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1. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers (sqfmi.com)
731 points by erohead on May 17, 2023 | 227 comments
2. Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible (boulderbeat.news)
474 points by mooreds on May 17, 2023 | 232 comments
3. Smol Developer (github.com/smol-ai)
528 points by tlarkworthy on May 15, 2023 | 130 comments
4. Rekt.network (rekt.network)
568 points by willswire on May 17, 2023 | 137 comments
5. Petrucci Music Library (imslp.org)
263 points by hammock on May 17, 2023 | 83 comments
6. Numbers every LLM developer should know (github.com/ray-project)
428 points by richardliaw on May 17, 2023 | 103 comments
7. Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
644 points by Sai_ on May 17, 2023 | 228 comments
8. Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way (stanford.edu)
325 points by CharlesW on May 17, 2023 | 208 comments
9. The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review (smyachenkov.com)
385 points by _sJiff on May 17, 2023 | 241 comments
10. Retro Computer Museum (retrocomputermuseum.co.uk)
274 points by thorin on May 17, 2023 | 104 comments
11. Lately I've been using timers daily (github.com/madprops)
371 points by Sujeto on May 17, 2023 | 129 comments
12. Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features (blog.google)
282 points by todsacerdoti on May 17, 2023 | 154 comments
13. The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods (worldsensorium.com)
166 points by dnetesn on May 17, 2023 | 64 comments
14. Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job (bloomberg.com)
413 points by JumpCrisscross on May 17, 2023 | 781 comments
15. Understanding database indexes in PostgreSQL (mastermind.dev)
288 points by mrpotato on May 17, 2023 | 18 comments
16. Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites (space.com)
151 points by gmays on May 15, 2023 | 93 comments
17. Show HN: Postgres query lock explainer (github.com/admtal)
143 points by admtal on May 17, 2023 | 14 comments
18. Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing (2001) (unm.edu)
201 points by todsacerdoti on May 15, 2023 | 30 comments
19. Using Bun.js as a Bundler (shaneosullivan.wordpress.com)
137 points by shaneos on May 17, 2023 | 42 comments
20. Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame (jamez.it)
154 points by jamez on May 16, 2023 | 41 comments
21. Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease (tomshardware.com)
143 points by thunderbong on May 15, 2023 | 203 comments
22. Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s exabyte-scale blob storage system (infoq.com)
126 points by rbanffy on May 16, 2023 | 85 comments
23. CMU Common Lisp 21e (common-lisp.net)
115 points by mepian on May 15, 2023 | 14 comments
24. Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child (ishadeed.com)
118 points by shadeed on May 17, 2023 | 42 comments
25. I Still Use Windows 95 (2008) (archive.org)
184 points by zdw on May 16, 2023 | 308 comments
26. Experts weigh impact of Intel-Arm collaboration (eetimes.com)
81 points by JoachimS on May 16, 2023 | 55 comments
27. The Maddest My Code Made Anyone (jackkelly.name)
159 points by signa11 on May 15, 2023 | 127 comments
28. Beware offers of “help” with your projects (terraaeon.com)
179 points by surprisetalk on May 16, 2023 | 162 comments
29. BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT (bratgpt.com)
334 points by walz on May 17, 2023 | 174 comments
30. Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams (9to5google.com)
217 points by thesuperbigfrog on May 17, 2023 | 248 comments

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