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  1. Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability (interactions.acm.org)
    26 points • by cxr • yesterday at 11:10 PM • 1 comment
  2. Local-first software (2019) (www.inkandswitch.com)
    564 points • by gasull • yesterday at 2:45 PM • 177 comments
  3. Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    85 points • by littlexsparkee • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 24 comments
  4. Operators, Not Users and Programmers (jyn.dev)
    19 points • by todsacerdoti • yesterday at 10:41 PM • 2 comments
  5. Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming (viksit.substack.com)
    33 points • by viksit • yesterday at 8:52 PM • 8 comments
  6. Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched (www.eumetsat.int)
    160 points • by diggan • yesterday at 2:21 PM • 33 comments
  7. Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947) (toytales.ca)
    50 points • by gscott • last Wednesday at 7:24 PM • 10 comments
  8. macOS Icon History (basicappleguy.com)
    112 points • by ksec • yesterday at 3:25 PM • 40 comments
  9. Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots (xata.io)
    78 points • by tudorg • yesterday at 4:42 PM • 14 comments
  10. X-Clacks-Overhead (xclacksoverhead.org)
    196 points • by weinzierl • last Wednesday at 7:14 AM • 41 comments
  11. Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights? (arxiv.org)
    6 points • by lexandstuff • yesterday at 9:19 PM • 0 comments
  12. What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)
    7 points • by wonger_ • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 2 comments
  13. How to Network as an Introvert (aginfer.bearblog.dev)
    6 points • by agcat • yesterday at 9:06 PM • 0 comments
  14. The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015) (www.vintagecalculators.com)
    21 points • by Bogdanp • yesterday at 4:38 PM • 3 comments
  15. 7-Zip 25.00 (github.com)
    13 points • by pentagrama • yesterday at 10:35 PM • 3 comments
  16. WinUAE 6 Amiga Emulator (www.winuae.net)
    31 points • by doener • yesterday at 9:13 PM • 4 comments
  17. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban (www.lemonde.fr)
    103 points • by divbzero • yesterday at 5:43 PM • 53 comments
  18. RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry (www.livescience.com)
    18 points • by anjel • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 16 comments
  19. Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing (mattwills.bearblog.dev)
    37 points • by mw_1 • last Wednesday at 3:07 PM • 6 comments
  20. Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation (docs.pasteurlabs.ai)
    11 points • by dionhaefner • last Thursday at 11:11 AM • 2 comments
  21. Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials (nautil.us)
    14 points • by dnetesn • last Thursday at 2:43 PM • 3 comments
  22. QSBS Limits Raised (www.mintz.com)
    53 points • by tomasreimers • yesterday at 11:14 AM • 21 comments
  23. Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019) (www.gecode.org)
    60 points • by gjvc • yesterday at 8:43 AM • 13 comments
  24. What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate (blog.alexoglou.com)
    41 points • by konsalexee • yesterday at 11:38 AM • 62 comments
  25. Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf] (www.microsoft.com)
    69 points • by djoldman • last Wednesday at 11:27 AM • 16 comments
  26. Solve high degree polynomials using Geode numbers (www.tandfonline.com)
    5 points • by somethingsome • last Wednesday at 7:09 AM • 2 comments
  27. Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types (www.nature.com)
    46 points • by bookofjoe • yesterday at 7:21 PM • 15 comments
  28. The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon (blog.thenewoil.org)
    150 points • by DanAtC • yesterday at 8:28 PM • 133 comments
  29. Yet Another Zip Trick (hackarcana.com)
    7 points • by todsacerdoti • last Wednesday at 12:01 PM • 2 comments
  30. Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin] (hi.telli.com)
    1 points • by sebselassie • yesterday at 7:00 AM • 0 comments
  31. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)
    648 points • by alihm • last Friday at 9:11 PM • 182 comments
  32. Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf] (www.akentsoc.org)
    25 points • by exvi • last Wednesday at 3:06 AM • 2 comments
  33. Just Ask for Generalization (2021) (evjang.com)
    32 points • by jxmorris12 • last Thursday at 8:31 PM • 3 comments
  34. The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001) (www.openculture.com)
    109 points • by bookofjoe • last Wednesday at 10:28 PM • 37 comments
  35. Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately (www.thealgorithmicbridge.com)
    170 points • by baylearn • yesterday at 10:33 AM • 188 comments
  36. The Moat of Low Status (usefulfictions.substack.com)
    342 points • by jger15 • last Wednesday at 3:08 PM • 144 comments
  37. Wind Knitting Factory (www.merelkarhof.nl)
    261 points • by bschne • last Thursday at 8:28 PM • 60 comments
  38. A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science (initcoder.com)
    145 points • by chbkall • yesterday at 8:52 AM • 145 comments
  39. OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (www.kbkg.com)
    395 points • by tareqak • yesterday at 12:24 AM • 318 comments
  40. N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training (n-back.net)
    77 points • by gregzeng95 • last Thursday at 6:07 AM • 20 comments
  41. Nvidia won, we all lost (blog.sebin-nyshkim.net)
    868 points • by todsacerdoti • last Friday at 9:58 PM • 512 comments
  42. Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip (www.jeffgeerling.com)
    429 points • by ingve • last Friday at 3:21 PM • 216 comments
  43. ADXL345 (2024) (www.tinytransistors.net)
    54 points • by picture • yesterday at 2:40 AM • 4 comments
  44. Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? (self)
    232 points • by jshchnz • last Wednesday at 8:28 PM • 344 comments
  45. Baba Is Eval (fi-le.net)
    243 points • by fi-le • last Thursday at 1:54 PM • 50 comments
  46. Robots move Shanghai city block [video] (www.youtube.com)
    137 points • by surprisetalk • last Thursday at 2:02 PM • 52 comments
  47. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (asia.nikkei.com)
    162 points • by ohjeez • yesterday at 3:15 PM • 118 comments
  48. Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action (phys.org)
    31 points • by PaulHoule • last Tuesday at 7:00 PM • 2 comments
  49. The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions (johnnysswlab.com)
    98 points • by mfiguiere • yesterday at 6:14 AM • 66 comments
  50. Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be (www.vox.com)
    71 points • by lr0 • yesterday at 3:27 PM • 66 comments