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1.
13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted (github.com/wasi-master)
618 points by darknavi 8 months ago | 263 comments
2.
Markov chains are funnier than LLMs (emnudge.dev)
525 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 233 comments
3.
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud (berthub.eu)
456 points by ahubert 8 months ago | 251 comments
4.
The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com)
272 points by magnat 8 months ago | 175 comments
5.
Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable (matthewball.co)
466 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 561 comments
6.
Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
365 points by tndl 8 months ago | 172 comments
7.
Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet (snats.xyz)
296 points by Nydhal 8 months ago | 110 comments
8.
FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator (github.com/matthewkukanich)
282 points by jstrieb 8 months ago | 65 comments
9.
Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) (reverberate.org)
366 points by fanf2 8 months ago | 160 comments
10.
NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues (arstechnica.com)
314 points by geerlingguy 8 months ago | 449 comments
11.
Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions (esotericsoftware.com)
128 points by diggan 8 months ago | 54 comments
12.
Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS (jvns.ca)
147 points by hasheddan 8 months ago | 34 comments
13.
Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly (andadinosaur.com)
144 points by goranmoomin 8 months ago | 73 comments
14.
Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment (nelhage.com)
393 points by edran 8 months ago | 240 comments
15.
Seven basic rules for causal inference (pedermisager.org)
218 points by RafelMri 8 months ago | 67 comments
16.
The Quantum Butterfly Effect (lanl.gov)
81 points by lr0 9 months ago | 30 comments
17.
Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe" (archive.org)
164 points by savetz 8 months ago | 30 comments
18.
Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M (theblock.co)
360 points by svenfaw 8 months ago | 214 comments
19.
Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday (thingswemake.com)
116 points by debo_ 8 months ago | 17 comments
20.
Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place (netboot.xyz)
288 points by thunderbong 8 months ago | 65 comments
21.
How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made (washingtonpost.com)
108 points by perihelions 8 months ago | 43 comments
22.
The Curious Case of QUEENCREEK (mobeigi.com)
98 points by mobeigi 8 months ago | 32 comments
23.
Can a Rust binary use incompatible versions of the same library? (github.com/brannondorsey)
84 points by braxxox 8 months ago | 85 comments
24.
Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin (kx.studio)
93 points by iscream26 8 months ago | 47 comments
25.
LLMs know more than what they say (arjunbansal.substack.com)
148 points by nqnielsen 8 months ago | 18 comments
26.
Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration (ably.com)
90 points by amnonbc 8 months ago | 18 comments
27.
The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device (vfxblog.com)
65 points by gelstudios 8 months ago | 4 comments
28.
Renderings Created with Only a Pencil (core77.com)
234 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 64 comments
29.
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell (5280.com)
51 points by gmays 8 months ago | 2 comments
30.
Prompt Caching (anthropic.com)
173 points by fallinditch 8 months ago | 68 comments

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