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1.		PyPI Was Subpoenaed (pypi.org)
		1153 points by quercusa on May 24, 2023 \| 597 comments
2.		The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives (github.com/kneesnap)
		510 points by WhiteDawn on May 24, 2023 \| 212 comments
3.		The brand new Thunderbird logo (thunderbird.net)
		617 points by TangerineDream on May 24, 2023 \| 262 comments
4.		Regent – Electric coastal travel (regentcraft.com)
		454 points by beefman on May 23, 2023 \| 319 comments
5.		UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography” (acm.org)
		346 points by geox on May 24, 2023 \| 133 comments
6.		Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface (nature.com)
		338 points by Someone on May 24, 2023 \| 44 comments
7.		QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (arxiv.org)
		315 points by Garcia98 on May 24, 2023 \| 107 comments
8.		Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub (github.com/patte)
		332 points by m3at on May 24, 2023 \| 143 comments
9.		Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs (sebastianraschka.com)
		237 points by rasbt on May 24, 2023 \| 49 comments
10.		Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf] (fermatslibrary.com)
		243 points by BerislavLopac on May 24, 2023 \| 176 comments
11.		DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices (microsoft.github.io)
		204 points by glutamate on May 24, 2023 \| 101 comments
12.		The teens behind the Mirai botnet (ieee.org)
		235 points by rbanffy on May 24, 2023 \| 81 comments
13.		50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS (koehntopp.info)
		148 points by todsacerdoti on May 23, 2023 \| 42 comments
14.		Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform
		135 points by maxthegeek1 on May 24, 2023 \| 46 comments
15.		Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood (medium.com/torybrunoula)
		311 points by abudabi123 on May 24, 2023 \| 439 comments
16.		PicoGUS: Emulate ISA Sound Cards (GUS, Adlib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS) with a Pico (github.com/polpo)
		126 points by _Microft on May 24, 2023 \| 25 comments
17.		The Hammerhead Worm (texasmonthly.com)
		133 points by bikenaga on May 23, 2023 \| 98 comments
18.		Michel de Montaigne (wikipedia.org)
		110 points by perihelions on May 23, 2023 \| 38 comments
19.		A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress (publicbooks.org)
		268 points by apollinaire on May 24, 2023 \| 228 comments
20.		Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022) (nih.gov)
		521 points by drones on May 24, 2023 \| 231 comments
21.		Kenny Log-Ins (kennylog-in.com)
		175 points by CharlesW on May 24, 2023 \| 45 comments
22.		Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips (wsj.com)
		177 points by lxm on May 24, 2023 \| 209 comments
23.		Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2 (infoq.com)
		224 points by thread_id on May 24, 2023 \| 88 comments
24.		SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance (aclu.org)
		193 points by loteck on May 24, 2023 \| 115 comments
25.		Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model Architecture (artisana.ai)
		240 points by thunderbong on May 24, 2023 \| 205 comments
26.		SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story (thesr71blackbird.com)
		229 points by wallflower on May 23, 2023 \| 179 comments
27.		Neeva acquired by Snowflake (snowflake.com)
		166 points by danielcampos93 on May 24, 2023 \| 111 comments
28.		In England, Bar Hill’s ‘Skull Comb’ Is an Iron Age Mystery (atlasobscura.com)
		45 points by pepys on May 22, 2023 \| 20 comments
29.		Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies (cnn.com)
		301 points by GiorgioG on May 23, 2023 \| 334 comments
30.		Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun approach to cleanup (theworld.org)
		183 points by zdw on May 22, 2023 \| 138 comments
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