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1. Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years (smithsonianmag.com)
428 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 19, 2023 | 247 comments
2. Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative (github.com/localsend)
563 points by meatjuice on Oct 19, 2023 | 229 comments
3. ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades (cornell.edu)
592 points by JohnHammersley on Oct 19, 2023 | 159 comments
4. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer (bloomberg.com)
354 points by infrawhispers on Oct 19, 2023 | 599 comments
5. Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts (autotab.com)
376 points by jonasnelle on Oct 19, 2023 | 126 comments
6. Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off (404media.co)
573 points by mstep on Oct 19, 2023 | 474 comments
7. Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 (timac.org)
346 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 | 221 comments
8. Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota (kcl.ac.uk)
300 points by CharlesW on Oct 18, 2023 | 139 comments
9. DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) (libraryjournal.com)
307 points by meristohm on Oct 19, 2023 | 242 comments
10. Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas (lerner.co.il)
716 points by reuven on Oct 19, 2023 | 493 comments
11. Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
382 points by bovem on Oct 19, 2023 | 192 comments
12. Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14k-year-old tree rings (phys.org)
207 points by wglb on Oct 19, 2023 | 150 comments
13. Linux runtime security agent powered by eBPF (github.com/exein-io)
193 points by ExeinTech on Oct 19, 2023 | 69 comments
14. 13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep firms dropped the ball (theverge.com)
257 points by thunderbong on Oct 19, 2023 | 189 comments
15. Build your own BitTorrent (codecrafters.io)
457 points by romac on Oct 19, 2023 | 128 comments
16. Show HN: Generate Stable Diffusion scenes around 3D models (github.com/dabble-studio)
123 points by neilxm on Oct 19, 2023 | 53 comments
17. Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case (brimdata.io)
91 points by jameskerr on Oct 19, 2023 | 39 comments
18. Banging errors in Go (tedunangst.com)
166 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 | 334 comments
19. Zero ASIC is out of stealth (zeroasic.com)
224 points by jasondavies on Oct 18, 2023 | 85 comments
20. Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do (demofox.org)
102 points by ingve on Oct 18, 2023 | 34 comments
21. Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] (youtube.com)
237 points by throwaway71271 on Oct 17, 2023 | 191 comments
22. Requiem for a stringref (wingolog.org)
89 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2023 | 96 comments
23. The origins of the Idle Scan (antirez.com)
140 points by antirez on Oct 19, 2023 | 13 comments
24. Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope (stanford.edu)
183 points by cpncrunch on Oct 19, 2023 | 266 comments
25. The 1924 Mikiphone: The first pocket record player (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
93 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 19, 2023 | 27 comments
26. Version Museum: A Visual History of Your Favorite Technology (versionmuseum.com)
80 points by laech on Oct 18, 2023 | 9 comments
27. Yamaha TX81Z Homepage (mgregory22.me)
74 points by brudgers on Oct 18, 2023 | 65 comments
28. Show HN: Modern Moodle learning platform open-source alternative (learnhouse.app)
144 points by sweave on Oct 19, 2023 | 63 comments
29. In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk (theregister.com)
80 points by digitalnalogika on Oct 19, 2023 | 58 comments
30. xVal: A continuous number encoding for large language models (arxiv.org)
72 points by og_kalu on Oct 18, 2023 | 11 comments

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