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1.
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (history.stackexchange.com)
523 points by napolux 16 hours ago | 116 comments
2.
AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (frost.kiwi)
496 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 74 comments
3.
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
282 points by rrampage 1 day ago | 54 comments
4.
FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (hwisnu.bearblog.dev)
369 points by sebg 6 days ago | 159 comments
5.
Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable (arxiv.org)
132 points by denvaar 4 days ago | 26 comments
6.
Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (techdirt.com)
462 points by chocmake 1 day ago | 108 comments
7.
SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com/spacex)
264 points by alach11 1 day ago | 412 comments
8.
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)
468 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | 333 comments
9.
1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
150 points by galeos 5 days ago | 30 comments
10.
How good are American roads? (construction-physics.com)
181 points by chmaynard 15 hours ago | 387 comments
11.
Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
491 points by perihelions 23 hours ago | 623 comments
12.
Query Your Python Lists (github.com/mkalioby)
81 points by mkalioby 6 days ago | 48 comments
13.
Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (gamediscover.co)
393 points by TaurenHunter 1 day ago | 98 comments
14.
When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
303 points by alexzeitler 1 day ago | 216 comments
15.
Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems (securityweek.com)
258 points by fortran77 1 day ago | 93 comments
16.
Using uv with PyTorch (astral.sh)
165 points by charliermarsh 1 day ago | 53 comments
17.
SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems (philipzucker.com)
125 points by xlinux 13 hours ago | 12 comments
18.
Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) (abebooks.com)
94 points by MrVandemar 20 hours ago | 64 comments
19.
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
485 points by gslin 1 day ago | 177 comments
20.
Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) (github.com/dbohdan)
71 points by networked 5 days ago | 41 comments
21.
Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client (cardo-podcast.github.io)
82 points by n0vella 17 hours ago | 28 comments
22.
AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (blog.google)
103 points by roboboffin 11 hours ago | 42 comments
23.
La Basilica Di San Pietro (microsoft.com)
130 points by geox 15 hours ago | 61 comments
24.
Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response (tryparity.com)
138 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 20 comments
25.
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (acm.org)
61 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 39 comments
26.
Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints (github.com/greymattergames)
88 points by BrainBacon 16 hours ago | 37 comments
27.
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (arstechnica.com)
203 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 131 comments
28.
Lush: My favorite small programming language (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
115 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 19 comments
29.
Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web (github.com/leaningtech)
196 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 53 comments
30.
Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating (welltypedwitch.bearblog.dev)
41 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 30 comments

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