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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
1390 points by booleanbetrayal 3 days ago | 869 comments
2.
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)
546 points by immortaljoe 1 day ago | 224 comments
3.
Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics (yomiuri.co.jp)
403 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 253 comments
4.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
1585 points by DavideNL 2 days ago | 730 comments
5.
A year of funded FreeBSD development (daemonology.net)
359 points by cperciva 1 day ago | 119 comments
6.
A masochist's guide to web development (tronto.net)
273 points by sebtron 1 day ago | 45 comments
7.
Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed (mozillafoundation.org)
520 points by speckx 1 day ago | 221 comments
8.
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)
214 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 88 comments
9.
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (cdn-apple.com)
350 points by amrrs 1 day ago | 195 comments
10.
Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)
242 points by achtaitaipai 1 day ago | 50 comments
11.
Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)
161 points by furkansahin 1 day ago | 107 comments
12.
Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)
129 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 90 comments
13.
Curate your shell history (esham.io)
144 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 73 comments
14.
Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)
125 points by timmyd 1 day ago | 62 comments
15.
What you need to know about EMP weapons (aardvark.co.nz)
164 points by flyingkiwi44 2 days ago | 193 comments
16.
Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)
146 points by lyogavin 1 day ago | 112 comments
17.
Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (heise.de)
189 points by doener 5 days ago | 65 comments
18.
How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy (openai.com)
277 points by BUFU 2 days ago | 307 comments
19.
Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)
118 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 57 comments
20.
Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally (countercraft.substack.com)
85 points by benbreen 2 days ago | 52 comments
21.
Series C and scale (cursor.com)
90 points by fidotron 1 day ago | 66 comments
22.
What a developer needs to know about SCIM (tesseral.com)
148 points by noleary 2 days ago | 33 comments
23.
Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest (boostsecurity.io)
104 points by chha 2 days ago | 52 comments
24.
Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)
126 points by echollama 2 days ago | 56 comments
25.
Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com/wey-gu)
154 points by wey-gu 2 days ago | 52 comments
26.
I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)
134 points by softwaredoug 2 days ago | 24 comments
27.
4-7-8 Breathing (breathbelly.com)
271 points by cheekyturtles 1 day ago | 103 comments
28.
Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake (layer22.com)
97 points by pusewicz 2 days ago | 84 comments
29.
Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells (theguardian.com)
205 points by colinprince 1 day ago | 27 comments
30.
Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck (imjakingit.github.io)
68 points by jorkingit 2 days ago | 27 comments

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