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1.
If you're remote, ramble (stephango.com)
976 points by lawgimenez 5 months ago | 464 comments
2.
Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year (helsinkitimes.fi)
1163 points by DaveZale 5 months ago | 651 comments
3.
Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest (ioccc.org)
359 points by mdl_principle 5 months ago | 102 comments
4.
Modern Node.js Patterns (kashw1n.com)
869 points by eustoria 5 months ago | 428 comments
5.
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (anthropic.com)
408 points by itchyjunk 5 months ago | 137 comments
6.
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals (bbc.com)
245 points by dxs 5 months ago | 70 comments
7.
Writing a good design document (grantslatton.com)
581 points by kiyanwang 5 months ago | 147 comments
8.
How to make almost anything (2019) (cba.mit.edu)
239 points by teleforce 5 months ago | 26 comments
9.
Tokens are getting more expensive (ethanding.substack.com)
363 points by admp 5 months ago | 253 comments
10.
HTML-in-Canvas (github.com/wicg)
222 points by dannyobrien 5 months ago | 116 comments
11.
Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation (acoup.blog)
214 points by Khaine 5 months ago | 83 comments
12.
UN report finds UN reports are not widely read (reuters.com)
353 points by anjneymidha 5 months ago | 142 comments
13.
A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
145 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 36 comments
14.
LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models (github.com/google)
166 points by simonpure 5 months ago | 14 comments
15.
C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML (reachablecode.com)
139 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 112 comments
16.
Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability (blocksandfiles.com)
139 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 104 comments
17.
This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series (1996) (irixnet.org)
104 points by exvi 5 months ago | 34 comments
18.
Ongoing Lean formalization of the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem (github.com/imperialcollegelondon)
127 points by anonyonoor 5 months ago | 79 comments
19.
Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS (jackharvest.com)
154 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 54 comments
20.
Welcome to url.town, population 465 (url.town)
212 points by plaguna 5 months ago | 87 comments
21.
Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise (asu.edu)
150 points by ornel 5 months ago | 52 comments
22.
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches (nature.com)
79 points by smartmic 5 months ago | 16 comments
23.
Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language (seed7.net)
96 points by 0x54MUR41 5 months ago | 20 comments
24.
Writing a basic service for GNU Guix (tannerhoelzel.com)
100 points by hermitsings 5 months ago | 29 comments
25.
A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022) (economist.com)
153 points by mooreds 5 months ago | 110 comments
26.
Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp (github.com/froggey)
114 points by dargscisyhp 5 months ago | 25 comments
27.
Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme (github.com/rolandoam)
49 points by funkaster 5 months ago | 4 comments
28.
The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas (rieck.me)
71 points by Pseudomanifold 5 months ago | 14 comments
29.
The Ski Rental Problem (lesves.github.io)
91 points by skywalqer 5 months ago | 92 comments
30.
The Crisis of Professional Skepticism (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)
65 points by mathgenius 5 months ago | 77 comments

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