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31.		Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution (sourceforge.net)
		110 points by Aldipower 11 months ago \| 53 comments
32.		How slow motion became cinema’s dominant special effect (newrepublic.com)
		50 points by cainxinth 11 months ago \| 47 comments
33.		Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023) (brujordet.no)
		91 points by gfalcao 11 months ago \| 54 comments
34.		Hiding messages in a deck playing cards (asherfalcon.com)
		122 points by ashfn 11 months ago \| 39 comments
35.		The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders (spillhistorie.no)
		81 points by christkv 11 months ago \| 18 comments
36.		How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024) (github.com/axboe)
		122 points by nromiun 11 months ago \| 108 comments
37.		Amazon and the “Profitless Business Model” Fallacy (eugenewei.com)
		102 points by serviette 11 months ago \| 36 comments
38.		What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic (digitalseams.com)
		39 points by nkurz 11 months ago \| 8 comments
39.		MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture (thechipletter.substack.com)
		75 points by rbanffy 11 months ago \| 27 comments
40.		Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine (bbc.com)
		175 points by brudgers 11 months ago \| 542 comments
41.		Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field (bloomberg.com)
		179 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago \| 66 comments
42.		EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu (theguardian.com)
		149 points by Michelangelo11 11 months ago \| 194 comments
43.		The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme (gentoo.org)
		98 points by RGBCube 11 months ago \| 69 comments
44.		Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease (knowablemagazine.org)
		82 points by rbanffy 11 months ago \| 13 comments
45.		Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes [video] (youtube.com)
		41 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago \| 2 comments
46.		Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections (esri.com)
		62 points by bryanrasmussen 11 months ago \| 3 comments
47.		Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond (antongubarenko.substack.com)
		62 points by CharlesW 11 months ago \| 24 comments
48.		Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems (riskgaming.com)
		80 points by serviette 11 months ago \| 102 comments
49.		Quadratic forms beyond arithmetic (ams.org)
		60 points by bikenaga 11 months ago \| 11 comments
50.		Logical implication is a comparison operator (btdmaster.bearblog.dev)
		40 points by btdmaster 11 months ago \| 23 comments
51.		The Genius Device That Rocked F1 (youtube.com)
		84 points by brudgers 11 months ago \| 26 comments
52.		Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules (pcgamer.com)
		178 points by kradeelav 11 months ago \| 162 comments
53.		Why not to use iframes for embedded dashboards (embeddable.com)
		28 points by rogansage 11 months ago \| 21 comments
54.		Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly (volts.wtf)
		187 points by mooreds 11 months ago \| 297 comments
55.		Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages (wikipedia.org)
		36 points by janpot 11 months ago \| 10 comments
56.		Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software (github.com/tidwall)
		93 points by tidwall 11 months ago \| 29 comments
57.		What happens when housing prices go down? (clmarohn.substack.com)
		153 points by chmaynard 11 months ago \| 333 comments
58.		Hexanitrogen Energies (science.org)
		23 points by thomasjb 11 months ago \| 6 comments
59.		Germany's Fairytale Castles Added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (smithsonianmag.com)
		84 points by ulrischa 11 months ago \| 45 comments
60.		12ft.io Taken Down (newsmediaalliance.org)
		162 points by afeuerstein 11 months ago \| 155 comments
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