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1. Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…) (nino.app)
810 points by harrisonlo on Jan 7, 2024 | 258 comments
2. What does the cerebellum do? (sarahconstantin.substack.com)
434 points by scrambled on Jan 7, 2024 | 206 comments
3. DNS Toys (2022) (dns.toys)
490 points by finallyy on Jan 7, 2024 | 66 comments
4. Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file (pocketbase.io)
630 points by dgudkov on Jan 7, 2024 | 149 comments
5. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (ias.edu)
141 points by jkuria on Jan 6, 2024 | 41 comments
6. GitUI (github.com/extrawurst)
405 points by jethronethro on Jan 7, 2024 | 105 comments
7. Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code (reddit.com)
411 points by the-smug-one on Jan 6, 2024 | 107 comments
8. Paradise Lost (1667) (dartmouth.edu)
142 points by Frummy on Jan 5, 2024 | 55 comments
9. Teachable Machine (2017) (withgoogle.com)
248 points by ekiauhce on Jan 7, 2024 | 28 comments
10. First new VAX in 30 years? (2021) (netbsd.org)
237 points by dcminter on Jan 7, 2024 | 101 comments
11. Retro on Viberary (vickiboykis.com)
170 points by alexmolas on Jan 6, 2024 | 32 comments
12. Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT (github.com/warmcat)
171 points by seansh on Jan 6, 2024 | 61 comments
13. Shecc: A self-hosting and educational C optimizing compiler (github.com/sysprog21)
126 points by eatonphil on Jan 7, 2024 | 22 comments
14. Learning Regular Languages with L* Algorithm (gopinath.org)
132 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 5, 2024 | 2 comments
15. DIY Book Scanner (diybookscanner.org)
196 points by KolmogorovComp on Jan 5, 2024 | 52 comments
16. Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 (eukaryotewritesblog.com)
107 points by Metacelsus on Jan 7, 2024 | 52 comments
17. Dimensional Analysis and Black Holes (2019) [pdf] (hapax.github.io)
63 points by segfaultbuserr on Jan 6, 2024 | 15 comments
18. Pure C WebRTC (github.com/awslabs)
107 points by seansh on Jan 7, 2024 | 16 comments
19. AI or Ain't: Eliza (zserge.com)
123 points by john-doe on Jan 7, 2024 | 110 comments
20. The journey of the Roman gladius and other swords (acoup.blog)
92 points by CHB0403085482 on Jan 6, 2024 | 30 comments
21. First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power (newscientist.com)
141 points by rmason on Jan 6, 2024 | 116 comments
22. Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller (thechipletter.substack.com)
97 points by klelatti on Jan 7, 2024 | 7 comments
23. Westworld: The first film with CGI (and its source code) (behind-the-screens.tv)
155 points by z303 on Jan 6, 2024 | 52 comments
24. Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life (github.com/grahame)
109 points by angrygoat on Jan 6, 2024 | 9 comments
25. Inverting PhotoDNA (2021) (anishathalye.com)
76 points by jxmorris12 on Jan 6, 2024 | 22 comments
26. Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021) (jeffhuang.com)
147 points by lazyjeff on Jan 7, 2024 | 44 comments
27. Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element (localghost.dev)
151 points by butz on Jan 7, 2024 | 129 comments
28. [flagged] Comics I Loved in 2023 (riteshbabu.net)
162 points by npalli on Jan 6, 2024 | 129 comments
29. A Mess of Causes (2023) (bwo.life)
38 points by kkoncevicius on Jan 6, 2024 | 13 comments
30. The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022) (bitsaboutmoney.com)
143 points by classichasclass on Jan 7, 2024 | 193 comments

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