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1. Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time (andrewkchan.dev)
784 points by ibobev on Dec 19, 2023 | 169 comments
2. James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus (webbtelescope.org)
695 points by gmays on Dec 19, 2023 | 281 comments
3. Perplexity Labs Playground (perplexity.ai)
295 points by MaximilianEmel on Dec 19, 2023 | 183 comments
4. Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode (khronos.org)
245 points by mshachkov on Dec 19, 2023 | 104 comments
5. How to learn chess as an adult (2021) (alexcrompton.com)
608 points by pseudolus on Dec 17, 2023 | 306 comments
6. The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier (switchyardmag.com)
247 points by rubin55 on Dec 19, 2023 | 219 comments
7. Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34 (jepsen.io)
364 points by aphyr on Dec 19, 2023 | 140 comments
8. Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive (floppy.cafe)
218 points by brk on Dec 19, 2023 | 87 comments
9. A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion (onemileatatime.com)
248 points by ghgr on Dec 19, 2023 | 398 comments
10. Making my own bed sensor (homeautomationguy.io)
237 points by davikr on Dec 19, 2023 | 85 comments
11. Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook (tokyodev.com)
493 points by pwim on Dec 19, 2023 | 383 comments
12. Lessons from a never-ending personal project (siddhesh.substack.com)
275 points by weekendvampire on Dec 18, 2023 | 78 comments
13. Grindavik [video] (youtube.com)
243 points by zdw on Dec 18, 2023 | 81 comments
14. The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (2019) (jalammar.github.io)
213 points by epberry on Dec 19, 2023 | 5 comments
15. The Inner Ring (1944) (lewissociety.org)
184 points by gHeadphone on Dec 19, 2023 | 85 comments
16. Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps (plasmic.app)
214 points by octopoc on Dec 19, 2023 | 86 comments
17. Gokrazy – Go Appliances (gokrazy.org)
262 points by lagniappe on Dec 19, 2023 | 101 comments
18. Tsdocs.dev: Type docs for any JavaScript library (tsdocs.dev)
224 points by webartisan on Dec 19, 2023 | 36 comments
19. Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996) (media.mit.edu)
131 points by thunderbong on Dec 18, 2023 | 35 comments
20. Handbook of Applied Cryptography (uwaterloo.ca)
193 points by phab on Dec 18, 2023 | 22 comments
21. Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation (aps.org)
98 points by tokai on Dec 19, 2023 | 29 comments
22. How many CPU cores can you use in parallel? (pythonspeed.com)
183 points by itamarst on Dec 18, 2023 | 98 comments
23. Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week (9to5mac.com)
291 points by dm on Dec 18, 2023 | 482 comments
24. LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Faster Inferencing (github.com/microsoft)
149 points by TarqDirtyToMe on Dec 18, 2023 | 47 comments
25. National Engineering Handbook (usda.gov)
145 points by minroot on Dec 19, 2023 | 62 comments
26. TuneNN: A transformer-based network model for pitch detection (github.com/tunenn)
112 points by CMLab on Dec 19, 2023 | 39 comments
27. Nobody knows what's happening online anymore (theatlantic.com)
302 points by furrowedbrow on Dec 19, 2023 | 498 comments
28. Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (blobstreaming.org)
354 points by signa11 on Dec 19, 2023 | 572 comments
29. Google's True Moonshot (stratechery.com)
168 points by scdoshi on Dec 18, 2023 | 123 comments
30. Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis (qt.io)
125 points by jandeboevrie on Dec 19, 2023 | 105 comments

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