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1.
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com)
1697 points by JustExAWS 3 months ago | 744 comments
2.
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (trailofbits.com)
494 points by tatersolid 3 months ago | 131 comments
3.
Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit (emersion.fr)
311 points by LaSombra 3 months ago | 110 comments
4.
Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever (mavericksforever.com)
402 points by Wowfunhappy 3 months ago | 196 comments
5.
An interactive guide to SVG paths (joshwcomeau.com)
455 points by joshwcomeau 3 months ago | 44 comments
6.
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (github.com/ghostty-org)
729 points by freetonik 3 months ago | 461 comments
7.
Code formatting comes to uv experimentally (pydevtools.com)
365 points by tanelpoder 3 months ago | 245 comments
8.
Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears (telegraph.co.uk)
817 points by pera 3 months ago | 903 comments
9.
How well does the money laundering control system work? (uchicago.edu)
294 points by PaulHoule 3 months ago | 356 comments
10.
Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables (arxiv.org)
230 points by brandonb 3 months ago | 54 comments
11.
Building AI products in the probabilistic era (giansegato.com)
192 points by sdan 3 months ago | 104 comments
12.
My other email client is a daemon (feyor.sh)
188 points by aebtebeten 3 months ago | 29 comments
13.
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) (hillelwayne.com)
255 points by agluszak 3 months ago | 113 comments
14.
Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts (petapixel.com)
426 points by mikece 3 months ago | 602 comments
15.
D4D4 (nmichaels.org)
475 points by csense 3 months ago | 56 comments
16.
Code review can be better (tigerbeetle.com)
391 points by sealeck 3 months ago | 242 comments
17.
How does the US use water? (construction-physics.com)
241 points by juliangamble 3 months ago | 195 comments
18.
From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] (fertrevino.com)
127 points by fertrevino 3 months ago | 96 comments
19.
Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest (cnn.com)
146 points by thm 3 months ago | 47 comments
20.
SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker (joins.com)
188 points by ksec 3 months ago | 78 comments
21.
Privately-Owned Rail Cars (amtrak.com)
197 points by jasoncartwright 3 months ago | 318 comments
22.
A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes (statsignificant.com)
234 points by m463 3 months ago | 151 comments
23.
Elegant mathematics bending the future of design (epfl.ch)
147 points by robinhouston 3 months ago | 18 comments
24.
Epson MX-80 Fonts (rat.bz)
194 points by m_walden 3 months ago | 69 comments
25.
Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) (github.com/growth-kinetics)
198 points by alexmrv 3 months ago | 45 comments
26.
SimpleIDE (github.com/jamesplotts)
100 points by impendingchange 3 months ago | 54 comments
27.
I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform (reddit.com)
324 points by bilsbie 3 months ago | 212 comments
28.
Why is D3 so Verbose? (theheasman.com)
131 points by TheHeasman 3 months ago | 68 comments
29.
Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products
55 points by benjsm 3 months ago | 45 comments
30.
Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams (chartdb.io)
101 points by Jonathanfishner 3 months ago | 13 comments

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