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1.If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing (pluralistic.net)
1597 points by jay_kyburz on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 794 comments [ext]
2.Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application (github.com/chriskiehl)
769 points by lsferreira42 on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
3.A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
680 points by xenophonf on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 297 comments [ext]
4. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
4.Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers (bbc.com)
307 points by thunderbong on Dec 7, 2023 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
5.Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results (arstechnica.com)
346 points by CHB0403085482 on Dec 7, 2023 [ext] | 262 comments [ext]
6.Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo (dougengelbart.org)
272 points by gjvc on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C# (github.com/isadorasophia)
322 points by ibobev on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
8.PysimpleGUI (github.com/pysimplegui)
277 points by nothrowaways on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
9.W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine (w4games.com)
445 points by j_maffe on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
10. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
10.Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy (archive.org)
177 points by dcminter on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
11.Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker (arstechnica.com)
402 points by Shank on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools (github.com/secureai-tools)
234 points by d7y on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
13. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
13.OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault (github.com/openbao)
314 points by thinkmassive on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
14.Vulnerabilities in TETRA radio networks (cryptomuseum.com)
214 points by porsupah on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
15.Make Apps for Linux (makealinux.app)
304 points by jay-barronville on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 405 comments [ext]
16. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
16.CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG (richg42.blogspot.com)
237 points by dirkf on Dec 7, 2023 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
17.Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing (nebula.org)
167 points by all2 on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
18.Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games (gingerbeardman.com)
101 points by ecliptik on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs (cornell-relaxml.github.io)
201 points by jasondavies on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for (osssoftware.org)
245 points by johnrushx on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
21.Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing (pncnmnp.github.io)
151 points by pncnmnp on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
22. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
22.NetworkX – Network Analysis in Python (networkx.org)
187 points by comradesmith on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
23.Flatpack field hospitals that can be airdropped to disaster zones (theguardian.com)
222 points by tosh on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
24.Just Your Handyman (plough.com)
205 points by merrier on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
25. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
25.WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program (internet-janitor.itch.io)
166 points by RodgerTheGreat on Dec 7, 2023 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.Programming Bottom-Up (1993) (paulgraham.com)
75 points by tzury on Dec 7, 2023 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
27.EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS (acs.org)
182 points by geox on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
28. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.NeurIPS 2023 Posters Cluster Visualization (vizhub.ai)
103 points by skadamat on Dec 9, 2023 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
29.Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations (phys.org)
92 points by wglb on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
30.Nikon makes firmware for astronauts to block cosmic rays in photos (petapixel.com)
121 points by isaacfrond on Dec 8, 2023 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
31. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments

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