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1. We’re all just temporarily abled (jim-nielsen.com)
919 points by _xivi on Aug 21, 2023 | 513 comments
2. uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
675 points by tech234a on Aug 21, 2023 | 328 comments
3. Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation (nature.com)
491 points by conse_lad on Aug 21, 2023 | 213 comments
4. Saving Lives (2004) (folklore.org)
340 points by compiler-guy on Aug 21, 2023 | 313 comments
5. FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs (twitter.com/cperciva)
339 points by gslin on Aug 21, 2023 | 297 comments
6. All of the vehicle license plates available in America (beautifulpublicdata.com)
227 points by jonathanmkeegan on Aug 21, 2023 | 269 comments
7. The ideal viewport doesn't exist (viewports.fyi)
283 points by Kye on Aug 21, 2023 | 192 comments
8. Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices (googleblog.com)
205 points by transpute on Aug 21, 2023 | 114 comments
9. TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken (timeguessr.com)
252 points by kosasbest on Aug 20, 2023 | 85 comments
10. Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music (ad8e.pages.dev)
331 points by ad8e on Aug 19, 2023 | 61 comments
11. Don't fire your illustrator (sambleckley.com)
379 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 21, 2023 | 321 comments
12. macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported (eclecticlight.co)
231 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2023 | 162 comments
13. GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver (github.com/tapparelj)
223 points by 882542F3884314B on Aug 21, 2023 | 68 comments
14. Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing (rese1f.github.io)
210 points by satvikpendem on Aug 21, 2023 | 43 comments
15. Why Open Source? (getconvoy.io)
169 points by subomi on Aug 21, 2023 | 105 comments
16. FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver (phoronix.com)
125 points by mikece on Aug 21, 2023 | 44 comments
17. SolarPi experiment 2: Finally something that works (rfox.eu)
125 points by marbu on Aug 21, 2023 | 74 comments
18. P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications (p2panda.org)
217 points by rapnie on Aug 21, 2023 | 37 comments
19. A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants (economist.com)
264 points by samizdis on Aug 21, 2023 | 113 comments
20. Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says (washingtonpost.com)
154 points by bookofjoe on Aug 19, 2023 | 186 comments
21. Be careful of the examples you use. They stick (thinkst.com)
199 points by mh_ on Aug 21, 2023 | 128 comments
22. GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? (alexplescan.com)
448 points by alexpls on Aug 21, 2023 | 262 comments
23. Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016) (arcadeblogger.com)
115 points by rwmj on Aug 19, 2023 | 35 comments
24. I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images (minimaxir.com)
331 points by minimaxir on Aug 21, 2023 | 64 comments
25. Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI (niemanlab.org)
83 points by jyunwai on Aug 21, 2023 | 36 comments
26. I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) (accu.org)
123 points by open-source-ux on Aug 21, 2023 | 111 comments
27. Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512 (lemire.me)
128 points by mariuz on Aug 20, 2023 | 103 comments
28. Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF (lwn.net)
83 points by mfrw on Aug 21, 2023 | 37 comments
29. Early Days of AI (eladgil.com)
145 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 21, 2023 | 50 comments
30. 5 years ago Valve released Proton (gamingonlinux.com)
308 points by chungus on Aug 21, 2023 | 256 comments

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