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1.
Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
610 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 488 comments
2.
The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019) (historynet.com)
374 points by stmw 8 months ago | 179 comments
3.
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens (qwenlm.github.io)
307 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 108 comments
4.
The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
655 points by eigenvalue 8 months ago | 479 comments
5.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster (zdnet.com)
602 points by belter 8 months ago | 564 comments
6.
Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)
252 points by benbreen 8 months ago | 203 comments
7.
Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo (gab-menezes.github.io)
231 points by cmcollier 8 months ago | 61 comments
8.
So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? (ahmet.im)
244 points by gokhan 8 months ago | 119 comments
9.
No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones (popularfintech.com)
232 points by kazanins 8 months ago | 433 comments
10.
The protester's guide to smartphone security (privacyguides.org)
479 points by nameequalsmain 8 months ago | 232 comments
11.
AI slop, suspicion, and writing back (benjamincongdon.me)
231 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 175 comments
12.
The Simplicity of Prolog (bitsandtheorems.com)
202 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 128 comments
13.
Apache Iceberg (apache.org)
207 points by jacobmarble 8 months ago | 66 comments
14.
SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface (sqlook.com)
178 points by gringow 8 months ago | 72 comments
15.
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else? (timkellogg.me)
262 points by Philpax 8 months ago | 125 comments
16.
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups (iamwillwang.com)
384 points by memalign 8 months ago | 231 comments
17.
Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster (astronomy.com)
282 points by geox 8 months ago | 93 comments
18.
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent (jasonthorsness.com)
360 points by jasonthorsness 8 months ago | 142 comments
19.
Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP (github.com/kej715)
93 points by basementcat 8 months ago | 11 comments
20.
It's not a crime if we do it with an app (pluralistic.net)
872 points by keepit 8 months ago | 609 comments
21.
Two Bites of Data Science in K (zdsmith.com)
72 points by crux 8 months ago | 10 comments
22.
Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning (hkust-nlp.notion.site)
248 points by pella 8 months ago | 211 comments
23.
Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X (chadbibler.com)
144 points by chadkeck 8 months ago | 28 comments
24.
An experiment of adding recommendation engine to your app using pgvector search (silk.us)
76 points by tanelpoder 8 months ago | 7 comments
25.
Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM (nicole.express)
125 points by ingve 8 months ago | 5 comments
26.
The Graphics Codex (graphicscodex.com)
71 points by board 8 months ago | 27 comments
27.
Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop (lwn.net)
115 points by linfocito 8 months ago | 123 comments
28.
Bacteria in Polymers Form Cables That Grow into Living Gels (caltech.edu)
59 points by gmays 8 months ago | 3 comments
29.
Paxo: A DIY Phone (paxo.fr)
138 points by conaclos 8 months ago | 36 comments
30.
Dualities in functional programming (dicioccio.fr)
72 points by prathyvsh 8 months ago | 24 comments

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