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1.
How video games use lookup tables (frost.kiwi)
673 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 106 comments
2.
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 (lwn.net)
817 points by jrepinc 10 months ago | 616 comments
3.
Antarctic English (wikipedia.org)
369 points by benbreen 10 months ago | 158 comments
4.
Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages (jamesg.blog)
344 points by zerojames 10 months ago | 151 comments
5.
You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? (gaultier.github.io)
380 points by broken_broken_ 10 months ago | 347 comments
6.
A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019) (ferrous-systems.com)
221 points by simonpure 10 months ago | 115 comments
7.
GGUF, the Long Way Around (vickiboykis.com)
249 points by Tomte 10 months ago | 30 comments
8.
Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (micahlerner.com)
237 points by mlerner 10 months ago | 95 comments
9.
Financial systems take a holiday (bitsaboutmoney.com)
228 points by nfriedly 10 months ago | 200 comments
10.
Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
524 points by sjr1 10 months ago | 481 comments
11.
Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application (github.com/jovandeginste)
263 points by jovdg 10 months ago | 97 comments
12.
Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015) (mixu.net)
297 points by Tomte 10 months ago | 99 comments
13.
Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap (lumafield.com)
268 points by viasfo 10 months ago | 462 comments
14.
Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play (afterbabel.com)
407 points by paulpauper 10 months ago | 440 comments
15.
Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine (biorxiv.org)
209 points by Michelangelo11 10 months ago | 53 comments
16.
Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution (opencollective.com)
173 points by chenrui 10 months ago | 42 comments
17.
Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound [video] (youtube.com)
217 points by gardenfelder 10 months ago | 92 comments
18.
"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages (newyorker.com)
211 points by drdee 10 months ago | 250 comments
19.
Functional ownership through fractional uniqueness (arxiv.org)
122 points by matt_d 10 months ago | 49 comments
20.
Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth (worldsensorium.com)
114 points by dnetesn 10 months ago | 15 comments
21.
Talc – A fast and flexible allocator for no_std and WebAssembly (github.com/sfbdragon)
121 points by excsn 10 months ago | 27 comments
22.
I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021) (bryanbraun.com)
195 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 45 comments
23.
Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform (medium.com/zhaodongyu)
79 points by camel-cdr 10 months ago | 52 comments
24.
Scheduling Internals (tontinton.com)
186 points by signa11 10 months ago | 21 comments
25.
The floppy disk music scene (theverge.com)
116 points by marban 10 months ago | 33 comments
26.
The Claro Programming Language (clarolang.com)
159 points by signa11 10 months ago | 74 comments
27.
Indexed types for a statically safe WebAssembly [pdf] (williamjbowman.com)
51 points by luu 10 months ago | 4 comments
28.
Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests (olegkutkov.me)
146 points by alphabettsy 10 months ago | 148 comments
29.
Hetzner switches to new billing model (hetzner.com)
325 points by throwaway220033 10 months ago | 199 comments
30.
A Social History of Jell-O Salad (2023) (seriouseats.com)
51 points by EndXA 10 months ago | 58 comments

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