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1.
I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350 (dmitry.gr)
700 points by elipsitz 89 days ago | 341 comments
2.
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime (github.com/mikex86)
643 points by rrampage 89 days ago | 145 comments
3.
How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability (bughunters.google.com)
268 points by xxmarkuski 89 days ago | 65 comments
4.
Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out (nightly.mozilla.org)
634 points by ReadCarlBarks 89 days ago | 356 comments
5.
A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film (jackw01.github.io)
285 points by eloisius 3 months ago | 93 comments
6.
The Third Atomic Bomb (lflank.wordpress.com)
266 points by dxs 3 months ago | 255 comments
7.
Eyechat (neal.fun)
268 points by seatac76 3 months ago | 100 comments
8.
How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months (figma.com)
298 points by ianvonseggern 89 days ago | 385 comments
9.
Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
565 points by 45HCPW 3 months ago | 594 comments
10.
Public Work: a search engine for public domain images (public.work)
364 points by throw0101d 3 months ago | 53 comments
11.
Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython (codingconfessions.com)
204 points by rbanffy 89 days ago | 167 comments
12.
How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis (statsignificant.com)
182 points by cainxinth 89 days ago | 142 comments
13.
NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 (nytimes.com)
417 points by lode 3 months ago | 552 comments
14.
The ancient art of roasting agave (atlasobscura.com)
99 points by NoRagrets 3 months ago | 21 comments
15.
Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II (projectgus.com)
121 points by fanf2 3 months ago | 27 comments
16.
Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor (github.com/dupontgu)
173 points by gvy-dvpont 3 months ago | 26 comments
17.
GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS (arxiv.org)
98 points by jonbaer 89 days ago | 10 comments
18.
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers (ft.com)
570 points by ViktorRay 3 months ago | 361 comments
19.
Maximal min() and max() (lwn.net)
190 points by immibis 3 months ago | 114 comments
20.
Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative (github.com/stack-auth)
280 points by n2d4 89 days ago | 141 comments
21.
Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping (argdown.org)
191 points by urlwolf 3 months ago | 47 comments
22.
GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments (treatmenteffect.app)
223 points by thoughtpeddler 3 months ago | 94 comments
23.
FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention (pytorch.org)
210 points by limoce 3 months ago | 24 comments
24.
In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality (washingtonpost.com)
158 points by Caiero 3 months ago | 621 comments
25.
The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO (androidauthority.com)
268 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | 119 comments
26.
RLHF is just barely RL (twitter.com/karpathy)
386 points by tosh 3 months ago | 257 comments
27.
How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety (cheriot.org)
112 points by miloignis 3 months ago | 40 comments
28.
Intel's Immiseration (thechipletter.substack.com)
185 points by rbanffy 89 days ago | 218 comments
29.
Review – Ford’s First Engine (sites.google.com)
70 points by 082349872349872 3 months ago | 14 comments
30.
Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate (wired.com)
84 points by mpweiher 3 months ago | 29 comments

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