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Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king (phys.org)

×1.31 12 #10 | 17 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com/nabroleonx)

×0.68 15 #26 | 13 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Online Game (2021) (notboring.co)

×0.28 49 #60 | 5 points by simonebrunozzi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (poehnelt.com)

×2.59 28 #43 | 86 points by justinwp 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time (arstechnica.com)

×1.54 11 #7 | 71 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Completing the formal proof of higher-dimensional sphere packing (math.inc)

×0.68 12 #56 | 17 points by salkahfi 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A GFM+GF-MathJax/Latex HTML formatting adventure (github.com/scottvr)

×0.11 57 | 4 points by ycombiredd 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malm Whale (atlasobscura.com)

×0.45 27 #37 | 27 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter (sixstepstobetterhealth.com)

×1.50 4 #25 | 116 points by colinbartlett 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Daemon (2006) (wikipedia.org)

×0.82 25 #50 | 40 points by solomonb 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

×0.61 21 #48 | 50 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com/jghub)

×0.40 53 #73 | 19 points by jghub 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete (arxiv.org)

×0.43 54 #59 | 24 points by nill0 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Approximation Game (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×0.30 53 #88 | 15 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)

×1.02 24 #23 | 120 points by bikenaga 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024) (mcyoung.xyz)

×0.98 11 #69 | 60 points by cratermoon 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)

×0.39 32 #67 | 42 points by LukeB42 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Favorite 39C3 Talks (asindu.xyz)

×0.98 23 #62 | 61 points by max_ 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (moss.town)

×1.65 7 #27 | 252 points by smusamashah 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (pesfandiar.com)

×0.90 32 #40 | 103 points by pesfandiar 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps (nytimes.com)

×0.87 37 #53 | 99 points by jimnotgym 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself (shapeof.com)

×0.76 34 #85 | 69 points by wallflower 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)

×1.70 13 #38 | 259 points by evolve2k 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975 (modernillustration.org)

×0.71 53 #79 | 60 points by eustoria 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (elevatorsaga.com)

×0.84 32 #83 | 90 points by xmprt 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# (iev.ee)

×1.54 14 #57 | 214 points by exceptione 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups (github.com/lixiasky-back)

×0.44 53 | 42 points by lixiasky 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (koenvangilst.nl)

×1.47 25 #61 | 182 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (github.com/mrconter1)

×0.96 51 | 61 points by mrconter11 3 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Explain Curl Commands (github.com/akgitrepos)

×0.68 81 | 39 points by akgitrepos 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Effective Git (github.com/nolasoft)

×0.60 82 | 35 points by nola-a 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act

×0.41 80 | 42 points by systima 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)

×2.33 7 | 508 points by pcdavid 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: React-Kino – Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core) (github.com/btahir)

×0.36 105 | 19 points by bilater 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Visual Lambda Calculus – a thesis project (2008) revived for the web (github.com/bntre)

×0.77 94 | 49 points by bntr 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com/cosmiciron)

×1.74 100 | 77 points by cosmiciron 3 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models (github.com/ierror)

×1.20 110 | 61 points by burrnii 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com/hjtenklooster)

×0.57 124 | 99 points by rikk3rt 5 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???