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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch
175 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation?
175 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)
175 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL
175 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
56k modems relied on digital trunk lines
175 points • comment • mar 06, 2025
Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)
175 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores
175 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Feral pig meat transmits rare bacteria
175 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs
175 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
175 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games
175 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
175 points • comment • apr 18, 2025
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
175 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants
175 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path
175 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’
175 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
175 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China
175 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)
175 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
175 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen in 1993
175 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios
175 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation
175 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Free music archive
174 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
New material gives copper superalloy-like strength
174 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
174 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity
174 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Axum 0.8
174 points • comment • jan 01, 2025
PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
174 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
174 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Optimistic Locking in B-Trees
174 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said
174 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
174 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps
174 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
174 points • comment • may 15, 2025
Citations on the Anthropic API
174 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design
174 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi
174 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts
174 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'
174 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently
174 points • comment • may 11, 2025
JJ Cheat Sheet
174 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Caesar's Last Breath
174 points • comment • may 23, 2025
Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance
174 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM
174 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
174 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
174 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science
174 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
174 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later
174 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel
174 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
174 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090
174 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Zig; what I think after months of using it
173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]
173 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Self-Hosting like it's 2025
173 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii
173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money
173 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
173 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Crows can recognize geometric regularity
173 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Sky-scanning complete for Gaia
173 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
The Family Bass - Music with an NES
173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
173 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
National Airspace System Status
173 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
173 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
173 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
173 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
173 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Stepping Back
173 points • comment • jun 01, 2025
Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses
173 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
173 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
21st Century C++
173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
20 Years of YC / HN
173 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
172 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Learn How to Break AES
172 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
172 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
172 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Photographs of the Old West
172 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Swiftly 1.0
172 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era
172 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)
172 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Bring Back Shortwave
172 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)
172 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Evolving Scala
172 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
172 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan
172 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models
172 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
C Plus Prolog
172 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
171 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
171 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
171 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
171 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)
171 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
The largest sofa you can move around a corner
171 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
171 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
2025 Hiring Pause
171 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Playwright Tools for MCP
171 points • comment • mar 26, 2025