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1.		Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode (figma.com)
		549 points by emilsjolander on June 21, 2023 \| 231 comments
2.		Maps distort how we see the world (tomaspueyo.com)
		685 points by yarapavan on June 21, 2023 \| 326 comments
3.		“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013) (redsymbol.net)
		591 points by ekiauhce on June 20, 2023 \| 148 comments
4.		Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty (ft.com)
		292 points by hansmeierbaum on June 21, 2023 \| 201 comments
5.		Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)
		539 points by isaacfrond on June 20, 2023 \| 973 comments
6.		Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro (apple.com)
		385 points by todsacerdoti on June 21, 2023 \| 495 comments
7.		A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007) (noulakaz.net)
		370 points by tambourine_man on June 21, 2023 \| 97 comments
8.		Free Organ (organclearinghouse.com)
		199 points by mhb on June 21, 2023 \| 92 comments
9.		Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces (yotam.net)
		304 points by jandeboevrie on June 21, 2023 \| 304 comments
10.		GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params (twitter.com/swyx)
		388 points by georgehill on June 21, 2023 \| 206 comments
11.		What every programmer should know about memory (2007) [pdf] (freebsd.org)
		203 points by quackulus on June 21, 2023 \| 46 comments
12.		Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016) (kakoune.org)
		179 points by r3trohack3r on June 21, 2023 \| 89 comments
13.		How RLHF Works (interconnects.ai)
		165 points by natolambert on June 21, 2023 \| 32 comments
14.		MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough (mynor.org)
		118 points by ColinWright on June 21, 2023 \| 29 comments
15.		Ego and Math [video] (youtube.com)
		240 points by andersource on June 21, 2023 \| 97 comments
16.		Handles are the better pointers (2018) (floooh.github.io)
		223 points by ibobev on June 21, 2023 \| 78 comments
17.		Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf] (mclibre.org)
		118 points by Tomte on June 21, 2023 \| 117 comments
18.		How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers (nature.com)
		118 points by 6177c40f on June 20, 2023 \| 47 comments
19.		Moog sells its business to InMusic (ra.co)
		192 points by 8bitsrule on June 21, 2023 \| 197 comments
20.		How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch (furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com)
		198 points by bluecalm on June 21, 2023 \| 213 comments
21.		The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend (gwern.net)
		105 points by belter on June 21, 2023 \| 48 comments
22.		Textbooks are all you need (arxiv.org)
		256 points by foobarqux on June 21, 2023 \| 106 comments
23.		A case for toe socks (herman.bearblog.dev)
		239 points by kevincox on June 21, 2023 \| 371 comments
24.		Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’ (wired.com)
		291 points by pseudolus on June 21, 2023 \| 512 comments
25.		The world's largest "radio" station (2005) [pdf] (wisc.edu)
		82 points by ritabratamaiti on June 20, 2023 \| 20 comments
26.		Defer for Shell (2020) (cedwards.xyz)
		91 points by harporoeder on June 20, 2023 \| 49 comments
27.		ASU: The New American University (2021) (nadia.xyz)
		102 points by jseliger on June 20, 2023 \| 70 comments
28.		I post when browser makers announce their intent to ship features in web engines (botsin.space)
		104 points by mooreds on June 20, 2023 \| 13 comments
29.		FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process (cnbc.com)
		378 points by geekrax on June 21, 2023 \| 262 comments
30.		[dupe] Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo (androidauthority.com)
		328 points by xslvrxslwt on June 21, 2023 \| 181 comments
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