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1. A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) (lathes.co.uk)
529 points by CommieBobDole on April 28, 2024 | 146 comments
2. Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone (github.com/rejunity)
362 points by jnord on April 28, 2024 | 71 comments
3. Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) (theluddite.org)
1112 points by MrVandemar on April 27, 2024 | 529 comments
4. Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm (rednuht.org)
484 points by memalign on April 27, 2024 | 73 comments
5. Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions (stackblitz.com)
386 points by nickwritesit on April 25, 2024 | 163 comments
6. Personal computing paves the way for personal library science (bramadams.dev)
193 points by _bramses on April 28, 2024 | 51 comments
7. Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night (theregister.com)
184 points by LorenDB on April 25, 2024 | 25 comments
8. Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility (github.com/gyf304)
225 points by gyf304 on April 28, 2024 | 100 comments
9. Burn After Wearing (grist.org)
213 points by onychomys on April 27, 2024 | 142 comments
10. TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales (ianvisits.co.uk)
209 points by zeristor on April 28, 2024 | 251 comments
11. Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (2023) (sigma-star.at)
132 points by st_goliath on April 27, 2024 | 47 comments
12. How to improve the RISC-V specification (alastairreid.github.io)
162 points by todsacerdoti on April 28, 2024 | 61 comments
13. How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles (gagor.pro)
227 points by ___timor___ on April 27, 2024 | 140 comments
14. Flow Field Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
165 points by ingve on April 28, 2024 | 27 comments
15. Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine (righto.com)
108 points by todsacerdoti on April 28, 2024 | 9 comments
16. The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics (nhigham.com)
215 points by teleforce on April 28, 2024 | 34 comments
17. PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python (pysheets.app)
287 points by tosh on April 27, 2024 | 72 comments
18. Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023) (musicradar.com)
151 points by conanxin on April 25, 2024 | 69 comments
19. Did we lose our way in making efficient software? (rufatmammadli.medium.com)
264 points by rumad on April 28, 2024 | 494 comments
20. Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months (stuffwithstuff.com)
264 points by auraham on April 27, 2024 | 17 comments
21. The unstallable plane that stalled (fearoflanding.com)
176 points by sni on April 28, 2024 | 179 comments
22. Barley plants fine-tune root microbial communities through sugary secretions (phys.org)
72 points by wglb on April 26, 2024 | 7 comments
23. The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] (acm.org)
92 points by swatson741 on April 28, 2024 | 10 comments
24. OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers (os-world.github.io)
77 points by kristianpaul on April 28, 2024 | 39 comments
25. Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree (zed.dev)
197 points by avinassh on April 28, 2024 | 41 comments
26. Speeding up C++ build times (figma.com)
165 points by skilled on April 27, 2024 | 203 comments
27. Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
125 points by _Microft on April 26, 2024 | 24 comments
28. Philosophus Autodidactus (wikipedia.org)
73 points by niemandhier on April 25, 2024 | 29 comments
29. Google Quantum AI (quantumai.google)
187 points by segasaturn on April 28, 2024 | 194 comments
30. What if null was an Object in Java? (donraab.medium.com)
77 points by ingve on April 27, 2024 | 160 comments

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