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1.
Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (esa.int)
1078 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 301 comments
2.
I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS (codedbearder.com)
411 points by granra 9 months ago | 131 comments
3.
Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades (tuwien.at)
475 points by geox 9 months ago | 213 comments
4.
Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe (theins.ru)
708 points by dralley 9 months ago | 468 comments
5.
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev)
515 points by ellieh 9 months ago | 124 comments
6.
Cheyenne Super Computer Auction (gsaauctions.gov)
261 points by zrules 9 months ago | 155 comments
7.
You can't just assume UTF-8 (csvbase.com)
195 points by calpaterson 9 months ago | 471 comments
8.
Memary: Open-Source Longterm Memory for Autonomous Agents (github.com/kingjulio8238)
216 points by james_chu 9 months ago | 66 comments
9.
GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? (rentry.co)
543 points by atemerev 9 months ago | 360 comments
10.
The Myth of the Second Chance (pressreader.com)
352 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 447 comments
11.
I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs (github.com/khiner)
210 points by khiner 9 months ago | 189 comments
12.
Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres (postgres.ai)
357 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 80 comments
13.
Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017) (99percentinvisible.org)
143 points by not_a_boat 9 months ago | 52 comments
14.
6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf] (reactivemicro.com)
123 points by siraben 9 months ago | 6 comments
15.
Reentry – An Orbital Simulator (reentrygame.com)
156 points by belter 9 months ago | 41 comments
16.
How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? (uxdesign.cc)
278 points by simonw 9 months ago | 123 comments
17.
Pdf.tocgen (krasjet.com)
175 points by nbernard 9 months ago | 39 comments
18.
Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line (github.com/rcoh)
151 points by kqr 9 months ago | 34 comments
19.
FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (2016) (bigmessowires.com)
68 points by electricant 9 months ago | 10 comments
20.
Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B (github.com/ollama)
192 points by ashvardanian 9 months ago | 64 comments
21.
Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself (akamai.com)
144 points by rexbee 9 months ago | 71 comments
22.
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (lunduke.locals.com)
475 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 403 comments
23.
DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game (masswerk.at)
105 points by smartmic 9 months ago | 43 comments
24.
Show HN: Kaytu – Optimizing cloud costs using actual usage data (github.com/kaytu-io)
98 points by acx1729 9 months ago | 16 comments
25.
FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator (philpem.me.uk)
105 points by luu 9 months ago | 49 comments
26.
Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022) (anniecherkaev.com)
96 points by skilled 9 months ago | 104 comments
27.
Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds (matteason.co.uk)
139 points by matteason 9 months ago | 50 comments
28.
What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017) (merriam-webster.com)
220 points by rglullis 9 months ago | 325 comments
29.
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview (github.blog)
308 points by davidbarker 9 months ago | 323 comments
30.
Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills (bbc.com)
170 points by 8BitArmour 9 months ago | 54 comments

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