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1. Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration (pkl-lang.org)
930 points by bioballer on Feb 2, 2024 | 564 comments
2. A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
550 points by whatever3 on Feb 3, 2024 | 193 comments
3. How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? (space.stackexchange.com)
442 points by trashtensor on Feb 3, 2024 | 261 comments
4. Car insurance in America is too cheap (economist.com)
285 points by scythe on Feb 3, 2024 | 847 comments
5. A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715 (oup.com)
243 points by taubek on Feb 3, 2024 | 114 comments
6. Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice (research.mozilla.org)
453 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 3, 2024 | 319 comments
7. SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake (github.com/seaweedfs)
328 points by thushanfernando on Feb 2, 2024 | 123 comments
8. Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi (github.com/anfractuosity)
127 points by anfractuosity on Feb 3, 2024 | 38 comments
9. DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019) (chrisstoneman.medium.com)
211 points by yamrzou on Feb 3, 2024 | 102 comments
10. Low-Power Wi-Fi Extends Signals Up to 3 Kilometers (ieee.org)
166 points by pseudolus on Feb 3, 2024 | 73 comments
11. Folk Computer (folk.computer)
165 points by schmudde on Feb 3, 2024 | 53 comments
12. Carl Weathers has died (bbc.co.uk)
374 points by zeristor on Feb 2, 2024 | 66 comments
13. TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser (Thanks to Zig Compiler) (codeberg.page)
173 points by lupyuen on Feb 3, 2024 | 50 comments
14. Origami Simulator (origamisimulator.org)
261 points by diginova on Feb 1, 2024 | 21 comments
15. Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph (github.com/gabotechs)
180 points by gabimtme on Jan 31, 2024 | 59 comments
16. A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting (research.google)
176 points by jasondavies on Feb 2, 2024 | 64 comments
17. The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) (alexharri.com)
209 points by alexharri on Feb 3, 2024 | 31 comments
18. A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts (bhupesh.me)
214 points by bhupesh on Feb 3, 2024 | 109 comments
19. SI Units for Request Rate (two-wrongs.com)
111 points by DaveFlater on Feb 1, 2024 | 91 comments
20. Compiling Pattern Matching (compiler.club)
128 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 3, 2024 | 17 comments
21. Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library (github.com/dankamongmen)
162 points by tosh on Feb 1, 2024 | 45 comments
22. Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf] (wlmager.com)
232 points by cocacola1 on Feb 3, 2024 | 170 comments
23. Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening to Trains (wired.com)
94 points by isaacfrond on Feb 1, 2024 | 21 comments
24. How Quora died (slate.com)
369 points by CharlesW on Feb 3, 2024 | 403 comments
25. Designer News is dead (solomon.io)
160 points by ohjeez on Feb 3, 2024 | 46 comments
26. iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets (2005) (newscientist.com)
158 points by emigre on Feb 2, 2024 | 51 comments
27. Goodbye non-KISS appliances (willbush.dev)
286 points by willbush on Feb 3, 2024 | 490 comments
28. Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl (shiar.nl)
131 points by asicsp on Feb 2, 2024 | 94 comments
29. Daunting papers/books and how to read them (mathoverflow.net)
88 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 2, 2024 | 27 comments
30. How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry (wikipedia.org)
197 points by akolbe on Feb 1, 2024 | 98 comments

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