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

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