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1.Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (github.com/rxi)
458 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 228 comments
2.Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max (chargerlab.com)
231 points by givinguflac 4 days ago | 212 comments
3.iFixit iPhone Air teardown (ifixit.com)
355 points by zdw 1 day ago | 217 comments
4.DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list (slugcat.systems)
279 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 79 comments
5.AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger? (elma.dev)
437 points by elmsec 1 day ago | 459 comments
6.Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD (spectrallabs.ai)
314 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 65 comments
7.Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank (theverge.com)
248 points by arnon 1 day ago | 304 comments
8.I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode (pixelpusher.club)
257 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 106 comments
9.Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently (arstechnica.com)
246 points by doppp 4 days ago | 334 comments
10.Were RNNs all we needed? A GPU programming perspective (dhruvmsheth.github.io)
105 points by omegablues 4 days ago | 31 comments
11.How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022) (quantamagazine.org)
88 points by FromTheArchives 4 days ago | 17 comments
12.Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis (github.com/google)
128 points by apachepig 1 day ago | 13 comments
13.LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain (reclaimthenet.org)
372 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 190 comments
14.Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 3 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
95 points by etrez 2 days ago | 8 comments
15.The bloat of edge-case first libraries (43081j.com)
132 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 140 comments
16.Calculator Forensics (2002) (rskey.org)
89 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 40 comments
17.Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK (hotminute.co.uk)
262 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 415 comments
18.Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement (theguardian.com)
438 points by mindracer 1 day ago | 347 comments
19.A brief history of threads and threading (eclecticlight.co)
93 points by emschwartz 2 days ago | 28 comments
20.They Thought They Were Free (1955) (uchicago.edu)
583 points by nataliste 1 day ago | 473 comments
21.Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers (modernretail.co)
410 points by blindriver 1 day ago | 155 comments
22.INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates (github.com/leoneq)
89 points by userbinator 4 days ago | 15 comments
23.In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018) (chrisdown.name)
113 points by jitl 1 day ago | 142 comments
24.Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms (johndcook.com)
77 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 40 comments
25.Vibe coding cleanup as a service (donado.co)
243 points by sjdonado 1 day ago | 141 comments
26.Lidar, optical distance and time of flight sensors (ams-osram.com)
70 points by mahirsaid 4 days ago | 28 comments
27.A coin flip by any other name (2023) (cgad.ski)
53 points by lawrenceyan 4 days ago | 7 comments
28. [flagged] Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig (github.com/botirk38)
149 points by botirk 4 days ago | 26 comments
29.Show HN: Freeing GPUs stuck by runaway jobs (github.com/kagehq)
37 points by lexokoh 1 day ago | discuss
30.Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo (modular.com)
150 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 66 comments

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