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1.
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (history.stackexchange.com)
628 points by napolux on Nov 20, 2024 | 150 comments
2.
AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (frost.kiwi)
602 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 20, 2024 | 96 comments
3.
How good are American roads? (construction-physics.com)
252 points by chmaynard on Nov 20, 2024 | 480 comments
4.
AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (blog.google)
161 points by roboboffin on Nov 20, 2024 | 50 comments
5.
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm (emschwartz.me)
305 points by rrampage on Nov 20, 2024 | 60 comments
6.
Tiling with Three Polygons Is Undecidable (arxiv.org)
136 points by denvaar on Nov 17, 2024 | 27 comments
7.
FireDucks: Pandas but Faster (hwisnu.bearblog.dev)
398 points by sebg on Nov 14, 2024 | 179 comments
8.
SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems (philipzucker.com)
153 points by xlinux on Nov 20, 2024 | 19 comments
9.
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (acm.org)
105 points by rbanffy on Nov 20, 2024 | 68 comments
10.
Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (techdirt.com)
488 points by chocmake on Nov 20, 2024 | 116 comments
11.
Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
588 points by perihelions on Nov 20, 2024 | 731 comments
12.
SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com/spacex)
272 points by alach11 on Nov 19, 2024 | 425 comments
13.
1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
157 points by galeos on Nov 15, 2024 | 30 comments
14.
Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope (zed.dev)
168 points by misternugget on Nov 18, 2024 | 50 comments
15.
Query Your Python Lists (github.com/mkalioby)
87 points by mkalioby on Nov 15, 2024 | 51 comments
16.
Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (ripe.net)
172 points by voytec on Nov 20, 2024 | 62 comments
17.
Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs
159 points by jonasnelle on Nov 20, 2024 | 82 comments
18.
Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (gamediscover.co)
409 points by TaurenHunter on Nov 20, 2024 | 102 comments
19.
When did estimates turn into deadlines? (domainanalysis.io)
327 points by alexzeitler on Nov 19, 2024 | 224 comments
20.
Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems (securityweek.com)
265 points by fortran77 on Nov 20, 2024 | 97 comments
21.
Using uv with PyTorch (astral.sh)
170 points by charliermarsh on Nov 19, 2024 | 54 comments
22.
Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) (abebooks.com)
115 points by MrVandemar on Nov 20, 2024 | 70 comments
23.
New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by cratermoon on Nov 20, 2024 | 151 comments
24.
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
543 points by gslin on Nov 20, 2024 | 189 comments
25.
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (arstechnica.com)
259 points by pseudolus on Nov 20, 2024 | 187 comments
26.
Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client (cardo-podcast.github.io)
115 points by n0vella on Nov 20, 2024 | 42 comments
27.
Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) (github.com/dbohdan)
83 points by networked on Nov 15, 2024 | 42 comments
28.
Lush: My favorite small programming language (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
151 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 20, 2024 | 28 comments
29.
La Basilica Di San Pietro (unlocked.microsoft.com)
145 points by geox on Nov 20, 2024 | 69 comments
30.
Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints (github.com/greymattergames)
96 points by BrainBacon on Nov 20, 2024 | 40 comments

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