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1.The Origins of DS_store (2006) (arno.org)
554 points by edavis on July 3, 2024 | 266 comments
2.Should this be a map or 500 maps? (escapethealgorithm.substack.com)
340 points by cromulent on July 2, 2024 | 107 comments
3.Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C (salykova.github.io)
392 points by p1esk on July 3, 2024 | 81 comments
4.Building a data compression utility in Haskell using Huffman codes (lazamar.github.io)
232 points by lazamar on July 4, 2024 | 88 comments
5.Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers (securityweek.com)
663 points by mindracer on July 4, 2024 | 396 comments
6.Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back (ieee.org)
279 points by cyberlimerence on July 1, 2024 | 156 comments
7.Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash (nelhage.com)
247 points by brianyu8 on July 4, 2024 | 36 comments
8.Analyzing my electricity consumption (zdimension.fr)
287 points by skadamat on July 3, 2024 | 277 comments
9.SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet (github.com/andmarti1424)
420 points by emersonrsantos on July 4, 2024 | 122 comments
10.Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics (ncsu.edu)
217 points by gnabgib on July 4, 2024 | 98 comments
11.Oldest cave art found (bbc.com)
193 points by rntn on July 3, 2024 | 84 comments
12.The sad state of property-based testing libraries (stevana.github.io)
208 points by nequo on July 4, 2024 | 121 comments
13.Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion (boyuan.space)
214 points by magoghm on July 4, 2024 | 13 comments
14.Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reefs (wiley.com)
100 points by PaulHoule on July 2, 2024
15.Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o (tamerc.com)
465 points by comcuoglu on July 4, 2024 | 160 comments
16.Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services (firezone.dev)
233 points by wh33zle on July 4, 2024 | 86 comments
17.The Origin of Ambergris (2012) (uchicago.edu)
74 points by EndXA on July 4, 2024 | 33 comments
18.The Sphere (mssv.net)
171 points by adrianhon on July 2, 2024 | 69 comments
19.Batteries: How cheap can they get? (aukehoekstra.substack.com)
297 points by hoerensagen on July 4, 2024 | 303 comments
20.The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania (hallofdreams.org)
123 points by Philpax on July 2, 2024 | 23 comments
21.Ready Player Mode (lmno.lol)
74 points by xenodium on July 4, 2024 | 8 comments
22.NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop (nexdock.com)
180 points by Bluestein on July 4, 2024 | 212 comments
23.Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf] (github.com/udlbook)
88 points by teleforce on July 3, 2024 | 15 comments
24.Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell (corecursive.com)
262 points by todsacerdoti on July 4, 2024 | 250 comments
25.Katharine Way, John Wheeler, and the Dawn of Nuclear Fission (amphilsoc.org)
45 points by drdee on July 4, 2024 | 1 comment
26.Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery (gla.ac.uk)
159 points by ulrischa on July 4, 2024 | 102 comments
27.Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (theguardian.com)
228 points by thunderbong on July 4, 2024 | 94 comments
28.GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome (frguthmann.github.io)
71 points by ibobev on July 2, 2024 | 14 comments
29.Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me (columbia.edu)
71 points by luu on June 30, 2024 | 103 comments
30.Show HN: I made a split keyboard for large palms (jogmekeebs.com)
85 points by jogme on July 4, 2024 | 77 comments

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