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1.		Chimes at Midnight (2024) (asteriskmag.com)
		47 points by chautumn 8 days ago \| 15 comments
2.		Infosec 101 for Activists (infosecforactivists.org)
		486 points by greenie_beans 13 days ago \| 206 comments
3.		Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)
		383 points by 6581 19 days ago \| 218 comments
4.		Scenes from the 'Super Bowl for Excel Nerds' (nytimes.com)
		14 points by skue 28 days ago \| 4 comments
5.		Fluorescent Mineral Photography (naturesrainbows.com)
		37 points by jazzyjackson 26 days ago \| 6 comments
6.		Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions (chriskrycho.com)
		244 points by chriskrycho 27 days ago \| 80 comments
7.		Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History (terriblesoftware.org)
		335 points by jonbaer 26 days ago \| 112 comments
8.		Bunkers in Albania (wikipedia.org)
		215 points by samclemens 32 days ago \| 168 comments
9.		Zork: The Great Inner Workings (2020) (medium.com/swlh)
		205 points by gus_leonel 28 days ago \| 68 comments
10.		Software Folklore (tuxen.de)
		149 points by ColinWright 36 days ago \| 32 comments
11.		Nobody cares (grantslatton.com)
		1071 points by fzliu 34 days ago \| 976 comments
12.		Writing a simple pool allocator in C (8dcc.github.io)
		307 points by 8dcc 43 days ago \| 143 comments
13.		A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1: Calculator Chips Came First (2022) (eejournal.com)
		105 points by teuobk 44 days ago \| 17 comments
14.		ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019) (vice.com)
		185 points by Bluestein 50 days ago \| 91 comments
15.		Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator (rfleury.com)
		97 points by yinso on Oct 28, 2022 \| 91 comments
16.		Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program (rfleury.com)
		200 points by robenkleene 56 days ago \| 24 comments
17.		Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013) (mascontext.com)
		238 points by hyperific 64 days ago \| 101 comments
18.		A Knife Forged in Fire (chicagomag.com)
		113 points by hentrep 60 days ago \| 117 comments
19.		Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch (hhu.de)
		191 points by mildog8 62 days ago \| 32 comments
20.		Making a watch from scratch (reddit.com)
		516 points by dcminter 65 days ago \| 86 comments
21.		Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999) (merlins.org)
		175 points by wizardforhire 65 days ago \| 155 comments
22.		The Myth of Bananaland (worldhistory.substack.com)
		153 points by crescit_eundo 71 days ago \| 117 comments
23.		Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) (powells.com)
		56 points by kaycebasques 78 days ago \| 23 comments
24.		Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines (acm.org)
		135 points by rbanffy 84 days ago \| 22 comments
25.		Prayer, Placement, and Absolution: Peter Hristoff on Islamic Prayer Rugs (2015) (metmuseum.org)
		127 points by handfuloflight 84 days ago \| 77 comments
26.		Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet (nautil.us)
		72 points by rbanffy 3 months ago \| 28 comments
27.		Lush: My favorite small programming language (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
		151 points by todsacerdoti 89 days ago \| 28 comments
28.		Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013) (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
		129 points by NaOH 3 months ago \| 41 comments
29.		Islands of the Feral Pigs (hakaimagazine.com)
		46 points by PaulHoule 3 months ago \| 26 comments
30.		Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		166 points by baxtr 3 months ago \| 202 comments
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