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1. Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard (garmin.com)
593 points by hnburnsy on Feb 5, 2023 | 285 comments
2. Stable Attribution (stableattribution.com)
747 points by mkeeter on Feb 5, 2023 | 349 comments
3. Reversing UK mobile rail tickets (eta.st)
484 points by 076ae80a-3c97-4 on Feb 3, 2023 | 225 comments
4. If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough (muezza.ca)
417 points by BizarreByte on Feb 5, 2023 | 336 comments
5. Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later (nature.com)
428 points by rntn on Feb 5, 2023 | 375 comments
6. De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM (tomshardware.com)
474 points by smusamashah on Feb 4, 2023 | 401 comments
7. Poline – esoteric color palette generator (meodai.github.io)
343 points by davidbarker on Feb 5, 2023 | 63 comments
8. U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon (cnbc.com)
371 points by rntn on Feb 4, 2023 | 1086 comments
9. Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France (krebsonsecurity.com)
258 points by impish9208 on Feb 5, 2023 | 171 comments
10. Fedora now has frame pointers (rwmj.wordpress.com)
213 points by LaSombra on Feb 2, 2023 | 191 comments
11. A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10 (github.com/cinit)
235 points by quyleanh on Feb 5, 2023 | 116 comments
12. The Market for Lemons (infrequently.org)
228 points by tambourine_man on Feb 5, 2023 | 154 comments
13. South Pole Topography (brr.fyi)
193 points by afrcnc on Feb 5, 2023 | 24 comments
14. How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (1998) (rage.net)
135 points by giuliomagnifico on Feb 5, 2023 | 100 comments
15. I use C when I believe in memory safety (gavinhoward.com)
331 points by gavinhoward on Feb 5, 2023 | 440 comments
16. FreeCAD Day 2023: Report and continued discussion (freecad.org)
147 points by app4soft on Feb 5, 2023 | 84 comments
17. Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality (github.com/dschil138)
177 points by zdw on Feb 4, 2023 | 149 comments
18. Archiving in the time of streaming (textfiles.com)
155 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 5, 2023 | 16 comments
19. All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (1995) (calpoly.edu)
117 points by hexbus on Feb 5, 2023 | 42 comments
20. Showering at the South Pole (brr.fyi)
210 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 4, 2023 | 98 comments
21. The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+ (jaycarlson.net)
187 points by jaydcarlson on Feb 5, 2023 | 65 comments
22. The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018) (economist.com)
257 points by dgs_sgd on Feb 5, 2023 | 341 comments
23. C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel (github.com/mohd-akram)
140 points by nixcraft on Feb 5, 2023 | 34 comments
24. Making a loudness monitor for online meetings (rolisz.ro)
70 points by rolisz on Feb 2, 2023 | 42 comments
25. Design your pricing and tools so you can adapt them later (arnon.dk)
140 points by arnon on Feb 4, 2023 | 27 comments
26. The Packing Chromatic Number of the Infinite Grid is 15: the story behind it (bsubercaseaux.github.io)
94 points by bsubs on Feb 5, 2023 | 34 comments
27. Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin (twitter.com/winglets747)
148 points by kristjansson on Feb 5, 2023 | 93 comments
28. Stride – Open-source C# Game Engine (stride3d.net)
132 points by pabs3 on Feb 5, 2023 | 62 comments
29. Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
356 points by devoutsalsa on Feb 5, 2023 | 900 comments
30. Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint (copyrightlately.com)
251 points by toss1 on Feb 5, 2023 | 236 comments

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