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1.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it (switowski.com)
1492 points by switowski 33 days ago | 419 comments
2.
How to build a 50k ton forging press (construction-physics.com)
451 points by chmaynard 32 days ago | 188 comments
3.
Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine (zen-browser.app)
828 points by femou 33 days ago | 409 comments
4.
Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible (ieee.org)
238 points by Brajeshwar 33 days ago | 60 comments
5.
Calling All Hackers (phrack.org)
674 points by picture 33 days ago | 253 comments
6.
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM (github.com/hsfzxjy)
191 points by hsfzxjy 33 days ago | 53 comments
7.
The semantic web is now widely adopted (csvbase.com)
455 points by todsacerdoti 33 days ago | 259 comments
8.
Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone (midjourney.com)
342 points by meetpateltech 32 days ago | 174 comments
9.
On finishing projects (alexreichert.com)
228 points by reichertjalex 34 days ago | 100 comments
10.
Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020) (cantrip.org)
174 points by fanf2 32 days ago | 75 comments
11.
Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational (mathsisfun.com)
172 points by thunderbong 32 days ago | 93 comments
12.
Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions (github.com/plasmohq)
202 points by akiselev 33 days ago | 33 comments
13.
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died (theguardian.com)
405 points by howard941 32 days ago | 220 comments
14.
Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging (pocoo.org)
254 points by keybits 32 days ago | 142 comments
15.
Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore (pv-tech.org)
168 points by wmstack 33 days ago | 286 comments
16.
Revisiting the Classics: Jensen's Inequality (2023) (francisbach.com)
89 points by cpp_frog 32 days ago | 8 comments
17.
Self-Supervised Learning for Videos (lightly.ai)
91 points by sauravmaheshkar 32 days ago | 8 comments
18.
Launch HN: Outerport (YC S24) – Instant hot-swapping for AI model weights
93 points by tovacinni 32 days ago | 24 comments
19.
ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator (github.com/shadps4-emu)
364 points by RafelMri 33 days ago | 163 comments
20.
On Being a Senior Engineer (2012) (kitchensoap.com)
155 points by rspivak 35 days ago | 111 comments
21.
Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads (github.com/baalimago)
108 points by baalimago 35 days ago | 84 comments
22.
Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale (ieee.org)
128 points by namanyayg 32 days ago | 64 comments
23.
The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line (uu.nl)
62 points by thunderbong 33 days ago | 33 comments
24.
The weird of function-local types in Rust (elastio.github.io)
116 points by lukastyrychtr 37 days ago | 28 comments
25.
Show HN: A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web (feedbomb.app)
68 points by georg-stone 33 days ago | 21 comments
26.
Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby (esa.int)
101 points by janpot 33 days ago | 44 comments
27.
David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video] (youtube.com)
79 points by bhasi 37 days ago | 7 comments
28.
Better Living Through Algorithms (2023) (clarkesworldmagazine.com)
176 points by RafelMri 38 days ago | 34 comments
29.
The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time (tomeraberba.ch)
76 points by tomeraberbach 37 days ago | 61 comments
30.
US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements (ft.com)
320 points by throwaway2037 33 days ago | 384 comments

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