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31.Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS (github.com/jameslockman)
81 points by classichasclass 36 days ago | 29 comments
32.Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
68 points by AlexeyBrin 38 days ago | 26 comments
33.Coursera and Udemy are now one company (coursera.org)
206 points by Anon84 35 days ago | 90 comments
34.A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (newscientist.com)
107 points by emot 40 days ago | 72 comments
35.Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com/pion)
97 points by nateb2022 38 days ago | 14 comments
36.VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
74 points by ingve 38 days ago | 10 comments
37.eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (bloomberg.com)
237 points by voisin 35 days ago | 239 comments
38.Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (pietschsoft.com)
58 points by pabs3 39 days ago | 13 comments
39.The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
76 points by surprisetalk 36 days ago | 49 comments
40.UnDUNE II (liquidream.itch.io)
181 points by tosh 35 days ago | 30 comments
41.Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (python.org)
89 points by djoldman 37 days ago | 23 comments
42.Abstract Machines for Logic Programs (chrisistyping.bearblog.dev)
58 points by surprisetalk 38 days ago | 3 comments
43.Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)
81 points by NaOH 38 days ago | 16 comments
44.Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
251 points by Bender 35 days ago | 253 comments
45.Beyond Semantic Similarity (arxiv.org)
68 points by 44za12 35 days ago | 15 comments
46.Toxicity on Social Media (thenoisyroom.com)
162 points by skm 36 days ago | 129 comments
47.US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (bbc.com)
260 points by tartoran 35 days ago | 439 comments
48.Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer (theguardian.com)
85 points by raybb 37 days ago | 45 comments
49.A HN post with negative points – how? (news.ycombinator.com)
89 points by donohoe 35 days ago | 88 comments
50.Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production (gagadget.com)
103 points by rguiscard 36 days ago | 80 comments
51.The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
35 points by jxmorris12 39 days ago | 3 comments
52.We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
72 points by amr_shawky 37 days ago | 46 comments
53.Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM (bogomolov.work)
96 points by theanonymousone 38 days ago | 75 comments
54.SQL: Incorrect by Construction (chreke.com)
48 points by ingve 35 days ago | 40 comments
55.When semiconductor materials misbehave (semiengineering.com)
21 points by PaulHoule 39 days ago | 4 comments
56. [flagged] Operation: Epic Furious (epicfurious.com)
382 points by dmschulman 35 days ago | 126 comments
57.Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (thebuild.com)
37 points by samaysharma 35 days ago | 9 comments
58.Testing UPS Output Waveforms (lttlabs.com)
72 points by LabsLucas 35 days ago | 100 comments
59. [flagged] Optimize for change not application performance (echooff.dev)
34 points by lo1tuma 38 days ago | 36 comments
60.Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
34 points by jxmorris12 36 days ago | 15 comments

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