Hacker News

1.		Bill Atkinson has passed away (facebook.com)
		180 points by romanhn 1 hour ago \| hide \| 22 comments
2.		Hate Radio (rwandanstories.org)
		86 points by thomassmith65 3 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
3.		Why We're Moving on from Nix (railway.com)
		129 points by mooreds 6 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
4.		Low-Level Optimization with Zig (alloc.dev)
		181 points by Retro_Dev 10 hours ago \| hide \| 63 comments
5.		The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
		1150 points by booleanbetrayal 1 day ago \| hide \| 722 comments
6.		What was Radiant AI, anyway? (paavo.me)
		83 points by paavohtl 3 hours ago \| hide \| 59 comments
7.		OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer (ashbyhq.com)
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8.		A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (github.com/arduinocelentano)
		80 points by carlesfe 9 hours ago \| hide \| 34 comments
9.		Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (slashdot.org)
		22 points by miles 1 hour ago \| hide \| 6 comments
10.		I'm Wirecutter's Water-Quality Expert. I Don't Filter My Water (nytimes.com)
		12 points by rufus_foreman 26 minutes ago \| hide \| 4 comments
11.		If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999) (dspace.mit.edu)
		63 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
12.		Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (yomiuri.co.jp)
		338 points by anigbrowl 20 hours ago \| hide \| 209 comments
13.		After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes (mashable.com)
		58 points by lr0 1 hour ago \| hide \| 49 comments
14.		The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure (joost.blog)
		159 points by twapi 13 hours ago \| hide \| 37 comments
15.		EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers (eff.org)
		34 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
16.		Getting Past Procrastination (ieee.org)
		217 points by WaitWaitWha 14 hours ago \| hide \| 113 comments
17.		How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)
		482 points by immortaljoe 1 day ago \| hide \| 205 comments
18.		Why are smokestacks so tall? (practical.engineering)
		141 points by azeemba 16 hours ago \| hide \| 35 comments
19.		A year of funded FreeBSD development (daemonology.net)
		321 points by cperciva 22 hours ago \| hide \| 97 comments
20.		The Spectacle of "Building" (fakepixels.substack.com)
		4 points by jger15 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
21.		The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (cdn-apple.com)
		281 points by amrrs 23 hours ago \| hide \| 150 comments
22.		Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise (pkh.me)
		105 points by ux 16 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
23.		Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client (tensorzero.com)
		96 points by paulwarren 14 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
24.		Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
		118 points by mooreds 19 hours ago \| hide \| 74 comments
25.		Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964) (nytimes.com)
		22 points by rafaepta 2 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
26.		Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)
		117 points by timmyd 22 hours ago \| hide \| 58 comments
27.		Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024) (sumsar.net)
		22 points by Tomte 1 hour ago \| hide \| 10 comments
28.		Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)
		374 points by cratermoon 19 hours ago \| hide \| 175 comments
29.		Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)
		199 points by rbanffy 1 day ago \| hide \| 78 comments
30.		A masochist's guide to web development (tronto.net)
		250 points by sebtron 1 day ago \| hide \| 41 comments
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