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1.		So you want to learn physics (2021) (susanrigetti.com)
		528 points by weird_science on Aug 20, 2023 \| 161 comments
2.		Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation (deat.tk)
		453 points by generichuman on Aug 20, 2023 \| 114 comments
3.		Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified? (astronomy.stackexchange.com)
		550 points by frabert on Aug 20, 2023 \| 174 comments
4.		The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency (owulveryck.info)
		588 points by owulveryck on Aug 20, 2023 \| 114 comments
5.		Kris Nóva has died (nivenly.org)
		865 points by chrkl on Aug 20, 2023 \| 130 comments
6.		Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret (techcrunch.com)
		319 points by pg_1234 on Aug 19, 2023 \| 215 comments
7.		John Warnock has died (reuters.com)
		590 points by skilled on Aug 20, 2023 \| 129 comments
8.		An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco (petapixel.com)
		264 points by PaulHoule on Aug 20, 2023 \| 103 comments
9.		JSON Schema Store (schemastore.org)
		278 points by WallyFunk on Aug 20, 2023 \| 146 comments
10.		Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results (medicalxpress.com)
		177 points by wglb on Aug 20, 2023 \| 20 comments
11.		Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019) (lowtechmagazine.com)
		221 points by solalf on Aug 20, 2023 \| 131 comments
12.		CRISPR gene-editing treatment eliminates HIV-like virus from non-human primates (nature.com)
		233 points by kibwen on Aug 19, 2023 \| 37 comments
13.		Welcome to Datasette Cloud (datasette.cloud)
		317 points by swyx on Aug 20, 2023 \| 68 comments
14.		Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that wraps GTK4 (github.com/clemapfel)
		157 points by xgdgsc on Aug 19, 2023 \| 54 comments
15.		Executive Function Theft (hedgehoglibrarian.com)
		295 points by luu on Aug 20, 2023 \| 214 comments
16.		Modernity has made us allergic (noemamag.com)
		250 points by PaulHoule on Aug 20, 2023 \| 231 comments
17.		16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU (jiristepanovsky.cz)
		137 points by freedude on Aug 20, 2023 \| 25 comments
18.		VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting (github.com/ozmartian)
		170 points by pkkm on Aug 20, 2023 \| 111 comments
19.		Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs (thedataquarry.com)
		170 points by chop on Aug 19, 2023 \| 55 comments
20.		Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level (medicalxpress.com)
		107 points by jdmark on Aug 19, 2023 \| 16 comments
21.		Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021) (max.engineer)
		266 points by aabbcc1241 on Aug 20, 2023 \| 283 comments
22.		Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption (economist.com)
		239 points by jdkee on Aug 17, 2023 \| 209 comments
23.		The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004) (spronck.net)
		87 points by Logans_Run on Aug 20, 2023 \| 51 comments
24.		Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy (eclecticlight.co)
		146 points by akyuu on Aug 20, 2023 \| 79 comments
25.		Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife (akshaykhot.com)
		168 points by software_writer on Aug 20, 2023 \| 77 comments
26.		AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080 (wccftech.com)
		191 points by mauricesvp on Aug 20, 2023 \| 122 comments
27.		Scripting with Go (2022) (bitfieldconsulting.com)
		150 points by gus_leonel on Aug 20, 2023 \| 105 comments
28.		Electricity Maps (electricitymaps.com)
		248 points by fulafel on Aug 20, 2023 \| 127 comments
29.		UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013) (newsroom.ucla.edu)
		107 points by dempedempe on Aug 19, 2023 \| 24 comments
30.		Shit life syndrome (wikipedia.org)
		397 points by tjpnz on Aug 20, 2023 \| 232 comments
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