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  1. Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
    (155 points | Comments)

  2. The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
    (193 points | Comments)

  3. Designing software for things that rot
    (176 points | Comments)

  4. "Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney
    (188 points | Comments)

  5. rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC
    (248 points | Comments)

  6. Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
    (186 points | Comments)

  7. Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives
    (215 points | Comments)

  8. Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
    (812 points | Comments)

  9. Doomsday scoreboard
    (235 points | Comments)

  10. Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
    (160 points | Comments)

  11. Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation
    (102 points | Comments)

  12. Magit Is Amazing
    (173 points | Comments)

  13. Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?
    (410 points | Comments)

  14. ChatGPT Atlas
    (769 points | Comments)

  15. Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
    (258 points | Comments)

  16. The Programmer Identity Crisis
    (274 points | Comments)

  17. The Greatness of Text Adventures
    (117 points | Comments)

  18. Build your own database
    (546 points | Comments)

  19. Public trust demands open-source voting systems
    (234 points | Comments)

  20. Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
    (182 points | Comments)

  21. Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
    (394 points | Comments)

  22. Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware
    (290 points | Comments)

  23. Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
    (441 points | Comments)

  24. 20,858 Public Domain Audio Books
    (129 points | Comments)

  25. Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec
    (124 points | Comments)

  26. AI is making us work more
    (223 points | Comments)

  27. LLMs can get "brain rot"
    (472 points | Comments)

  28. UA 1093
    (223 points | Comments)

  29. Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI
    (124 points | Comments)

  30. Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust
    (143 points | Comments)

  31. NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
    (404 points | Comments)

  32. Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
    (427 points | Comments)

  33. Just Use Curl
    (174 points | Comments)

  34. SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition
    (141 points | Comments)

  35. StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
    (205 points | Comments)

  36. Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
    (240 points | Comments)

  37. Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling
    (202 points | Comments)

  38. US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29
    (126 points | Comments)

  39. People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
    (307 points | Comments)

  40. Passwords and Power Drills
    (120 points | Comments)

  41. Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor
    (121 points | Comments)

  42. Language Support for Marginalia Search
    (178 points | Comments)

  43. Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser
    (127 points | Comments)

  44. Linux disk I/O diagram (2024)
    (108 points | Comments)

  45. Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
    (166 points | Comments)

  46. Practical Scheme
    (156 points | Comments)

  47. 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
    (353 points | Comments)

  48. NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966
    (141 points | Comments)

  49. Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
    (444 points | Comments)