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1. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels (schedium.net)
994 points by edent on Jan 29, 2023 | 344 comments
2. FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls (commsrisk.com)
574 points by from on Jan 29, 2023 | 215 comments
3. AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements (airgradient.com)
557 points by ahaucnx on Jan 29, 2023 | 159 comments
4. The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed (build-your-own.org)
599 points by bubblehack3r on Jan 29, 2023 | 129 comments
5. Take more screenshots (2022) (alexwlchan.net)
369 points by sanketpatrikar on Jan 27, 2023 | 176 comments
6. 80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea (8020.net)
333 points by thunderbong on Jan 29, 2023 | 141 comments
7. Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive (archive.org)
311 points by sohkamyung on Jan 29, 2023 | 102 comments
8. Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny (nytimes.com)
284 points by latchkey on Jan 28, 2023 | 337 comments
9. AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement (autohotkey.com)
255 points by majkinetor on Jan 28, 2023 | 150 comments
10. Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills (archive.org)
401 points by tjhill on Jan 29, 2023 | 517 comments
11. Toroidal propeller allows a drone to operate more quietly [pdf] (ll.mit.edu)
222 points by lxm on Jan 29, 2023 | 100 comments
12. Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?
295 points by apitman on Jan 29, 2023 | 328 comments
13. Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?
319 points by tucnak on Jan 29, 2023 | 66 comments
14. Nature photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to public domain (petapixel.com)
287 points by Santosh83 on Jan 27, 2023 | 56 comments
15. The Transformer Family (lilianweng.github.io)
254 points by alexmolas on Jan 29, 2023 | 46 comments
16. Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language (github.com/vexu)
189 points by tsujp on Jan 29, 2023 | 50 comments
17. Grid Beam (gridbeam.xyz)
185 points by Tomte on Jan 29, 2023 | 67 comments
18. Living alone in the wild Siberian forest (youtube.com)
204 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 29, 2023 | 152 comments
19. Training NanoGPT on My Journal (hut.pm)
192 points by romseb on Jan 29, 2023 | 24 comments
20. Religious and spiritual folklore surrounding programming (deusinmachina.net)
150 points by Decabytes on Jan 27, 2023 | 120 comments
21. Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file (github.com/jmforsythe)
173 points by jmforsythe on Jan 29, 2023 | 39 comments
22. Steve Wozniak's Letters (woz.com)
122 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 29, 2023 | 24 comments
23. Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015) (wired.com)
233 points by pieterr on Jan 27, 2023 | 257 comments
24. Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta (atlasobscura.com)
125 points by prismatic on Jan 29, 2023 | 128 comments
25. ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up (ounapuu.ee)
136 points by hddherman on Jan 27, 2023 | 95 comments
26. Evidence of Multicellularity in Single Cell Organism (gatech.edu)
129 points by gmays on Jan 27, 2023 | 18 comments
27. Intercepting t.co links using DNS rewrites (djharper.dev)
139 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 29, 2023 | 55 comments
28. Testing Noctua’s NH-P1 with Ryzen 7700x and Intel’s i9-13900K (boringtextreviews.com)
130 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2023 | 94 comments
29. LispMe – the Scheme system for PalmOS (2008) (lispme.de)
94 points by app4soft on Jan 29, 2023 | 14 comments
30. Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group (khon2.com)
260 points by luu on Jan 29, 2023 | 281 comments

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