 days ago | 478 comments
24.
DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling (arxiv.org)
163 points by tim_sw 13 days ago | 35 comments
25.
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model (googleblog.com)
161 points by ebursztein 12 days ago | 47 comments
26.
US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job (ft.com)
275 points by belter 15 days ago | 282 comments
27.
Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks (reuters.com)
94 points by petethomas 13 days ago | 41 comments
28.
The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir (theatlantic.com)
127 points by Michelangelo11 13 days ago | 254 comments
29.
Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers (techcrunch.com)
68 points by PaulHoule 14 days ago | 190 comments
30.
Binary Distribution Rebuilds (josefsson.org)
30 points by JNRowe 17 days ago | 5 comments

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