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1.
Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) (stanford.edu)
680 points by peterkshultz 55 days ago | 198 comments
2.
Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake (science.org)
423 points by jbm 54 days ago | 232 comments
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Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site (tomshardware.com)
428 points by WithinReason 57 days ago | 213 comments
4.
United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet (avbrief.com)
404 points by d_silin 55 days ago | 224 comments
5.
Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103 (chinadaily.com.cn)
292 points by nhatcher 56 days ago | 87 comments
6.
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100% (github.com/gillou68310)
235 points by birdculture 54 days ago | 101 comments
7.
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one (ounapuu.ee)
217 points by furkansahin 60 days ago | 228 comments
8.
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime (jupyter.org)
181 points by bauta-steen 55 days ago | 42 comments
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When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
409 points by birdculture 57 days ago | 72 comments
10.
Replacement.ai (replacement.ai)
1000 points by wh313 55 days ago | 684 comments
11.
Compare Single Board Computers (sbc.compare)
222 points by todsacerdoti 55 days ago | 83 comments
12.
EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers (youtube.com)
263 points by robinhouston 56 days ago | 77 comments
13.
Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi (cmaiolino.wordpress.com)
165 points by indigodaddy 55 days ago | 69 comments
14.
The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish (southernwoodenboatsailing.com)
151 points by zynovex 62 days ago | 18 comments
15.
Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB (duckui.com)
213 points by caioricciuti 55 days ago | 60 comments
16.
The case for the return of fine-tuning (welovesota.com)
167 points by nanark 55 days ago | 81 comments
17.
Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds (tamu.edu)
159 points by PaulHoule 55 days ago | 161 comments
18.
The Accountability Problem (jamesshore.com)
144 points by FrancoisBosun 55 days ago | 60 comments
19.
The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020) (zhimingwang.org)
97 points by g0xA52A2A 55 days ago | 22 comments
20.
OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened (the-decoder.com)
430 points by Topfi 55 days ago | 234 comments
21.
Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised (reddit.com)
365 points by kekqqq 55 days ago | 161 comments
22.
Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data (psu.edu)
110 points by giuliomagnifico 56 days ago | 76 comments
23.
The reason GCC is not a library (2000) (gcc.gnu.org)
168 points by todsacerdoti 62 days ago | 129 comments
24.
How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams (ducktypelabs.com)
90 points by sidk_ 60 days ago | 9 comments
25.
How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch (lowtechmagazine.com)
110 points by surprisetalk 55 days ago | 70 comments
26.
Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices? (optimizedbyotto.com)
120 points by ottoke 55 days ago | 110 comments
27.
Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG (github.com/pringled)
86 points by Tananon 55 days ago | 11 comments
28.
Friendship Begins at Home (3quarksdaily.com)
166 points by herbertl 55 days ago | 99 comments
29.
Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator (shkspr.mobi)
100 points by ColinWright 55 days ago | 17 comments
30.
The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies (theguardian.com)
128 points by hansmayer 62 days ago | 88 comments

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