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1. In 2024, please switch to Firefox (roytanck.com)
1776 points by Vinnl on Dec 29, 2023 | 811 comments
2. Blot turns a folder into a website (blot.im)
581 points by angrymouse on Dec 29, 2023 | 136 comments
3. Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017) (kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)
221 points by throwaway167 on Dec 29, 2023 | 228 comments
4. Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading (incident.io)
653 points by paprikati on Dec 28, 2023 | 408 comments
5. Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) (sprocketfox.io)
511 points by AndrewKemendo on Dec 29, 2023 | 328 comments
6. THAT: A brand new analog computer (ieee.org)
218 points by CharlesW on Dec 28, 2023 | 91 comments
7. OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App (osmapp.org)
200 points by maelito on Dec 28, 2023 | 65 comments
8. Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? (eclecticlight.co)
308 points by ingve on Dec 29, 2023 | 247 comments
9. "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel (construction-physics.com)
253 points by gok on Dec 29, 2023 | 235 comments
10. UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector (nationalgrid.com)
172 points by Svip on Dec 29, 2023 | 139 comments
11. How big can a snowflake get? (npr.org)
76 points by Hooke on Dec 28, 2023 | 22 comments
12. Using linear programming to assess spatial access (andrewpwheeler.com)
70 points by apwheele on Dec 29, 2023 | 12 comments
13. How the append-only btree works (2010) (bzero.se)
209 points by kevmo314 on Dec 29, 2023 | 100 comments
14. Parsing an Undocumented File Format (vivekpanyam.com)
143 points by vpanyam on Dec 29, 2023 | 62 comments
15. The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
223 points by zhan_eg on Dec 29, 2023 | 98 comments
16. Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
523 points by kanodiaashu on Dec 29, 2023 | 142 comments
17. Smallest Typeface (devroye.org)
170 points by simantel on Dec 28, 2023 | 110 comments
18. Gentoo goes Binary (gentoo.org)
341 points by akhuettel on Dec 29, 2023 | 273 comments
19. BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite (learnbchs.org)
153 points by edward on Dec 28, 2023 | 91 comments
20. GraphWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus (graphwords.com)
50 points by hyperific on Dec 28, 2023 | 18 comments
21. The surprising genius of sewing machines [video] (youtube.com)
195 points by gumby on Dec 27, 2023 | 68 comments
22. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (techdirt.com)
345 points by rntn on Dec 29, 2023 | 230 comments
23. Custom firmware for MI fitness band (github.com/atc1441)
147 points by ITwork2019 on Dec 28, 2023 | 39 comments
24. Developer Productivity for Humans: Software Quality (ieee.org)
133 points by saeedesmaili on Dec 28, 2023 | 46 comments
25. Multiplayer Online Science (mmos.ch)
60 points by hyperific on Dec 28, 2023 | 14 comments
26. Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark (npr.org)
80 points by geox on Dec 29, 2023 | 13 comments
27. Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (2009) (norvig.com)
53 points by zerojames on Dec 29, 2023 | 3 comments
28. Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction (johnnysswlab.com)
89 points by r4um on Dec 29, 2023 | 27 comments
29. I'm a world champion pea thrower (theguardian.com)
94 points by sandebert on Dec 29, 2023 | 30 comments
30. It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load (fernandovillalba.substack.com)
218 points by DevOpsy on Dec 28, 2023 | 192 comments

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