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1.
Toasts are bad UX (maxschmitt.me)
702 points by Mackser on Aug 20, 2024 | 385 comments
2.
Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video] (youtube.com)
348 points by teqsun on Aug 20, 2024 | 114 comments
3.
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection (promptarmor.substack.com)
604 points by tprow50 on Aug 20, 2024 | 174 comments
4.
Transformers for Ruby (github.com/ankane)
366 points by felipemesquita on Aug 20, 2024 | 52 comments
5.
Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping (github.com/srcbookdev)
267 points by nichochar on Aug 19, 2024 | 50 comments
6.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype (economist.com)
568 points by bx376 on Aug 20, 2024 | 780 comments
7.
The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019) (adrian3.com)
291 points by davidbarker on Aug 20, 2024 | 245 comments
8.
Let's Write a Reverb (2021) (signalsmith-audio.co.uk)
367 points by notagoodidea on Aug 15, 2024 | 62 comments
9.
Lenticular Clock (instructables.com)
192 points by animal_spirits on Aug 19, 2024 | 46 comments
10.
MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)
587 points by nabla9 on Aug 20, 2024 | 220 comments
11.
Transformers in music recommendation (research.google)
211 points by panarky on Aug 19, 2024 | 125 comments
12.
A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other (engadget.com)
127 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 18, 2024 | 443 comments
13.
Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it (arxiv.org)
118 points by bikenaga on Aug 18, 2024 | 67 comments
14.
Sourcegraph went dark (eric-fritz.com)
424 points by kaycebasques on Aug 20, 2024 | 182 comments
15.
Bug squash: An underrated interview question (jez.io)
434 points by jez on Aug 18, 2024 | 271 comments
16.
'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera (phys.org)
183 points by wglb on Aug 19, 2024 | 55 comments
17.
Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring (builder.io)
226 points by steve8708 on Aug 19, 2024 | 150 comments
18.
Making database systems usable (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
150 points by jamesblonde on Aug 20, 2024 | 154 comments
19.
Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor (pragtical.dev)
255 points by rd07 on Aug 20, 2024 | 106 comments
20.
Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023) (thatgeoguy.ca)
94 points by fanf2 on Aug 20, 2024 | 42 comments
21.
Show HN: Visual Sudoku solver in the browser (dotslashdan.com)
63 points by taiters_ on Aug 20, 2024 | 16 comments
22.
When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016) (teresaelsey.medium.com)
110 points by tomodachi94 on Aug 16, 2024 | 90 comments
23.
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) (utexas.edu)
168 points by torstenvl on Aug 19, 2024 | 136 comments
24.
Zed AI (zed.dev)
401 points by dahjelle on Aug 20, 2024 | 280 comments
25.
Launch HN: MinusX (YC S24) – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase
96 points by nuwandavek on Aug 20, 2024 | 29 comments
26.
The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018) (jakevdp.github.io)
219 points by skadamat on Aug 20, 2024 | 190 comments
27.
HID Remapper (github.com/jfedor2)
116 points by peterburkimsher on Aug 19, 2024 | 65 comments
28.
Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
141 points by ramimac on Aug 19, 2024 | 49 comments
29.
The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown (zarar.dev)
435 points by recroad on Aug 20, 2024 | 266 comments
30.
Why are Texas interchanges so tall? (practical.engineering)
211 points by impish9208 on Aug 20, 2024 | 333 comments

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