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1.Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)
1957 points by apokryptein on Feb 2, 2025 | 607 comments
2.RLHF Book (rlhfbook.com)
479 points by jxmorris12 on Feb 1, 2025 | 37 comments
3.Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars (github.com/mattsroufe)
335 points by mattsroufe on Feb 1, 2025 | 63 comments
4.Waydroid – Android in a Linux container (waydro.id)
520 points by birdculture on Feb 2, 2025 | 150 comments
5.Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020) (ripitapart.com)
274 points by userbinator on Feb 2, 2025 | 131 comments
6.Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (github.com/trycua)
309 points by GreenGames on Feb 2, 2025 | 75 comments
7.Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library (adriacabeza.github.io)
268 points by synthc on Feb 2, 2025 | 47 comments
8.The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science (nytimes.com)
307 points by apsec112 on Feb 2, 2025 | 210 comments
9.Life is more than an engineering problem (lareviewofbooks.org)
394 points by biomene on Feb 2, 2025 | 243 comments
10.Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks (quantamagazine.org)
345 points by thm on Feb 2, 2025 | 291 comments
11.GarminDB (github.com/tcgoetz)
326 points by haltcatchfire on Feb 2, 2025 | 72 comments
12.The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" (righto.com)
160 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 1, 2025 | 44 comments
13.CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised (insidemedicine.substack.com)
844 points by KittenInABox on Feb 2, 2025 | 721 comments
14.A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop (lwn.net)
158 points by signa11 on Jan 31, 2025 | 110 comments
15.Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions (block.github.io)
249 points by sansui12 on Jan 30, 2025 | 68 comments
16.LMD: A new, less wasteful metal 3D printing technique (core77.com)
144 points by surprisetalk on Jan 29, 2025 | 29 comments
17.Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems (aps.org)
132 points by westurner on Feb 2, 2025 | 30 comments
18.AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission (arstechnica.com)
101 points by LorenDB on Jan 29, 2025 | 79 comments
19.Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020) (ralfj.de)
169 points by ksec on Jan 30, 2025 | 120 comments
20.Avoid ISP Routers (2024) (routersecurity.org)
316 points by dp-hackernews on Feb 1, 2025 | 204 comments
21.Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) (efavdb.com)
204 points by rzk on Feb 2, 2025 | 203 comments
22.A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL (github.com/tcdi)
120 points by dgroshev on Jan 30, 2025 | 21 comments
23.Hytradboi 2025 Program (hytradboi.com)
120 points by jamii on Feb 1, 2025 | 10 comments
24.Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars (brightprogrammer.in)
110 points by brightprogramer on Feb 2, 2025 | 29 comments
25.ScatterBrain: Unmasking the shadow of PoisonPlug's obfuscator (cloud.google.com)
88 points by tux3 on Feb 2, 2025 | 17 comments
26.Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows (geyer.dev)
288 points by gyanreyer on Jan 29, 2025 | 315 comments
27.Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua (github.com/esbudylin)
76 points by esbudylin on Feb 2, 2025 | 7 comments
28.Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
253 points by fanf2 on Feb 2, 2025 | 227 comments
29.The doctor who gave himself an ulcer and solved a medical mystery (2010) (discovermagazine.com)
76 points by camtarn on Jan 29, 2025 | 47 comments
30.Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic (github.com/gyulyvgc)
256 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 2, 2025 | 94 comments

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