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31.
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (wikipedia.org)
66 points by lermontov on Dec 30, 2023 | 10 comments
32.
Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts (utcc.utoronto.ca)
332 points by throw0101b on Dec 31, 2023 | 440 comments
33.
Personics: The cassette-based iTunes Store of the 1980s [video] (youtube.com)
60 points by fortran77 on Dec 28, 2023 | 15 comments
34.
Synctify – Sync a music drop with a time in the real world (synctify.app)
66 points by lukew3 on Dec 31, 2023 | 28 comments
35.
A weird CPIO discrepancy (colindou.ch)
46 points by vimda on Dec 29, 2023 | 20 comments
36.
Switching Things over to Ikiwiki (bt.ht)
45 points by bradley_taunt on Dec 30, 2023 | 27 comments
37.
Demand the impossible: Rigorous database benchmarking (erthalion.info)
58 points by erthalion on Dec 29, 2023 | 15 comments
38.
Freeaim VR Shoes (freeaim.com)
78 points by rolph on Dec 30, 2023 | 47 comments
39.
Sweden Solar System (wikipedia.org)
158 points by titaniumtown on Dec 31, 2023 | 46 comments
40.
Show HN: Common Lisp Vim Compiler Plug-In (sr.ht)
34 points by djha-skin on Dec 30, 2023 | 7 comments
41.
Building ColdFusion for the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
92 points by paulgb on Dec 31, 2023 | 79 comments
42.
Android data encryption in depth (quarkslab.com)
59 points by sipofwater on Dec 30, 2023 | 1 comment
43.
A future for SQL on the web (2021) (jlongster.com)
80 points by thunderbong on Dec 31, 2023 | 25 comments
44.
Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
164 points by jack_riminton on Dec 31, 2023 | 122 comments
45.
Silent Flyer – A Birdlike Drone (silentflyer.tech)
63 points by Gys on Dec 30, 2023 | 60 comments
46.
The Misty Programming Language (crockford.com)
58 points by Matrixik on Dec 30, 2023 | 47 comments
47.
Molecular jackhammers eradicate cancer cells by vibronic-driven action (nature.com)
74 points by talboren on Dec 31, 2023 | 4 comments
48.
Midihum: An ML-Based MIDI Humanizing Tool (erichgrunewald.com)
55 points by erwald on Dec 30, 2023 | 18 comments
49.
iOS Wi-Fi Profile Generator (daduckmsft.github.io)
92 points by transpute on Dec 31, 2023 | 61 comments
50.
How to run a small social network (2019) (runyourown.social)
114 points by GoRudy on Dec 31, 2023 | 112 comments
51.
Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea (gcaptain.com)
199 points by bison3 on Dec 31, 2023 | 472 comments
52.
PlasMa – Mini-mainframe simulator project (philizound.co.uk)
44 points by shakna on Dec 30, 2023
53.
WWII heroics of 'Bazooka Charlie' doubted until daughter sets record straight (dispatch.com)
120 points by alehlopeh on Dec 31, 2023 | 24 comments
54.
Death by Thomas Nagel (1970) [pdf] (colorado.edu)
36 points by wjb3 on Dec 30, 2023 | 21 comments
55.
Adding Vision to the SunFounder PiCar-X (smist08.wordpress.com)
15 points by ingve on Dec 30, 2023
56.
Simulating Non-CRT Monitors with FFmpeg: Flat Panel Displays (2021) (int10h.org)
76 points by susam on Dec 31, 2023 | 2 comments
57.
Mazzle – A pipelines as code tool (devops-pipeline.com)
41 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 31, 2023 | 3 comments
58.
How a script doctor found his own voice (newyorker.com)
47 points by Caiero on Dec 30, 2023 | 22 comments
59.
Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goes 'poof' before our eyes (nytimes.com)
73 points by benbreen on Dec 30, 2023 | 66 comments
60.
Instant messaging: Protocols are "commons", let's take them seriously (process-one.net)
88 points by mooreds on Dec 31, 2023 | 93 comments

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