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1.		“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” (chadnauseam.com)
		1234 points by pie_flavor 15 hours ago \| 313 comments
2.		The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com)
		408 points by krykp 1 day ago \| 56 comments
3.		Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer (github.com/dvershinin)
		153 points by mmsc 22 hours ago \| 28 comments
4.		Perplexity Deep Research (perplexity.ai)
		335 points by vinni2 1 day ago \| 157 comments
5.		Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement (bbc.com)
		125 points by petethomas 3 days ago \| 28 comments
6.		Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted (phys.org)
		110 points by gmays 4 days ago \| 46 comments
7.		Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves (blunderchess.net)
		116 points by eviledamame 1 day ago \| 39 comments
8.		Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin (schoenitzer.de)
		155 points by nudin 4 days ago \| 145 comments
9.		Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage (reuters.com)
		187 points by abe94 3 days ago \| 130 comments
10.		Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022) (departmentofproduct.com)
		101 points by lgunsch 3 days ago \| 22 comments
11.		Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living (ssp.sh)
		178 points by articsputnik 14 hours ago \| 63 comments
12.		Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS (caddyserver.com)
		456 points by huang_chung 8 hours ago \| 172 comments
13.		Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf] (rtestardi.github.io)
		238 points by burgerone 11 hours ago \| 85 comments
14.		Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going (thenewstack.io)
		189 points by MilnerRoute 10 hours ago \| 57 comments
15.		OpenVINO AI effects [denoising and transcription] for Audacity (audacityteam.org)
		109 points by wazoox 2 days ago \| 21 comments
16.		Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
		370 points by Trasmatta 9 hours ago \| 69 comments
17.		Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th (reddit.com)
		299 points by andyjohnson0 8 hours ago \| 173 comments
18.		50 Years of Travel Tips (kk.org)
		229 points by marban 16 hours ago \| 182 comments
19.		United States Power Outage Map (poweroutage.us)
		244 points by jonbaer 9 hours ago \| 123 comments
20.		How Hans Bethe stumbled upon perfect quantum theories (quantamagazine.org)
		65 points by abe94 4 days ago \| 6 comments
21.		US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago (bbc.com)
		426 points by niuzeta 18 hours ago \| 681 comments
22.		AI can interpret animal emotions better than humans (science.org)
		86 points by marojejian 3 days ago \| 49 comments
23.		Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
		134 points by resource_waste 2 days ago \| 73 comments
24.		Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016) (simplyfabulicious.wordpress.com)
		106 points by herecomethefuzz 20 hours ago \| 68 comments
25.		The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off (technologyreview.com)
		57 points by pseudolus 4 days ago \| 35 comments
26.		Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business (cnbc.com)
		98 points by pinewurst 3 days ago \| 102 comments
27.		Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio (tomshardware.com)
		62 points by protik49 6 hours ago \| 29 comments
28.		How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (nytimes.com)
		117 points by erickhill 1 day ago \| 90 comments
29.		Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy (bbc.com)
		100 points by latexr 5 hours ago \| 47 comments
30.		Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (2023) (pubby.games)
		61 points by zdw 3 days ago \| 11 comments
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