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1.
Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
597 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 480 comments
2.
The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019) (historynet.com)
370 points by stmw 3 days ago | 179 comments
3.
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens (qwenlm.github.io)
302 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 107 comments
4.
The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia (youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)
645 points by eigenvalue 4 days ago | 475 comments
5.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster (zdnet.com)
588 points by belter 3 days ago | 556 comments
6.
Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)
251 points by benbreen 7 days ago | 202 comments
7.
Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo (gab-menezes.github.io)
225 points by cmcollier 6 days ago | 60 comments
8.
So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? (ahmet.im)
236 points by gokhan 7 days ago | 116 comments
9.
No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones (popularfintech.com)
226 points by kazanins 3 days ago | 423 comments
10.
The protester's guide to smartphone security (privacyguides.org)
468 points by nameequalsmain 3 days ago | 230 comments
11.
AI slop, suspicion, and writing back (benjamincongdon.me)
228 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 173 comments
12.
The Simplicity of Prolog (bitsandtheorems.com)
198 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 127 comments
13.
Apache Iceberg (apache.org)
204 points by jacobmarble 6 days ago | 65 comments
14.
SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface (sqlook.com)
177 points by gringow 4 days ago | 71 comments
15.
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else? (timkellogg.me)
260 points by Philpax 3 days ago | 124 comments
16.
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups (iamwillwang.com)
381 points by memalign 3 days ago | 229 comments
17.
Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster (astronomy.com)
278 points by geox 3 days ago | 92 comments
18.
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent (jasonthorsness.com)
356 points by jasonthorsness 3 days ago | 139 comments
19.
Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP (github.com/kej715)
92 points by basementcat 3 days ago | 11 comments
20.
It's not a crime if we do it with an app (pluralistic.net)
855 points by keepit 3 days ago | 607 comments
21.
Two Bites of Data Science in K (zdsmith.com)
68 points by crux 3 days ago | 10 comments
22.
Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning (hkust-nlp.notion.site)
244 points by pella 3 days ago | 207 comments
23.
Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X (chadbibler.com)
142 points by chadkeck 5 days ago | 27 comments
24.
An experiment of adding recommendation engine to your app using pgvector search (silk.us)
75 points by tanelpoder 6 days ago | 7 comments
25.
Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM (nicole.express)
121 points by ingve 3 days ago | 5 comments
26.
The Graphics Codex (graphicscodex.com)
69 points by board 3 days ago | 26 comments
27.
Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop (lwn.net)
112 points by linfocito 3 days ago | 120 comments
28.
Bacteria in Polymers Form Cables That Grow into Living Gels (caltech.edu)
59 points by gmays 6 days ago | 3 comments
29.
Paxo: A DIY Phone (paxo.fr)
136 points by conaclos 3 days ago | 35 comments
30.
Dualities in functional programming (dicioccio.fr)
71 points by prathyvsh 6 days ago | 19 comments

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