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1.
OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews (otranscribe.com)
482 points by zerojames 89 days ago | 103 comments
2.
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs (github.com/dicklesworthstone)
479 points by eigenvalue 88 days ago | 172 comments
3.
Jake Seliger has died (marginalrevolution.com)
960 points by A_D_E_P_T 88 days ago | 193 comments
4.
Do quests, not goals (raptitude.com)
649 points by zdw 89 days ago | 174 comments
5.
Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP (thundercompute.com)
344 points by bmodel 88 days ago | 108 comments
6.
Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI (github.com/trafficguard)
155 points by campers 88 days ago | 37 comments
7.
USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation (smithsecurity.biz)
460 points by wglb 89 days ago | 301 comments
8.
Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool (bhmt.dev)
215 points by chaosharmonic 89 days ago | 30 comments
9.
Qlot: Common Lisp Library Manager (github.com/fukamachi)
100 points by ducktective 3 months ago | 47 comments
10.
Hacking a Virtual Power Plant (rya.nc)
189 points by bo0tzz 89 days ago | 46 comments
11.
VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003) (benlo.com)
108 points by hggh 3 months ago | 46 comments
12.
Using the Moon as an Echo [video] (youtube.com)
92 points by tws 3 months ago | 26 comments
13.
Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012) (lareviewofbooks.org)
101 points by lordleft 88 days ago | 40 comments
14.
Voice is a garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian sound visualizations (themarginalian.org)
76 points by benbreen 88 days ago | 10 comments
15.
VFusion3D: Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models (github.com/facebookresearch)
56 points by MrTrvp 88 days ago | 5 comments
16.
DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems (ans.org)
191 points by bilsbie 88 days ago | 142 comments
17.
Launch HN: Roe AI (YC W24) – AI-powered data warehouse to query multimodal data
60 points by richardmeng 88 days ago | 35 comments
18.
A heck of a wild bug chase (georgemauer.net)
66 points by togakangaroo 89 days ago | 56 comments
19.
'Agua, Agua' (altaonline.com)
92 points by acdanger 3 months ago | 71 comments
20.
Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary (ctang.art)
73 points by ctangy 88 days ago | 8 comments
21.
Show HN: I built Mailhub – A scalable API for sending emails with ease not tears (mailhub.sh)
104 points by clementjanssens 88 days ago | 54 comments
22.
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf] (tom7.org)
98 points by a022311 3 months ago | 25 comments
23.
Jerk (ivanish.ca)
191 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 31 comments
24.
Base 3 Computing Beats Binary (quantamagazine.org)
162 points by Tomte 88 days ago | 160 comments
25.
LangGraph Engineer (github.com/hwchase17)
63 points by gfortaine 88 days ago | 38 comments
26.
SQLite FTS5 Extension (sqlite.org)
129 points by thunderbong 89 days ago | 56 comments
27.
Is it time to version observability? (charity.wtf)
84 points by RyeCombinator 3 months ago | 74 comments
28.
DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard (liliputing.com)
65 points by rcarmo 3 months ago | 12 comments
29.
1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens (historytoday.com)
56 points by pepys 3 months ago | 55 comments
30.
Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down California pipeline (latimes.com)
143 points by sizzle 89 days ago | 28 comments

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