Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
919 points by jonatron | 603 comments
University of York news release on a study for a Channel 4 documentary finding a school smartphone ban improved children's sleep and mood.
478 points by dcminter | 73 comments
An Imgur album documenting the process of making a mechanical watch from scratch; the capture shows a Reddit network-policy block page instead.
366 points by vladyslavfox | 200 comments
An interactive experiment that runs an uploaded or sample photo through Google Vision API to show how much private information a single image reveals.
366 points by zxexz | 83 comments
Meta AI research publication page for the Byte Latent Transformer paper, which proposes byte-level patches instead of tokens for scaling language models.
339 points by nsoonhui | 146 comments
Quanta Magazine article explaining entropy, 200 years after its introduction, as a measure of ignorance rather than an objective property of the world.
331 points by zdw | 243 comments
Shirt Pocket blog post by Dave Nanian explaining that macOS 15.2 broke Apple's volume replicator, preventing bootable copies of the OS to another drive.
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172 points by ms7892 | 83 comments
128 points by tosh | 40 comments
94 points by sauercrowd | 102 comments
93 points by pongogogo | 52 comments
75 points by Fudgel | 39 comments
50 points by flyingpumba | 12 comments
37 points by hgarg | 7 comments
31 points by Tomte | 17 comments
