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1.
Why is my dryer radioactive? (physics.stackexchange.com)
674 points by jpitz 12 months ago | 159 comments
2.
What happened with ASUS routers this morning? (downtowndougbrown.com)
736 points by zdw 12 months ago | 450 comments
3.
ChatGPT app for iOS (openai.com)
675 points by rememberlenny 12 months ago | 404 comments
4.
LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009) (gist.github.com)
186 points by avinassh 12 months ago | 65 comments
5.
Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement (petapixel.com)
308 points by kens 12 months ago | 394 comments
6.
The Great CPU Stagnation (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
246 points by greghn 12 months ago | 219 comments
7.
CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue (loro-dev.notion.site)
206 points by samwillis 12 months ago | 51 comments
8.
Windows XP Activation: Game Over (tinyapps.org)
248 points by sysadm1n 12 months ago | 148 comments
9.
How to quit cars (newyorker.com)
264 points by amatheus 12 months ago | 801 comments
10.
Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos” (twitter.com/benguild)
181 points by benguild 12 months ago | 143 comments
11.
NYC skyscrapers sit vacant (bloomberg.com)
185 points by mirthlessend 12 months ago | 413 comments
12.
An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (2019) (jezzamon.com)
184 points by zerojames 12 months ago | 28 comments
13.
Apple’s new headset meets reality (bloomberg.com)
234 points by sudheer_paturi 12 months ago | 505 comments
14.
Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung (nikkei.com)
244 points by thunderbong 12 months ago | 323 comments
15.
User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018) (userinyerface.com)
362 points by onion2k 12 months ago | 113 comments
16.
The simple joys of scaling up (motherduck.com)
150 points by eatonphil 12 months ago | 45 comments
17.
Unit Testing eBPF Programs (ldelossa.is)
114 points by ldelossa 12 months ago | 11 comments
18.
TikTok is now banned in Montana (theverge.com)
281 points by tortilla 12 months ago | 536 comments
19.
My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919) (archive.org)
144 points by cbracketdash 12 months ago | 62 comments
20.
Language models cost much more in some languages than others (yenniejun.com)
260 points by yenniejun111 12 months ago | 171 comments
21.
Simulated Hospital (github.com/google)
191 points by axutio 12 months ago | 100 comments
22.
Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998) (cmu.edu)
113 points by DerekBickerton 12 months ago | 73 comments
23.
Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std (github.com/ziglang)
267 points by huydotnet 12 months ago | 174 comments
24.
European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects (opensource.org)
297 points by rbanffy 12 months ago | 184 comments
25.
Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com/abiosoft)
132 points by luu 12 months ago | 55 comments
26.
The Case for Bash (2021) (neversaw.us)
125 points by memalign 12 months ago | 184 comments
27.
Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games (github.com/nickm980)
112 points by nm980 12 months ago | 31 comments
28.
Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)
201 points by msephton 12 months ago | 113 comments
29.
CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (simonwillison.net)
204 points by simonw 12 months ago | 51 comments
30.
DuckDB 0.8 (duckdb.org)
187 points by nnx 12 months ago | 98 comments

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