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1.My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website (naya.lol)
1435 points by fintler on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 514 comments [ext]
2.Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features (github.com/quackduck)
435 points by humanperhaps on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
3.Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024? [ext]
427 points by overclock351 on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 276 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes (swtch.com)
254 points by rsc on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
5.Polychromatic Pixels (compoundsemiconductor.net)
203 points by bluehat974 on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
6.USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (techcrunch.com)
405 points by leotravis10 on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 206 comments [ext]
7. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
7.The Objects of Our Life (1983) (stevejobsarchive.com)
284 points by Brajeshwar on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
8.SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat (wiz.io)
254 points by todsacerdoti on July 17, 2024 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
9.What would it take to recreate Bell Labs? (construction-physics.com)
335 points by nickwritesit on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 259 comments [ext]
10. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text (github.com/soupslurpr)
165 points by thebiblelover7 on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
11.Premature Abstraction (arendjr.nl)
182 points by arendjr on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
12.Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic BΓ©zier curves (ninjakoa.la)
114 points by NinjaKoala on July 17, 2024 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
13. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
13.Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool (github.com/seddonm1)
128 points by seddonm1 on July 17, 2024 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
14.Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study (abc.net.au)
151 points by Brajeshwar on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
15.Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? (kb6nu.com)
168 points by austinallegro on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.The only tourist in Moldova (telegraph.co.uk)
151 points by dotcoma on July 14, 2024 [ext] | 391 comments [ext]
17.Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013) (acm.org)
97 points by NavinF on July 14, 2024 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
18.Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020) (arxiv.org)
65 points by luu on July 16, 2024 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
19. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
19.Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map' (twitter.com/mutableai)
162 points by oshams on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
20.Overcoming the limits of current LLMs (seanpedersen.github.io)
119 points by sean_pedersen on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
21.Mistral NeMo (mistral.ai)
418 points by bcatanzaro on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
22. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
22.Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser (ieee.org)
44 points by jnord on July 15, 2024 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
23.Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf] (shopify.com)
80 points by kickofline on July 13, 2024 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
24.Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands (github.com/randombk)
67 points by RandomBK on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
25. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
25.60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV (rfi.fr)
169 points by belter on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
26.What Materials Are Magnetic? (sciencenotes.org)
75 points by rwmj on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
27.A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system (ruudvanasseldonk.com)
30 points by todsacerdoti on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland (undark.org)
51 points by Bender on July 16, 2024 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
29.Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp (cmu.edu)
52 points by interpunct on July 13, 2024 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.Evolving the ASF Brand (apache.org)
66 points by Tomte on July 18, 2024 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
31. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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