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1.
A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) (lathes.co.uk)
529 points by CommieBobDole 14 days ago | 146 comments
2.
Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone (github.com/rejunity)
362 points by jnord 14 days ago | 71 comments
3.
Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) (theluddite.org)
1112 points by MrVandemar 14 days ago | 529 comments
4.
Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm (rednuht.org)
484 points by memalign 15 days ago | 73 comments
5.
Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions (stackblitz.com)
386 points by nickwritesit 17 days ago | 163 comments
6.
Personal computing paves the way for personal library science (bramadams.dev)
193 points by _bramses 14 days ago | 51 comments
7.
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night (theregister.com)
184 points by LorenDB 17 days ago | 25 comments
8.
Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility (github.com/gyf304)
225 points by gyf304 14 days ago | 100 comments
9.
Burn After Wearing (grist.org)
213 points by onychomys 14 days ago | 142 comments
10.
TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales (ianvisits.co.uk)
209 points by zeristor 14 days ago | 251 comments
11.
Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (2023) (sigma-star.at)
132 points by st_goliath 14 days ago | 47 comments
12.
How to improve the RISC-V specification (alastairreid.github.io)
162 points by todsacerdoti 14 days ago | 61 comments
13.
How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles (gagor.pro)
227 points by ___timor___ 15 days ago | 140 comments
14.
Flow Field Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
165 points by ingve 14 days ago | 27 comments
15.
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine (righto.com)
108 points by todsacerdoti 14 days ago | 9 comments
16.
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics (nhigham.com)
215 points by teleforce 14 days ago | 34 comments
17.
PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python (pysheets.app)
287 points by tosh 15 days ago | 72 comments
18.
Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023) (musicradar.com)
151 points by conanxin 16 days ago | 69 comments
19.
Did we lose our way in making efficient software? (rufatmammadli.medium.com)
264 points by rumad 14 days ago | 494 comments
20.
Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months (stuffwithstuff.com)
264 points by auraham 15 days ago | 17 comments
21.
The unstallable plane that stalled (fearoflanding.com)
176 points by sni 14 days ago | 179 comments
22.
Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions (phys.org)
72 points by wglb 16 days ago | 7 comments
23.
The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] (acm.org)
92 points by swatson741 13 days ago | 10 comments
24.
OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers (os-world.github.io)
77 points by kristianpaul 14 days ago | 39 comments
25.
Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree (zed.dev)
197 points by avinassh 14 days ago | 41 comments
26.
Speeding up C++ build times (figma.com)
165 points by skilled 15 days ago | 203 comments
27.
Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
125 points by _Microft 16 days ago | 24 comments
28.
Philosophus Autodidactus (wikipedia.org)
73 points by niemandhier 17 days ago | 29 comments
29.
Google Quantum AI (quantumai.google)
187 points by segasaturn 14 days ago | 196 comments
30.
What if null was an Object in Java? (donraab.medium.com)
77 points by ingve 15 days ago | 160 comments

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