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1.Why is my dryer radioactive? (physics.stackexchange.com)
674 points by jpitz on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
2.What happened with ASUS routers this morning? (downtowndougbrown.com)
736 points by zdw on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 450 comments [ext]
3.ChatGPT app for iOS (openai.com)
675 points by rememberlenny on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 404 comments [ext]
4. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
4.LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009) (gist.github.com)
186 points by avinassh on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
5.Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement (petapixel.com)
308 points by kens on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 394 comments [ext]
6.The Great CPU Stagnation (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
246 points by greghn on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
7. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
7.CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue (loro-dev.notion.site)
206 points by samwillis on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
8.Windows XP Activation: Game Over (tinyapps.org)
248 points by sysadm1n on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
9.How to quit cars (newyorker.com)
264 points by amatheus on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 801 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos” (twitter.com/benguild)
181 points by benguild on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
11.NYC skyscrapers sit vacant (bloomberg.com)
185 points by mirthlessend on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 413 comments [ext]
12.An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (2019) (jezzamon.com)
184 points by zerojames on May 17, 2023 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
13. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Apple’s new headset meets reality (bloomberg.com)
234 points by sudheer_paturi on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 505 comments [ext]
14.Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung (nikkei.com)
244 points by thunderbong on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 323 comments [ext]
15.User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018) (userinyerface.com)
362 points by onion2k on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
16. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
16.The simple joys of scaling up (motherduck.com)
150 points by eatonphil on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
17.Unit Testing eBPF Programs (ldelossa.is)
114 points by ldelossa on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
18.TikTok is now banned in Montana (theverge.com)
281 points by tortilla on May 17, 2023 [ext] | 536 comments [ext]
19. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919) (archive.org)
144 points by cbracketdash on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
20.Language models cost much more in some languages than others (yenniejun.com)
260 points by yenniejun111 on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
21.Simulated Hospital (github.com/google)
191 points by axutio on May 17, 2023 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998) (cmu.edu)
113 points by DerekBickerton on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
23.Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std (github.com/ziglang)
267 points by huydotnet on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
24.European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects (opensource.org)
297 points by rbanffy on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com/abiosoft)
132 points by luu on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
26.The Case for Bash (2021) (neversaw.us)
125 points by memalign on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games (github.com/nickm980)
112 points by nm980 on May 17, 2023 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
28. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)
201 points by msephton on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
29.CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (simonwillison.net)
204 points by simonw on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
30.DuckDB 0.8 (duckdb.org)
187 points by nnx on May 18, 2023 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
31. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments

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