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1.		Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity (stefantheard.com)
		1811 points by mooreds 8 months ago \| 914 comments
2.		The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing (computerwebsite.net)
		645 points by arithmoquine 8 months ago \| 60 comments
3.		Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle (artnet.com)
		208 points by RobertJaTomsons 8 months ago \| 98 comments
4.		ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress (arcprize.org)
		588 points by mikeknoop 8 months ago \| 337 comments
5.		Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 (elixir-lang.org)
		495 points by clessg 8 months ago \| 163 comments
6.		Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library (github.com/lexbor)
		235 points by bratao 8 months ago \| 24 comments
7.		Faxes From the Far Side (2015) (damninteresting.com)
		104 points by not_a_boat 8 months ago \| 13 comments
8.		ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack (chromium.org)
		325 points by feross 8 months ago \| 465 comments
9.		Author Clock: a novel way to tell time (authorclock.com)
		206 points by iamben 8 months ago \| 131 comments
10.		Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black (bbc.com)
		164 points by ranit 8 months ago \| 81 comments
11.		Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization (stamen.com)
		90 points by skadamat 8 months ago \| 11 comments
12.		Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds (science.org)
		241 points by jyunwai 8 months ago \| 91 comments
13.		Metaflora (metazooa.com)
		88 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago \| 15 comments
14.		When Water Flows Uphill [video] (2013) (youtube.com)
		245 points by ColinWright 8 months ago \| 39 comments
15.		How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings (tembo.io)
		272 points by samaysharma 8 months ago \| 82 comments
16.		Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk
		164 points by Bisen 8 months ago \| 89 comments
17.		AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse (frereit.de)
		141 points by _tk_ 8 months ago \| 63 comments
18.		Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 (caltech.edu)
		105 points by dangle1 8 months ago \| 5 comments
19.		How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019) (twobithistory.org)
		223 points by davikr 8 months ago \| 156 comments
20.		Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet (jott.live)
		101 points by brrrrrm 8 months ago \| 18 comments
21.		How to make colored fire at home (2020) (sciencenotes.org)
		108 points by squircle 8 months ago \| 30 comments
22.		Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B (arxiv.org)
		100 points by belter 8 months ago \| 9 comments
23.		Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today (twz.com)
		94 points by vinnyglennon 8 months ago \| 51 comments
24.		Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust (restate.dev)
		185 points by sewen 8 months ago \| 109 comments
25.		T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next (arstechnica.com)
		203 points by rntn 8 months ago \| 170 comments
26.		Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab (tomshardware.com)
		248 points by prng2021 8 months ago \| 236 comments
27.		Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers (greenend.org.uk)
		60 points by robinhouston 8 months ago \| 6 comments
28.		Mexico’s anti-avocado militias (theguardian.com)
		96 points by cyberlimerence 8 months ago \| 80 comments
29.		How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system (mihaileric.com)
		180 points by nutellalover 8 months ago \| 213 comments
30.		Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner (aeon.co)
		82 points by Caiero 8 months ago \| 228 comments
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