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The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (notashelf.dev)

432 comments 2 days, 1552 points

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (developers.googleblog.com)

682 comments 2 days, 1371 points

show Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)

264 comments 2 days, 1351 points

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (www.collabora.com)

612 comments 2 days, 1201 points

Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server (github.com)

280 comments 34 hours, 1141 points

My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (www.gatesnotes.com)

563 comments 14 hours, 1111 points

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

401 comments 45 hours, 1101 points

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir (www.reuters.com)

590 comments 2 days, 1070 points

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)

371 comments 39 hours, 972 points

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com)

324 comments 2 days, 926 points

self ask Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

317 comments 15 hours, 722 points

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (www.blu-ray.com)

296 comments 2 days, 698 points

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (pganalyze.com)

147 comments 37 hours, 696 points

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer (gill.net.in)

369 comments 40 hours, 673 points

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

155 comments 39 hours, 671 points

Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help (www.linkedin.com)

237 comments 2 days, 665 points

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)

155 comments 37 hours, 643 points

So Much Blood (dynomight.net)

202 comments 42 hours, 632 points

Google to back three new nuclear projects (www.esgtoday.com)

300 comments 14 hours, 570 points

DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo (www.cnbc.com)

371 comments 2 days, 549 points

self Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

131 comments 2 days, 530 points

VVVVVV Source Code (github.com)

89 comments 2 days, 518 points

Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (www.engadget.com)

306 comments 34 hours, 518 points

Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford (nexo.sh)

232 comments 14 hours, 515 points

Getting things “done” in large tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)

210 comments 2 days, 513 points

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (www.nytimes.com)

265 comments 2 days, 504 points

RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com)

155 comments 34 hours, 501 points

Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu (trifectatech.org)

253 comments 2 days, 467 points

Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024) (spectrum.ieee.org)

198 comments 2 days, 448 points

WeightWatchers files bankruptcy (www.wsj.com)

329 comments 37 hours, 436 points

Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)

114 comments 22 hours, 434 points

NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (www.nbcnews.com)

149 comments 2 days, 421 points

Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (2021) (catern.com)

221 comments 2 days, 410 points

New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms (news.northwestern.edu)

151 comments 2 days, 369 points

Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English (accent-strength.boldvoice.com)

125 comments 2 days, 366 points

Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)

67 comments 19 hours, 365 points

iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules (www.theverge.com)

175 comments 2 days, 360 points

Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB (github.com)

83 comments 2 days, 354 points

Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges (www.sfgate.com)

193 comments 36 hours, 349 points

Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users (arstechnica.com)

126 comments 2 days, 347 points

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview (developers.googleblog.com)

99 comments 35 hours, 347 points

June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (www.quantamagazine.org)

132 comments 30 hours, 346 points

OpenAI for Countries (openai.com)

174 comments 31 hours, 330 points

Web search on the Anthropic API (www.anthropic.com)

59 comments 31 hours, 327 points

Getting Older Isn't What You Think (www.katycowan.co.uk)

180 comments 35 hours, 315 points

TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs (micahflee.com)

70 comments 2 days, 313 points

FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 (www.ftc.gov)

115 comments 2 days, 297 points

Mac Themes Garden (damien.zone)

75 comments 32 hours, 289 points

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B (www.bloomberg.com)

135 comments 2 days, 288 points

show Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable) (github.com)

47 comments 36 hours, 278 points

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