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1. Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video] (youtube.com)
549 points by nixcraft on March 19, 2023 | 408 comments
2. Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced (ambiso.github.io)
441 points by aborsy on March 19, 2023 | 276 comments
3. Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
923 points by nixcraft on March 19, 2023 | 806 comments
4. Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013) (kottke.org)
270 points by bookofjoe on March 19, 2023 | 118 comments
5. PLATO: An educational computer system from the 60s shaped the future (arstechnica.com)
171 points by mpweiher on March 18, 2023 | 89 comments
6. Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas (apnews.com)
366 points by acdanger on March 19, 2023 | 169 comments
7. Jaccard Index (wikipedia.org)
252 points by dedalus on March 19, 2023 | 43 comments
8. The little-known story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics (scientificamerican.com)
238 points by wglb on March 19, 2023 | 99 comments
9. Regenerating Jordan’s native forests (theguardian.com)
202 points by zeristor on March 19, 2023 | 65 comments
10. Mastodon hit 10M users (mastodon.social)
493 points by xena on March 19, 2023 | 390 comments
11. People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity (smithsonianmag.com)
293 points by olalonde on March 19, 2023 | 303 comments
12. Analyzing a failed drill bit with an electron microscope [video] (youtube.com)
244 points by NotYourLawyer on March 19, 2023 | 56 comments
13. Leaving China (persuasion.community)
461 points by jseliger on March 19, 2023 | 653 comments
14. LLVM 16.0.0 Release (llvm.org)
208 points by mfiguiere on March 18, 2023 | 69 comments
15. Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021) (theguardian.com)
283 points by mschuster91 on March 19, 2023 | 156 comments
16. Design of GNU Parallel (2015) (gnu.org)
170 points by Havelock on March 19, 2023 | 71 comments
17. Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (2018) (twobithistory.org)
172 points by whatrocks on March 19, 2023 | 88 comments
18. The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program (iamkroot.github.io)
168 points by krut-patel on March 19, 2023 | 74 comments
19. Data from Atlassian dumped online after apparent hack (cyberscoop.com)
145 points by gjvc on March 19, 2023 | 62 comments
20. Qualcomm has open sourced its aptX and aptX HD encoders (reddit.com)
218 points by rc00 on March 19, 2023 | 94 comments
21. St Scholastica Day Riot (wikipedia.org)
138 points by brudgers on March 16, 2023 | 56 comments
22. Bracketed paste mode (2013) (cirw.in)
88 points by olalonde on March 19, 2023 | 29 comments
23. E-Paper Wall Paper (hackaday.com)
121 points by lxm on March 16, 2023 | 31 comments
24. Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language (yakshalang.github.io)
205 points by JaDogg on March 19, 2023 | 86 comments
25. The Baumol effect (wikipedia.org)
127 points by nilsbunger on March 19, 2023 | 77 comments
26. A different approach to fuzzy finding (nathancraddock.com)
73 points by todsacerdoti on March 18, 2023 | 11 comments
27. Meditations on Moloch (2014) (slatestarcodex.com)
221 points by abhaynayar on March 19, 2023 | 106 comments
28. Abecedarium (wikipedia.org)
56 points by benbreen on March 17, 2023 | 14 comments
29. Epic Games, others accuse Sundar Pichai of violating retention obligations (fosspatents.com)
308 points by connor11528 on March 19, 2023 | 181 comments
30. The untapped potential of human programming (2022) (humanprogramming.substack.com)
80 points by jasonnchann on March 19, 2023 | 35 comments

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