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1.Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
681 points by 1317 on Oct 7, 2024 | 150 comments
2.The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991) (dreamsongs.com)
265 points by t14n on Oct 7, 2024 | 334 comments
3.Jazz – Apps with Distributed State (jazz.tools)
500 points by gjvc on Oct 5, 2024 | 174 comments
4.Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge (theverge.com)
787 points by dblitt on Oct 7, 2024 | 580 comments
5.Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words (github.com/thudm)
154 points by taikon on Oct 7, 2024 | 29 comments
6.Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon (nickb.website)
357 points by walterbell on Oct 6, 2024 | 155 comments
7.Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't (wired.com)
254 points by sohkamyung on Oct 7, 2024 | 140 comments
8.An e-waste dumping ground (npr.org)
400 points by andsoitis on Oct 7, 2024 | 295 comments
9.US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward (reuters.com)
444 points by christhecaribou on Oct 7, 2024 | 221 comments
10.Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel (ieee.org)
146 points by rbanffy on Oct 7, 2024 | 353 comments
11.The magic (image resampling) kernel (johncostella.com)
167 points by BoingBoomTschak on Oct 6, 2024 | 37 comments
12.Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree (chromewebstore.google.com)
272 points by ziolko on Oct 7, 2024 | 32 comments
13.Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency (ena.to)
204 points by napsterbr on Oct 6, 2024 | 68 comments
14.Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
174 points by syrusakbary on Oct 7, 2024 | 71 comments
15.Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction (arstechnica.com)
221 points by Bender on Oct 3, 2024 | 64 comments
16.How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length? (aarol.dev)
271 points by misonic on Oct 7, 2024 | 115 comments
17.Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic (github.com/cepa)
211 points by ChopSticksPlz on Oct 5, 2024 | 55 comments
18.Fast B-Trees (scattered-thoughts.net)
271 points by surprisetalk on Oct 7, 2024 | 64 comments
19.Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone (wigle.net)
151 points by thunderbong on Oct 7, 2024 | 47 comments
20.EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference (netbsd.org)
94 points by jaypatelani on Oct 7, 2024 | 3 comments
21.Gunter's Space Page (skyrocket.de)
83 points by okl on Oct 7, 2024 | 12 comments
22.What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 (appsignal.com)
545 points by amalinovic on Oct 7, 2024 | 281 comments
23.Task-Switching Experiment (2015) (psytoolkit.org)
54 points by dang on Oct 5, 2024 | 15 comments
24.Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon (edwardbenson.com)
367 points by gwintrob on Oct 7, 2024 | 194 comments
25.NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade (ieee.org)
119 points by wallflower on Oct 3, 2024 | 63 comments
26.Diode Matrix (cca.org)
94 points by thunderbong on Oct 5, 2024 | 30 comments
27.Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
61 points by zeristor on Oct 6, 2024 | 29 comments
28.We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam (pncnmnp.github.io)
130 points by pncnmnp on Oct 6, 2024 | 52 comments
29.Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet (gist.github.com)
130 points by somefries on Oct 7, 2024 | 38 comments
30.Sorbet: A neuromorphic hardware-compatible transformer-based spiking model (arxiv.org)
57 points by PaulHoule on Oct 7, 2024 | 52 comments

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