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 1.                                                                   The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code ( techtrenches.dev )               
     380 points by milkglass 3 hours ago | hide | 186 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                             
 2.                                                                   Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? ( freakonomics.com )                     
     235 points by chiefalchemist 10 hours ago | hide | 132 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                             
 3.                                                                   Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem ( scientificamerican.com )                          
     383 points by pr337h4m 8 hours ago | hide | 246 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                             
 4.                                                                   Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] ( catgirl.cloud )                               
     20 points by robin_reala 3 hours ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                             
 5.                                                                   Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day                                   
     277 points by _-x-_ 9 hours ago | hide | 115 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                             
 6.                                                                   USB Cheat Sheet (2022) ( fabiensanglard.net )                                                          
     327 points by gwerbret 12 hours ago | hide | 58 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                             
 7.                                                                   GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline ( gnupg.org )                                          
     72 points by zdkaster 6 hours ago | hide | 22 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                             
 8.                                                                   Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) ( ciechanow.ski )                                
     26 points by subset 2 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                             
 9.                                                                   Statecharts: hierarchical state machines ( statecharts.dev )                                           
     4 points by sph 42 minutes ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                             
10.                                                                   I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards ( npmjs.com )                
     10 points by okovooo 2 hours ago | hide | 13 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                             
11.                                                                   Mahjong: A Visual Guide ( themahjong.guide )                                                           
     97 points by iamwil 7 hours ago | hide | 24 comments                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                             
12.                                                                   Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence) ( ycombinator.com )              
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13.                                                                   Quirks of Human Anatomy ( sdbonline.org )                                                              
     34 points by gurjeet 4 hours ago | hide | 16 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                             
14.                                                                   The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement ( asteriskmag.com )             
     34 points by jger15 6 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                             
15.                                                                   Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter ( edenai.co )                                             
     8 points by muzzy19 1 hour ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                             
16.                                                                   APL is more French than English ( jsoftware.com )                                                      
     15 points by tosh 2 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                             
17.                                                                   OpenAI Privacy Filter ( openai.com )                                                                   
     212 points by tanelpoder 13 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                             
18.                                                                   Flickr: The first and last great photo platform ( petapixel.com )                                      
     174 points by Nrbelex 12 hours ago | hide | 85 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                             
19.                                                                   The Free Universal Construction Kit ( fffff.at )                                                       
     316 points by robinhouston 18 hours ago | hide | 69 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                             
20.                                                                   Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish ( matthewbrunelle.com )
     274 points by speckx 18 hours ago | hide | 170 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                             
21.                                                                   EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs ( bednar.io )                                         
     178 points by gasull 6 hours ago | hide | 83 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                             
22.                                                                   The Joy of Folding Bikes ( korny.info )                                                                
     177 points by pavel_lishin 14 hours ago | hide | 114 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                             
23.                                                                   Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories ( online.fr )                                                           
     113 points by signa11 13 hours ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                             
24.                                                                   America's Geothermal Breakthrough ( oilprice.com )                                                     
     111 points by sleepyguy 14 hours ago | hide | 131 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                             
25.                                                                   The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) ( fabiensanglard.net )                                            
     59 points by offbyone42 9 hours ago | hide | 11 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                             
26.                                                                   Rediscovering the Handcart ( lowtechmagazine.com )                                                     
     25 points by jgrodziski 4 hours ago | hide | 5 comments                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                             
27.                                                                   Optimizing Datalog for the GPU ( acm.org )                                                             
     56 points by tosh 10 hours ago | hide | 3 comments                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                             
28.                                                                   The Knight Programming Language ( github.com/knight-lang )                                             
     6 points by tosh 2 hours ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                             
29.                                                                   Hokusai and Tesselations ( ndl.go.jp )                                                                 
     110 points by srean 16 hours ago | hide | 14 comments                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                             
30.                                                                   Simulacrum of Knowledge Work ( happyfellow.dev )                                                       
     150 points by thehappyfellow 16 hours ago | hide | 59 comments                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                             
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