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  1. In the Beginning Was the Command Line (stanford.edu)
    ×1.91 | 71 points by conanxin 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (sysprog21.github.io)
    ×1.90 | 123 points by wrycoder 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb (github.com/joshuacline)
    ×1.16 | 105 points by windozedev 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.44 | 81 points by benbreen 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control (jamesbvaughan.com)
    ×1.47 | 162 points by jamesbvaughan 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide (ntk148v.github.io)
    ×3.03 | 63 points by bratao 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book (huyenchip.com)
    ×1.82 | 92 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×1.88 | 197 points by matt_d 14 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers (cornell.edu)
    ×2.63 | 22 points by signa11 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Twenty (YC S23) Is Hiring a Software Engineer in Paris (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Grumpy Gamer – Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com)
    ×1.54 | 10 points by lifeisstillgood 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures (columbia.edu)
    ×1.25 | 238 points by luu 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024 (railsatscale.com)
    ×1.30 | 88 points by ksec 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. How to Preserve Physical Photos (ente.io)
    ×1.49 | 41 points by goodburb 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The New Internet (tailscale.com)
    ×3.31 | 209 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
    ×1.29 | 152 points by jandrewrogers 15 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Better Firmware with LLVM/Clang (memfault.com)
    ×1.00 | 25 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that? (jlongster.com)
    ×1.69 | 189 points by samwillis 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch (singleton.io)
    ×2.44 | 121 points by alexmolas 10 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×1.47 | 99 points by todsacerdoti 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Taking a Radio Camping (ewpratten.com)
    ×1.38 | 22 points by ewpratten 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. How large language models will disrupt data management [pdf] (vldb.org)
    ×1.13 | 55 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. New Programming Languages of 2024 (pldb.io)
    ×1.61 | 12 points by breck 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Repulsive Shells [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.21 | 117 points by RafelMri 15 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Driving Compilers (fabiensanglard.net)
    ×1.60 | 43 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. A simple procedural animation technique [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.36 | 127 points by Meleagris 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border (reason.com)
    ×5.24 | 206 points by mhb 9 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork (github.com/patched-codes)
    ×1.06 | 79 points by rohansood15 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Seam Carving (2018) (andrewdcampbell.github.io)
    ×0.85 | 16 points by maxwell 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source (apexsurplus.com)
    ×0.98 | 67 points by jensgk 10 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Counting bytes faster than you'd think possible (mattstuchlik.com)
    ×1.64 | 128 points by asicsp 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf] (uwo.ca)
    ×1.12 | 91 points by vinnyvichy 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence (foreignpolicy.com)
    ×4.87 | 260 points by paulpauper 13 hours ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers (apnews.com)
    ×4.24 | 78 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only (cloudbsd.xyz)
    ×1.73 | 190 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate (mit.edu)
    ×1.37 | 79 points by mdp2021 10 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Why Levittown didn't revolutionize homebuilding (construction-physics.com)
    ×0.92 | 73 points by sien 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. A hash table by any other name (lwn.net)
    ×1.22 | 106 points by signa11 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Many Lives of Null Island (stamen.com)
    ×1.29 | 84 points by sebg 19 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Deep Learning Interviews (2021) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.22 | 43 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Rise of the Analytics Pretendgineer (benn.substack.com)
    ×1.47 | 14 points by acossta 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023) (mcognetta.github.io)
    ×0.92 | 83 points by mcyc 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy (lemonsqueezy.com)
    ×3.16 | 223 points by drecoe 16 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. CrowdStrike update may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it all (theregister.com)
    ×2.84 | 8 points by pjmlp 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Memory for music doesn't diminish with age (nature.com)
    ×1.03 | 56 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Clojure macros continue to surprise me (tonsky.me)
    ×1.18 | 117 points by jgrodziski 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing' (cnbc.com)
