Hacker News

1.		Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a city built on scams (bbc.co.uk)
		65 points by inm 1 hour ago \| hide \| 19 comments
2.		Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (youtube.com)
		172 points by esbudylin 4 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
3.		Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data (arstechnica.com)
		42 points by gameshot911 32 minutes ago \| hide \| 26 comments
4.		Transformer – Spreadsheet (byhand.ai)
		201 points by next_xibalba 9 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
5.		Easy 6502 (skilldrick.github.io)
		113 points by ibobev 8 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
6.		Understanding Reasoning LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
		307 points by sebg 14 hours ago \| hide \| 117 comments
7.		Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist (pastagang.cc)
		67 points by tobr 6 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
8.		There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015) (v8.dev)
		44 points by beepill 6 hours ago \| hide \| 25 comments
9.		Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (github.com/orgs)
		56 points by lknik 1 hour ago \| hide \| 11 comments
10.		Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) (floydhub.ghost.io)
		18 points by eamag 4 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
11.		Announcing the data.gov archive (law.harvard.edu)
		209 points by govideo 5 hours ago \| hide \| 58 comments
12.		Robust autonomy emerges from self-play (arxiv.org)
		85 points by reqo 9 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
13.		Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer (github.com/quadruplea)
		232 points by QuadrupleA 17 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
14.		How does life happen when there's barely any light? (quantamagazine.org)
		29 points by abe94 4 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
15.		Simulating water over terrain (lisyarus.github.io)
		327 points by ibobev 20 hours ago \| hide \| 49 comments
16.		Google Fixes Android Kernel Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks (thedefendopsdiaries.com)
		17 points by tuzzmaniandevil 5 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
17.		Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on Ryzen AI and Radeon (amd.com)
		12 points by mariuz 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
18.		OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com/atgreen)
		171 points by varjag 18 hours ago \| hide \| 55 comments
19.		The most breathtaking abandoned sites (elpais.com)
		26 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
20.		Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide (spillhistorie.no)
		127 points by Retrogamingpap 15 hours ago \| hide \| 29 comments
21.		AI by Hand Exercises in Excel (github.com/imagineailab)
		58 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
22.		HTML whitespace is broken (2024) (dwac.dev)
		73 points by marban 7 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
23.		There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training (oatllm.notion.site)
		61 points by qianli_cs 6 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
24.		Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt (ieee.org)
		205 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| hide \| 118 comments
25.		Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos" (thestrikeagency.com)
		132 points by noduerme 20 hours ago \| hide \| 63 comments
26.		It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety (acm.org)
		61 points by mepian 9 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
27.		TKey – Security for the New World (tillitis.se)
		63 points by diggan 12 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
28.		Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024 (spacenews.com)
		13 points by isaacfrond 1 hour ago \| hide \| 6 comments
29.		Keep 'em (not) separated: detecting discontinuities in grid graphs (holm.dog)
		18 points by friendshaver 10 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
30.		Verse (YC W22) Is Hiring
		14 hours ago \| hide
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