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1.
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (nytimes.com)
1257 points by jbredeche 5 months ago | 531 comments
2.
Human (quarter--mile.com)
737 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 269 comments
3.
Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)
693 points by mikerg87 5 months ago | 140 comments
4.
Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room (clientserver.dev)
375 points by jakevoytko 5 months ago | 367 comments
5.
A Tiny Boltzmann Machine (eoinmurray.info)
262 points by anomancer 5 months ago | 47 comments
6.
The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (sketch.dev)
447 points by crawshaw 5 months ago | 320 comments
7.
A leap year check in three instructions (hueffner.de)
434 points by gnabgib 5 months ago | 164 comments
8.
Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom (cnbc.com)
422 points by gpi 5 months ago | 499 comments
9.
Changes since congestion pricing started in New York (nytimes.com)
442 points by Vinnl 5 months ago | 706 comments
10.
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context (github.com/marv1nnnnn)
177 points by marv1nnnnn 5 months ago | 52 comments
11.
LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation (arxiv.org)
374 points by simonpure 5 months ago | 259 comments
12.
Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage (github.com/cofob)
247 points by klntsky 5 months ago | 88 comments
13.
Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals (codeberg.org/unspeaker)
173 points by smartmic 5 months ago | 23 comments
14.
Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google (thecoder.cafe)
302 points by 0xKelsey 5 months ago | 143 comments
15.
Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) (tartanllama.xyz)
191 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 249 comments
16.
I don't like NumPy (dynomight.net)
488 points by MinimalAction 5 months ago | 206 comments
17.
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
146 points by FrasiertheLion 5 months ago | 100 comments
18.
Migrating to Postgres (usemotion.com)
241 points by shenli3514 5 months ago | 274 comments
19.
The current state of TLA⁺ development (ahelwer.ca)
142 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 42 comments
20.
Pathfinding (juhrjuhr.itch.io)
155 points by sebg 5 months ago | 46 comments
21.
NASA Stennis's first open source software (nasa.gov)
78 points by mindcrime 5 months ago | 32 comments
22.
Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Jef Raskin (1986) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
91 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 79 comments
23.
Lua for Elixir (davelucia.com)
211 points by davydog187 5 months ago | 82 comments
24.
Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models (windsurf.com)
190 points by arittr 5 months ago | 62 comments
25.
Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting (github.com/axbycc)
144 points by markisus 5 months ago | 53 comments
26.
Internet Scrabble Club (2002-) (isc.ro)
55 points by indigodaddy 5 months ago | 24 comments
27.
In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight (arstechnica.com)
115 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 73 comments
28.
“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind (experimental-history.com)
125 points by CharlesW 5 months ago | 89 comments
29.
Self-hostable webhook tester in go (testwebhook.xyz)
76 points by muliswilliam 5 months ago | 15 comments
30.
Wavelet Trees: An Introduction (2011) (alexbowe.com)
56 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 16 comments

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