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1.
Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity (stefantheard.com)
1811 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 914 comments
2.
The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing (computerwebsite.net)
645 points by arithmoquine 7 months ago | 60 comments
3.
Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle (artnet.com)
208 points by RobertJaTomsons 7 months ago | 98 comments
4.
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress (arcprize.org)
588 points by mikeknoop 7 months ago | 337 comments
5.
Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 (elixir-lang.org)
495 points by clessg 7 months ago | 163 comments
6.
Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library (github.com/lexbor)
235 points by bratao 7 months ago | 24 comments
7.
Faxes From the Far Side (2015) (damninteresting.com)
104 points by not_a_boat 7 months ago | 13 comments
8.
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack (chromium.org)
325 points by feross 7 months ago | 465 comments
9.
Author Clock: a novel way to tell time (authorclock.com)
206 points by iamben 7 months ago | 131 comments
10.
Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black (bbc.com)
164 points by ranit 7 months ago | 81 comments
11.
Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization (stamen.com)
90 points by skadamat 7 months ago | 11 comments
12.
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds (science.org)
241 points by jyunwai 7 months ago | 91 comments
13.
Metaflora (metazooa.com)
88 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 15 comments
14.
When Water Flows Uphill [video] (2013) (youtube.com)
245 points by ColinWright 7 months ago | 39 comments
15.
How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings (tembo.io)
272 points by samaysharma 7 months ago | 82 comments
16.
Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk
164 points by Bisen 7 months ago | 89 comments
17.
AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse (frereit.de)
141 points by _tk_ 7 months ago | 63 comments
18.
Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 (caltech.edu)
105 points by dangle1 7 months ago | 5 comments
19.
How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019) (twobithistory.org)
223 points by davikr 7 months ago | 156 comments
20.
Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet (jott.live)
101 points by brrrrrm 7 months ago | 18 comments
21.
How to make colored fire at home (2020) (sciencenotes.org)
108 points by squircle 7 months ago | 30 comments
22.
Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B (arxiv.org)
100 points by belter 7 months ago | 9 comments
23.
Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today (twz.com)
94 points by vinnyglennon 7 months ago | 51 comments
24.
Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust (restate.dev)
185 points by sewen 7 months ago | 109 comments
25.
T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next (arstechnica.com)
203 points by rntn 7 months ago | 170 comments
26.
Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab (tomshardware.com)
248 points by prng2021 7 months ago | 236 comments
27.
Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers (greenend.org.uk)
60 points by robinhouston 7 months ago | 6 comments
28.
Mexico’s anti-avocado militias (theguardian.com)
96 points by cyberlimerence 7 months ago | 80 comments
29.
How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system (mihaileric.com)
180 points by nutellalover 7 months ago | 213 comments
30.
Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner (aeon.co)
82 points by Caiero 7 months ago | 228 comments

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