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1.		Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (effectiviology.com)
		1620 points by walterbell on Feb 24, 2024 \| 1125 comments
2.		GPT in 500 Lines of SQL (explainextended.com)
		1111 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 \| 76 comments
3.		Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
		959 points by stareatgoats on Feb 24, 2024 \| 328 comments
4.		Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga (dansalva.to)
		200 points by dansalvato on Feb 24, 2024 \| 36 comments
5.		Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out (intrinsic-lora.github.io)
		381 points by corysama on Feb 23, 2024 \| 122 comments
6.		Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text? (minimaxir.com)
		265 points by _Microft on Feb 24, 2024 \| 153 comments
7.		Please make your table headings sticky (btxx.org)
		354 points by aragilar on Feb 24, 2024 \| 73 comments
8.		Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018) (atomutek.org)
		293 points by guardienaveugle on Feb 24, 2024 \| 155 comments
9.		Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants (bbc.com)
		174 points by rntn on Feb 24, 2024 \| 62 comments
10.		A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months (theverge.com)
		363 points by mfiguiere on Feb 23, 2024 \| 133 comments
11.		Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022) (lembransation.blogspot.com)
		247 points by phreeza on Feb 23, 2024 \| 105 comments
12.		Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple (shoesrb.com)
		181 points by johnchristopher on Feb 23, 2024 \| 81 comments
13.		Ledger (cmpxchg8b.com)
		183 points by hggh on Feb 24, 2024 \| 120 comments
14.		Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU (github.com/victormeriqui)
		170 points by victormeriqui on Feb 24, 2024 \| 37 comments
15.		Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices (go.dev)
		148 points by signa11 on Feb 23, 2024 \| 80 comments
16.		The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking (exaspark.medium.com)
		137 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 \| 25 comments
17.		Plasticity through patterned ultrasound-induced brainwave entrainment in mice (science.org)
		90 points by bookofjoe on Feb 24, 2024 \| 52 comments
18.		A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi (github.com/frimkron)
		126 points by raytopia on Feb 24, 2024 \| 65 comments
19.		How to think about software quality (2022) (evalapply.org)
		154 points by adityaathalye on Feb 24, 2024 \| 66 comments
20.		A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916 (arstechnica.com)
		96 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 24, 2024 \| 39 comments
21.		Lisp Programming with Vim (2019) (susam.net)
		94 points by susam on Feb 23, 2024 \| 17 comments
22.		Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information (quantamagazine.org)
		98 points by digital55 on Feb 24, 2024 \| 16 comments
23.		A modest update to Qubes OS (lwn.net)
		158 points by voxadam on Feb 24, 2024 \| 31 comments
24.		J3blocks is a Janet scripting system for i3bar and swaybar (codeberg.org)
		62 points by amano-kenji on Feb 22, 2024 \| 10 comments
25.		What DNS Is Not (2009) (acm.org)
		90 points by SerCe on Feb 24, 2024 \| 47 comments
26.		Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances (pudding.cool)
		106 points by nickthegreek on Feb 24, 2024 \| 119 comments
27.		Notes from an Interviewer (devwithahammer.wordpress.com)
		127 points by thunderbong on Feb 24, 2024 \| 190 comments
28.		Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language (github.com/candy-lang)
		79 points by microflash on Feb 24, 2024 \| 63 comments
29.		Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today (geospatial-nix.today)
		105 points by l0b0 on Feb 24, 2024 \| 21 comments
30.		DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit (ieee.org)
		141 points by mfiguiere on Feb 24, 2024 \| 97 comments
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