Hacker News

1.		Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (youtube.com)
		115 points by esbudylin 2 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
2.		Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant? (dg-datenschutz.de)
		15 points by doener 48 minutes ago \| hide \| 13 comments
3.		Transformer – Spreadsheet (byhand.ai)
		173 points by next_xibalba 7 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
4.		Easy 6502 (skilldrick.github.io)
		95 points by ibobev 6 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
5.		Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist (pastagang.cc)
		37 points by tobr 4 hours ago \| hide \| 15 comments
6.		Understanding Reasoning LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
		289 points by sebg 12 hours ago \| hide \| 108 comments
7.		Announcing the data.gov archive (law.harvard.edu)
		147 points by govideo 3 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
8.		There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015) (v8.dev)
		24 points by beepill 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
9.		Robust autonomy emerges from self-play (arxiv.org)
		74 points by reqo 7 hours ago \| hide \| 37 comments
10.		Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer (github.com/quadruplea)
		222 points by QuadrupleA 15 hours ago \| hide \| 29 comments
11.		How does life happen when there's barely any light? (quantamagazine.org)
		18 points by abe94 2 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
12.		Simulating water over terrain (lisyarus.github.io)
		315 points by ibobev 18 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
13.		OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com/atgreen)
		164 points by varjag 16 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
14.		HTML whitespace is broken (2024) (dwac.dev)
		54 points by marban 5 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
15.		Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide (spillhistorie.no)
		118 points by Retrogamingpap 13 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
16.		There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training (oatllm.notion.site)
		51 points by qianli_cs 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
17.		Ask HN: How to handle pushback on a team switch?
		28 points by rednafi 5 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
18.		It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety (acm.org)
		48 points by mepian 7 hours ago \| hide \| 41 comments
19.		Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps (isdumb.one)
		21 points by turrini 2 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
20.		TKey – Security for the New World (tillitis.se)
		54 points by diggan 10 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
21.		AI by Hand Exercises in Excel (github.com/imagineailab)
		40 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
22.		Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) (floydhub.ghost.io)
		3 points by eamag 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
23.		Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos" (thestrikeagency.com)
		131 points by noduerme 18 hours ago \| hide \| 63 comments
24.		Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt (ieee.org)
		199 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago \| hide \| 113 comments
25.		Keep 'em (not) separated: detecting discontinuities in grid graphs (holm.dog)
		16 points by friendshaver 8 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
26.		U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts (washingtonpost.com)
		41 points by Despegar 2 hours ago \| hide \| 29 comments
27.		Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology (abeljansma.nl)
		66 points by abelaer 12 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
28.		Practical use of the null garbage collector (2018) (microsoft.com)
		19 points by jasonthorsness 5 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
29.		Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals (washingtonpost.com)
		8 points by N19PEDL2 42 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
30.		Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots (github.com/us-artificial-intelligence)
		166 points by gkamer8 15 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
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