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Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z7JS
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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (❄️ Score: 156+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zbcW
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Dial-up Internet to be discontinued (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmyt
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Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zfNg
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjEu
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Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (Score: 156+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjXk
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Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkEG
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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (❄️ Score: 154+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z5iD
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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkux
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GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjVZ
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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjLH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjLH
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjaH
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Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziwc
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New executive order puts all grants under political control (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zicf
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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgP2
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Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znut
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6znut
For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript.
Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon
[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkp3
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Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zhrc
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How attention sinks keep language models stable (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziRy
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Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkHi
Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds.
Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc.
What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low?
Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.
How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjm9
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Window Activation (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z2Qx
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Getting good results from Claude code (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjuz
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The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkru
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Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5 (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjJg
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Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjgM
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US to rewrite its past national climate reports (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziY9
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Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgGQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zgGQ
GPT-5 leaked system prompt (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zif8
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Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgBy
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