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1.
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (ca98am79.medium.com)
1116 points by ca98am79 39 days ago | 614 comments
2.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)
868 points by koshyjohn 39 days ago | 602 comments
3.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)
1198 points by milkglass 40 days ago | 851 comments
4.
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
796 points by pr337h4m 40 days ago | 560 comments
5.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
431 points by chiefalchemist 40 days ago | 329 comments
6.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com/lifeof_jer)
860 points by jeremyccrane 40 days ago | 1032 comments
7.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)
343 points by kmdupree 40 days ago | 181 comments
8.
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
301 points by Nrbelex 43 days ago | 159 comments
9.
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (bbc.com)
519 points by berkeleyjunk 39 days ago | 345 comments
10.
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
593 points by _-x-_ 40 days ago | 188 comments
11.
Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (sentinelone.com)
353 points by dd23 39 days ago | 97 comments
12.
Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
166 points by gurjeet 41 days ago | 101 comments
13.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)
658 points by elisaado 40 days ago | 363 comments
14.
America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
171 points by sleepyguy 40 days ago | 171 comments
15.
OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
294 points by tanelpoder 43 days ago | 66 comments
16.
Clay PCB Tutorial (cargo.site)
243 points by j0r0b0 40 days ago | 152 comments
17.
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)
314 points by sph 40 days ago | 86 comments
18.
Mahjong: A Visual Guide (themahjong.guide)
247 points by iamwil 42 days ago | 68 comments
19.
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
246 points by 1659447091 39 days ago | 83 comments
20.
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (bednar.io)
361 points by gasull 40 days ago | 214 comments
21.
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (gnupg.org)
174 points by zdkaster 40 days ago | 68 comments
22.
Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency (tokyodev.com)
164 points by pwim 42 days ago | 73 comments
23.
Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics (thermodynamicsbook.com)
191 points by 2DcAf 40 days ago | 48 comments
24.
Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)
158 points by signa11 43 days ago | 24 comments
25.
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame (playcanvas.com)
236 points by yak32 43 days ago | 63 comments
26.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation (anchor.host)
691 points by jamesponddotco 40 days ago | 253 comments
27.
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)
175 points by offbyone42 40 days ago | 29 comments
28.
Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (bbc.com)
161 points by reconnecting 39 days ago | 105 comments
29.
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 (eblong.com)
150 points by PLenz 40 days ago | 38 comments
30.
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement (asteriskmag.com)
87 points by jger15 43 days ago | 16 comments

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