Trending Signal

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Viral and pre-viral signal across search, social, tech, news, code, and prediction markets — Google Trends, X, Reddit, Hacker News, Techmeme, GitHub Trending, Polymarket. Scored by engagement velocity. Refreshed every 4 hours.

Snapshot: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00 GMT
7.4
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Polymarketfinance45d ago

Will Adanech Abiebie be the next Prime Minister of Ethiopia?

General elections are scheduled to be held in Ethiopia on June 1, 2026. This market will resolve to the next individual who officially assumes the office of Prime Minister of Ethiopia following the 2026 General elections. To count for res

▲ 1,038,096.8951038097/hrAdanech · Abiebie · Prime@Polymarket
7.4
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GitHubtech45d ago

public-apis/public-apis

A collective list of free APIs

▲ 1,5881588/hrAPIs@public-apis
7.2
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Polymarketfinance45d ago

Will Pablo Marçal win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?

A presidential election is scheduled to take place in Brazil on October 4, 2026. This market will resolve according to the listed candidate that wins this election. This market includes any potential second round. If the result of this el

▲ 744,820.118744820/hrPablo · Brazilian@Polymarket
6.9
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Polymarketfinance45d ago

Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?

This market will resolve according to the team that wins the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship. If at any point it becomes impossible for a listed team to win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship per the rules of UEFA Ch

▲ 418,494.57418495/hrShakhtar · Donetsk · UEFA@Polymarket
6.8
viral
Polymarketfinance45d ago

LoL: T1 vs DN SOOPers (BO5) - KeSPA Cup Playoffs

This market refers to the LoL Semifinal match between T1 and DN SOOPers in the KeSPA Cup Playoffs, initially scheduled for August 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM ET. This market will resolve to "T1" if T1 win the match against DN SOOPers. This market

▲ 373,028.95373029/hrLoL · SOOPers · BO5@Polymarket
6.7
viral
GitHubtech45d ago

cordiverse/cordis

Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability

▲ 720720/hrMeta · Framework · Spatiotemporal@cordiverse
6.6
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Polymarketfinance45d ago

Will James Fishback be the Republican nominee for Florida Governor?

This market will resolve according to the winner of the Republican Primary for Governor of Florida, scheduled to take place on August 18, 2026. If no 2026 Florida Republican Gubernatorial Primary takes place, this market will resolve to “O

▲ 258,231.434258231/hrJames · Fishback · Republican@Polymarket
6.6
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Polymarketfinance45d ago

Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by August 31?

This market will resolve to “Yes” if IMF Portwatch publishes a 7-day moving average of transit calls (“Arrivals of Ships”) for the Strait of Hormuz equal to or above 60 for any date between market creation and August 31, 2026. Otherwise, th

▲ 252,416.686252417/hrStrait · Hormuz@Polymarket
6.5
viral
Polymarketfinance45d ago

Will Bitcoin dip to $45,000 by December 31, 2026?

This market will immediately resolve to "Yes" if any Binance 1 minute candle for Bitcoin (BTC/USDT) between November 24, 2025, 14:00 and December 31, 2026, 23:59 in the ET timezone has a final "Low" price equal to or lower than the price sp

▲ 239,519.077239519/hrBitcoin@Polymarket
6.5
viral
GitHubai45d ago

unslothai/unsloth

Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models, including Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, DeepSeek-V4, FLUX and more.

▲ 572572/hrLocal · LLMs · Qwen3@unslothai
6.5
viral
Techmemeai⚡ Pre-viral45d ago

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrCaterpillar · Cummins · Eaton@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech⚡ Pre-viral45d ago

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

0/hrQwen · Simon · Willison@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai⚡ Pre-viral45d ago

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times)

0/hrHiggsfield · DST · Goldman@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemegeopolitics45d ago

Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal "arbitrary" (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)

0/hrChainalysis · ICE · TRM@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai45d ago

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

0/hrAnthropic · Claude · John@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai45d ago

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models (Financial Times)

0/hrSingapore · Hong · Kong@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai46d ago

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)

0/hrInception · Point · Reggie@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai46d ago

How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrClaude · Riemann · Ben@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech46d ago

French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg)

0/hrFrench · Lecornu · France@Techmeme
6.5
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Techmemeai46d ago

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg)

0/hrStripe · OpenRouter@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai46d ago

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrPatients · Face2Gene · Alex@Techmeme
6.5
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Techmemeai46d ago

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)

0/hrWashington@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech46d ago

A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrSony · CEO · Hiroki@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemefinance46d ago

Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

0/hrMalaysia · GDP · Owen@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai46d ago

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)

0/hrFields · Medalist · Timothy@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Polymarketfinance45d ago

Bitcoin Up or Down on August 17?

