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1. New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (keith-mcnulty.medium.com)
949 points by malshe on April 8, 2023 | 252 comments
2. The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition (routledge.com)
387 points by zzxcvb on April 8, 2023 | 166 comments
3. GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot (minifree.org)
270 points by sacrosanct on April 8, 2023 | 85 comments
4. Electricity Prices by Country (electricrate.com)
283 points by highfrequency on April 8, 2023 | 300 comments
5. Why human societies developed so little during 300k years (woodfromeden.substack.com)
444 points by elsewhen on April 8, 2023 | 431 comments
6. To supercharge learning, look to play (nautil.us)
211 points by dnetesn on April 8, 2023 | 101 comments
7. A 1.5GB string (backslasher.net)
308 points by Backslasher on April 8, 2023 | 138 comments
8. FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft (faa.gov)
250 points by jcalvinowens on April 8, 2023 | 83 comments
9. Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014) (maplant.com)
190 points by susam on April 8, 2023 | 32 comments
10. FCC warns Portland church to shut down pirate FM operating under its steeple (insideradio.com)
214 points by rmason on April 8, 2023 | 214 comments
11. QSL Card (wikipedia.org)
99 points by 1970-01-01 on April 8, 2023 | 46 comments
12. Go port of SQLite without CGo (gitlab.com/cznic)
244 points by cube2222 on April 8, 2023 | 116 comments
13. A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-Side (Part 10): Benchmarking (peterzhu.ca)
82 points by thunderbong on April 8, 2023 | 5 comments
14. Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study too good to be true (inews.co.uk)
276 points by sternmere on April 8, 2023 | 202 comments
15. Deep learning library written in Futhark (github.com/hnimnart)
102 points by fulafel on April 8, 2023 | 11 comments
16. 0x0: Share Files from Terminal (0x0.st)
200 points by sathishmanohar on April 8, 2023 | 68 comments
17. Reverse-engineering the division microcode in the Intel 8086 processor (righto.com)
127 points by picture on April 8, 2023 | 27 comments
18. James Niehues Ski Map Artist (jamesniehues.com)
195 points by thunderbong on April 7, 2023 | 44 comments
19. How to be consistent (csprimer.com)
219 points by nedwin on April 7, 2023 | 59 comments
20. Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts (pcmag.com)
286 points by satoshiiii on April 8, 2023 | 161 comments
21. Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (2019) (arxiv.org)
100 points by tim_sw on April 8, 2023 | 24 comments
22. Weber–Fechner Law (wikipedia.org)
71 points by the-mitr on April 8, 2023 | 25 comments
23. Show HN: BrowserBox – do stuff with browsers that you can't normally (github.com/dosyago)
134 points by graderjs on April 8, 2023 | 80 comments
24. Why and how we retired Elm (kevinyank.com)
299 points by elorm on April 8, 2023 | 316 comments
25. Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness (theverge.com)
147 points by zdw on April 8, 2023 | 53 comments
26. Quantum Computing 101 (meetiqm.com)
128 points by doener on April 7, 2023 | 47 comments
27. When Slide Rules Ruled (2006) [pdf] (uvm.edu)
70 points by maroonblazer on April 8, 2023 | 65 comments
28. Porting the Slint UI Toolkit to a Microcontroller with 264K RAM (slint-ui.com)
91 points by zdw on April 8, 2023 | 28 comments
29. How to Design Programs 2nd Edition (htdp.org)
200 points by noob_eng on April 7, 2023 | 32 comments
30. Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (pluralistic.net)
276 points by headalgorithm on April 8, 2023 | 199 comments

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