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1. Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (effectiviology.com)
1620 points by walterbell on Feb 24, 2024 | 1125 comments
2. GPT in 500 Lines of SQL (explainextended.com)
1111 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 | 76 comments
3. Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
959 points by stareatgoats on Feb 24, 2024 | 328 comments
4. Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga (dansalva.to)
200 points by dansalvato on Feb 24, 2024 | 36 comments
5. Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out (intrinsic-lora.github.io)
381 points by corysama on Feb 23, 2024 | 122 comments
6. Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text? (minimaxir.com)
265 points by _Microft on Feb 24, 2024 | 153 comments
7. Please make your table headings sticky (btxx.org)
354 points by aragilar on Feb 24, 2024 | 73 comments
8. Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018) (atomutek.org)
293 points by guardienaveugle on Feb 24, 2024 | 155 comments
9. Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants (bbc.com)
174 points by rntn on Feb 24, 2024 | 62 comments
10. A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months (theverge.com)
363 points by mfiguiere on Feb 23, 2024 | 133 comments
11. Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022) (lembransation.blogspot.com)
247 points by phreeza on Feb 23, 2024 | 105 comments
12. Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple (shoesrb.com)
181 points by johnchristopher on Feb 23, 2024 | 81 comments
13. Ledger (cmpxchg8b.com)
183 points by hggh on Feb 24, 2024 | 120 comments
14. Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU (github.com/victormeriqui)
170 points by victormeriqui on Feb 24, 2024 | 37 comments
15. Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices (go.dev)
148 points by signa11 on Feb 23, 2024 | 80 comments
16. The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking (exaspark.medium.com)
137 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 | 25 comments
17. Plasticity through patterned ultrasound-induced brainwave entrainment in mice (science.org)
90 points by bookofjoe on Feb 24, 2024 | 52 comments
18. A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi (github.com/frimkron)
126 points by raytopia on Feb 24, 2024 | 65 comments
19. How to think about software quality (2022) (evalapply.org)
154 points by adityaathalye on Feb 24, 2024 | 66 comments
20. A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916 (arstechnica.com)
96 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 24, 2024 | 39 comments
21. Lisp Programming with Vim (2019) (susam.net)
94 points by susam on Feb 23, 2024 | 17 comments
22. Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information (quantamagazine.org)
98 points by digital55 on Feb 24, 2024 | 16 comments
23. A modest update to Qubes OS (lwn.net)
158 points by voxadam on Feb 24, 2024 | 31 comments
24. J3blocks is a Janet scripting system for i3bar and swaybar (codeberg.org)
62 points by amano-kenji on Feb 22, 2024 | 10 comments
25. What DNS Is Not (2009) (acm.org)
90 points by SerCe on Feb 24, 2024 | 47 comments
26. Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances (pudding.cool)
106 points by nickthegreek on Feb 24, 2024 | 119 comments
27. Notes from an Interviewer (devwithahammer.wordpress.com)
127 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 | 190 comments
28. Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language (github.com/candy-lang)
79 points by microflash on Feb 24, 2024 | 63 comments
29. Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today (geospatial-nix.today)
105 points by l0b0 on Feb 24, 2024 | 21 comments
30. DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit (ieee.org)
141 points by mfiguiere on Feb 24, 2024 | 97 comments

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