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31.Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies (1517.substack.com)
283 points by areoform on Oct 24, 2022 | 209 comments
32.Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2? (biorxiv.org)
274 points by johnwdefeo on Oct 20, 2022 | 229 comments
33.Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
192 points by lllllll0 on July 4, 2022 | 332 comments
34.How we did it: SNL – “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders” (2013) (alex-buono.com)
109 points by AlphaWeaver on May 10, 2022 | 28 comments
35.Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video] (youtube.com)
699 points by kibwen on April 18, 2022 | 260 comments
36.Peloton investor Blackwells Capital torched the Peleton founder (twitter.com/codinghorror)
57 points by ksec on Feb 9, 2022 | 31 comments
37.Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux (jhm.dev)
726 points by rdpintqogeogsaa on Jan 2, 2022 | 190 comments
38.Lessons from my PhD (utk.edu)
403 points by andrewnc on Dec 28, 2021 | 130 comments
39.Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) (cacert.org)
387 points by bobbiechen on Dec 17, 2021 | 209 comments
40.How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation (robertelder.org)
605 points by robertelder on Nov 10, 2021 | 169 comments
41.Open secrets about Hacker News (bengtan.com)
503 points by vincent_s on Oct 28, 2021 | 191 comments
42.The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight (newyorker.com)
476 points by zlsa on Sept 1, 2021 | 251 comments
43.ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors (twitter.com/trungtphan)
575 points by deegles on Aug 22, 2021 | 262 comments
44.How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs (nature.com)
88 points by sohkamyung on June 24, 2021 | 79 comments
45.SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor (sifive.com)
191 points by andrewnc on June 22, 2021 | 84 comments
46.The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins (vanityfair.com)
1426 points by codechicago277 on June 3, 2021 | 1062 comments
47.We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor (butwhatfor.com)
427 points by stanrivers on May 31, 2021 | 238 comments
48.Think critically about college admissions (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
87 points by barry-cotter on May 27, 2021 | 45 comments
49.Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM (lwn.net)
195 points by lukastyrychtr on May 20, 2021 | 33 comments
50.Wat (2012) [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
147 points by mikasjp on April 18, 2021 | 28 comments
51.MIPS Becomes RISC-V (eejournal.com)
424 points by zimmerfrei on March 8, 2021 | 215 comments
52.Researchers propose that humidity from masks may lessen severity of Covid-19 (nih.gov)
99 points by elsewhen on Feb 14, 2021 | 100 comments
53.GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 (github.com/gtamodding)
433 points by blewboarwastake on Feb 14, 2021 | 154 comments
54.An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project (gamesradar.com)
211 points by cardimart on Dec 30, 2020 | 237 comments
55. [dupe] Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole (labzilla.io)
405 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 5, 2020 | 2 comments
56.You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English (literaryreview.co.uk)
106 points by pseudolus on Sept 22, 2020 | 78 comments
57.The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit (theguardian.com)
33 points by MaysonL on Sept 8, 2020 | 21 comments
58.Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy (texasmonthly.com)
380 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2020 | 544 comments
59.To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab (ethanzuckerman.com)
459 points by app4soft on Aug 15, 2020 | 180 comments
60.Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086's instruction register (righto.com)
229 points by picture on Aug 8, 2020 | 55 comments

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