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1.		A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) (lathes.co.uk)
		529 points by CommieBobDole 8 months ago \| 146 comments
2.		Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone (github.com/rejunity)
		362 points by jnord 8 months ago \| 71 comments
3.		Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) (theluddite.org)
		1112 points by MrVandemar 8 months ago \| 529 comments
4.		Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm (rednuht.org)
		484 points by memalign 8 months ago \| 73 comments
5.		Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions (stackblitz.com)
		386 points by nickwritesit 8 months ago \| 163 comments
6.		Personal computing paves the way for personal library science (bramadams.dev)
		193 points by _bramses 8 months ago \| 51 comments
7.		Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night (theregister.com)
		184 points by LorenDB 8 months ago \| 25 comments
8.		Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility (github.com/gyf304)
		225 points by gyf304 8 months ago \| 100 comments
9.		Burn After Wearing (grist.org)
		213 points by onychomys 8 months ago \| 142 comments
10.		TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales (ianvisits.co.uk)
		209 points by zeristor 8 months ago \| 251 comments
11.		Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (2023) (sigma-star.at)
		132 points by st_goliath 8 months ago \| 47 comments
12.		How to improve the RISC-V specification (alastairreid.github.io)
		162 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago \| 61 comments
13.		How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles (gagor.pro)
		227 points by ___timor___ 8 months ago \| 140 comments
14.		Flow Field Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
		165 points by ingve 8 months ago \| 27 comments
15.		Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine (righto.com)
		108 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago \| 9 comments
16.		The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics (nhigham.com)
		215 points by teleforce 8 months ago \| 34 comments
17.		PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python (pysheets.app)
		287 points by tosh 8 months ago \| 72 comments
18.		Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023) (musicradar.com)
		151 points by conanxin 8 months ago \| 69 comments
19.		Did we lose our way in making efficient software? (rufatmammadli.medium.com)
		264 points by rumad 8 months ago \| 494 comments
20.		Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months (stuffwithstuff.com)
		264 points by auraham 8 months ago \| 17 comments
21.		The unstallable plane that stalled (fearoflanding.com)
		176 points by sni 8 months ago \| 179 comments
22.		Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions (phys.org)
		72 points by wglb 8 months ago \| 7 comments
23.		The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] (acm.org)
		92 points by swatson741 8 months ago \| 10 comments
24.		OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers (os-world.github.io)
		77 points by kristianpaul 8 months ago \| 39 comments
25.		Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree (zed.dev)
		197 points by avinassh 8 months ago \| 41 comments
26.		Speeding up C++ build times (figma.com)
		165 points by skilled 8 months ago \| 203 comments
27.		Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
		125 points by _Microft 8 months ago \| 24 comments
28.		Philosophus Autodidactus (wikipedia.org)
		73 points by niemandhier 8 months ago \| 29 comments
29.		Google Quantum AI (quantumai.google)
		187 points by segasaturn 8 months ago \| 194 comments
30.		What if null was an Object in Java? (donraab.medium.com)
		77 points by ingve 8 months ago \| 160 comments
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