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1.
Space Elevator (neal.fun)
1801 points by kaonwarb 10 days ago | 403 comments
2.
DeepSeek OCR (github.com/deepseek-ai)
1002 points by pierre 10 days ago | 244 comments
3.
BERT is just a single text diffusion step (nathan.rs)
455 points by nathan-barry 10 days ago | 110 comments
4.
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents (abdellatif.io)
550 points by tifa2up 9 days ago | 113 comments
5.
Claude Code on the web (anthropic.com)
578 points by adocomplete 9 days ago | 390 comments
6.
Servo v0.0.1 (github.com/servo)
570 points by undeveloper 10 days ago | 204 comments
7.
Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption (dockerstatus.com)
345 points by l2dy 10 days ago | 134 comments
8.
How to stop Linux threads cleanly (mazzo.li)
245 points by signa11 15 days ago | 85 comments
9.
Major AWS Outage Happening (reddit.com)
1079 points by vvoyer 10 days ago | 12 comments
10.
Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout (theregister.com)
1018 points by raw_anon_1111 9 days ago | 653 comments
11.
Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024) (zenodo.org)
608 points by hhutw 10 days ago | 56 comments
12.
Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video] (youtube.com)
166 points by emsign 16 days ago | 32 comments
13.
ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety (intel.com)
273 points by ashvardanian 15 days ago | 142 comments
14.
Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors (github.com/gleam-lang)
197 points by TheWiggles 10 days ago | 84 comments
15.
Forth: The programming language that writes itself (ratfactor.com)
331 points by suioir 10 days ago | 168 comments
16.
Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware (ajxs.me)
196 points by jmillikin 10 days ago | 27 comments
17.
x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger (halb.it)
178 points by modinfo 9 days ago | 24 comments
18.
Pointer Pointer (2012) (pointerpointer.com)
244 points by surprisetalk 21 days ago | 31 comments
19.
Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)
140 points by _pvzn 9 days ago | 48 comments
20.
TernFS – an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem (xtxmarkets.com)
138 points by kirlev 9 days ago | 31 comments
21.
Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures (github.com/felipap)
160 points by felipap 12 days ago | 24 comments
22.
The scariest "user support" email I've received (devas.life)
288 points by hervic 15 days ago | 252 comments
23.
The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win (mlb.com)
82 points by mooreds 15 days ago | 83 comments
24.
Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP (github.com/lackeyjb)
188 points by syntax-sherlock 10 days ago | 45 comments
25.
What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert? (artnet.com)
87 points by derbOac 17 days ago | 39 comments
26.
Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia (nswskc.wordpress.com)
74 points by dividendpayee 19 days ago | 9 comments
27.
Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument (medium.com/gabiteodoru)
92 points by gabiteodoru 17 days ago | 53 comments
28.
QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files (github.com/wiesmann)
62 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 20 comments
29.
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (theverge.com)
211 points by codebolt 10 days ago | 1 comment
30.
From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds (bbc.com)
74 points by RickJWagner 10 days ago | 10 comments

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