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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
825 points by akanet 67 days ago | 193 comments
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Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models (modal.run)
461 points by sshh12 67 days ago | 89 comments
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs (eieio.games)
350 points by pr337h4m 67 days ago | 31 comments
4.
Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control (figure.ai)
303 points by Philpax 67 days ago | 170 comments
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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)
884 points by perihelions 68 days ago | 1671 comments
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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
450 points by isaacfrond 67 days ago | 131 comments
7.
The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
169 points by rbanffy 71 days ago | 121 comments
8.
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/openrakis)
175 points by alberto-m 67 days ago | 41 comments
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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust (newatlas.com)
383 points by clumsysmurf 68 days ago | 197 comments
10.
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end (ssloy.github.io)
319 points by sebg 67 days ago | 113 comments
11.
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation (humanaigc.github.io)
172 points by ToJans 71 days ago | 49 comments
12.
Customizable HTML Select (chrome.com)
230 points by dsego 67 days ago | 148 comments
13.
When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
272 points by impish9208 67 days ago | 295 comments
14.
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing (scottaaronson.blog)
328 points by ingve 68 days ago | 69 comments
15.
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax (kyunghyuncho.me)
184 points by jxmorris12 72 days ago | 110 comments
16.
How browsers really load web pages [video] (fosdem.org)
191 points by todsacerdoti 70 days ago | 74 comments
17.
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com/lox-space)
121 points by ElFitz 67 days ago | 42 comments
18.
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports (github.com/rt64)
123 points by klaussilveira 67 days ago | 51 comments
19.
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (sylver.dev)
216 points by todsacerdoti 68 days ago | 27 comments
20.
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
135 points by BerislavLopac 68 days ago | 32 comments
21.
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
117 points by jeffreyip 67 days ago | 27 comments
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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents (microsoft.github.io)
305 points by SerCe 68 days ago | 68 comments
23.
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise (obscura.net)
225 points by lostin01010101 68 days ago | 162 comments
24.
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic (github.com/vlm-run)
170 points by EarlyOom 68 days ago | 29 comments
25.
What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf] (washington.edu)
96 points by azhenley 68 days ago | 49 comments
26.
New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)
217 points by leephillips 67 days ago | 81 comments
27.
F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video] (fosdem.org)
79 points by mpweiher 70 days ago | 49 comments
28.
AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (kanenarraway.com)
299 points by ghuntley 68 days ago | 631 comments
29.
Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
66 points by mefengl 72 days ago | 25 comments
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Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev)
53 points by emykhailenko 69 days ago | 17 comments

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