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1. Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017) (vincit.com)
335 points by agomez314 on April 4, 2024 | 94 comments
2. Fortran on WebAssembly (gws.phd)
235 points by georgestagg on April 5, 2024 | 51 comments
3. Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode execution (arxiv.org)
170 points by milliondreams on April 4, 2024 | 52 comments
4. Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
760 points by panqueca on April 5, 2024 | 767 comments
5. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine (github.com/searxng)
302 points by tosh on April 5, 2024 | 92 comments
6. FFmpeg 7.0 (ffmpeg.org)
531 points by gyan on April 5, 2024 | 223 comments
7. Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years (thegazette.com)
368 points by Georgelemental on April 5, 2024 | 377 comments
8. The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics (abortretry.fail)
346 points by BirAdam on April 5, 2024 | 365 comments
9. Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative) (github.com/zoriya)
258 points by zoriya on April 5, 2024 | 193 comments
10. Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video] (youtube.com)
189 points by DocFeind on April 5, 2024 | 170 comments
11. So you wanna de-bog yourself (experimental-history.com)
372 points by world2vec on April 5, 2024 | 85 comments
12. M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake (usgs.gov)
453 points by theandrewbailey on April 5, 2024 | 355 comments
13. Show HN: FizzBee – Formal methods in Python (fizzbee.io)
119 points by jayaprabhakar on April 2, 2024 | 23 comments
14. Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
249 points by rntn on April 4, 2024 | 130 comments
15. An IRC client in your motherboard (axleos.com)
343 points by codyd51 on April 5, 2024 | 75 comments
16. XDP for game programmers (mas-bandwidth.com)
109 points by gafferongames on April 4, 2024 | 88 comments
17. German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice (zdnet.com)
508 points by CrankyBear on April 4, 2024 | 323 comments
18. OpenBSD 7.5 (openbsd.org)
326 points by SoftTalker on April 5, 2024 | 120 comments
19. Rejuvenating the blood cell population (science.org)
88 points by etiam on April 4, 2024 | 35 comments
20. A Lego model of financial capitalism (asomo.co)
196 points by Dogwash24 on April 5, 2024 | 84 comments
21. Letting go of the idea of keeping up (reactormag.com)
145 points by bingden on April 2, 2024 | 156 comments
22. For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths (hazlitt.net)
128 points by onthesly on April 5, 2024 | 25 comments
23. Tool Use (function calling) (anthropic.com)
222 points by akadeb on April 4, 2024 | 99 comments
24. She slept with a violin on her pillow (nytimes.com)
141 points by tintinnabula on April 5, 2024 | 106 comments
25. The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997) (publicdomainreview.org)
96 points by benbreen on April 3, 2024 | 80 comments
26. Scientists may have discovered a flaw in their understanding of dark energy (nytimes.com)
91 points by ianrahman on April 5, 2024 | 121 comments
27. Deep sea mining could be worse for the climate than land ores (planet-tracker.org)
127 points by neom on April 5, 2024 | 66 comments
28. St. Louis Brick by Brick (2023) (beltmag.com)
49 points by Caiero on April 3, 2024 | 11 comments
29. Philly Typewriter (atlasobscura.com)
48 points by scapecast on April 3, 2024 | 9 comments
30. What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884) (wikisource.org)
59 points by drdee on April 2, 2024 | 68 comments

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