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1.
A Firefox-only minimap (2021) (stefanjudis.com)
699 points by sph on July 17, 2023 | 113 comments
2.
LazyVim (lazyvim.org)
633 points by tambourine_man on July 17, 2023 | 525 comments
3.
You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email (twitter.com/jakemooreuk)
472 points by KomoD on July 17, 2023 | 212 comments
4.
Coroutines for Go (swtch.com)
330 points by trulyrandom on July 17, 2023 | 182 comments
5.
The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality (lelanthran.com)
258 points by lelanthran on July 17, 2023 | 133 comments
6.
The Red Programming Language (red-lang.org)
222 points by andsoitis on July 16, 2023 | 159 comments
7.
Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer (reuters.com)
508 points by sndean on July 17, 2023 | 317 comments
8.
Notes on Puzzles (nabeelqu.substack.com)
222 points by nqureshi on July 17, 2023 | 49 comments
9.
Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes (nytimes.com)
189 points by dwighttk on July 16, 2023 | 76 comments
10.
Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform
101 points by ersatz_username on July 17, 2023 | 44 comments
11.
Harry Frankfurt has died (nytimes.com)
116 points by dredmorbius on July 17, 2023 | 21 comments
12.
Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app (deepakg.com)
138 points by DamnInteresting on July 17, 2023 | 31 comments
13.
Using XPath in 2023 (denizaksimsek.com)
156 points by recursivedoubts on July 16, 2023 | 98 comments
14.
The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X (twitter.com/scienceisstrat1)
346 points by Dig1t on July 17, 2023 | 730 comments
15.
The Nano ESP32 (arduino.cc)
166 points by pyprism on July 17, 2023 | 139 comments
16.
Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting (automorphic.ai)
174 points by sandkoan on July 16, 2023 | 54 comments
17.
Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper? (kenschutte.com)
381 points by ks2048 on July 17, 2023 | 130 comments
18.
LOGO Manual (1974) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
95 points by susam on July 16, 2023 | 67 comments
19.
Are large language models a threat to digital public goods? (arxiv.org)
135 points by oss_fan on July 17, 2023 | 157 comments
20.
The force that shapes everything around us: Parking (vox.com)
266 points by vwoolf on July 17, 2023 | 451 comments
21.
Commodore 64 VIC-II 6567/6569 Replacement Project (github.com/randyrossi)
95 points by snvzz on July 15, 2023 | 26 comments
22.
CPUlator Computer System Simulator (01xz.net)
56 points by hosteur on July 15, 2023 | 4 comments
23.
Backyard Metalcasting (2018) (backyardmetalcasting.com)
94 points by ishtanbul on July 17, 2023 | 79 comments
24.
A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves (umich.edu)
247 points by giuliomagnifico on July 17, 2023 | 562 comments
25.
Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers (katacontainers.io)
146 points by flanked-evergl on July 17, 2023 | 83 comments
26.
Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy (wikipedia.org)
233 points by akolbe on July 17, 2023 | 177 comments
27.
A technical look at ZeroNet (znano.eu.org)
74 points by znano on July 17, 2023 | 21 comments
28.
My broken ThinkPad plays music upon booting (nerology.substack.com)
214 points by NeroVanbierv on July 17, 2023 | 61 comments
29.
British F-35Bs to bring vertical landing abilities to highways (thedrive.com)
136 points by clouddrover on July 15, 2023 | 314 comments
30.
Using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos (quantamagazine.org)
97 points by _aleph2c_ on July 15, 2023 | 78 comments

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