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1.		Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system (github.com/oasislinux)
		531 points by smartmic 10 months ago \| 277 comments
2.		I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions (twitter.com/graycrawford)
		774 points by aa_is_op 10 months ago \| 254 comments
3.		Portable EPUBs (willcrichton.net)
		659 points by sohkamyung 10 months ago \| 232 comments
4.		Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020) (inference-review.com)
		381 points by throwup238 10 months ago \| 218 comments
5.		Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) (blog.danieljanus.pl)
		254 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago \| 43 comments
6.		Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit (skii.dev)
		430 points by el_duderino 10 months ago \| 131 comments
7.		How French was medieval England? (historytoday.com)
		180 points by drdee 10 months ago \| 225 comments
8.		Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie (windytan.com)
		176 points by firloop 10 months ago \| 50 comments
9.		Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead (esa.int)
		157 points by ssl232 10 months ago \| 26 comments
10.		I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013) (peterkrautzberger.org)
		204 points by pyjamafish 10 months ago \| 148 comments
11.		Untranslatable (untranslatable.co)
		278 points by hk__2 10 months ago \| 98 comments
12.		Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos (platoedu.org)
		289 points by kirill5pol 10 months ago \| 97 comments
13.		Are we at peak vector database? (softwaredoug.com)
		235 points by softwaredoug 10 months ago \| 142 comments
14.		ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire (apnews.com)
		517 points by xbar 10 months ago \| 1401 comments
15.		How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer (awais.io)
		244 points by ahussain 10 months ago \| 198 comments
16.		The rise of batteries in six charts (rmi.org)
		278 points by simonebrunozzi 10 months ago \| 269 comments
17.		TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator (tinysa.org)
		192 points by transpute 10 months ago \| 64 comments
18.		AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux (phoronix.com)
		219 points by pella 10 months ago \| 89 comments
19.		PinePhone review after a month of daily driving (yaky.dev)
		186 points by yaky 10 months ago \| 174 comments
20.		Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108 (suzuki-music.co.jp)
		151 points by runamuck 10 months ago \| 87 comments
21.		ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s (jacobfilipp.com)
		275 points by rpastuszak 10 months ago \| 133 comments
22.		Ruby on Rails load testing habits (rorvswild.com)
		128 points by a12b 10 months ago \| 43 comments
23.		Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007) (archive.org)
		167 points by hyperific 10 months ago \| 76 comments
24.		Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported (vancouverisawesome.com)
		252 points by voisin 10 months ago \| 71 comments
25.		Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game (qwertle.friedman.in)
		103 points by b0r0phyll 10 months ago \| 63 comments
26.		Replication Prohibited: Attacking Restricted Keyways with 3D Printing [pdf] (usenix.org)
		75 points by 1970-01-01 10 months ago \| 22 comments
27.		Show HN: NativeVision, helping React Native devs to build XR apps for any device (github.com/nativevision)
		49 points by cjcassar 10 months ago \| 26 comments
28.		2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn (ieee.org)
		99 points by sohkamyung 10 months ago \| 41 comments
29.		Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100 (techradar.com)
		174 points by wslh 10 months ago \| 133 comments
30.		Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com)
		240 points by tosh 10 months ago \| 139 comments
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