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1.Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue (news.mit.edu)
199 points by rbanffy on Dec 13, 2024 | 24 comments
2.Making my first robot as a software engineer (github.com/robertleoj)
375 points by robertleoj on Dec 10, 2024 | 68 comments
3.Donald Bitzer has died (computerhistory.org)
221 points by sohkamyung on Dec 13, 2024 | 24 comments
4.Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (meta.com)
325 points by ilaksh on Dec 13, 2024 | 63 comments
5.Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn (the-scientist.com)
305 points by conqueso on Dec 13, 2024 | 246 comments
6.Exotic new superconductors delight and confound (quantamagazine.org)
231 points by ernesto95 on Dec 9, 2024 | 70 comments
7.Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 (langworth.com)
202 points by statico on Dec 13, 2024 | 28 comments
8.The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered (oldbytes.space)
213 points by croes on Dec 11, 2024 | 50 comments
9.A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (ieee.org)
332 points by sohkamyung on Dec 13, 2024 | 90 comments
10.OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (mercurynews.com)
1041 points by mmorearty on Dec 13, 2024 | 429 comments
11.Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
257 points by sirobg on Dec 13, 2024 | 168 comments
12.Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made (weborigami.org)
222 points by ayoreis on Dec 13, 2024 | 69 comments
13.Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016) (kennyballou.com)
225 points by justinludwig on Dec 12, 2024 | 112 comments
14.Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder (velofuso.com)
797 points by smeeeeeeeeeeeee on Dec 13, 2024 | 477 comments
15.Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications (npmjs.com)
156 points by smoores on Dec 13, 2024 | 43 comments
16.Test (defense.gov)
608 points by ajdude on Dec 13, 2024 | 145 comments
17.Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit (openai.com)
582 points by arvindh-manian on Dec 13, 2024 | 640 comments
18.Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software (souzatharsis.com)
168 points by sebg on Dec 12, 2024 | 30 comments
19.MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown (github.com/microsoft)
329 points by Handy-Man on Dec 13, 2024 | 81 comments
20.Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers (quantamagazine.org)
199 points by nsoonhui on Dec 13, 2024 | 88 comments
21.Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation (medium.com/tomysshadow)
264 points by davikr on Dec 10, 2024 | 71 comments
22.Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish (theguardian.com)
160 points by n1b0m on Dec 10, 2024 | 128 comments
23.An Italian town that built its own sun (2021) (vice.com)
144 points by Amorymeltzer on Dec 8, 2024 | 42 comments
24."All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk (jgc.org)
112 points by jgrahamc on Dec 8, 2024 | 28 comments
25.Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use (anthropic.com)
133 points by simonw on Dec 12, 2024 | 40 comments
26.The age of average (2023) (alexmurrell.co.uk)
250 points by synergy20 on Dec 13, 2024 | 171 comments
27.Librebooting the ThinkPad T480 (ezntek.com)
193 points by axiologist on Dec 8, 2024 | 80 comments
28.What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf] (bitbashing.io)
196 points by ibobev on Dec 12, 2024 | 102 comments
29.Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences (science.org)
286 points by zdw on Dec 13, 2024 | 519 comments
30.A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects (ieee.org)
115 points by TaurenHunter on Dec 13, 2024 | 108 comments

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