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Wednesday, 02 April 2025

• News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World
  watson.brown.edu · Discuss

• I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
  pilledtexts.com · Discuss

• Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
  washingtonpost.com · Discuss

• Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access
  matterrank.ai · Discuss

• The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)
  idiallo.com · Discuss

• Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019)
  newlyswissed.com · Discuss

• Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations
  science.org · Discuss

• Multi-Token Attention
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
  social.kernel.org · Discuss

• MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks
  shd.mit.edu · Discuss

• The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• What We Knew Without Knowing
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive
  up.codes · Discuss

• Henry James's American Journey
  chronicle.com · Discuss

• Prof. Sussman's Reading List
  aurellem.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture
  seis.pointlessprojects.com · Discuss

• Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
  pico.sh · Discuss

• Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
  techradar.com · Discuss

• What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test
  tines.com · Discuss

• Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
  science.org · Discuss

• Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout
  webkit.org · Discuss

• Restructuring Announcement
  automattic.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Why I don't discuss politics with friends
  shwin.co · Discuss

• Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot
  generalagents.com · Discuss

• Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers
  wiki.recessim.com · Discuss

• PaperBench
  openai.com · Discuss

• Pulse (YC S24) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Practical Prolog Planner Prompting
  quantumprolog.sgml.net · Discuss

• Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code
  docs.mermaidchart.com · Discuss

• Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
  matrix.org · Discuss

• Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere
  pears.com · Discuss

• Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
  potter-yachters.org · Discuss

• Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
  dorithegiant.com · Discuss

• Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
  tailscale.com · Discuss

• Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Why is the world losing color?
  culture-critic.com · Discuss

• "Fiume O Morte " Brilliantly Dramatizes the Rise of a Demagogue
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• How Google built its Gemini robotics models
  blog.google · Discuss

• A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
  phys.org · Discuss

• Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn
  mythic-beasts.com · Discuss

• Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
  newsletter.manager.dev · Discuss

• Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds
  unsw.edu.au · Discuss

• Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS
  instructables.com · Discuss

• A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)
  hotmatcha.dev · Discuss

• Measuring Acceleration Structures
  zeux.io · Discuss

• Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
  engadget.com · Discuss

• RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)
  reactormag.com · Discuss

• Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction
  smithsonianmag.com · Discuss

• UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
  arxiv.org · Discuss

Tuesday, 01 April 2025

• Where does air pollution come from?
  ourworldindata.org · Discuss

• Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app
  recipeninja.ai · Discuss

• Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement
  governance.fyi · Discuss

• Simulated Economy Tutorial
  jasonfantl.com · Discuss

• AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia
  eyewiki.org · Discuss

• Why Are Credit Card Rates So High?
  libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org · Discuss

• The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it
  jangafx.com · Discuss

• Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan
  goughlui.com · Discuss

• A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)
  technicallywewrite.com · Discuss

• Shared DNA in Music
  pudding.cool · Discuss

• Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)
  grantland.com · Discuss

• Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring Front End Engineers
  job-boards.greenhouse.io · Discuss

• BYD sales soar as Tesla continues to struggle in Europe
  archive.is · Discuss

• How Silica Gel Took Over the World
  scopeofwork.net · Discuss

• Dave Täht has died
  libreqos.io · Discuss

• Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line
  svggles.vercel.app · Discuss

• The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
  glthr.com · Discuss

• How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG
  the-ken.com · Discuss

• Meru Health (YC S18) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
  secondlifestorage.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates
  naveen.ing · Discuss

• We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains
  asteriskmag.com · Discuss

• Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods
  queue.acm.org · Discuss

• Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• The Colors of Her Coat
  astralcodexten.com · Discuss

• Globe Gores
  blogs.loc.gov · Discuss

• Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Why F#?
  batsov.com · Discuss

• Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)
  pages.cs.wisc.edu · Discuss

• Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing
  jobs.ashbyhq.com · Discuss

• CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
  home.cern · Discuss

• Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial
  archaeology.org · Discuss

• Self-Hosting like it's 2025
  kiranet.org · Discuss

• US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back
  independent.co.uk · Discuss

• 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Jargonic: Industry-Tunable ASR Model
  aiola.ai · Discuss

• Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk
  ploum.net · Discuss

• Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring Rust, API, and Front End Engineers (Europe, Remote)
  jobs.ashbyhq.com · Discuss

Monday, 31 March 2025

• LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
  theregister.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
  nuejs.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
  app.fluentsubs.com · Discuss

• Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
  npr.org · Discuss