Hacker News digest

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A 10x Faster TypeScript (devblogs.microsoft.com)

879 comments 2 days, 2618 points

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (www.eff.org)

327 comments 34 hours, 1854 points

Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator (twitter.com)

264 comments 2 days, 1658 points

Gemini Robotics (deepmind.google)

536 comments 40 hours, 1428 points

OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules (finance.yahoo.com)

521 comments 18 hours, 1071 points

The DuckDB Local UI (duckdb.org)

181 comments 42 hours, 1053 points

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it (forum.cursor.com)

375 comments 23 hours, 976 points

show Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories (jackhopkins.github.io)

207 comments 2 days, 936 points

Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google (mozillapetition.com)

427 comments 46 hours, 829 points

Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser (github.com)

250 comments 43 hours, 823 points

I stopped everything and started writing C again (www.kmx.io)

427 comments 47 hours, 818 points

The Startup CTO's Handbook (github.com)

201 comments 2 days, 805 points

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) (seeinglogic.com)

360 comments 2 days, 757 points

Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)

242 comments 2 days, 720 points

show Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls (pilaenergy.com)

421 comments 2 days, 703 points

show Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed (www.eggnog.ai)

206 comments 34 hours, 677 points

America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 (semianalysis.com)

409 comments 2 days, 666 points

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library (medium.com)

178 comments 2 days, 658 points

The Future Is Niri (ersei.net)

214 comments 43 hours, 622 points

Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users (www.theregister.com)

334 comments 45 hours, 568 points

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer (www.tibinotes.com)

159 comments 32 hours, 555 points

New tools for building agents (openai.com)

153 comments 2 days, 534 points

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket (www.websiteplanet.com)

180 comments 31 hours, 517 points

The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon (soatok.blog)

204 comments 2 days, 511 points

The 2005 Sony Bravia ad (www.sfgate.com)

211 comments 40 hours, 486 points

The Lost Art of Logarithms (www.lostartoflogarithms.com)

134 comments 12 hours, 486 points

Iconography of the PuTTY tools (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)

99 comments 35 hours, 482 points

I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts (www.nickcraux.com)

227 comments 47 hours, 451 points

Steam Networks (worksinprogress.co)

137 comments 16 hours, 446 points

The cultural divide between mathematics and AI (sugaku.net)

167 comments 39 hours, 444 points

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English (www.bbc.com)

167 comments 2 days, 430 points

Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO (www.reuters.com)

136 comments 34 hours, 410 points

IO Devices and Latency (planetscale.com)

110 comments 14 hours, 406 points

A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024) (www.readtrung.com)

210 comments 2 days, 404 points

AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court (www.lawfaremedia.org)

158 comments 2 days, 361 points

Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU (ollama.com)

126 comments 47 hours, 360 points

Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript (twitter.com)

68 comments 39 hours, 350 points

First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag (spectrum.ieee.org)

215 comments 43 hours, 349 points

Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook (www.engadget.com)

74 comments 29 hours, 331 points

xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster (github.com)

73 comments 30 hours, 326 points

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart (www.theguardian.com)

101 comments 2 days, 324 points

self ask Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?

131 comments 16 hours, 320 points

New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet (www.theregister.com)

153 comments 2 days, 306 points

My teen years: The transputer operating system (nanochess.org)

45 comments 30 hours, 295 points

ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air (developer.espressif.com)

77 comments 2 days, 286 points

Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond (chicagomaroon.github.io)

75 comments 2 days, 280 points

NIST selects HQC as fifth algorithm for post-quantum encryption (www.nist.gov)

110 comments 2 days, 271 points

Amateur Telescope Making Main Page (stellafane.org)

48 comments 20 hours, 268 points

Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight (wulinshu.com)

76 comments 38 hours, 251 points

Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died (www.independent.co.uk)

66 comments 18 hours, 235 points

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