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1.		I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350 (dmitry.gr)
		700 points by elipsitz 3 months ago \| 341 comments
2.		LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime (github.com/mikex86)
		643 points by rrampage 3 months ago \| 145 comments
3.		How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability (bughunters.google.com)
		268 points by xxmarkuski 3 months ago \| 65 comments
4.		Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out (nightly.mozilla.org)
		634 points by ReadCarlBarks 3 months ago \| 356 comments
5.		A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film (jackw01.github.io)
		285 points by eloisius 3 months ago \| 93 comments
6.		The Third Atomic Bomb (lflank.wordpress.com)
		266 points by dxs 3 months ago \| 255 comments
7.		Eyechat (neal.fun)
		268 points by seatac76 3 months ago \| 100 comments
8.		How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months (figma.com)
		298 points by ianvonseggern 3 months ago \| 385 comments
9.		Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
		565 points by 45HCPW 3 months ago \| 594 comments
10.		Public Work: a search engine for public domain images (public.work)
		364 points by throw0101d 3 months ago \| 53 comments
11.		Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython (codingconfessions.com)
		204 points by rbanffy 3 months ago \| 167 comments
12.		How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis (statsignificant.com)
		182 points by cainxinth 3 months ago \| 142 comments
13.		NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 (nytimes.com)
		417 points by lode 3 months ago \| 552 comments
14.		The ancient art of roasting agave (atlasobscura.com)
		99 points by NoRagrets 3 months ago \| 21 comments
15.		Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II (projectgus.com)
		121 points by fanf2 3 months ago \| 27 comments
16.		Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor (github.com/dupontgu)
		173 points by gvy-dvpont 3 months ago \| 26 comments
17.		GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS (arxiv.org)
		98 points by jonbaer 3 months ago \| 10 comments
18.		Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers (ft.com)
		570 points by ViktorRay 3 months ago \| 361 comments
19.		Maximal min() and max() (lwn.net)
		190 points by immibis 3 months ago \| 114 comments
20.		Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative (github.com/stack-auth)
		280 points by n2d4 3 months ago \| 141 comments
21.		Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping (argdown.org)
		191 points by urlwolf 3 months ago \| 47 comments
22.		GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments (treatmenteffect.app)
		223 points by thoughtpeddler 3 months ago \| 94 comments
23.		FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention (pytorch.org)
		210 points by limoce 3 months ago \| 24 comments
24.		In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality (washingtonpost.com)
		158 points by Caiero 3 months ago \| 621 comments
25.		The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO (androidauthority.com)
		268 points by thunderbong 3 months ago \| 119 comments
26.		RLHF is just barely RL (twitter.com/karpathy)
		386 points by tosh 3 months ago \| 257 comments
27.		How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety (cheriot.org)
		112 points by miloignis 3 months ago \| 40 comments
28.		Intel's Immiseration (thechipletter.substack.com)
		185 points by rbanffy 3 months ago \| 218 comments
29.		Review – Ford’s First Engine (sites.google.com)
		70 points by 082349872349872 3 months ago \| 14 comments
30.		Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate (wired.com)
		84 points by mpweiher 3 months ago \| 29 comments
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