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1.		Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (bleepingcomputer.com)
		509 points by vladyslavfox 5 months ago \| 338 comments
2.		555 Timer Circuits (555-timer-circuits.com)
		286 points by okl 6 months ago \| 105 comments
3.		Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published (polygon.com)
		348 points by musha68k 5 months ago \| 97 comments
4.		Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought (scientificamerican.com)
		562 points by orcul 6 months ago \| 408 comments
5.		WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator (wifi-solver.com)
		335 points by jasmcole 5 months ago \| 84 comments
6.		Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems (github.com/drasi-project)
		331 points by benocodes 5 months ago \| 67 comments
7.		MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023) (cmu.edu)
		382 points by virtualwhys 5 months ago \| 137 comments
8.		How to do distributed locking (2016) (kleppmann.com)
		244 points by yusufaytas 5 months ago \| 95 comments
9.		Using Euro coins as weights (2004) (rubinghscience.org)
		183 points by Tomte 5 months ago \| 185 comments
10.		Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018) (aphelis.net)
		121 points by hyperific 5 months ago \| 53 comments
11.		Accountability sinks (aworkinglibrary.com)
		517 points by l0b0 6 months ago \| 306 comments
12.		The best darn grid shader yet (2023) (bgolus.medium.com)
		216 points by eliasylonen 5 months ago \| 23 comments
13.		NASA freezes Starliner missions (gizmodo.com)
		271 points by rntn 6 months ago \| 314 comments
14.		Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent (simonwillison.net)
		309 points by simonw 6 months ago \| 46 comments
15.		C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets (c-motive.com)
		123 points by Jeff_Brown 5 months ago \| 55 comments
16.		The AI Investment Boom (apricitas.io)
		278 points by m-hodges 5 months ago \| 376 comments
17.		Mosaic REALMAP: Explore Prague in detail with 1.26M images (mosaic51.com)
		157 points by programd 6 months ago \| 38 comments
18.		Sampling with SQL (moertel.com)
		178 points by thunderbong 5 months ago \| 43 comments
19.		The Ultimate Conditional Syntax (acm.org)
		145 points by azhenley 5 months ago \| 48 comments
20.		VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack (versatiles.org)
		182 points by moooo99 5 months ago \| 21 comments
21.		The history of the barcode (bbc.com)
		91 points by belter 5 months ago \| 25 comments
22.		The IPv6 Transition (potaroo.net)
		226 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago \| 427 comments
23.		The Languages of English, Math, and Programming (github.com/norvig)
		161 points by stereoabuse 6 months ago \| 47 comments
24.		Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)
		159 points by cpldcpu 6 months ago \| 20 comments
25.		Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing (takeourword.com)
		238 points by wizerno 6 months ago \| 103 comments
26.		[flagged] Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI (github.com/aotakeda)
		170 points by arthurtakeda 5 months ago \| 80 comments
27.		Universal Jointing for Submarine Cables (ujconsortium.com)
		53 points by altrus 6 months ago \| 12 comments
28.		Time is a dimension, but not like space (bigthink.com)
		173 points by belter 6 months ago \| 198 comments
29.		[flagged] Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it (frondly.app)
		110 points by adamaskun 6 months ago \| 88 comments
30.		Syncthing Android App Discontinued (syncthing.net)
		418 points by opengears 5 months ago \| 277 comments
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