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31.		A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve? (pomax.github.io)
		151 points by mostlyk 3 months ago \| 21 comments
32.		Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		98 points by aragonite 3 months ago \| 29 comments
33.		GCC 16 has been released (gcc.gnu.org)
		307 points by HeliumHydride 3 months ago \| 52 comments
34.		Monad Tutorials Timeline (haskell.org)
		106 points by brudgers 3 months ago \| 57 comments
35.		Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo (dustri.org)
		76 points by homebrewer 3 months ago \| 14 comments
36.		Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
		195 points by xngbuilds 3 months ago \| 156 comments
37.		Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
		129 points by evakhoury 3 months ago \| 18 comments
38.		Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight (flyingmag.com)
		92 points by Jblx2 3 months ago \| 240 comments
39.		Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com/aallan)
		111 points by unignorant 3 months ago \| 95 comments
40.		A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust (acm.org)
		57 points by tkhattra 3 months ago \| 2 comments
41.		U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets (wsj.com)
		312 points by kamaraju 3 months ago \| 107 comments
42.		DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design (eetimes.com)
		67 points by giuliomagnifico 3 months ago \| 4 comments
43.		"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)
		86 points by dwrodri 3 months ago \| 48 comments
44.		What can we gain by losing infinity? (quantamagazine.org)
		127 points by Tomte 3 months ago \| 135 comments
45.		DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble (datacenter.fm)
		151 points by louisbarclay 3 months ago \| 28 comments
46.		Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec (lost-number.bearblog.dev)
		77 points by speckx 3 months ago \| 21 comments
47.		A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity (mitpress.mit.edu)
		105 points by pseudolus 3 months ago \| 34 comments
48.		My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock (coverclock.blogspot.com)
		88 points by g0xA52A2A 3 months ago \| 30 comments
49.		The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		68 points by downbad_ 3 months ago \| 31 comments
50.		A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (alphaxiv.org)
		34 points by measurablefunc 3 months ago
51.		SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding (simplex.chat)
		34 points by pmw 3 months ago \| 7 comments
52.		[flagged] The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all (markready.io)
		129 points by chambertime 3 months ago \| 83 comments
53.		I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." (maxtaylor.me)
		89 points by max-t-dev 3 months ago \| 67 comments
54.		Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell (pu.dev)
		92 points by nahimn 3 months ago \| 28 comments
55.		American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were (derekthompson.org)
		162 points by ozozozd 3 months ago \| 219 comments
56.		Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (nik.digital)
		35 points by OuterVale 3 months ago \| 3 comments
57.		1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant (heise.de)
		66 points by pantalaimon 3 months ago \| 89 comments
58.		Be Alexandra Elbakyan (twitter.com/mushtaqbilalphd)
		121 points by DanielleMolloy 3 months ago \| 16 comments
59.		How Semiconductors Were Made in America (siliconimist.com)
		51 points by johncole 3 months ago \| 44 comments
60.		U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP (wsj.com)
		170 points by JumpCrisscross 3 months ago \| 236 comments
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