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31.		Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code (winamp.com)
		344 points by captbaritone on May 16, 2024 \| 163 comments
32.		America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries (theprogressplaybook.com)
		85 points by epistasis on May 16, 2024 \| 73 comments
33.		Students invent quieter leaf blower (jhu.edu)
		280 points by namanyayg on May 16, 2024 \| 419 comments
34.		Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
		105 points by aragonite on May 15, 2024 \| 34 comments
35.		Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg (phoronix.com)
		198 points by vmbrasseur on May 16, 2024 \| 46 comments
36.		The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story (nature.com)
		139 points by drdee on May 16, 2024 \| 98 comments
37.		High-Quality Software Engineering (2007) (lurklurk.org)
		86 points by rhim on May 15, 2024 \| 38 comments
38.		Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT (openai.com)
		203 points by tosh on May 16, 2024 \| 124 comments
39.		Enhancing R: The Vision and Impact of Jan Vitek's MaintainR Initiative (r-consortium.org)
		56 points by wodenokoto on May 16, 2024 \| 58 comments
40.		A brief history of the first planetarium (ieee.org)
		25 points by _Microft on May 14, 2024 \| 3 comments
41.		Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009 (arstechnica.com)
		139 points by yau8edq12i on May 16, 2024 \| 11 comments
42.		JEP Draft: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient (openjdk.org)
		89 points by mfiguiere on May 16, 2024 \| 22 comments
43.		Merging Remix and React Router (remix.run)
		107 points by 0xedb on May 15, 2024 \| 75 comments
44.		What's New in Neovim 0.10 (gpanders.com)
		291 points by gpanders on May 16, 2024 \| 131 comments
45.		I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search (aftermath.site)
		212 points by awkwardpotato on May 16, 2024 \| 224 comments
46.		The Sweet Spot: Maximizing Llama Energy Efficiency (jacquesmattheij.com)
		35 points by jacquesm on May 15, 2024
47.		You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings (viralinstruction.com)
		78 points by jakobnissen on May 16, 2024 \| 100 comments
48.		You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019) (openstreetmap.org)
		109 points by fanf2 on May 16, 2024 \| 17 comments
49.		Elicit – AI Research Assistant (elicit.com)
		111 points by zerojames on May 16, 2024 \| 76 comments
50.		Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners (bloomberg.com)
		112 points by feross on May 16, 2024 \| 93 comments
51.		Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language (hackclub.com)
		149 points by jianmin-chen on May 16, 2024 \| 62 comments
52.		Intel's Thunderbolt Share lets two PCs control each other over a USB cable (theverge.com)
		80 points by Brajeshwar on May 16, 2024 \| 76 comments
53.		Prototypal Inheritance (2008) (crockford.com)
		29 points by Tomte on May 13, 2024 \| 13 comments
54.		Port 666 is officially registered to Doom (ibiblio.org)
		142 points by ughitsaaron on May 16, 2024 \| 53 comments
55.		EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design (techcrunch.com)
		145 points by amalinovic on May 16, 2024 \| 95 comments
56.		Big Companies vs. Startups (2015) (danluu.com)
		49 points by fzliu on May 15, 2024 \| 59 comments
57.		Robotic "SuperLimbs" could help moonwalkers recover from falls (news.mit.edu)
		14 points by LorenDB on May 15, 2024 \| 7 comments
58.		Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector (thinkingeek.com)
		22 points by fanf2 on May 15, 2024
59.		Measuring the impact of zoning on housing in a city (jonathannolan.net)
		44 points by mickgardner on May 15, 2024 \| 77 comments
60.		[dupe] (OpenBSD) Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (marc.info)
		27 points by signa11 on May 16, 2024 \| 2 comments
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