This market will resolve to "Up" if the "Close" price for the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT Aug 16 '26 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) is lower than the final "Close" price for the Aug 17 '26 12:00 ET candle. This market will resolv

▲ 212,986.166212986/hrBitcoin@Polymarket
6.3
viral
GitHubai45d ago

ToolJet/ToolJet

ToolJet is the open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for building internal tools, dashboard, business applications, workflows and AI agents 🚀

▲ 452452/hrToolJet@ToolJet
6.3
viral
GitHubtech45d ago

cactus-compute/needle

14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.

▲ 443443/hr@cactus-compute
6.0
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Googleother45d ago

hayden panettiere

▲ 5,000,0001250000/hr
6.0
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Xother45d ago

Remember the Titans

▲ 00/hrRemember · Titans
5.9
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Googleother46d ago

fever vs dream

▲ 200,00018182/hr
5.9
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Xother45d ago

Michelle Trachtenberg

▲ 00/hrMichelle · Trachtenberg
5.9
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GitHubtech45d ago

basecamp/omarchy

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux

▲ 270270/hrBeautiful · Modern · Opinionated@basecamp
5.9
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Googleother45d ago

von miller

▲ 100,00016667/hr
5.9
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Xother45d ago

South Korea

▲ 00/hrSouth · Korea
5.8
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Googleother46d ago

santos laguna vs guadalajara

▲ 100,00014286/hr
5.8
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Xother45d ago

Save the Cheerleader

▲ 00/hrSave · Cheerleader
5.7
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Googleother45d ago

michelle trachtenberg

▲ 50,00012500/hr
5.7
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Xother45d ago

Guiding Light

▲ 00/hrGuiding · Light
5.7
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Googleother45d ago

tijuana - cruz azul

▲ 50,00010000/hr
5.7
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Xother45d ago

Reese

▲ 00/hrReese
5.6
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Googleother46d ago

taylor swift new short hair

▲ 100,0007143/hr
5.6
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Xother45d ago

#baddiesgonewild

▲ 00/hr
5.5
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Googleother46d ago

rebel creamery ice cream lawsuit

▲ 100,0006250/hr
5.5
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Xother45d ago

Butterfly

▲ 00/hrButterfly
5.4
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Googleother45d ago

hayden christensen

▲ 20,0005000/hr
5.4
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Xother45d ago

Kyle Chandler

▲ 00/hrKyle · Chandler
5.4
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Googleother46d ago

jordyn woods

▲ 50,0004545/hr
5.4
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Xother45d ago

Shamea

▲ 00/hrShamea
5.4
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GitHubtech45d ago

OpenCut-app/OpenCut

The open-source CapCut alternative

▲ 150150/hrOpenCut · CapCut@OpenCut-app
5.3
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Googleother46d ago

nancy mace

▲ 50,0004545/hr
5.3
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Xother45d ago

Von Miller

▲ 00/hrVon · Miller
5.2
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Googleother45d ago

club tijuana vs cruz azul

▲ 20,0004000/hr
5.2
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Xother45d ago

Only 36

▲ 00/hrOnly
5.2
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Googleother46d ago

prince harry uk visits

▲ 50,0003571/hr
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Xother45d ago

Tiger Cruise

▲ 00/hrTiger · Cruise
5.1
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Googleother46d ago

flock cameras

▲ 20,0002857/hr
5.1
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Xother45d ago

#EVAN

▲ 00/hrEVAN
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Googleother46d ago

supreme court

▲ 50,0002500/hr
5.0
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Xother45d ago

taehyun

▲ 00/hr
4.4
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HNother46d ago

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

▲ 380💬 17056/hrQwen@bilsbie
4.0
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HNother46d ago

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

▲ 644💬 25541/hrFirefox@pentagrama
4.0
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HNother46d ago

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

▲ 480💬 25040/hrRISC@Narishma
4.0
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HNai46d ago

Claude: System Prompts

▲ 635💬 25240/hrClaude · System · Prompts@tosh
3.9
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HNtech46d ago

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

▲ 460💬 11737/hrCloudflare@stagas
3.9
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HNother46d ago

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

▲ 319💬 20337/hrStripe · OpenRouter@zacharyozer
3.9
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HNother46d ago

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

▲ 213💬 9934/hr@walrus01
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HNother46d ago

