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1.
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) (scentofdawn.blogspot.com)
691 points by ahiknsr 4 months ago | 312 comments
2.
What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like (nrk.no)
542 points by ingve 4 months ago | 249 comments
3.
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (news.mit.edu)
311 points by thunderbong 4 months ago | 206 comments
4.
Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging (googleblog.com)
627 points by tfsh 4 months ago | 268 comments
5.
Hurl, the Exceptional Language (hurl.wtf)
315 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 132 comments
6.
Diffusion Models (andrewkchan.dev)
315 points by reasonableklout 4 months ago | 31 comments
7.
Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad (github.com/discograd)
232 points by frankling_ 4 months ago | 66 comments
8.
Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005) (wlonk.com)
190 points by bilsbie 4 months ago | 47 comments
9.
The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery (scientificamerican.com)
418 points by rmason 4 months ago | 134 comments
10.
The CompCert C Compiler (compcert.org)
203 points by nequo 4 months ago | 225 comments
11.
LO – simple WASM native language (github.com/glebbash)
221 points by glebbash 4 months ago | 63 comments
12.
FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) (pcmicro.com)
251 points by Lammy 4 months ago | 86 comments
13.
Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS (super.site)
314 points by MediumD 4 months ago | 35 comments
14.
The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf] (umbc.edu)
155 points by swatson741 4 months ago | 130 comments
15.
Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x? (arunmani.in)
176 points by arun-mani-j 4 months ago | 63 comments
16.
Braid: Synchronization for HTTP (braid.org)
233 points by walterbell 4 months ago | 88 comments
17.
The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy (jakeseliger.com)
293 points by jdkee 4 months ago | 55 comments
18.
Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017) (sre.google)
188 points by nateb2022 4 months ago | 115 comments
19.
Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary (github.com/transcriptionstream)
200 points by indigodaddy 4 months ago | 37 comments
20.
GRC SpinRite (computer.rip)
128 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 159 comments
21.
A journey to the medical netherworld (2016) (hazlitt.net)
57 points by EndXA 4 months ago | 13 comments
22.
Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS (rhodesmill.org)
68 points by kenarsa 4 months ago | 5 comments
23.
Milk watcher (wikipedia.org)
150 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago | 91 comments
24.
Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video] (youtube.com)
284 points by explosion-s 4 months ago | 76 comments
25.
Cloudflare took down our website (robindev.substack.com)
1044 points by nolverostae 4 months ago | 466 comments
26.
How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding? (vitalik.eth.limo)
90 points by bpierre 4 months ago | 42 comments
27.
Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023) (youtube.com)
86 points by janandonly 4 months ago | 58 comments
28.
A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012) (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
51 points by Drunk_Engineer 4 months ago | 29 comments
29.
Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone (dumbph.com)
224 points by hbroadbent 4 months ago | 187 comments
30.
Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings (electrek.co)
118 points by peutetre 4 months ago | 67 comments

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