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1.		The window trick of Las Vegas hotels (schedium.net)
		994 points by edent on Jan 29, 2023 \| 344 comments
2.		FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls (commsrisk.com)
		574 points by from on Jan 29, 2023 \| 216 comments
3.		AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements (airgradient.com)
		557 points by ahaucnx on Jan 29, 2023 \| 159 comments
4.		The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed (build-your-own.org)
		599 points by bubblehack3r on Jan 29, 2023 \| 129 comments
5.		Take more screenshots (2022) (alexwlchan.net)
		369 points by sanketpatrikar on Jan 27, 2023 \| 176 comments
6.		80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea (8020.net)
		333 points by thunderbong on Jan 29, 2023 \| 140 comments
7.		Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive (archive.org)
		311 points by sohkamyung on Jan 29, 2023 \| 102 comments
8.		Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny (nytimes.com)
		284 points by latchkey on Jan 28, 2023 \| 337 comments
9.		AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement (autohotkey.com)
		255 points by majkinetor on Jan 28, 2023 \| 150 comments
10.		Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills (archive.org)
		401 points by tjhill on Jan 29, 2023 \| 517 comments
11.		Toroidal propeller allows a drone to operate more quietly [pdf] (ll.mit.edu)
		222 points by lxm on Jan 29, 2023 \| 100 comments
12.		Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?
		295 points by apitman on Jan 29, 2023 \| 328 comments
13.		Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?
		319 points by tucnak on Jan 29, 2023 \| 66 comments
14.		Nature photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to public domain (petapixel.com)
		287 points by Santosh83 on Jan 27, 2023 \| 56 comments
15.		The Transformer Family (lilianweng.github.io)
		254 points by alexmolas on Jan 29, 2023 \| 46 comments
16.		Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language (github.com/vexu)
		189 points by tsujp on Jan 29, 2023 \| 50 comments
17.		Grid Beam (gridbeam.xyz)
		185 points by Tomte on Jan 29, 2023 \| 67 comments
18.		Living alone in the wild Siberian forest (youtube.com)
		204 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 29, 2023 \| 152 comments
19.		Training NanoGPT on My Journal (hut.pm)
		192 points by romseb on Jan 29, 2023 \| 24 comments
20.		Religious and spiritual folklore surrounding programming (deusinmachina.net)
		150 points by Decabytes on Jan 27, 2023 \| 120 comments
21.		Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file (github.com/jmforsythe)
		173 points by jmforsythe on Jan 29, 2023 \| 39 comments
22.		Steve Wozniak's Letters (woz.com)
		122 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 29, 2023 \| 24 comments
23.		Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015) (wired.com)
		233 points by pieterr on Jan 27, 2023 \| 257 comments
24.		Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta (atlasobscura.com)
		125 points by prismatic on Jan 29, 2023 \| 128 comments
25.		ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up (ounapuu.ee)
		136 points by hddherman on Jan 27, 2023 \| 95 comments
26.		Evidence of Multicellularity in Single Cell Organism (gatech.edu)
		129 points by gmays on Jan 27, 2023 \| 18 comments
27.		Intercepting t.co links using DNS rewrites (djharper.dev)
		139 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 29, 2023 \| 55 comments
28.		Testing Noctua’s NH-P1 with Ryzen 7700x and Intel’s i9-13900K (boringtextreviews.com)
		130 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2023 \| 94 comments
29.		LispMe – the Scheme system for PalmOS (2008) (lispme.de)
		94 points by app4soft on Jan 29, 2023 \| 14 comments
30.		Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group (khon2.com)
		260 points by luu on Jan 29, 2023 \| 281 comments
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