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1.Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908) (scentofdawn.blogspot.com)
691 points by ahiknsr on May 24, 2024 | 312 comments
2.What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like (nrk.no)
542 points by ingve on May 26, 2024 | 249 comments
3.To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (news.mit.edu)
311 points by thunderbong on May 26, 2024 | 206 comments
4.Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging (googleblog.com)
627 points by tfsh on May 26, 2024 | 268 comments
5.Hurl, the Exceptional Language (hurl.wtf)
315 points by todsacerdoti on May 26, 2024 | 132 comments
6.Diffusion Models (andrewkchan.dev)
315 points by reasonableklout on May 24, 2024 | 31 comments
7.Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad (github.com/discograd)
232 points by frankling_ on May 26, 2024 | 66 comments
8.Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005) (wlonk.com)
190 points by bilsbie on May 26, 2024 | 47 comments
9.The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery (scientificamerican.com)
418 points by rmason on May 26, 2024 | 134 comments
10.The CompCert C Compiler (compcert.org)
203 points by nequo on May 26, 2024 | 225 comments
11.LO – simple WASM native language (github.com/glebbash)
221 points by glebbash on May 26, 2024 | 63 comments
12.FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) (pcmicro.com)
251 points by Lammy on May 26, 2024 | 86 comments
13.Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS (super.site)
314 points by MediumD on May 26, 2024 | 35 comments
14.The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf] (umbc.edu)
155 points by swatson741 on May 26, 2024 | 130 comments
15.Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x? (arunmani.in)
176 points by arun-mani-j on May 25, 2024 | 63 comments
16.Braid: Synchronization for HTTP (braid.org)
233 points by walterbell on May 26, 2024 | 88 comments
17.The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy (jakeseliger.com)
293 points by jdkee on May 26, 2024 | 55 comments
18.Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017) (sre.google)
188 points by nateb2022 on May 25, 2024 | 115 comments
19.Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary (github.com/transcriptionstream)
200 points by indigodaddy on May 26, 2024 | 37 comments
20.GRC SpinRite (computer.rip)
128 points by todsacerdoti on May 26, 2024 | 159 comments
21.A journey to the medical netherworld (2016) (hazlitt.net)
57 points by EndXA on May 26, 2024 | 13 comments
22.Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS (rhodesmill.org)
68 points by kenarsa on May 23, 2024 | 5 comments
23.Milk watcher (wikipedia.org)
150 points by bookofjoe on May 26, 2024 | 91 comments
24.Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video] (youtube.com)
284 points by explosion-s on May 26, 2024 | 76 comments
25.Cloudflare took down our website (robindev.substack.com)
1044 points by nolverostae on May 26, 2024 | 466 comments
26.How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding? (vitalik.eth.limo)
90 points by bpierre on May 23, 2024 | 42 comments
27.Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023) (youtube.com)
86 points by janandonly on May 24, 2024 | 58 comments
28.A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012) (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
51 points by Drunk_Engineer on May 23, 2024 | 29 comments
29.Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone (dumbph.com)
224 points by hbroadbent on May 26, 2024 | 187 comments
30.Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings (electrek.co)
118 points by peutetre on May 25, 2024 | 67 comments

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