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31.Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code (winamp.com)
344 points by captbaritone on May 16, 2024 | 163 comments
32.America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries (theprogressplaybook.com)
85 points by epistasis on May 16, 2024 | 73 comments
33.Students invent quieter leaf blower (jhu.edu)
280 points by namanyayg on May 16, 2024 | 419 comments
34.Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
105 points by aragonite on May 15, 2024 | 34 comments
35.Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg (phoronix.com)
198 points by vmbrasseur on May 16, 2024 | 46 comments
36.The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story (nature.com)
139 points by drdee on May 16, 2024 | 98 comments
37.High-Quality Software Engineering (2007) (lurklurk.org)
86 points by rhim on May 15, 2024 | 38 comments
38.Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT (openai.com)
203 points by tosh on May 16, 2024 | 124 comments
39.Enhancing R: The Vision and Impact of Jan Vitek's MaintainR Initiative (r-consortium.org)
56 points by wodenokoto on May 16, 2024 | 58 comments
40.A brief history of the first planetarium (ieee.org)
25 points by _Microft on May 14, 2024 | 3 comments
41.Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009 (arstechnica.com)
139 points by yau8edq12i on May 16, 2024 | 11 comments
42.JEP Draft: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient (openjdk.org)
89 points by mfiguiere on May 16, 2024 | 22 comments
43.Merging Remix and React Router (remix.run)
107 points by 0xedb on May 15, 2024 | 75 comments
44.What's New in Neovim 0.10 (gpanders.com)
291 points by gpanders on May 16, 2024 | 131 comments
45.I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search (aftermath.site)
212 points by awkwardpotato on May 16, 2024 | 224 comments
46.The Sweet Spot: Maximizing Llama Energy Efficiency (jacquesmattheij.com)
35 points by jacquesm on May 15, 2024
47.You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings (viralinstruction.com)
78 points by jakobnissen on May 16, 2024 | 100 comments
48.You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019) (openstreetmap.org)
109 points by fanf2 on May 16, 2024 | 17 comments
49.Elicit – AI Research Assistant (elicit.com)
111 points by zerojames on May 16, 2024 | 76 comments
50.Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners (bloomberg.com)
112 points by feross on May 16, 2024 | 93 comments
51.Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language (hackclub.com)
149 points by jianmin-chen on May 16, 2024 | 62 comments
52.Intel's Thunderbolt Share lets two PCs control each other over a USB cable (theverge.com)
80 points by Brajeshwar on May 16, 2024 | 76 comments
53.Prototypal Inheritance (2008) (crockford.com)
29 points by Tomte on May 13, 2024 | 13 comments
54.Port 666 is officially registered to Doom (ibiblio.org)
142 points by ughitsaaron on May 16, 2024 | 53 comments
55.EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design (techcrunch.com)
145 points by amalinovic on May 16, 2024 | 95 comments
56.Big Companies vs. Startups (2015) (danluu.com)
49 points by fzliu on May 15, 2024 | 59 comments
57.Robotic "SuperLimbs" could help moonwalkers recover from falls (news.mit.edu)
14 points by LorenDB on May 15, 2024 | 7 comments
58.Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector (thinkingeek.com)
22 points by fanf2 on May 15, 2024
59.Measuring the impact of zoning on housing in a city (jonathannolan.net)
44 points by mickgardner on May 15, 2024 | 77 comments
60. [dupe] (OpenBSD) Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (marc.info)
27 points by signa11 on May 16, 2024 | 2 comments

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