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1.
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) (danslimmon.com)
582 points by tehnub 30 days ago | 157 comments
2.
VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas (fly.io)
737 points by zdyxry 29 days ago | 511 comments
3.
Obscure islands I find interesting (amanvir.com)
552 points by venusgirdle 29 days ago | 178 comments
4.
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (washingtonpost.com)
762 points by Despegar 30 days ago | 1036 comments
5.
We are destroying software (antirez.com)
1012 points by antirez 29 days ago | 622 comments
6.
The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter (github.com/xajik)
323 points by igor_st 29 days ago | 79 comments
7.
Hotline for modern Apple systems (github.com/mierau)
519 points by tonymet 31 days ago | 126 comments
8.
Jacksonpollock.org (2003) (jacksonpollock.org)
495 points by memalign 29 days ago | 145 comments
9.
Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm (redpenguin101.github.io)
204 points by redpenguin101 29 days ago | 19 comments
10.
Writing a simple windows driver in Rust (scorpiosoftware.net)
248 points by ingve 29 days ago | 91 comments
11.
Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) (johnkerl.org)
283 points by susam 29 days ago | 158 comments
12.
A tale of distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video] (fosdem.org)
144 points by todsacerdoti 29 days ago | 63 comments
13.
The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020) (freelansations.medium.com)
280 points by msephton 33 days ago | 101 comments
14.
Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement (github.com/wojciech-kulik)
255 points by wojciech-kulik 29 days ago | 104 comments
15.
Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”? (chiraaggohel.com)
384 points by finding_theta 32 days ago | 194 comments
16.
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years (bbc.co.uk)
144 points by goodcanadian 32 days ago | 81 comments
17.
Visual explanations of mathematics (2020) (agilescientific.com)
193 points by thunderbong 32 days ago | 25 comments
18.
21st Century C++ (acm.org)
177 points by bandwitch 32 days ago | 269 comments
19.
Origami by Meenakshi (origamee.net)
140 points by Tomte 31 days ago | 7 comments
20.
Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go (sr.ht)
74 points by hellcow 29 days ago | 8 comments
21.
From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution (danielh.cc)
97 points by max__dev 31 days ago | 35 comments
22.
RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available (frame.work)
202 points by WithinReason 32 days ago | 66 comments
23.
You're missing your near misses (surfingcomplexity.blog)
154 points by azhenley 32 days ago | 51 comments
24.
Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby (sacckey.dev)
137 points by Kerrick 31 days ago | 11 comments
25.
Five coding hats (dubroy.com)
93 points by pdubroy 31 days ago | 39 comments
26.
A colorful Game of Life (jaredforsyth.com)
133 points by azhenley 31 days ago | 24 comments
27.
Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs (github.com/awwaiid)
211 points by wonger_ 29 days ago | 80 comments
28.
Versioning versus Coordination (brooker.co.za)
65 points by burntcaramel 31 days ago | 2 comments
29.
Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021) (datagubbe.se)
219 points by yamrzou 29 days ago | 207 comments
30.
Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) (herecomesthemoon.net)
166 points by todsacerdoti 29 days ago | 97 comments

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