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

▲ 310💬 17231/hrModels · Getting · Dumber@hruvhwe
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HNother46d ago

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

▲ 183💬 9030/hrLife · Death · Direct@ronbenton
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HNai46d ago

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

▲ 186💬 18227/hrAnthropic · Watermark · Text@ropbear
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HNother46d ago

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

▲ 392💬 13623/hrResearch@Alifatisk
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HNai46d ago

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

▲ 199💬 9423/hrNvidia · OpenAI@root-parent
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HNother45d ago

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

▲ 44💬 2020/hrLinear · Algebra · Right@the-mitr
3.3
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HNai46d ago

The AI Credit Resale Economy

▲ 277💬 11319/hrCredit · Resale · Economy@mlenhard
3.2
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HNother45d ago

GIMP Development Update

▲ 76💬 2318/hrGIMP · Development@lumpa
3.1
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HNother46d ago

The weekend is 100 years old

▲ 194💬 14016/hr@lentil_soup
3.0
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HNother46d ago

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

▲ 186💬 13815/hrLucie · Nuclear · Reactor@toomuchtodo
3.0
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HNother46d ago

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

▲ 107💬 2315/hrReticulum · Decentralized · Mesh@sudo_cowsay
3.0
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HNother46d ago

Protobuf has LSP support

▲ 147💬 9815/hrProtobuf · LSP@theanonymousone
3.0
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HNother45d ago

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

▲ 31💬 1415/hrPJM@_delirium
2.9
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HNother47d ago

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

▲ 330💬 30314/hrAbdominal · BMI@theanonymousone
2.8
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HNai45d ago

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

▲ 73💬 912/hrAGI · Brings · Sierra@erickhill
2.8
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HNother46d ago

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

▲ 150💬 7612/hrNIH@brandonb
2.7
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HNother46d ago

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

▲ 69💬 2411/hrRhombus@spdegabrielle
2.5
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HNother47d ago

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

▲ 269💬 639/hrCultivating@felixbraun
2.4
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HNother46d ago

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

▲ 183💬 1308/hrPatterns@maxutility
2.3
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HNother46d ago

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

▲ 86💬 287/hrMathCode · Mathematical · Coding@homarp
2.2
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HNother46d ago

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

▲ 77💬 646/hrGPS · Lost · Art@karakoram
2.1
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HNother46d ago

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

▲ 41💬 26/hrProlly@forhappy
2.1
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HNother46d ago

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

▲ 40💬 96/hrApplying@gumby
2.0
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HNtech45d ago

If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever

▲ 28💬 66/hrMeta · Instagram · Facebook@tartoran
2.0
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HNother46d ago

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

▲ 103💬 116/hrTrue · Telnet · BBS@austinallegro
2.0
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HNai46d ago

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

▲ 70💬 645/hr@adjohu
1.9
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HNai46d ago

AI Coding Without the Vibes

▲ 82💬 505/hrCoding · Vibes@riskone
1.9
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HNai46d ago

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI

▲ 50💬 105/hrRed@hardlianotion
1.8
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HNother46d ago

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)

▲ 112💬 274/hrGuiding · Ships · Moire@Eridanus2
1.6
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HNother45d ago

US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges'

▲ 12💬 84/hrAir · Force@toomuchtodo
1.6
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HNother47d ago

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

▲ 82💬 373/hrMic · Drop@johnsillings
1.5
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HNother46d ago

TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]

▲ 21💬 63/hrTSMC · Uses · Fabs@eig
1.4
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HNother46d ago

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

▲ 70💬 143/hrFalstad · Math · Physics@pykello
1.2
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HNai46d ago

Health benefits of Tai Chi

▲ 43💬 252/hrHealth · Tai · Chi@helloplanets
1.1
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HNother45d ago

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

▲ 9💬 12/hrStrong@andsoitis
1.1
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HNother47d ago

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

▲ 55💬 72/hrAssisted · GPU · Porting@Jimmc414
0.8
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HNai45d ago

On A.I. regulation and messaging

▲ 6💬 11/hr@jacquesm
0.8
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HNother46d ago

Nobody Knows Anything

▲ 9💬 11/hrNobody · Knows · Anything@gtirloni
0.6
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HNother46d ago

Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs

▲ 9💬 11/hrFlynt · CSP · MPAs@bosmarcel
0.5
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HNother46d ago

Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector

▲ 9💬 01/hrSectorforth · Forth@sigalor
0.5
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HNother46d ago

Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension

▲ 11💬 01/hrPageSieve@kajm