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1.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (ca98am79.medium.com)
1077 points by ca98am79 1 day ago | 590 comments
2.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
829 points by koshyjohn 1 day ago | 575 comments
3.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
1172 points by milkglass 2 days ago | 838 comments
4.
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
785 points by pr337h4m 2 days ago | 556 comments
5.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
422 points by chiefalchemist 2 days ago | 316 comments
6.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
826 points by jeremyccrane 1 day ago | 989 comments
7.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
339 points by kmdupree 1 day ago | 179 comments
8.
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
299 points by Nrbelex 5 days ago | 157 comments
9.
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
509 points by berkeleyjunk 1 day ago | 332 comments
10.
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
570 points by _-x-_ 2 days ago | 186 comments
11.
Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
162 points by gurjeet 3 days ago | 97 comments
12.
Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
335 points by dd23 1 day ago | 93 comments
13.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
642 points by elisaado 1 day ago | 344 comments
14.
America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
169 points by sleepyguy 2 days ago | 168 comments
15.
OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
293 points by tanelpoder 5 days ago | 65 comments
16.
Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
238 points by j0r0b0 1 day ago | 148 comments
17.
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
307 points by sph 1 day ago | 85 comments
18.
Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
240 points by iamwil 4 days ago | 68 comments
19.
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
237 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 81 comments
20.
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
357 points by gasull 2 days ago | 207 comments
21.
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
172 points by zdkaster 2 days ago | 61 comments
22.
Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
164 points by pwim 4 days ago | 73 comments
23.
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
173 points by 2DcAf 1 day ago | 45 comments
24.
Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
158 points by signa11 4 days ago | 23 comments
25.
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
229 points by yak32 4 days ago | 58 comments
26.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
668 points by jamesponddotco 1 day ago | 251 comments
27.
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
171 points by offbyone42 2 days ago | 29 comments
28.
Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (bbc.com)
152 points by reconnecting 1 day ago | 98 comments
29.
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
142 points by PLenz 1 day ago | 36 comments
30.
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
84 points by jger15 4 days ago | 16 comments

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