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1. Apple Vision Pro review (wsj.com)
681 points by fortran77 on Jan 30, 2024 | 1066 comments
2. I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals (chadaustin.me)
523 points by signa11 on Jan 30, 2024 | 179 comments
3. Why flying insects gather at artificial light (nature.com)
440 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2024 | 173 comments
4. Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners (ubicloud.com)
475 points by umur on Jan 30, 2024 | 124 comments
5. Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming (quantamagazine.org)
498 points by pseudolus on Jan 30, 2024 | 191 comments
6. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines (github.com/quickemu-project)
452 points by overbytecode on Jan 30, 2024 | 133 comments
7. How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech (12challenges.substack.com)
544 points by louisbarclay on Jan 30, 2024 | 202 comments
8. The C bounded model checker: criminally underused (philipzucker.com)
209 points by philzook on Jan 30, 2024 | 125 comments
9. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition (cnbc.com)
302 points by bitsage on Jan 29, 2024 | 450 comments
10. .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla (ieee.org)
311 points by headalgorithm on Jan 30, 2024 | 209 comments
11. Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
145 points by Hadjimina on Jan 30, 2024 | 136 comments
12. Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees (danrodricks.com)
318 points by jbrins1 on Jan 30, 2024 | 382 comments
13. Crime rings trafficking sand (scientificamerican.com)
188 points by PaulHoule on Jan 30, 2024 | 111 comments
14. Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 (reuters.com)
274 points by mfiguiere on Jan 30, 2024 | 161 comments
15. An Introduction to the WARC File (2021) (archive-it.org)
176 points by dsego on Jan 29, 2024 | 68 comments
16. The business of check cashing (bitsaboutmoney.com)
215 points by admp on Jan 30, 2024 | 323 comments
17. The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019) (akrl.sdf.org)
126 points by simonpure on Jan 30, 2024 | 42 comments
18. The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021) (cpushack.com)
100 points by throwup238 on Jan 30, 2024 | 46 comments
19. Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript (kravchyk.com)
144 points by mckravchyk on Jan 29, 2024 | 58 comments
20. Everyone hates the electronic medical record (logicmag.io)
286 points by billybuckwheat on Jan 30, 2024 | 330 comments
21. Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server (pub400.com)
145 points by throwup238 on Jan 30, 2024 | 63 comments
22. Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers (techdirt.com)
427 points by rntn on Jan 30, 2024 | 216 comments
23. Learning Universal Predictors (arxiv.org)
66 points by jandrewrogers on Jan 29, 2024 | 25 comments
24. Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician (scientificamerican.com)
137 points by hilux on Jan 29, 2024 | 67 comments
25. Profiling your Numba code (pythonspeed.com)
67 points by itamarst on Jan 30, 2024 | 23 comments
26. How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent (adaobi.substack.com)
356 points by mhb on Jan 29, 2024 | 218 comments
27. Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr (github.com/fiatjaf)
90 points by jgilias on Jan 30, 2024 | 59 comments
28. Why Certificate Lifecycle Automation Matters (hezmatt.org)
103 points by pabs3 on Jan 30, 2024 | 29 comments
29. On the Costs of Syscalls (2021) (gms.tf)
105 points by K0nserv on Jan 29, 2024 | 87 comments
30. Chris Date and the Relational Model (2014) (red-gate.com)
73 points by tosh on Jan 30, 2024 | 18 comments

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