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  1. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (history.stackexchange.com)
    415 points • by napolux • today at 1:30 PM • 87 comments
  2. AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (blog.google)
    66 points • by roboboffin • today at 6:37 PM • 19 comments
  3. Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data (nianticlabs.com)
    27 points • by bookstore-romeo • yesterday at 8:02 PM • 5 comments
  4. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (blog.frost.kiwi)
    404 points • by todsacerdoti • today at 8:03 AM • 53 comments
  5. SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems (www.philipzucker.com)
    90 points • by xlinux • today at 5:07 PM • 9 comments
  6. How good are American roads? (www.construction-physics.com)
    138 points • by chmaynard • today at 2:45 PM • 294 comments
  7. La Basilica Di San Pietro (unlocked.microsoft.com)
    100 points • by geox • today at 3:15 PM • 42 comments
  8. Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing (B2B) (www.ycombinator.com)
    1 points • by jasoncsullivan • today at 9:01 PM • 0 comments
  9. Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (cacm.acm.org)
    36 points • by rbanffy • today at 5:11 PM • 26 comments
  10. Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot (msgtn.xyz)
    36 points • by psychomugs • today at 5:28 PM • 2 comments
  11. Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs (self)
    15 points • by jonasnelle • today at 8:22 PM • 7 comments
  12. Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope (zed.dev)
    32 points • by misternugget • last Monday at 4:39 PM • 8 comments
  13. With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies (hackaday.com)
    47 points • by iancmceachern • today at 8:35 PM • 22 comments
  14. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
    405 points • by perihelions • today at 6:56 AM • 513 comments
  15. Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client (cardo-podcast.github.io)
    60 points • by n0vella • today at 12:56 PM • 22 comments
  16. New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video] (www.youtube.com)
    35 points • by cratermoon • today at 8:33 PM • 8 comments
  17. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)
    113 points • by gnabgib • today at 4:59 PM • 72 comments
  18. Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints (github.com)
    77 points • by BrainBacon • today at 1:33 PM • 32 comments
  19. FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (hwisnu.bearblog.dev)
    336 points • by sebg • last Thursday at 11:48 AM • 155 comments
  20. Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
    262 points • by rrampage • today at 3:43 AM • 50 comments
  21. Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool (untested.sonnet.io)
    47 points • by rpastuszak • today at 1:45 PM • 21 comments
  22. Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) (www.abebooks.com)
    77 points • by MrVandemar • today at 9:58 AM • 55 comments
  23. Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships (newscenter.lbl.gov)
    16 points • by gnabgib • today at 4:52 PM • 35 comments
  24. Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About (catonmat.net)
    43 points • by lnyan • today at 3:09 PM • 6 comments
  25. The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost (www.newstatesman.com)
    44 points • by drdee • yesterday at 10:35 PM • 13 comments
  26. Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) (github.com)
    60 points • by networked • last Friday at 8:04 AM • 30 comments
  27. GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released (artanis.dev)
    116 points • by nalaginrut • today at 2:44 PM • 47 comments
  28. Lush: My favorite small programming language (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
    104 points • by todsacerdoti • today at 6:47 AM • 18 comments
  29. U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion (web.cs.toronto.edu)
    39 points • by croes • today at 1:14 PM • 12 comments
  30. Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (arstechnica.com)
    8 points • by pseudolus • today at 9:07 PM • 0 comments
  31. 99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python (sandimetz.com)
    228 points • by mattcollins • last Friday at 3:39 PM • 73 comments
  32. The Northeast is becoming fire country (www.newyorker.com)
    40 points • by gregorymichael • today at 4:25 PM • 39 comments
  33. 1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
    141 points • by galeos • last Friday at 2:28 PM • 29 comments
  34. The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess (www.nytimes.com)
    64 points • by mooreds • today at 2:48 PM • 124 comments
  35. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (labs.ripe.net)
    5 points • by voytec • today at 6:30 PM • 0 comments
  36. Why I hate the index finger (1980) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
    248 points • by consumer451 • yesterday at 12:35 AM • 94 comments
  37. Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner's Research Page (www.mpi-hd.mpg.de)
    72 points • by zardinality • today at 1:42 PM • 64 comments
  38. Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable (arxiv.org)
    128 points • by denvaar • last Sunday at 5:51 AM • 26 comments
  39. Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork (github.com)
    211 points • by amarsahinovic • yesterday at 8:29 PM • 69 comments
  40. AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks Showroom Bots into 'Quitting Their Jobs' (www.latintimes.com)
    9 points • by harambae • today at 8:35 PM • 4 comments
  41. Query Your Python Lists (github.com)
    78 points • by mkalioby • last Friday at 6:18 AM • 45 comments
  42. Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023) (chernando.com)
    216 points • by wonger_ • yesterday at 5:18 PM • 49 comments
  43. SOYO – Stream on Your Own (github.com)
    6 points • by jason1610 • today at 5:24 PM • 0 comments
  44. Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland (www.nytimes.com)
    71 points • by mykowebhn • last Friday at 6:57 PM • 28 comments
  45. Grant Sanderson: Visualizing transformers and attention [video] (www.youtube.com)
    19 points • by skadamat • today at 4:37 PM • 0 comments
  46. Show HN: A People Search Engine with Face Recognition (introthem.com)
    17 points • by vignesh_warar • today at 2:27 PM • 23 comments
  47. Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg (semiengineering.com)
    169 points • by yatrios • yesterday at 2:06 PM • 93 comments
  48. David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board (www.shopify.com)
    36 points • by doppp • today at 2:09 AM • 8 comments
  49. Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) (www.researchgate.net)
    388 points • by seanhunter • yesterday at 9:03 AM • 182 comments
  50. Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1 (m65digest.substack.com)
    12 points • by ibobev • last Friday at 12:04 PM • 0 comments