    ×2.00 | 109 points by m463 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts (nationaltrust.org.uk)
    ×1.09 | 86 points by geox 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Nice Things that Apple doesn't let us have (on an iPad) (taoofmac.com)
    ×2.97 | 12 points by walterbell 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Funtoo Linux is shutting down (funtoo.org)
    ×1.83 | 98 points by DaSHacka 11 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016) (rein.pk)
    ×2.04 | 173 points by sebg 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Treescope: Interactive HTML visualization library for Python neural networks (github.com/google-deepmind)
    ×0.85 | 55 points by zerojames 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units (videocardz.com)
    ×3.82 | 82 points by josephcsible 10 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Is the nervous system a democracy? (2016) (scientificamerican.com)
    ×0.57 | 26 points by kawera 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Call the compiler, fax it your code [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.21 | 142 points by ayoreis 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.15 | 9 points by gsky 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks (eieio.games)
    ×3.48 | 193 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Beyond Clean Code (tobeva.com)
    ×1.68 | 69 points by pbw 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Word Slicer (wordslicer.com)
    ×1.08 | 43 points by NoArcher888 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022) (siboehm.com)
    ×1.19 | 94 points by mpweiher 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. NYPD Coppelgänger: Exploring Cop Data (lav.io)
    ×1.21 | 45 points by leotravis10 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Understanding Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
    ×0.65 | 13 points by jandrewrogers 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level (deepmind.google)
    ×4.91 | 1323 points by ocfnash 1 day ago | 508 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Meta-Thunderbolt (nocoffei.com)
    ×1.65 | 22 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I built a tool to expand your network (that introverts will love) (moreoverlap.com)
    ×2.76 | 207 points by jbrueck 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Game AI Pro (gameaipro.com)
    ×1.21 | 9 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0 (raytracing.github.io)
    ×2.37 | 54 points by hollasch 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Where should visual programming go? (tonsky.me)
    ×1.51 | 71 points by spiralganglion 15 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Notes on Remitting Stripe Tax to the UK and EU (svbtle.com)
    ×1.63 | 23 points by tppiotrowski 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: Slab – A programmable markup language for generating HTML (slab-lang.org)
    ×0.88 | 34 points by thu 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow (bloomberg.com)
    ×4.99 | 597 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 546 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Neural Networks and Deep Learning (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
    ×0.89 | 7 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. How the EU Weaponizes Regulation to Extract Billions from American Tech (piratewires.com)
    ×1.55 | 4 points by ksec 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas (haystackeditor.com)
    ×2.53 | 506 points by akshaysg 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (1996) (wfmu.org)
    ×1.59 | 72 points by ohjeez 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Llama-3.1 supports tool calls via prompting (braintrust.dev)
    ×1.53 | 15 points by ankrgyl 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Asteroids Game in Racket (2021) (alex-hhh.github.io)
    ×0.76 | 9 points by oumua_don17 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow? (val.town)
    ×0.29 | 3 points by maxmcd 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life (quantamagazine.org)
    ×0.73 | 4 points by frankish 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
    ×2.71 | 583 points by treve 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Restic 0.17.0 Released (restic.net)
    ×3.85 | 16 points by gslin 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
    ×1.33 | 279 points by jramette 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Cellular Reprogramming Improves Cognition in Aged Rats (lifespan.io)
    ×1.00 | 4 points by GavCo 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash (theregister.com)
    ×2.88 | 92 points by qdot76367 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Fast, accurate climate modeling with NeuralGCM (research.google)
    ×1.13 | 6 points by praccu 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Skip and Arc'teryx built a futuristic exoskeleton (fastcompany.com)
    ×1.86 | 103 points by coderintherye 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The process that kept dying: A memory leak murder mystery (lukedeniston.com)
    ×0.67 | 25 points by luketheobscure 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python (github.com/mriale)
    ×1.34 | 168 points by luismedel 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Heckorator, a.k.a. why you should always check up on old unfinished projects (rocketrace.github.io)
    ×0.86 | 8 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?
    ×0.54 | 22 points by bckr 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???