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1.
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com)
1657 points by JustExAWS 3 days ago | 734 comments
2.
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems (trailofbits.com)
487 points by tatersolid 3 days ago | 131 comments
3.
Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit (emersion.fr)
308 points by LaSombra 3 days ago | 109 comments
4.
Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever (mavericksforever.com)
395 points by Wowfunhappy 6 days ago | 195 comments
5.
An interactive guide to SVG paths (joshwcomeau.com)
451 points by joshwcomeau 6 days ago | 43 comments
6.
Code formatting comes to uv experimentally (pydevtools.com)
358 points by tanelpoder 2 days ago | 245 comments
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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions (github.com/ghostty-org)
706 points by freetonik 2 days ago | 446 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears (telegraph.co.uk)
795 points by pera 3 days ago | 890 comments
9.
How well does the money laundering control system work? (uchicago.edu)
288 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 355 comments
10.
Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables (arxiv.org)
229 points by brandonb 3 days ago | 54 comments
11.
Building AI products in the probabilistic era (giansegato.com)
188 points by sdan 2 days ago | 104 comments
12.
My other email client is a daemon (feyor.sh)
188 points by aebtebeten 3 days ago | 28 comments
13.
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022) (hillelwayne.com)
252 points by agluszak 2 days ago | 111 comments
14.
Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts (petapixel.com)
419 points by mikece 4 days ago | 595 comments
15.
D4D4 (nmichaels.org)
474 points by csense 7 days ago | 56 comments
16.
Code review can be better (tigerbeetle.com)
387 points by sealeck 3 days ago | 237 comments
17.
How does the US use water? (construction-physics.com)
240 points by juliangamble 3 days ago | 185 comments
18.
From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf] (fertrevino.com)
125 points by fertrevino 2 days ago | 95 comments
19.
Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest (cnn.com)
145 points by thm 6 days ago | 47 comments
20.
SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker (joins.com)
187 points by ksec 7 days ago | 78 comments
21.
Privately-Owned Rail Cars (amtrak.com)
196 points by jasoncartwright 3 days ago | 309 comments
22.
A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes (statsignificant.com)
229 points by m463 3 days ago | 148 comments
23.
Elegant mathematics bending the future of design (epfl.ch)
145 points by robinhouston 6 days ago | 18 comments
24.
Epson MX-80 Fonts (rat.bz)
192 points by m_walden 7 days ago | 68 comments
25.
Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) (github.com/growth-kinetics)
193 points by alexmrv 3 days ago | 44 comments
26.
SimpleIDE (github.com/jamesplotts)
99 points by impendingchange 3 days ago | 54 comments
27.
I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform (reddit.com)
313 points by bilsbie 3 days ago | 209 comments
28.
Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products
55 points by benjsm 3 days ago | 45 comments
29.
Why is D3 so Verbose? (theheasman.com)
128 points by TheHeasman 3 days ago | 68 comments
30.
Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams (chartdb.io)
99 points by Jonathanfishner 3 days ago | 13 comments

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