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1.		Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)
		286 points by mpweiher 8 days ago \| 223 comments
2.		How Wake-On-LAN works (2020) (xaner.dev)
		92 points by swq115 14 days ago \| 33 comments
3.		Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)
		509 points by downbad_ 10 days ago \| 159 comments
4.		Regex Blaster (mdp.github.io)
		156 points by mdp 39 days ago \| 56 comments
5.		Interview with the founder of Teenage Engineering (scandinavianmind.com)
		163 points by ingve on Feb 5, 2023 \| 187 comments
6.		Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020) (shuvomoy.github.io)
		634 points by Thursday24 on May 23, 2022 \| 161 comments
7.		High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching (mattstoller.substack.com)
		264 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Jan 3, 2022 \| 250 comments
8.		Finding your home in game graphics programming (alextardif.com)
		247 points by poga on Jan 1, 2022 \| 126 comments
9.		Three Ways of Generating Terrain with Erosion Features (github.com/dandrino)
		161 points by homarp on Dec 29, 2021 \| 23 comments
10.		Papers with Code (paperswithcode.com)
		250 points by mbildner on Dec 25, 2021 \| 41 comments
11.		Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C (github.com/tsherif)
		210 points by ingve on Dec 11, 2021 \| 73 comments
12.		Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh (wwwtyro.net)
		121 points by wwwtyro on Sept 27, 2021 \| 41 comments
13.		[dupe] Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates' (bbc.com)
		169 points by lindenstark on Sept 7, 2021 \| 252 comments
14.		Compiling C Programs Into “Mov” Instructions (And Only “Mov” Instructions) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
		78 points by optimalsolver on Aug 14, 2021 \| 16 comments
15.		How Watches Work (fratellowatches.com)
		254 points by nstricevic on Aug 9, 2021 \| 138 comments
16.		Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)
		417 points by fortran77 on July 28, 2021 \| 97 comments
17.		A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf] (utexas.edu)
		133 points by cion on July 11, 2021 \| 25 comments
18.		Data Structure Visualizations (usfca.edu)
		492 points by yurish on July 6, 2021 \| 19 comments
19.		Ask HN: How to learn proper systems programming?
		336 points by systems_learn on June 21, 2021 \| 93 comments
20.		TDD from the Factorio Team (factorio.com)
		457 points by sorahn on June 18, 2021 \| 303 comments
21.		Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (1978) (acm.org)
		169 points by tosh on June 18, 2021 \| 129 comments
22.		Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers (berthub.eu)
		229 points by heydenberk on June 13, 2021 \| 43 comments
23.		GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs (gnu.org)
		120 points by mpsq on June 10, 2021 \| 109 comments
24.		The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016) (canonical.org)
		304 points by signa11 on June 10, 2021 \| 101 comments
25.		Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer (eyas.sh)
		349 points by Eyas on Feb 24, 2021 \| 67 comments
26.		Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C (cam.ac.uk)
		101 points by matt_d on Feb 17, 2021 \| 26 comments
27.		So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers (littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)
		180 points by noch on Feb 12, 2021 \| 26 comments
28.		Posix Threads Programming (llnl.gov)
		165 points by dvaun on Feb 10, 2021 \| 22 comments
29.		Fix Terminals (leonerd.org.uk)
		135 points by smartmic on Jan 27, 2021 \| 65 comments
30.		Free Math Books (klkuttler.com)
		315 points by blewboarwastake on Jan 19, 2021 \| 70 comments
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