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Hacker News

50 items

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What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
76 points · 27 comments
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Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
135 points · 82 comments
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ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
37 points · 3 comments
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
203 points · 67 comments
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What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance
18 points · 9 comments
6
How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics
21 points · 2 comments
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Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
111 points · 151 comments
8
Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra
4 points · 1 comments
9
Blend and Haul: Fertilizer Blending Simulator
3 points · 1 comments
10
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
77 points · 176 comments
11
Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
129 points · 56 comments
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Sonnet 5.5
612 points · 419 comments
13
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
67 points · 38 comments
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Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
255 points · 141 comments
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Tank Body Problem
19 points · 5 comments
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The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero
14 points · 1 comments
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
131 points · 155 comments
18
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
325 points · 124 comments
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World Labs Is Joining AMD
199 points · 77 comments
20
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
305 points · 185 comments
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1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
31 points · 20 comments
22
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
146 points · 66 comments
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12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
88 points · 22 comments
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Pirating the Pirates
434 points · 231 comments
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Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
314 points · 127 comments
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Behold the pawpaw
57 points · 17 comments
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We found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
7 points · 2 comments
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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
306 points · 170 comments
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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
39 points · 37 comments
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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
41 points · 19 comments
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AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies
3 points · 0 comments
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Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System
4 points · 3 comments
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Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny
16 points · 11 comments
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3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing
18 points · 6 comments
35
Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
70 points · 41 comments
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Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
100 points · 27 comments
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
43 points · 36 comments
38
Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
31 points · 8 comments
39
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
147 points · 66 comments
40
What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
64 points · 21 comments
41
Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?
35 points · 20 comments
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Best of British Design
50 points · 27 comments
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Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
68 points · 62 comments
44
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?
27 points · 37 comments
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I made a visual workspace for AI Automations
27 points · 22 comments
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Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
97 points · 71 comments
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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
300 points · 251 comments
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GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
67 points · 33 comments
49
I switched to Brave
85 points · 140 comments
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Windows 11½
367 points · 108 comments

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AMC butter isn't butter, and we're the reasonr/SipsTea
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Meirlr/meirl
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California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Dropsr/news
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As Florida considers dropping its measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine mandate for school attendance, a new study predicts that such a policy change could spark the largest measles epidemic in the United States in nearly 500 years, with striking 650% increase in cases just between 2024 and 2025.r/science
5
Son dropped an unfortunately perfect size marble into the drain
r/mildlyinfuriating
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My sister found this in her husbands jean pocketr/whatisit
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Our rescue kitten, Noah Dream, unexpectedly passed this morningr/cats
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Chaos at a U-8 football game in Charlotte after parents stormed the field and began fighting the kids, each other and the ref. Parents who live vicariously through their kids are insufferable moronsr/sportsgossips
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Glorious instant karma brought to you by dash cam owners australia.r/dashcams
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School bus stops partially in oncoming lane. Likely to keep cards from passing
r/mildlyinteresting
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We survived without AI for centuriesr/MurderedByWords
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Trump, 80, Promptly Falls Asleep After Announcing New Steel Plantr/politics
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'r/politics
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TIL Osaka Ends Ties With Its Sister City San Francisco In Protest Of 'Comfort Women' Statuer/todayilearned
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Anti ai ads in a subway
r/mildlyinteresting
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What game ending left you staring at the screen in complete silence?r/videogames
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Google Maps Updates thier Images
r/justincaseyoumissedit
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Cards Against Humanity to build "Elon Musk is a sad little bitch with no friends Monument" near SpaceX Executive Building, with $10 Donation from anyone who donates.r/videos
19
The dog who supported his best friend in his first steps
r/interestingasfuck
20
TIL a nationwide US study found that only 42% of dog owners reported walking their dog during a typical week.r/todayilearned
21
Amazing how fast his spatial awareness improved once her dad switched spots.r/TikTokCringe
22
What did you buy as an adult because you were denied it as a child?r/AskReddit
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older girls, does it ever get better??
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
24
Only 7 noodles in my large-size Stouffer’s mac n cheese 🫠
r/mildlyinfuriating
25
meirlr/meirl
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YSK: about The Work Number, especially if interviewing for a jobr/YouShouldKnow
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Is it career suicide to refuse a "promotion" that comes with four direct reports and zero pay bump?r/careerguidance
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The Corrupted Blood plaguer/HistoryMemes
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Some people find it stupidr/cats
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When Steve Jobs refused to give "early garage employees" at Apple stock options, Steve Wozniak gave them a combined $10m worth of his own stock because it was "the right thing to do". In addition, Wozniak gave $4m worth of stock to his parents, sister, & brother and $2m worth of stock to his friendsr/interesting
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NOWr/funComunitty
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Sit down, Shut up, & Read in elementary schoolr/Millennials
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Why does she look like a chair?
r/PeterExplainsTheJoke
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gen z are overly obsessed with how ppl in their 30s and 40s are supposed to dress and actr/generationology
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TIL Driving for more than two hours each day can steadily decrease the IQ of middle-aged driversr/todayilearned
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I'm losing braincellsr/aislop
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In an effort to stop using AI images, my kid's school started using kid art for their fundraisers and events.
r/mildlyinteresting
38
My identical twin sister and me work as the same baristar/confession
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Age 73, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan (Mayfair, London)r/MadeMeSmile
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aiRefusesToBuildItSoBackToCodingr/ProgrammerHumor
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I'm old enough to remember Iran/Contra.
r/LeopardsAteMyFarm
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[Law Proposal] Ban the ai thirst trap game ads.
r/CriticalStateGlobal
43
Mayor Mamdani Launches “Opera for All,” Bringing 70,000 Free Metropolitan Opera Tickets to New Yorkersr/UpliftingNews
44
Has Trump destroyed the Republican Party forever?r/askanything
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mission from godr/comics
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Taylor Swift released 39 different variants of her showgirl album within one year
r/mildlyinfuriating
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Popping onto the podr/nextfuckinglevel
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AOC calls out Cornell University and shares her message to sexual assault survivors: “The fact that Jane Doe, that survivor, lost her education… and those men were protected by an institution and granted an Ivy League Education — never again.”r/Fauxmoi
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The Trump Burger in Houston, shutdown after the owner was deportedr/pics
50
He really did the memer/memes

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