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1.		Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years (smithsonianmag.com)
		428 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 19, 2023 \| 247 comments
2.		Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative (github.com/localsend)
		563 points by meatjuice on Oct 19, 2023 \| 229 comments
3.		ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades (cornell.edu)
		592 points by JohnHammersley on Oct 19, 2023 \| 159 comments
4.		Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer (bloomberg.com)
		354 points by infrawhispers on Oct 19, 2023 \| 599 comments
5.		Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts (autotab.com)
		376 points by jonasnelle on Oct 19, 2023 \| 126 comments
6.		Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off (404media.co)
		573 points by mstep on Oct 19, 2023 \| 474 comments
7.		Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 (timac.org)
		346 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 \| 221 comments
8.		Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota (kcl.ac.uk)
		300 points by CharlesW on Oct 18, 2023 \| 139 comments
9.		DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) (libraryjournal.com)
		307 points by meristohm on Oct 19, 2023 \| 242 comments
10.		Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas (lerner.co.il)
		716 points by reuven on Oct 19, 2023 \| 493 comments
11.		Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
		382 points by bovem on Oct 19, 2023 \| 192 comments
12.		Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings (phys.org)
		207 points by wglb on Oct 19, 2023 \| 150 comments
13.		Linux runtime security agent powered by eBPF (github.com/exein-io)
		193 points by ExeinTech on Oct 19, 2023 \| 69 comments
14.		13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep firms dropped the ball (theverge.com)
		257 points by thunderbong on Oct 19, 2023 \| 189 comments
15.		Build your own BitTorrent (codecrafters.io)
		457 points by romac on Oct 19, 2023 \| 128 comments
16.		Show HN: Generate Stable Diffusion scenes around 3D models (github.com/dabble-studio)
		123 points by neilxm on Oct 19, 2023 \| 53 comments
17.		Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case (brimdata.io)
		91 points by jameskerr on Oct 19, 2023 \| 39 comments
18.		Banging errors in Go (tedunangst.com)
		166 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 \| 334 comments
19.		Zero ASIC is out of stealth (zeroasic.com)
		224 points by jasondavies on Oct 18, 2023 \| 85 comments
20.		Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do (demofox.org)
		102 points by ingve on Oct 18, 2023 \| 34 comments
21.		Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] (youtube.com)
		237 points by jackdoe on Oct 17, 2023 \| 191 comments
22.		Requiem for a stringref (wingolog.org)
		89 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 \| 96 comments
23.		The origins of the Idle Scan (antirez.com)
		140 points by antirez on Oct 19, 2023 \| 13 comments
24.		Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope (stanford.edu)
		183 points by cpncrunch on Oct 19, 2023 \| 266 comments
25.		The 1924 Mikiphone: The first pocket record player (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
		93 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 19, 2023 \| 27 comments
26.		Version Museum: A Visual History of Your Favorite Technology (versionmuseum.com)
		80 points by laech on Oct 18, 2023 \| 9 comments
27.		Yamaha TX81Z Homepage (mgregory22.me)
		74 points by brudgers on Oct 18, 2023 \| 65 comments
28.		Show HN: Modern Moodle learning platform open-source alternative (learnhouse.app)
		144 points by sweave on Oct 19, 2023 \| 63 comments
29.		In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk (theregister.com)
		80 points by digitalnalogika on Oct 19, 2023 \| 58 comments
30.		xVal: A continuous number encoding for large language models (arxiv.org)
		72 points by famouswaffles on Oct 18, 2023 \| 11 comments
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