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1.We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)
669 points by topsycatt on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
2.I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (cardinalnews.org)
658 points by bookofjoe on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 521 comments [ext]
3.xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (twitter.com/elonmusk)
806 points by rvz on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 1269 comments [ext]
4. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
4.How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com)
603 points by rbanffy on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
5.Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (startifact.com)
381 points by robin_reala on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
6.Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors (terrytao.wordpress.com)
139 points by surprisetalk on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
7. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
7.Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter (autorouting.com)
396 points by seveibar on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
8.I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs (twitter.com/skdh)
718 points by ksec on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 1223 comments [ext]
9.A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
384 points by luu on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
10. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
10.Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds (chrbutler.com)
171 points by delaugust on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
11.Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ (github.com/emberemu)
118 points by Chaosvex on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
12.Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life (livescience.com)
312 points by wglb on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
13. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
13.The Real Book (2021) (99percentinvisible.org)
156 points by Tomte on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
14.Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3 (seb-v.github.io)
118 points by skidrow on March 25, 2025 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
15.The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003) (uchicago.edu)
96 points by cainxinth on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
16. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
16.How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)
380 points by lordleft on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 299 comments [ext]
17.Architecture Patterns with Python (cosmicpython.com)
488 points by asicsp on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
18.MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502 (github.com/agsb)
121 points by rbanffy on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig (calabro.io)
144 points by todsacerdoti on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
20.Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (kagi.com)
379 points by lucgommans on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
21.Golang on the Playstation 2 (rgsilva.com)
200 points by donatj on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
22. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 23 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL (ditto.com)
223 points by stusmall on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
23.Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts (thisdavej.com)
247 points by thisdavej on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
24.Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs (arxiv.org)
117 points by bretpiatt on March 24, 2025 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
25. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
25.A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C (github.com/sat-r)
182 points by bane on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
26.Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers (dancohen.org)
161 points by speckx on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
27.LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (computerworld.com)
347 points by cable2600 on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
28. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
28.7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand (twitter.com/tarabull808)
275 points by testrun on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
29.Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo (rahuljuliato.com)
119 points by JNRowe on March 27, 2025 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
30.Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees (caryinstitute.org)
141 points by sohkamyung on March 28, 2025 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
31. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments

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