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1. What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (milk.com)
864 points by blegh on Jan 19, 2023 | 545 comments
2. Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater (smithsonianmag.com)
890 points by subharmonicon on Jan 19, 2023 | 195 comments
3. Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records (mkaic.substack.com)
629 points by mkaic on Jan 18, 2023 | 382 comments
4. A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016) (github.com/themozg)
514 points by nequo on Jan 19, 2023 | 106 comments
5. Stock market charts you never saw (2021) (ssrn.com)
456 points by dot1x on Jan 19, 2023 | 268 comments
6. Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021) (simplethread.com)
557 points by excsn on Jan 18, 2023 | 251 comments
7. Pandoc 3.0 (pandoc.org)
504 points by zczc on Jan 19, 2023 | 72 comments
8. Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
619 points by optbuild on Jan 19, 2023 | 317 comments
9. Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
445 points by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm on Jan 19, 2023 | 367 comments
10. ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model (github.com/blinkdl)
300 points by maraoz on Jan 19, 2023 | 132 comments
11. [dupe] Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile (techcrunch.com)
407 points by m-watson on Jan 19, 2023 | 2 comments
12. Twitterrific has been discontinued (iconfactory.com)
505 points by erickhill on Jan 19, 2023 | 367 comments
13. Amazon Closing AmazonSmile (aboutamazon.com)
517 points by ValentineC on Jan 19, 2023 | 557 comments
14. Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
657 points by gravitronic on Jan 19, 2023 | 337 comments
15. Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss (theverge.com)
310 points by trekkie1024 on Jan 18, 2023 | 264 comments
16. Show HN: Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file formats (github.com/onekey-sec)
240 points by kissgyorgy on Jan 18, 2023 | 42 comments
17. Show HN: A version control system based on rsync (jamsync.dev)
249 points by zdgeier on Jan 19, 2023 | 118 comments
18. Explore Wikipedia's New Look (wikimediafoundation.org)
292 points by zebracanevra on Jan 18, 2023 | 277 comments
19. Exploiting null-dereferences in the Linux kernel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
158 points by kuter on Jan 19, 2023 | 71 comments
20. Show HN: Retool Mobile (retool.com)
226 points by dvdhsu on Jan 19, 2023 | 78 comments
21. Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods (2022) (arxiv.org)
133 points by fastneutron on Jan 19, 2023 | 25 comments
22. Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil (blest.co.jp)
239 points by hochmartinez on Jan 19, 2023 | 275 comments
23. Launch HN: Odigos (YC W23) – Instant distributed tracing for Kubernetes clusters
162 points by edenfed on Jan 19, 2023 | 52 comments
24. Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM (jabber.org)
160 points by neustradamus on Jan 19, 2023 | 78 comments
25. AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022) (metabrainz.org)
177 points by petemir on Jan 19, 2023 | 36 comments
26. Ultibo – Bare-Metal Pascal for Raspberry Pi (ultibo.org)
124 points by Fr0styMatt88 on Jan 19, 2023 | 40 comments
27. Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files (seclists.org)
109 points by accessvector on Jan 19, 2023 | 55 comments
28. Scamp – A self-contained Forth computer (udamonic.com)
124 points by pabs3 on Jan 19, 2023 | 21 comments
29. Facebook Container Extension (addons.mozilla.org)
216 points by nateb2022 on Jan 19, 2023 | 104 comments
30. ZeroSSL: XSS to session hijacking, stealing a private key (and password hash) (groups.google.com)
112 points by kkm on Jan 19, 2023 | 24 comments

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