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New top story on Hacker News: Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals

Skyvern Browser Agent 2.0: How We Reached State of the Art in Evals 5 by suchintan | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022)

How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022) 26 by tchalla | 31 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running

Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running 28 by Ericson2314 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace

Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace 7 by simonpure | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO 82 by andypiper | 18 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages

'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages 27 by zfg | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I will never need to buy a new computer again

I will never need to buy a new computer again 78 by ecliptik | 87 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Snake Game in 56 Bytes

Snake Game in 56 Bytes 9 by birdculture | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork 80 by impish9208 | 33 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Map of California roads for cyclers (1895)

Map of California roads for cyclers (1895) 5 by grajaganDev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Datadog acquires Quickwit

Datadog acquires Quickwit 33 by lrx | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1 12 by divbzero | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Can we communally deprecate git checkout?

Can we communally deprecate git checkout? 3 by mirawelner | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Britain got its first internet connection (2018)

How Britain got its first internet connection (2018) 12 by samizdis | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924)

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924) 3 by prismatic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels

Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels 6 by t0bia_s | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Some Programming Language Ideas

Some Programming Language Ideas 19 by todsacerdoti | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the Browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU

Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the Browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU 14 by lights0123 | 2 comments on Hacker News. CUDA is NVIDIA's language for GPU programming, allowing you to mix write CPU and GPU code in C++ in one file. By chaining a few projects that compile CUDA to OpenCL, then Vulkan, then WebGPU, you can experiment with this GPGPU language on any hardware.

New top story on Hacker News: My Favorite Book on AI

My Favorite Book on AI 20 by f1shy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Remote code execution via MIDI messages

Remote code execution via MIDI messages 31 by portasynthinca3 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns 28 by DalasNoin | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer

Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer 5 by felixge | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3

Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3 6 by wwoessi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Got into a rabbit hole today. POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'. Is this useful to anyone?

New top story on Hacker News: Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video]

Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video] 5 by msephton | 0 comments on Hacker News. Caroline Rose was a technical writer at Apple from 1982, lead writer and editor of "Inside Macintosh". Apple-era starts at 1h22m in the video, NeXT-era at 1h58m.

New top story on Hacker News: Bridging Science and Art: Exploring the World of Scientific Illustrations

Bridging Science and Art: Exploring the World of Scientific Illustrations 3 by samonurofil | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rules for Writing Software Tutorials

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials 9 by mtlynch | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Walter Isaacson: "My So-Called Writing Life"

Walter Isaacson: "My So-Called Writing Life" 10 by nsoonhui | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) 33 by mgd | 26 comments on Hacker News.