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1. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (ericdraken.com)
1198 points by rolph on Aug 27, 2023 | 626 comments
2. A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells (uwa.edu.au)
407 points by rbanffy on Aug 27, 2023 | 109 comments
3. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you (twitter.com/paulg)
374 points by pg on Aug 27, 2023 | 209 comments
4. Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006) (cmu.edu)
270 points by Asdrubalini on Aug 27, 2023 | 147 comments
5. Prisoners of Google Android development (solutional.ee)
427 points by jarm0 on Aug 27, 2023 | 310 comments
6. Overthewire.org (overthewire.org)
326 points by ghostfoxgod on Aug 27, 2023 | 49 comments
7. Python Type Hints – *args and **kwargs (2021) (adamj.eu)
267 points by ekiauhce on Aug 27, 2023 | 149 comments
8. A study on robustness and reliability of large language model code generation (arxiv.org)
176 points by floridsleeves on Aug 27, 2023 | 215 comments
9. Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019) (openculture.com)
222 points by layer8 on Aug 26, 2023 | 49 comments
10. Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla (bugzilla.org)
174 points by buovjaga on Aug 27, 2023 | 67 comments
11. Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter
138 points by liamilan on Aug 26, 2023 | 79 comments
12. WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com/satwikkansal)
251 points by Tomte on Aug 27, 2023 | 80 comments
13. PMET: Precise Model Editing in a Transformer (arxiv.org)
119 points by PaulHoule on Aug 27, 2023 | 13 comments
14. Reasons to replace advanced search with filters (adamsilver.io)
135 points by tagawa on Aug 26, 2023 | 100 comments
15. Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly (thehustle.co)
327 points by kansaswriter on Aug 27, 2023 | 168 comments
16. Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)
316 points by donutshop on Aug 27, 2023 | 220 comments
17. Ubus (OpenWrt micro bus architecture) (openwrt.org)
113 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 27, 2023 | 54 comments
18. The rise of pity marketing (newstatesman.com)
130 points by miiiiiike on Aug 24, 2023 | 70 comments
19. UX design patterns for loading (pencilandpaper.io)
140 points by akbarnama on Aug 26, 2023 | 69 comments
20. Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years (jstor.org)
126 points by samizdis on Aug 24, 2023 | 108 comments
21. Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun (datagubbe.se)
75 points by zdw on Aug 26, 2023 | 3 comments
22. Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems (github.com/johnsonjh)
96 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Aug 26, 2023 | 26 comments
23. Lie still in bed (ognjen.io)
275 points by rognjen on Aug 27, 2023 | 234 comments
24. i386 in Ubuntu won't die (popey.com)
145 points by jandeboevrie on Aug 27, 2023 | 120 comments
25. The Decreationist: Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self (theamericanscholar.org)
53 points by Caiero on Aug 27, 2023 | 12 comments
26. The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick (hkopp.github.io)
97 points by hkopp on Aug 26, 2023 | 33 comments
27. The Arab Dagger (fordemilitaryantiques.com)
81 points by nelsondev on Aug 26, 2023 | 19 comments
28. Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4 (cobbpg.github.io)
67 points by msephton on Aug 26, 2023 | 10 comments
29. I Can Eat Glass (wikipedia.org)
245 points by vector_spaces on Aug 27, 2023 | 91 comments
30. Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase (sourcegraph.com)
201 points by adocomplete on Aug 26, 2023 | 82 comments

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