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  1. OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
    (371 points | Comments)

  2. "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
    (174 points | Comments)

  3. US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
    (911 points | Comments)

  4. Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
    (194 points | Comments)

  5. Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
    (334 points | Comments)

  6. Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
    (315 points | Comments)

  7. Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
    (346 points | Comments)

  8. 6174
    (511 points | Comments)

  9. Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome
    (199 points | Comments)

  10. Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
    (172 points | Comments)

  11. LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
    (136 points | Comments)

  12. On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
    (757 points | Comments)

  13. 5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance
    (128 points | Comments)

  14. Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)
    (121 points | Comments)

  15. Understanding x86_64 Paging
    (166 points | Comments)

  16. "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
    (121 points | Comments)

  17. A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms
    (112 points | Comments)

  18. Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
    (152 points | Comments)

  19. TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning
    (370 points | Comments)

  20. A Theory of Grift
    (111 points | Comments)

  21. OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
    (235 points | Comments)

  22. US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
    (197 points | Comments)

  23. Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
    (139 points | Comments)

  24. Mad Scientists' Club: The Books
    (107 points | Comments)

  25. Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
    (276 points | Comments)

  26. Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
    (165 points | Comments)

  27. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
    (124 points | Comments)

  28. Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult
    (180 points | Comments)

  29. Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
    (217 points | Comments)

  30. Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
    (316 points | Comments)

  31. Bug Thread
    (155 points | Comments)

  32. Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?
    (319 points | Comments)

  33. Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
    (259 points | Comments)

  34. Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
    (126 points | Comments)

  35. Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))
    (174 points | Comments)

  36. The failure of self-checkout technology
    (177 points | Comments)

  37. Open-Source Detector of CISA's Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities
    (115 points | Comments)

  38. How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives
    (385 points | Comments)

  39. Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
    (385 points | Comments)

  40. Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues
    (234 points | Comments)

  41. Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
    (178 points | Comments)

  42. Modeless Vim
    (322 points | Comments)

  43. Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
    (233 points | Comments)

  44. We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
    (280 points | Comments)

  45. Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)
    (127 points | Comments)

  46. Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
    (324 points | Comments)