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New top story on Hacker News: A simplified Python simulation of diffusion

A simplified Python simulation of diffusion 7 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Dream of an Alpine Waterway

The Dream of an Alpine Waterway 6 by teew | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The greatest social media site is Craigslist

The greatest social media site is Craigslist 23 by pseudolus | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pulsed Laser Deposition at Wafer Level Is a Game Changer

Pulsed Laser Deposition at Wafer Level Is a Game Changer 18 by jnord | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why blue animals are so rare

Why blue animals are so rare 24 by qiakai | 18 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: LHM to permanently close and sell DEC-10 at auction

LHM to permanently close and sell DEC-10 at auction 112 by dboreham | 66 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)

Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992) 10 by samclemens | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Weighing Up Galileo's Evidence

Weighing Up Galileo's Evidence 10 by Hooke | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes 5 by hochmartinez | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Babylon's Mystery Goddess

Babylon's Mystery Goddess 3 by diodorus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi

Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi 14 by b_emery | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A runaway plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted in 1955

A runaway plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted in 1955 37 by tapper | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Actor Donald Sutherland dies aged 88

Actor Donald Sutherland dies aged 88 56 by toomuchtodo | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: When are SSDs slow?

When are SSDs slow? 45 by eatonphil | 22 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git

Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git 4 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Nature retracts 2002 paper that claimed stem cells could become any type of cell

Nature retracts 2002 paper that claimed stem cells could become any type of cell 39 by susam | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New Branding, Same Scanning: Upload Moderation Undermines End-to-End Encryption [pdf]

New Branding, Same Scanning: Upload Moderation Undermines End-to-End Encryption [pdf] 21 by unnervingduck | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Unveiling URI, URL, and URN

Unveiling URI, URL, and URN 4 by thunderbong | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016)

The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016) 3 by fremden | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Martin Amis and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Martin Amis and the Pursuit of Pleasure 2 by lermontov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson

AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson 17 by dwighttk | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome

Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome 27 by ck45 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments

Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments 33 by josh-sematic | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS 16 by Ikryanov | 9 comments Hey HN, As a Software Engineer, I frequently copy and paste content. The fact that macOS clipboard buffer can keep only one item is very frustrating. It’s very annoying to copy → switch app → paste → switch app → copy → switch app → paste, and so on. Losing items I copied hours ago and having to find and copy them again is a waste of time. I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred, Raycast, Paste, Maccy, etc. While great, they didn't fully meet my needs. As a developer, my requirements are: 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard. 2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor. 3. Full content preview for each clipboard item. 4. Quick search functionality. So, I created ClipBook for my own use. After months of...

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing sales tumble as company gets no orders for 737 MAX for 2nd straight month

Boeing sales tumble as company gets no orders for 737 MAX for 2nd straight month 12 by belter | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

I built an ROV to solve missing person cases 5 by craydandy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Like Diogenes Across the Atlantic

Like Diogenes Across the Atlantic 4 by bryanrasmussen | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: So you want to build a browser engine

So you want to build a browser engine 13 by zmodem | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Auditing TikTok

Auditing TikTok 28 by Tomte | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications

Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications 20 by lordwiz | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Gravity Without Mass: UAH Study Proposes Alternative to Dark Matter

Gravity Without Mass: UAH Study Proposes Alternative to Dark Matter 12 by racional | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Extracting concepts from GPT-4

Extracting concepts from GPT-4 24 by davidbarker | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ShadowFinder: Find possible locations of shadows around the world

ShadowFinder: Find possible locations of shadows around the world 29 by consumer451 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Thousand Brains Project

The Thousand Brains Project 9 by beefman | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Feature Flags in Bazel Builds

Feature Flags in Bazel Builds 7 by kaycebasques | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Deception abilities emerged in large language models

Deception abilities emerged in large language models 3 by zzzeek | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012)

Underscores are stupid? Get a Japanese keyboard (2012) 5 by lelf | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Physicists create a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physicists create a Bose-Einstein condensate 4 by geox | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance

Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance 28 by rogerkeays | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs 8 by ViktorasJucikas | 0 comments on Hacker News.