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1.		Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround (tedgioia.substack.com)
		917 points by AlbertCory on Dec 28, 2022 \| 484 comments
2.		Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job (stevenbuccini.com)
		1012 points by sbuccini on Dec 28, 2022 \| 570 comments
3.		All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters (hackaday.com)
		453 points by zdw on Dec 27, 2022 \| 226 comments
4.		Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’ (theverge.com)
		356 points by mfiguiere on Dec 28, 2022 \| 192 comments
5.		BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption (borgbackup.org)
		334 points by phil294 on Dec 27, 2022 \| 177 comments
6.		Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend (theverge.com)
		414 points by mfiguiere on Dec 28, 2022 \| 102 comments
7.		Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023 (ieee.org)
		320 points by mfiguiere on Dec 28, 2022 \| 220 comments
8.		Reverse-engineering the source prompts of Notion AI (swyx.io)
		327 points by swyx on Dec 28, 2022 \| 80 comments
9.		Acorn, our open source precision farming rover (twistedfields.com)
		282 points by lioeters on Dec 28, 2022 \| 75 comments
10.		Stable Diffusion macOS native app (github.com/justjake)
		383 points by throwme_123 on Dec 28, 2022 \| 87 comments
11.		26 Programming Languages in 25 Days (might.net)
		255 points by azhenley on Dec 28, 2022 \| 75 comments
12.		Notepad Calculator (notepadcalculator.com)
		298 points by archagon on Dec 27, 2022 \| 71 comments
13.		Wiretapping Google smart speakers (downrightnifty.me)
		268 points by NotPractical on Dec 28, 2022 \| 24 comments
14.		Apple Lightning (2020) (nyansatan.github.io)
		279 points by aix1 on Dec 28, 2022 \| 140 comments
15.		Bra size calculator (calculator.net)
		242 points by thunderbong on Dec 28, 2022 \| 122 comments
16.		A new treatment for arthritis: Vagus-nerve stimulation (ieee.org)
		170 points by WaitWaitWha on Dec 28, 2022 \| 94 comments
17.		Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (2012) (paroj.github.io)
		180 points by jasim on Dec 28, 2022 \| 119 comments
18.		I've just started mixing shaders with Pygame (dafluffypotato.itch.io)
		240 points by janebrown456 on Dec 28, 2022 \| 23 comments
19.		A guided intro to the Free Pascal language (getlazarus.org)
		178 points by sysrpl on Dec 28, 2022 \| 100 comments
20.		Active ball joint mechanism with 3 DoF based on spherical gear meshings (2021) (ieee.org)
		159 points by nabla9 on Dec 28, 2022 \| 80 comments
21.		More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey (omglinux.com)
		487 points by jasoneckert on Dec 28, 2022 \| 481 comments
22.		Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law (resource.org)
		135 points by dredmorbius on Dec 27, 2022 \| 61 comments
23.		Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated with 19KB of JavaScript (synthtopia.com)
		289 points by LunarAurora on Dec 28, 2022 \| 115 comments
24.		How Southwest Airlines melted down (wsj.com)
		283 points by wallflower on Dec 28, 2022 \| 317 comments
25.		Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars (propublica.org)
		345 points by danso on Dec 28, 2022 \| 208 comments
26.		Facebook addiction increases depression severity among already depressed people (psypost.org)
		322 points by hericium on Dec 28, 2022 \| 156 comments
27.		Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
		326 points by kiernanmcgowan on Dec 28, 2022 \| 272 comments
28.		SQLite's Automatic Indexes (misfra.me)
		216 points by preetamjinka on Dec 28, 2022 \| 40 comments
29.		Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019) (apidura.com)
		162 points by asplake on Dec 27, 2022 \| 131 comments
30.		US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F (electrek.co)
		265 points by jbrins1 on Dec 28, 2022 \| 330 comments
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