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1.
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com/voideditor)
876 points by sharjeelsayed 1 day ago | 337 comments
2.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (hayman.net)
1132 points by mattl 1 day ago | 283 comments
3.
Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)
510 points by chrisdemarco 1 day ago | 104 comments
4.
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)
593 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 1008 comments
5.
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)
227 points by sam 1 day ago | 132 comments
6.
June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (quantamagazine.org)
217 points by bpierre 2 days ago | 138 comments
7.
When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)
221 points by impish9208 3 days ago | 78 comments
8.
How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (electrospaces.net)
215 points by lastdong 5 days ago | 82 comments
9.
How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)
330 points by lucasfcosta 4 days ago | 101 comments
10.
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
328 points by doener 2 days ago | 117 comments
11.
Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)
305 points by c16 2 days ago | 69 comments
12.
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (anthropic.com)
227 points by namukang 1 day ago | 266 comments
13.
A cycle-accurate IBM PC emulator in your web browser (martypc.net)
155 points by GloriousCow 5 days ago | 25 comments
14.
Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (engadget.com)
214 points by thibautg 2 days ago | 322 comments
15.
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
486 points by troupo 2 days ago | 359 comments
16.
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)
634 points by nrvn 2 days ago | 625 comments
17.
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (catern.com)
191 points by aquastorm 4 days ago | 237 comments
18.
Show HN: US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US (github.com/ivanbelenky)
114 points by ivanbelenky 2 days ago | 26 comments
19.
Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days (phys.org)
133 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 45 comments
20.
Static as a Server (overreacted.io)
113 points by danabramov 1 day ago | 107 comments
21.
Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
190 points by doener 2 days ago | 53 comments
22.
Stability by Design (potetm.com)
126 points by potetm 1 day ago | 60 comments
23.
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com/qpoint-io)
251 points by tylerflint 1 day ago | 78 comments
24.
How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)
213 points by moyer 4 days ago | 71 comments
25.
Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)
287 points by aburan28 2 days ago | 346 comments
26.
Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (artnet.com)
120 points by isaacfrond 2 days ago | 103 comments
27.
Bootstrapping Lisp in a Boot Sector (github.com/jart)
104 points by gone35 5 days ago | 6 comments
28.
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (m-arriola.com)
70 points by t55 1 day ago | 14 comments
29.
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)
186 points by jermaustin1 1 day ago | 104 comments
30.
NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (nbcnews.com)
277 points by __natty__ 4 days ago | 154 comments

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