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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (github.com/onetrueawk)
618 points by ducktective on Aug 20, 2022 | 208 comments
2.
Coping with Copilot (sigarch.org)
333 points by lameda on Aug 20, 2022 | 444 comments
3.
AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage (twitter.com/adrianco)
489 points by luu on Aug 20, 2022 | 201 comments
4.
Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997) (williams.edu)
426 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2022 | 177 comments
5.
Diablo 1 for Web Browsers (github.com/d07riv)
449 points by nsoonhui on Aug 20, 2022 | 109 comments
6.
Visual Sum of Cubes (x.st)
362 points by lnyan on Aug 20, 2022 | 39 comments
7.
A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life (lifecompetes.com)
143 points by Use on Aug 20, 2022 | 35 comments
8.
Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)
285 points by goodside on Aug 20, 2022 | 83 comments
9.
The Merge (ethereum.org)
238 points by kristianpaul on Aug 20, 2022 | 391 comments
10.
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review) (continuations.com)
206 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 20, 2022 | 179 comments
11.
I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E (lucytalksdata.com)
230 points by lucytalksdata on Aug 20, 2022 | 128 comments
12.
Using: Has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more (webkit.org)
214 points by samwillis on Aug 20, 2022 | 125 comments
13.
After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work (artnet.com)
287 points by green-eclipse on Aug 20, 2022 | 360 comments
14.
C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies (2020) (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
129 points by greghn on Aug 19, 2022 | 71 comments
15.
Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity (rieck.me)
123 points by Pseudomanifold on Aug 20, 2022 | 27 comments
16.
Zig is now self–hosted by default (github.com/ziglang)
387 points by BratishkaErik on Aug 20, 2022 | 111 comments
17.
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (eugeneyan.com)
178 points by 7d7n on Aug 20, 2022 | 38 comments
18.
Nvidia Kaolin Wisp: a PyTorch library to work with neural fields (github.com/nvidiagameworks)
83 points by lnyan on Aug 17, 2022 | 13 comments
19.
How I learned to stop worrying and love macros (zdimension.fr)
140 points by magnio on Aug 18, 2022 | 52 comments
20.
Supabase Vault (supabase.com)
198 points by traviskuhl on Aug 20, 2022 | 70 comments
21.
Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance (jeanhsu.substack.com)
155 points by kiyanwang on Aug 19, 2022 | 30 comments
22.
How to Make a CubeSat (orbitalindex.com)
120 points by tectonic on Aug 17, 2022 | 55 comments
23.
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86) (dougallj.wordpress.com)
170 points by brigade on Aug 20, 2022 | 16 comments
24.
Unicode Utilities: Confusables (unicode.org)
97 points by simonpure on Aug 17, 2022 | 34 comments
25.
Float Toy (evanw.github.io)
142 points by agomez314 on Aug 19, 2022 | 53 comments
26.
Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans (theguardian.com)
136 points by signa11 on Aug 19, 2022 | 125 comments
27.
Let's Try Gnome Boxes (glovesoff.substack.com)
65 points by ctsdownloads on Aug 20, 2022 | 40 comments
28.
The erosion of the Mac experience (twitter.com/stroughtonsmith)
266 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2022 | 474 comments
29.
The architect who became the king of bank robberies (thehustle.co)
124 points by paulpauper on Aug 20, 2022 | 11 comments
30.
Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance (astralcodexten.substack.com)
105 points by Michelangelo11 on Aug 20, 2022 | 22 comments

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