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1.
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)
1871 points by apokryptein 3 days ago | 599 comments
2.
RLHF Book (rlhfbook.com)
472 points by jxmorris12 4 days ago | 36 comments
3.
Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars (github.com/mattsroufe)
327 points by mattsroufe 4 days ago | 62 comments
4.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container (waydro.id)
512 points by birdculture 3 days ago | 148 comments
5.
Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020) (ripitapart.com)
272 points by userbinator 3 days ago | 131 comments
6.
Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (github.com/trycua)
302 points by sandropuppo 3 days ago | 74 comments
7.
Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library (adriacabeza.github.io)
264 points by synthc 3 days ago | 47 comments
8.
The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science (nytimes.com)
304 points by apsec112 3 days ago | 205 comments
9.
Life is more than an engineering problem (lareviewofbooks.org)
388 points by biomene 3 days ago | 243 comments
10.
Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks (quantamagazine.org)
340 points by marban 4 days ago | 290 comments
11.
GarminDB (github.com/tcgoetz)
325 points by haltcatchfire 3 days ago | 72 comments
12.
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" (righto.com)
159 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 44 comments
13.
CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised (insidemedicine.substack.com)
840 points by KittenInABox 4 days ago | 718 comments
14.
A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop (lwn.net)
158 points by signa11 6 days ago | 106 comments
15.
Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions (block.github.io)
243 points by sansui12 6 days ago | 68 comments
16.
LMD: A new, less wasteful metal 3D printing technique (core77.com)
144 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 29 comments
17.
Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems (aps.org)
132 points by westurner 3 days ago | 30 comments
18.
AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission (arstechnica.com)
101 points by LorenDB 7 days ago | 79 comments
19.
Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020) (ralfj.de)
169 points by ksec 6 days ago | 118 comments
20.
Avoid ISP Routers (2024) (routersecurity.org)
313 points by dp-hackernews 4 days ago | 204 comments
21.
Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) (efavdb.com)
204 points by yamrzou 3 days ago | 199 comments
22.
A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL (github.com/tcdi)
118 points by dgroshev 6 days ago | 21 comments
23.
Hytradboi 2025 Program (hytradboi.com)
119 points by jamii 5 days ago | 10 comments
24.
Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars (brightprogrammer.in)
110 points by brightprogramer 3 days ago | 29 comments
25.
ScatterBrain: Unmasking the shadow of PoisonPlug's obfuscator (cloud.google.com)
88 points by tux3 3 days ago | 17 comments
26.
Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows (geyer.dev)
288 points by gyanreyer 7 days ago | 315 comments
27.
Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua (github.com/esbudylin)
76 points by esbudylin 3 days ago | 7 comments
28.
Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
247 points by fanf2 3 days ago | 224 comments
29.
The doctor who gave himself an ulcer and solved a medical mystery (2010) (discovermagazine.com)
76 points by camtarn 7 days ago | 47 comments
30.
Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic (github.com/gyulyvgc)
249 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 93 comments

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