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1.		Download responsibly (geofabrik.de)
		327 points by marklit 1 day ago \| 252 comments
2.		Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		225 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago \| 83 comments
3.		Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease (smithsonianmag.com)
		116 points by pseudolus 4 days ago \| 66 comments
4.		William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004) (bearcave.com)
		310 points by exvi 7 days ago \| 93 comments
5.		You’re a slow thinker. Now what? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
		554 points by sebg 12 days ago \| 238 comments
6.		Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster (abortretry.fail)
		163 points by BirAdam 15 days ago \| 113 comments
7.		The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive (readonlymemo.com)
		305 points by LaSombra 20 days ago \| 69 comments
8.		Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022) (sheafification.com)
		96 points by atomicnature 23 days ago \| 50 comments
9.		Search all text in New York City (alltext.nyc)
		587 points by Kortaggio 41 days ago \| 116 comments
10.		At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)
		474 points by baruchel 53 days ago \| 178 comments
11.		Conversations with a hit man (atavist.com)
		151 points by gmays 84 days ago \| 22 comments
12.		Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022) (tylercipriani.com)
		579 points by Delgan 3 months ago \| 145 comments
13.		Mechanical Watch: Exploded View (fellerts.no)
		1171 points by fellerts 3 months ago \| 134 comments
14.		Start your own Internet Resiliency Club (bowshock.nl)
		579 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago \| 340 comments
15.		I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it (philmckinney.substack.com)
		687 points by AndrewDucker 3 months ago \| 497 comments
16.		The Canadian C++ Conference (cppnorth.ca)
		43 points by BiraIgnacio 3 months ago \| 19 comments
17.		Focus and Context and LLMs (glek.net)
		95 points by tarasglek 3 months ago \| 48 comments
18.		The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (cdn-apple.com)
		488 points by amrrs 3 months ago \| 270 comments
19.		I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic (wave3.social)
		303 points by nswizzle31 3 months ago \| 662 comments
20.		For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time (quantamagazine.org)
		343 points by makira 4 months ago \| 139 comments
21.		“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET (neuecc.medium.com)
		269 points by cempaka 4 months ago \| 88 comments
22.		Observations from people-watching (skincontact.substack.com)
		462 points by jger15 4 months ago \| 229 comments
23.		Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)
		269 points by mtlynch 4 months ago \| 90 comments
24.		So Much Blood (dynomight.net)
		440 points by debesyla 4 months ago \| 209 comments
25.		Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (googleblog.com)
		708 points by meetpateltech 4 months ago \| 686 comments
26.		Emacs Lisp Elements (protesilaos.com)
		353 points by robenkleene 5 months ago \| 56 comments
27.		OmniSVG (github.com/omnisvg)
		44 points by handfuloflight 5 months ago \| 2 comments
28.		My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules (muppetlabs.com)
		277 points by spudlyo 5 months ago \| 33 comments
29.		Obituary for Cyc (yuxi-liu-wired.github.io)
		449 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago \| 282 comments
30.		A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning (lilianweng.github.io)
		160 points by Brysonbw 6 months ago \| 16 comments
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