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1. So you want to learn physics (2021) (susanrigetti.com)
528 points by weird_science on Aug 20, 2023 | 161 comments
2. Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation (deat.tk)
453 points by generichuman on Aug 20, 2023 | 114 comments
3. Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified? (astronomy.stackexchange.com)
550 points by frabert on Aug 20, 2023 | 174 comments
4. The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency (owulveryck.info)
588 points by owulveryck on Aug 20, 2023 | 114 comments
5. Kris Nóva has died (nivenly.org)
865 points by chrkl on Aug 20, 2023 | 130 comments
6. Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret (techcrunch.com)
319 points by pg_1234 on Aug 19, 2023 | 215 comments
7. John Warnock has died (reuters.com)
590 points by skilled on Aug 20, 2023 | 129 comments
8. An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco (petapixel.com)
264 points by PaulHoule on Aug 20, 2023 | 103 comments
9. JSON Schema Store (schemastore.org)
278 points by WallyFunk on Aug 20, 2023 | 146 comments
10. Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results (medicalxpress.com)
177 points by wglb on Aug 20, 2023 | 20 comments
11. Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019) (lowtechmagazine.com)
221 points by solalf on Aug 20, 2023 | 131 comments
12. CRISPR gene-editing treatment eliminates HIV-like virus from non-human primates (nature.com)
233 points by kibwen on Aug 19, 2023 | 37 comments
13. Welcome to Datasette Cloud (datasette.cloud)
317 points by swyx on Aug 20, 2023 | 68 comments
14. Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that wraps GTK4 (github.com/clemapfel)
157 points by xgdgsc on Aug 19, 2023 | 54 comments
15. Executive Function Theft (hedgehoglibrarian.com)
295 points by luu on Aug 20, 2023 | 214 comments
16. Modernity has made us allergic (noemamag.com)
250 points by PaulHoule on Aug 20, 2023 | 231 comments
17. 16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU (jiristepanovsky.cz)
137 points by freedude on Aug 20, 2023 | 25 comments
18. VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting (github.com/ozmartian)
170 points by pkkm on Aug 20, 2023 | 111 comments
19. Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs (thedataquarry.com)
170 points by chop on Aug 19, 2023 | 55 comments
20. Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level (medicalxpress.com)
107 points by jdmark on Aug 19, 2023 | 16 comments
21. Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021) (max.engineer)
266 points by aabbcc1241 on Aug 20, 2023 | 283 comments
22. Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption (economist.com)
239 points by jdkee on Aug 17, 2023 | 209 comments
23. The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004) (spronck.net)
87 points by Logans_Run on Aug 20, 2023 | 51 comments
24. Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy (eclecticlight.co)
146 points by akyuu on Aug 20, 2023 | 79 comments
25. Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife (akshaykhot.com)
168 points by software_writer on Aug 20, 2023 | 77 comments
26. AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080 (wccftech.com)
191 points by mauricesvp on Aug 20, 2023 | 122 comments
27. Scripting with Go (2022) (bitfieldconsulting.com)
150 points by gus_leonel on Aug 20, 2023 | 105 comments
28. Electricity Maps (electricitymaps.com)
248 points by fulafel on Aug 20, 2023 | 127 comments
29. UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013) (ucla.edu)
107 points by dempedempe on Aug 19, 2023 | 24 comments
30. Shit life syndrome (wikipedia.org)
397 points by tjpnz on Aug 20, 2023 | 232 comments

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