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Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease 75 ❤️
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know 177 ❤️
The tooth, the whole tooth and the jawbone too 26 ❤️

Tech & Programming // 912 ❤️‍🔥

Hacking Physics from the Back of a Napkin 44 ❤️
Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components 147 ❤️
Using Libc for GPUs 44 ❤️
Analysis of supply-chain attack on Ultralytics 65 ❤️
The Saga of the Color Brown in the Early Years of the PC (2023) 62 ❤️
Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file search application 76 ❤️
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust 131 ❤️
Making my first robot as a software engineer 343 ❤️

Other // 379 ❤️‍🔥

Here at the End of All Things (2017) 19 ❤️
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping 161 ❤️
Through-the-Earth Mine Communications 14 ❤️
The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered 185 ❤️

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IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts 3 ❤️

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NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway 67 ❤️
HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025 6 ❤️

Science & Innovation // 246 ❤️‍🔥

Antimatter Production, Storage, Control, Annihilation Applications in Propulsion 46 ❤️
Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024 145 ❤️
Graphene Interconnects Aim to Give Moore's Law New Life 55 ❤️

Mathematics & Physics // 644 ❤️‍🔥

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens 236 ❤️
Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going 408 ❤️

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Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video] 203 ❤️
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR 296 ❤️

Open Source & Free Software // 5 ❤️‍🔥

Free Software 5 ❤️

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Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 929 ❤️
Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 879 ❤️
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Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders 507 ❤️
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Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner 399 ❤️
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