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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (www.bloomberg.com)

1354 comments 2 days, 2504 points

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (www.cnn.com)

1001 comments 2 days, 1577 points

Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science (reason.com)

959 comments 2 days, 1432 points

Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)

626 comments 24 hours, 1120 points

self Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

310 comments 2 days, 882 points

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)

353 comments 14 hours, 861 points

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023) (michaels.world)

266 comments 2 days, 667 points

What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (history.stackexchange.com)

119 comments 18 hours, 650 points

SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com)

388 comments 33 hours, 647 points

The tragedy of running an old Node project (abdisalan.com)

377 comments 2 days, 634 points

OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles (tech.marksblogg.com)

146 comments 43 hours, 623 points

Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data (nianticlabs.com)

269 comments 35 hours, 620 points

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)

167 comments 25 hours, 620 points

Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis (www.cbsnews.com)

345 comments 2 days, 607 points

20 years of Google Scholar (blog.google)

185 comments 2 days, 589 points

How good are American roads? (www.construction-physics.com)

399 comments 16 hours, 583 points

AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (blog.frost.kiwi)

74 comments 23 hours, 578 points

Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) (www.researchgate.net)

182 comments 46 hours, 574 points

show Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank (github.com)

118 comments 2 days, 563 points

Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)

103 comments 28 hours, 543 points

Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference (cerebras.ai)

130 comments 2 days, 539 points

When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)

216 comments 35 hours, 521 points

Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (newsletter.gamediscover.co)

98 comments 29 hours, 491 points

Against Best Practices (www.arp242.net)

201 comments 2 days, 469 points

show Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera (apps.apple.com)

114 comments 38 hours, 427 points

A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (www.joshtumath.uk)

119 comments 2 days, 412 points

Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me)

51 comments 2 days, 402 points

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server (mailcatcher.me)

89 comments 2 days, 380 points

Why I hate the index finger (1980) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

96 comments 2 days, 349 points

Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables (www.bloomberg.com)

173 comments 2 days, 340 points

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)

54 comments 28 hours, 337 points

show Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming (tips.io)

60 comments 2 days, 332 points

Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems (www.securityweek.com)

86 comments 31 hours, 330 points

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media (www.newscientist.com)

159 comments 18 hours, 326 points

AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia (www.nextplatform.com)

132 comments 2 days, 324 points

Blender 4.3 (www.blender.org)

99 comments 27 hours, 324 points

Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible (www.maslowcnc.com)

87 comments 2 days, 321 points

Why don't you move abroad? (orkohunter.net)

157 comments 23 hours, 320 points

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment (www.nytimes.com)

165 comments 19 hours, 317 points

Rats learned to drive (theconversation.com)

95 comments 2 days, 312 points

Using Erlang hot code updates (underjord.io)

47 comments 35 hours, 299 points

Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool (github.com)

55 comments 2 days, 286 points

Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork (github.com)

70 comments 35 hours, 286 points

show Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table (github.com)

108 comments 44 hours, 279 points

The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles (jvernay.fr)

55 comments 2 days, 268 points

Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg (semiengineering.com)

95 comments 41 hours, 267 points

Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023) (chernando.com)

49 comments 38 hours, 266 points

self ask Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

110 comments 30 hours, 250 points

Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022) (dougallj.wordpress.com)

74 comments 34 hours, 242 points

The shrimp welfare project (benthams.substack.com)

162 comments 2 days, 241 points

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