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  1. Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
    378 points • by sohkamyung • yesterday at 11:01 PM • 97 comments
  2. Docker is weird (codeandcake.dev)
    483 points • by psxuaw • yesterday at 11:45 PM • 219 comments
  3. How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (www.lesswrong.com)
    87 points • by gmays • yesterday at 9:41 PM • 25 comments
  4. The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions (arxiv.org)
    61 points • by martincsweiss • yesterday at 1:25 PM • 10 comments
  5. The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
    179 points • by xiaoyu2006 • today at 12:52 AM • 100 comments
  6. The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial (developer.chrome.com)
    48 points • by andrewstuart • yesterday at 7:54 PM • 19 comments
  7. Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key (github.com)
    58 points • by dsmurrell • yesterday at 2:04 PM • 29 comments
  8. This I Believe (1952) (www.awakin.org)
    88 points • by ctoth • today at 2:19 AM • 32 comments
  9. OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents (github.com)
    397 points • by niemandhier • yesterday at 5:44 PM • 194 comments
  10. Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (www.modelcompare.ai)
    425 points • by rakannimer • yesterday at 4:08 PM • 427 comments
  11. I Did This Without Your Knowledge (www.lesswrong.com)
    31 points • by jmugan • today at 5:51 AM • 14 comments
  12. Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com)
    440 points • by aghuang • yesterday at 3:26 PM • 152 comments
  13. A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics (www.sciencealert.com)
    45 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 7:41 AM • 27 comments
  14. Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany (www.taler.net)
    294 points • by dewey • yesterday at 4:14 PM • 123 comments
  15. I reverse engineered a board game (wuemeli.com)
    35 points • by wuemeli • last Wednesday at 1:40 PM • 7 comments
  16. Quad9 to exit France (quad9.net)
    1210 points • by farrokhi • yesterday at 2:32 PM • 410 comments
  17. WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
    544 points • by alphax314 • yesterday at 2:18 AM • 169 comments
  18. Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop (jank-lang.org)
    103 points • by giancarlostoro • yesterday at 11:56 PM • 11 comments
  19. LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (www.anthropic.com)
    348 points • by johnbender • yesterday at 10:54 PM • 205 comments
  20. Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry. (self)
    556 points • by petecooper • yesterday at 10:11 AM • 217 comments
  21. Color Names (names.color.pizza)
    75 points • by akkartik • last Tuesday at 4:27 PM • 10 comments
  22. Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought (arstechnica.com)
    301 points • by entryleveljobsc • yesterday at 11:42 AM • 272 comments
  23. Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com)
    17 points • by animalhot • today at 12:10 AM • 2 comments
  24. Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? (self)
    154 points • by ex-aws-dude • yesterday at 9:03 PM • 134 comments
  25. Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair (www.designboom.com)
    3 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 3:20 PM • 0 comments
  26. Rule 30: one black cell (www.wolframcollatzmahler.com)
    16 points • by amichail • yesterday at 10:16 PM • 5 comments
  27. eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business (emudhra.com)
    1059 points • by bo0tzz • yesterday at 1:33 PM • 681 comments
  28. Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool (github.com)
    198 points • by maxilevi • yesterday at 6:44 PM • 40 comments
  29. Railpass (train.samismith.com)
    102 points • by CharlesW • yesterday at 9:38 PM • 26 comments
  30. We have traits at home (www.axelmagn.com)
    16 points • by Ygg2 • yesterday at 11:24 PM • 4 comments
  31. Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages (ardentperf.com)
    40 points • by plaur782 • last Wednesday at 10:33 PM • 5 comments
  32. How to Design Flowers (www.asimov.press)
    41 points • by surprisetalk • last Tuesday at 2:00 PM • 3 comments
  33. Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (jamanetwork.com)
    113 points • by gumby • last Tuesday at 10:24 PM • 68 comments
  34. ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support (arstechnica.com)
    19 points • by vintagedave • today at 7:25 AM • 0 comments
  35. Objects, attributes, maps, oh my (bernsteinbear.com)
    14 points • by ibobev • yesterday at 4:34 PM • 1 comment
  36. Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev)
    109 points • by storagebits • last Wednesday at 1:04 PM • 28 comments
  37. LISP Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
    11 points • by so-cal-schemer • yesterday at 7:08 PM • 5 comments
  38. Mapping the Northern Sky (www.maps.com)
    34 points • by tmseidman • yesterday at 11:56 PM • 10 comments
  39. Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms (globus.software)
    217 points • by molind • yesterday at 9:31 AM • 40 comments
  40. Jailbreaking the Switch 2 (pepsipu.com)
    779 points • by ledoge • yesterday at 8:01 AM • 276 comments
  41. Meta Muse hits 10M users (fortune.com)
    3 points • by satvikpendem • today at 9:29 AM • 0 comments
  42. Dungeon generation in the Gnomish mines of NetHack (www.boristhebrave.com)
    140 points • by ibobev • last Monday at 4:06 PM • 19 comments
  43. Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test (arstechnica.com)
    132 points • by wffurr • last Monday at 8:12 PM • 58 comments
  44. What Is Gridifcation (musicalform.substack.com)
    446 points • by gumby • last Monday at 9:13 AM • 209 comments
  45. Speeding up code review with `small-change` (lethain.com)
    42 points • by alexmolas • last Monday at 10:35 AM • 24 comments
  46. A farewell to Arc browser (arc.net)
    268 points • by suhdonghwi • yesterday at 4:27 PM • 230 comments
  47. Semantic search across major museums (lastmuseum.com)
    121 points • by surprisetalk • yesterday at 12:40 PM • 30 comments
  48. Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name (www.404media.co)
    636 points • by oidar • yesterday at 1:11 PM • 629 comments
  49. The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
    117 points • by jlundberg • today at 6:41 AM • 121 comments
  50. Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea (rumple.github.io)
    209 points • by jimauthors • last Wednesday at 4:27 AM • 100 comments