Hacker News

1.		Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a city built on scams (bbc.co.uk)
		117 points by inm 2 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
2.		Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data (arstechnica.com)
		177 points by gameshot911 1 hour ago \| hide \| 108 comments
3.		Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (youtube.com)
		192 points by esbudylin 5 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
4.		Transformer – Spreadsheet (byhand.ai)
		219 points by next_xibalba 10 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
5.		Easy 6502 (skilldrick.github.io)
		124 points by ibobev 9 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
6.		The King in Yellow (wikipedia.org)
		14 points by keiferski 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
7.		Understanding Reasoning LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
		323 points by sebg 15 hours ago \| hide \| 120 comments
8.		InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction (ycombinator.com)
		58 minutes ago \| hide
9.		Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub (github.com/orgs)
		106 points by lknik 2 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
10.		Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor (macrumors.com)
		17 points by throw0101d 40 minutes ago \| hide \| 4 comments
11.		There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015) (v8.dev)
		49 points by beepill 7 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
12.		Announcing the data.gov archive (law.harvard.edu)
		249 points by govideo 6 hours ago \| hide \| 70 comments
13.		Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) (floydhub.ghost.io)
		24 points by eamag 5 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
14.		Robust autonomy emerges from self-play (arxiv.org)
		92 points by reqo 10 hours ago \| hide \| 45 comments
15.		Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on Ryzen AI and Radeon (amd.com)
		23 points by mariuz 4 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
16.		Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds (theconversation.com)
		5 points by sohkamyung 25 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
17.		Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer (github.com/quadruplea)
		239 points by QuadrupleA 18 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
18.		Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist (pastagang.cc)
		79 points by tobr 7 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
19.		Google Fixes Android Kernel Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks (thedefendopsdiaries.com)
		30 points by tuzzmaniandevil 6 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
20.		Simulating water over terrain (lisyarus.github.io)
		333 points by ibobev 21 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
21.		OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com/atgreen)
		177 points by varjag 19 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
22.		OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup (yahoo.com)
		11 points by mgh2 1 hour ago \| hide \| 4 comments
23.		AI by Hand Exercises in Excel (github.com/imagineailab)
		68 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
24.		How does life happen when there's barely any light? (quantamagazine.org)
		32 points by abe94 5 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
25.		Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide (spillhistorie.no)
		131 points by Retrogamingpap 16 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
26.		Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024 (spacenews.com)
		23 points by isaacfrond 2 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
27.		Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt (ieee.org)
		212 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| hide \| 120 comments
28.		Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos" (thestrikeagency.com)
		137 points by noduerme 21 hours ago \| hide \| 65 comments
29.		HTML whitespace is broken (2024) (dwac.dev)
		83 points by marban 8 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
30.		There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training (oatllm.notion.site)
		68 points by qianli_cs 7 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
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