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1.		Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop (sebastianraschka.com)
		970 points by mdp2021 on Aug 31, 2024 \| 136 comments
2.		Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator (wojtczyk.de)
		631 points by wojtczyk on Aug 31, 2024 \| 395 comments
3.		Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video] (tom7.org)
		425 points by pabs3 on Aug 31, 2024 \| 71 comments
4.		Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla (sfchronicle.com)
		283 points by danso on Aug 31, 2024 \| 660 comments
5.		Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit) (github.com/velorek1)
		168 points by velorek on Aug 30, 2024 \| 61 comments
6.		Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained (reddit.com)
		598 points by nkurz on Aug 31, 2024 \| 475 comments
7.		Rediscovering the Small Web (2020) (neustadt.fr)
		256 points by colinprince on Aug 31, 2024 \| 64 comments
8.		Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms (blocks.md)
		193 points by darkhorse13 on Aug 31, 2024 \| 77 comments
9.		Crows are even smarter than we thought (nautil.us)
		506 points by dnetesn on Aug 30, 2024 \| 287 comments
10.		WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner (github.com/aceberg)
		189 points by thunderbong on Aug 31, 2024 \| 26 comments
11.		The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022) (little-maps.com)
		69 points by scottmcdot on Aug 31, 2024 \| 29 comments
12.		Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky (theverge.com)
		420 points by rvz on Aug 31, 2024 \| 743 comments
13.		Client-side QR code generator with SVG output (fietkau.software)
		176 points by kentbrew on Aug 31, 2024 \| 31 comments
14.		Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021) (funloop.org)
		107 points by rgs on Aug 30, 2024 \| 45 comments
15.		Lucee: A light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM (lucee.org)
		79 points by mooreds on Aug 31, 2024 \| 37 comments
16.		Building Bubbletea Programs (leg100.github.io)
		148 points by paranoidxprod on Aug 27, 2024 \| 36 comments
17.		BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor (basex.org)
		81 points by smartmic on Aug 27, 2024 \| 3 comments
18.		Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen (ethz.ch)
		160 points by bornelsewhere on Aug 31, 2024 \| 101 comments
19.		Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs (die.net)
		171 points by actinium226 on Aug 30, 2024 \| 87 comments
20.		My fake job in Y2K preparedness (nplusonemag.com)
		151 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2024 \| 96 comments
21.		Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews (bellmar.medium.com)
		164 points by mbellotti on Aug 30, 2024 \| 109 comments
22.		Cassette Tape Archive (tapedeck.org)
		132 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2024 \| 15 comments
23.		Neutral beam microscopy using magnetic beam spin encoding (nature.com)
		31 points by PaulHoule on Aug 28, 2024 \| 1 comment
24.		The Threat to OpenAI (wsj.com)
		150 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2024 \| 152 comments
25.		Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing (img.ly)
		80 points by buss_jan on Aug 28, 2024 \| 14 comments
26.		This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more (servo.org)
		288 points by msub2 on Aug 31, 2024 \| 23 comments
27.		Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle (gizmodo.com)
		112 points by rntn on Aug 31, 2024 \| 16 comments
28.		About synchronous disk replication (cloud.google.com)
		73 points by tosh on Aug 31, 2024 \| 23 comments
29.		Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+ (fortune.com)
		236 points by mgh2 on Aug 31, 2024 \| 234 comments
30.		Radiance Cascades: A Novel High-Res Sol. For Multidim Non-LTE Radiative Transfer (arxiv.org)
		24 points by jasonjmcghee on Aug 31, 2024 \| 7 comments
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