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1.A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis? (the-scientist.com)
431 points by pseudolus on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
2.Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical (prism-break.org)
707 points by doener on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 273 comments [ext]
3.Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals” (ubc.ca)
483 points by benguild on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 226 comments [ext]
4. From Wool Sneakers to AI Chips: The Anatomy of a Desperation Pivot (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 17 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
4.Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker (michaeljfox.org)
495 points by sandGorgon on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
5.Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead (nytimes.com)
1008 points by ramraj07 on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 1183 comments [ext]
6.Heathkit (heathkit.com)
241 points by hypertexthero on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
7. The dangerous delusion of high stock valuations during a Middle East war (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 2 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Krita: A professional free and open source painting program (krita.org)
643 points by doener on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 233 comments [ext]
8.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023) [ext]
370 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 499 comments [ext]
9.JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank (fdic.gov)
554 points by robbiet480 on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 541 comments [ext]
10. The Polish Recluse Who Cracked the Forgetting Curve (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 480 days ago | hide | 22 comments
10.The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf] (fleuret.org)
521 points by dataminer on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
11.First clean water, now clean air (finmoorhouse.com)
285 points by finm on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
12.FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying (apnews.com)
347 points by FridayoLeary on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
13. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.You and Your Research (1986) (virginia.edu)
186 points by ftxbro on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
14.Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element (devever.net)
191 points by pabs3 on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
15.Yurt Calculator (simplydifferently.org)
221 points by raptorraver on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
16. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains (sciencenews.org)
172 points by Brajeshwar on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
17.The web’s most important decision (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
236 points by zdw on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
18.DIY Adapter: Using an e-bike battery to run a laptop (transistor-man.com)
137 points by transistor-man on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
19. 72 Million Trades Reveal a Hidden Wealth Transfer on Kalshi (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 92 days ago | hide | 148 comments
19.Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory (wikipedia.org)
79 points by chris_overseas on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
20.Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981-) (digibarn.com)
150 points by walterbell on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
21.A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015) (atlasobscura.com)
150 points by cwillu on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
22. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
22.Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022) (birdwatchingdaily.com)
103 points by sandebert on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)
105 points by Michelangelo11 on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 221 comments [ext]
24.Second ‘impossible’ ring found around distant dwarf planet (nytimes.com)
112 points by Hooke on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
25. Beyond the labor crisis: Managing the coming recession of subjective meaning ()
46 points by gin5806 2 days ago | hide | 47 comments
25.Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket (apnews.com)
302 points by thm on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 392 comments [ext]
26.Chess is booming among teens (polygon.com)
291 points by zdw on April 30, 2023 [ext] | 216 comments [ext]
27.The kremvax hoax (1984) (godfatherof.nl)
86 points by classichasclass on April 29, 2023 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
28. How the Internet Redistributes Social Capital and Unsettles Elites (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 433 days ago | hide | 93 comments
28.Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023) [ext]
131 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 355 comments [ext]
29.Ggwave: Message people over sound (github.com/ggerganov)
136 points by BasedDebianUsr on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
30.VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell (github.com/microsoft)
90 points by tech234a on May 1, 2023 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
31. The defensive capex trap squeezing OpenAI and Anthropic (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 3 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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