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1.
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (instavm.io)
1143 points by mkagenius 5 months ago | 286 comments
2.
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (github.com/nicholas-l-johnson)
1135 points by wompapumpum 5 months ago | 221 comments
3.
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (mitpress.mit.edu)
406 points by anarbadalov 5 months ago | 191 comments
4.
Getting good results from Claude Code (dzombak.com)
490 points by ingve 5 months ago | 200 comments
5.
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (nasa.gov)
589 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 114 comments
6.
How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB (radar.com)
273 points by j_kao 5 months ago | 100 comments
7.
Window Activation (broulik.de)
228 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 138 comments
8.
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (seangoedecke.com)
403 points by emschwartz 5 months ago | 222 comments
9.
Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security (rtl-sdr.com)
486 points by lq9AJ8yrfs 5 months ago | 315 comments
10.
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist (rmg.co.uk)
253 points by speckx 5 months ago | 42 comments
11.
Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (eidel.io)
399 points by olieidel 5 months ago | 540 comments
12.
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (simonwillison.net)
428 points by tosh 5 months ago | 412 comments
13.
Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
574 points by superasn 5 months ago | 365 comments
14.
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole (bytemash.net)
467 points by jcusch 5 months ago | 218 comments
15.
How attention sinks keep language models stable (hanlab.mit.edu)
219 points by pr337h4m 5 months ago | 36 comments
16.
Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (ergaster.org)
253 points by JNRowe 5 months ago | 186 comments
17.
Cursed Knowledge (immich.app)
518 points by bqmjjx0kac 5 months ago | 157 comments
18.
Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs (github.com/steveyegge)
146 points by simonpure 5 months ago | 36 comments
19.
Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font (spacebar.news)
158 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 31 comments
20.
Telefon Hírmondó (wikipedia.org)
107 points by csense 5 months ago | 37 comments
21.
Fire hazard of WHY2025 badge due to 18650 Li-Ion cells (why2025.org)
107 points by fjfaase 5 months ago | 106 comments
22.
Build durable workflows with Postgres (dbos.dev)
161 points by KraftyOne 5 months ago | 56 comments
23.
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels (research.google)
154 points by badmonster 5 months ago | 29 comments
24.
Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge (matthewnewton.com)
126 points by mattnewton 5 months ago | 23 comments
25.
Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent (langchain.com)
111 points by palashshah 5 months ago | 26 comments
26.
A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs (arxiv.org)
69 points by PaulHoule 5 months ago | 7 comments
27.
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer (biographic.com)
82 points by sohkamyung 5 months ago | 21 comments
28.
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023) (eatonphil.com)
100 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 11 comments
29.
HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports (hudsonrivertrading.com)
98 points by davidteather 5 months ago | 99 comments
30.
FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models (dbreunig.com)
88 points by dbreunig 5 months ago | 34 comments

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