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1. Underwater ears everywhere (computer.rip)
452 points by lonk11 on July 16, 2023 | 170 comments
2. A third of North America’s birds have vanished (nautil.us)
554 points by geox on July 15, 2023 | 488 comments
3. Discord is not documentation (shkspr.mobi)
577 points by edent on July 16, 2023 | 290 comments
4. PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat (orioledb.com)
416 points by pella on July 15, 2023 | 121 comments
5. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (zapatopi.net)
389 points by cratermoon on July 16, 2023 | 173 comments
6. SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation (google-research.github.io)
293 points by sh_tomer on July 16, 2023 | 130 comments
7. How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania (danwilkerson.com)
314 points by danwilkerson on July 16, 2023 | 398 comments
8. Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)
242 points by kens on July 16, 2023 | 99 comments
9. Exploring Linear A (lineara.xyz)
153 points by mwenge on July 16, 2023 | 53 comments
10. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm (nytimes.com)
460 points by yarapavan on July 16, 2023 | 401 comments
11. Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data (lets-plot.org)
313 points by pkkm on July 15, 2023 | 86 comments
12. A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp (stylewarning.com)
232 points by varjag on July 16, 2023 | 44 comments
13. How I run my servers (2022) (wesleyac.com)
430 points by ingve on July 16, 2023 | 174 comments
14. Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page (ratfactor.com)
286 points by ingve on July 16, 2023 | 86 comments
15. WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using (slashnext.com)
168 points by mikpanko on July 16, 2023 | 59 comments
16. How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
204 points by cglong on July 16, 2023 | 47 comments
17. Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope (tortel.li)
237 points by jandeboevrie on July 16, 2023 | 136 comments
18. Penrose 3.0 (cmu.edu)
241 points by sestep on July 16, 2023 | 43 comments
19. Nobody cares about your blog (alexmolas.com)
334 points by alexmolas on July 15, 2023 | 193 comments
20. Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS (getgrav.org)
135 points by thunderbong on July 16, 2023 | 67 comments
21. A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database (github.com/justinclift)
198 points by justinclift on July 16, 2023 | 88 comments
22. Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (2019) (abandonedamerica.us)
89 points by zdw on July 15, 2023 | 57 comments
23. Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul (theringer.com)
127 points by rrherr on July 15, 2023 | 70 comments
24. Citizen scientists observe gamma ray glow associated with lightning flash (wiley.com)
114 points by PaulHoule on July 16, 2023 | 36 comments
25. Shell Script RSS Publishing (bt.ht)
89 points by Fred34 on July 16, 2023 | 16 comments
26. Mk: A Successor to Make (1987) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
83 points by SllX on July 16, 2023 | 51 comments
27. Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022) (fourmilab.ch)
254 points by mutant_glofish on July 16, 2023 | 349 comments
28. How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide (oneusefulthing.org)
250 points by Brajeshwar on July 16, 2023 | 69 comments
29. 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015) (edw519.posthaven.com)
358 points by tempodox on July 16, 2023 | 244 comments
30. Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light (theverge.com)
141 points by el_hacker on July 16, 2023 | 147 comments

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