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1. Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA (github.com/karpathy)
1050 points by tosh on April 8, 2024 | 168 comments
2. Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home (every.to/the-crazy-ones)
551 points by adrianhon on April 8, 2024 | 141 comments
3. PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS (github.com/migueletto)
405 points by rickcarlino on April 7, 2024 | 135 comments
4. Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests (github.com/stackframe-projects)
379 points by n2d4 on April 7, 2024 | 79 comments
5. Hello World (thecoder08.github.io)
509 points by fbrusch on April 8, 2024 | 79 comments
6. How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? (bxt.rs)
521 points by janvdberg on April 8, 2024 | 283 comments
7. After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
428 points by iNic on April 8, 2024 | 227 comments
8. Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories (diffoscope.org)
141 points by frankjr on April 7, 2024 | 14 comments
9. Greaseweazle (retrocmp.de)
114 points by mikerg87 on April 7, 2024 | 36 comments
10. Programming with DOS Debugger (2003) (susam.net)
107 points by susam on April 6, 2024 | 47 comments
11. Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants (energy.gov)
127 points by Gaishan on April 8, 2024 | 53 comments
12. Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network (0xerr0r.github.io)
249 points by kaathewise on April 8, 2024 | 107 comments
13. Find My Device on Android (blog.google)
234 points by el_duderino on April 8, 2024 | 317 comments
14. How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet (ieee.org)
264 points by hasheddan on April 8, 2024 | 102 comments
15. GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer (savannah.gnu.org)
170 points by nequo on April 8, 2024 | 115 comments
16. Japanese American Bird Pins (hcn.org)
156 points by tws on April 8, 2024 | 19 comments
17. Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC (github.com/flipt-io)
191 points by todsacerdoti on April 8, 2024 | 25 comments
18. Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm (nippon.com)
165 points by kizunajp on April 8, 2024 | 29 comments
19. Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022) (smithsonianmag.com)
187 points by throwoutway on April 7, 2024 | 58 comments
20. Vala Programming Language (vala.dev)
265 points by gtirloni on April 8, 2024 | 192 comments
21. Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs (github.com/filimoa)
206 points by serjester on April 8, 2024 | 43 comments
22. Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude (colab.research.google.com)
107 points by minimaxir on April 8, 2024 | 25 comments
23. Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014) (arxiv.org)
71 points by bryanrasmussen on April 8, 2024 | 10 comments
24. When a black hole and a neutron star merge (mpg.de)
136 points by belter on April 7, 2024 | 76 comments
25. Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming (marginalrevolution.com)
139 points by impish9208 on April 8, 2024 | 69 comments
26. The 6502 instruction set as a database (gitlab.com/screwtapello)
127 points by orgonon on April 8, 2024 | 30 comments
27. Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014) (jvns.ca)
213 points by thunderbong on April 6, 2024 | 106 comments
28. Retrospective on 10 Years of colour-science (colour-science.org)
95 points by kelsolaar on April 6, 2024 | 4 comments
29. High Definition CSS Color Guide (chrome.com)
164 points by sgammon on April 8, 2024 | 57 comments
30. Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync (flashnotesapp.com)
82 points by munhitsu on April 7, 2024 | 25 comments

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