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 1.                                                                  The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code ( techtrenches.dev )               
     190 points by milkglass 2 hours ago | hide | 83 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
 2.                                                                  Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem ( scientificamerican.com )                          
     341 points by pr337h4m 7 hours ago | hide | 201 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
 3.                                                                  Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? ( freakonomics.com )                     
     209 points by chiefalchemist 8 hours ago | hide | 112 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            
 4.                                                                  Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) ( ciechanow.ski )                                
     15 points by subset 1 hour ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                            
 5.                                                                  USB Cheat Sheet (2022) ( fabiensanglard.net )                                                          
     290 points by gwerbret 10 hours ago | hide | 56 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
 6.                                                                  GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline ( gnupg.org )                                          
     52 points by zdkaster 5 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                            
 7.                                                                  Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day                                   
     234 points by _-x-_ 7 hours ago | hide | 102 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
 8.                                                                  Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] ( catgirl.cloud )                               
     5 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
 9.                                                                  Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence) ( ycombinator.com )              
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10.                                                                  Mahjong: A Visual Guide ( themahjong.guide )                                                           
     77 points by iamwil 5 hours ago | hide | 21 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
11.                                                                  The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement ( asteriskmag.com )             
     28 points by jger15 4 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                            
12.                                                                  Quirks of Human Anatomy ( sdbonline.org )                                                              
     20 points by gurjeet 2 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                            
13.                                                                  Flickr: The first and last great photo platform ( petapixel.com )                                      
     156 points by Nrbelex 10 hours ago | hide | 78 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
14.                                                                  OpenAI Privacy Filter ( openai.com )                                                                   
     200 points by tanelpoder 11 hours ago | hide | 38 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
15.                                                                  EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs ( bednar.io )                                         
     149 points by gasull 4 hours ago | hide | 58 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
16.                                                                  1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) ( hypertalking.com )                                           
     577 points by stephen-hill 21 hours ago | hide | 90 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                            
17.                                                                  The Free Universal Construction Kit ( fffff.at )                                                       
     311 points by robinhouston 17 hours ago | hide | 65 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                            
18.                                                                  Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish ( matthewbrunelle.com )
     267 points by speckx 16 hours ago | hide | 158 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
19.                                                                  APL is more French than English ( jsoftware.com )                                                      
     6 points by tosh 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            
20.                                                                  The Joy of Folding Bikes ( korny.info )                                                                
     166 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | hide | 102 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                            
21.                                                                  Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010) ( media-culture.org.au )                             
     3 points by theletterf 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                            
22.                                                                  America's Geothermal Breakthrough ( oilprice.com )                                                     
     107 points by sleepyguy 12 hours ago | hide | 123 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                            
23.                                                                  Rediscovering the Handcart ( lowtechmagazine.com )                                                     
     19 points by jgrodziski 3 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
24.                                                                  Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games ( github.com/martingalway )          
     174 points by ingve 21 hours ago | hide | 25 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
25.                                                                  Reviving BrowserID in 2026 ( wakamoleguy.com )                                                         
     22 points by wakamoleguy 5 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                            
26.                                                                  Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories ( online.fr )                                                           
     96 points by signa11 11 hours ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
27.                                                                  The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) ( fabiensanglard.net )                                            
     49 points by offbyone42 7 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                            
28.                                                                  AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice ( sfconservancy.org )                     
     59 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                            
29.                                                                  Hokusai and Tesselations ( ndl.go.jp )                                                                 
     106 points by srean 15 hours ago | hide | 14 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                            
30.                                                                  Optimizing Datalog for the GPU ( acm.org )                                                             
     48 points by tosh 8 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                            
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