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1.
Good system design (seangoedecke.com)
957 points by dondraper36 5 months ago | 390 comments
2.
PuTTY has a new website (putty.software)
506 points by GalaxySnail 5 months ago | 283 comments
3.
Pfeilstorch (wikipedia.org)
324 points by gyomu 5 months ago | 87 comments
4.
Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study (kcl.ac.uk)
434 points by sohkamyung 5 months ago | 209 comments
5.
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way (pudding.cool)
359 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 148 comments
6.
Traps to Developers (qouteall.fun)
256 points by qouteall 5 months ago | 107 comments
7.
AI is different (antirez.com)
499 points by grep_it 5 months ago | 887 comments
8.
Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale (derwiki.medium.com)
516 points by derwiki 5 months ago | 207 comments
9.
OpenAI Progress (progress.openai.com)
391 points by vinhnx 5 months ago | 349 comments
10.
Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)
121 points by ajdude 5 months ago | 8 comments
11.
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015) (raft.github.io)
171 points by nromiun 5 months ago | 45 comments
12.
Tversky Neural Networks (gonzoml.substack.com)
131 points by che_shr_cat 5 months ago | 12 comments
13.
One person was able to claim 20M IPs (nanog.org)
224 points by speckx 5 months ago | 63 comments
14.
Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation (latentintent.substack.com)
113 points by drivian 5 months ago | 152 comments
15.
That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll") (troyhunt.com)
112 points by el_duderino 5 months ago | 12 comments
16.
A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping (science.org)
79 points by warrenm 5 months ago | 46 comments
17.
Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider (voidfox.com)
268 points by progval 5 months ago | 174 comments
18.
Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2 (nikodunk.com)
98 points by nikodunk 5 months ago | 54 comments
19.
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths (scientificamerican.com)
110 points by noleary 5 months ago | 75 comments
20.
 [flagged] Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material (energy-reporters.com)
111 points by jbotz 5 months ago | 34 comments
21.
A privacy VPN you can verify (vp.net)
155 points by MagicalTux 5 months ago | 154 comments
22.
Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech (github.com/superstarryeyes)
99 points by superstarryeyes 5 months ago | 23 comments
23.
Porting Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 Server Board with AMD Turin CPU to Coreboot (3mdeb.com)
92 points by pietrushnic 5 months ago | 5 comments
24.
How randomness improves algorithms (2023) (quantamagazine.org)
75 points by kehiy 5 months ago | 23 comments
25.
Office on HP-UX and Unix (openpa.net)
102 points by naves 5 months ago | 54 comments
26.
California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters (sfchronicle.com)
279 points by littlexsparkee 5 months ago | 355 comments
27.
Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems (userjot.com)
183 points by vinhnx 5 months ago | 68 comments
28.
Oil states thwart agreement on plastics (yale.edu)
128 points by YaleE360 5 months ago | 108 comments
29.
Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop (tomshardware.com)
110 points by gjvc 5 months ago | 57 comments
30.
Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' (daringfireball.net)
186 points by mariuz 5 months ago | 113 comments

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