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1.		Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills (therobinlord.com)
		547 points by robinLord on April 22, 2023 \| 117 comments
2.		The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished (build-your-own.org)
		657 points by tim_sw on April 22, 2023 \| 99 comments
3.		Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study (news.northeastern.edu)
		480 points by tosh on April 22, 2023 \| 215 comments
4.		Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed (quantamagazine.org)
		302 points by rolph on April 22, 2023 \| 143 comments
5.		Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting (mitchellh.com)
		358 points by Anon84 on April 22, 2023 \| 214 comments
6.		Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust (phys.org)
		170 points by PaulHoule on April 22, 2023 \| 51 comments
7.		There is no A.I. (newyorker.com)
		341 points by cocacola1 on April 22, 2023 \| 503 comments
8.		The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (lcamtuf.substack.com)
		229 points by zdw on April 22, 2023 \| 134 comments
9.		How did the chess pieces get their names? (atlasobscura.com)
		162 points by Brajeshwar on April 22, 2023 \| 78 comments
10.		How much can Duolingo teach us? (newyorker.com)
		192 points by herbertl on April 22, 2023 \| 331 comments
11.		System D (wikipedia.org)
		177 points by diddlybopshubop on April 22, 2023 \| 97 comments
12.		How to become a “designer who codes” (2019) (design.systems)
		74 points by blueridge on April 21, 2023 \| 102 comments
13.		The Joy of an Empty Brain (wsj.com)
		146 points by robg on April 21, 2023 \| 70 comments
14.		Google Mars (2005) (google.com)
		195 points by belter on April 22, 2023 \| 80 comments
15.		Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (2020) (github.com/effective-immediately)
		212 points by derwiki on April 22, 2023 \| 97 comments
16.		First ROM Shadowing (os2museum.com)
		62 points by kencausey on April 22, 2023 \| 20 comments
17.		Finetuning Large Language Models (sebastianraschka.com)
		223 points by headalgorithm on April 22, 2023 \| 70 comments
18.		Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (springer.com)
		117 points by nanna on April 22, 2023 \| 48 comments
19.		ReceptioGate and the (Absolute) State of Academia (thecritic.co.uk)
		77 points by nkurz on April 22, 2023 \| 23 comments
20.		More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered (science.org)
		135 points by tamaharbor on April 22, 2023 \| 92 comments
21.		Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought (sciencenews.org)
		194 points by starkd on April 22, 2023 \| 433 comments
22.		Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant (bloomberg.com)
		431 points by sine_break on April 22, 2023 \| 519 comments
23.		Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive (theamericanscholar.org)
		88 points by Caiero on April 22, 2023 \| 98 comments
24.		Coinbase secures Bermuda licence (reuters.com)
		158 points by overthrow on April 22, 2023 \| 380 comments
25.		Telegram Web Apps for Bots (telegram.org)
		196 points by soheilpro on April 22, 2023 \| 120 comments
26.		Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014) (raymii.org)
		155 points by jandeboevrie on April 22, 2023 \| 88 comments
27.		US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011 (reuters.com)
		146 points by almog on April 21, 2023 \| 98 comments
28.		Negative Mass (students.tools)
		97 points by thunderbong on April 22, 2023 \| 67 comments
29.		When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty (entomologytoday.org)
		143 points by sohkamyung on April 22, 2023 \| 87 comments
30.		XINF (xinf.dev)
		80 points by ZeroTerabytes on April 22, 2023 \| 20 comments
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