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1.How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv)
3883 points by kuroguro on Feb 28, 2021 | 699 comments
2.The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly (universetoday.com)
572 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 28, 2021 | 251 comments
3.Actually Portable Executables (ahgamut.github.io)
683 points by krab on Feb 28, 2021 | 154 comments
4.In Defense of Dumb TVs (frame.work)
439 points by rbanffy on Feb 26, 2021 | 377 comments
5.Little League wants all your information (honeypot.net)
395 points by ColinWright on Feb 28, 2021 | 184 comments
6.How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019) (infil.net)
297 points by Kinrany on Feb 28, 2021 | 106 comments
7.Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with (yossarian.net)
353 points by woodruffw on Feb 28, 2021 | 270 comments
8.Show HN: A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm (github.com/mcyoloswagham)
327 points by mcyoloswagham on Feb 28, 2021 | 95 comments
9.A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest (ghuntley.com)
328 points by ghuntley on Feb 27, 2021 | 235 comments
10.Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook Marketplace ads (bbc.com)
182 points by bbirnbaum on Feb 27, 2021 | 96 comments
11.RIP Flynn.io (github.com/flynn)
285 points by corobo on Feb 28, 2021 | 136 comments
12.New Bone Cell Type Identified (genengnews.com)
156 points by thomas on Feb 28, 2021 | 35 comments
13.Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python (github.com/simonblanke)
239 points by EntICOnc on Feb 28, 2021 | 75 comments
14.Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like a Boss (github.com/jopohl)
244 points by mindcrime on Feb 28, 2021 | 44 comments
15.Not Lisp again (2009) (funcall.blogspot.com)
246 points by caslon on Feb 28, 2021 | 124 comments
16.Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play (medium.com/williamson.f93)
210 points by niDistinct on Feb 28, 2021 | 134 comments
17.Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the Turkish government (propublica.org)
347 points by maltalex on Feb 28, 2021 | 179 comments
18.A 'Lamborghini' of Chariots Is Discovered at Pompeii (npr.org)
169 points by protomyth on Feb 28, 2021 | 64 comments
19.Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent (libcinder.org)
164 points by gjvc on Feb 27, 2021 | 38 comments
20.Reversible Computing (wikipedia.org)
149 points by ve55 on Feb 28, 2021 | 55 comments
21.Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller (righto.com)
146 points by picture on Feb 28, 2021 | 66 comments
22.Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth (spaceprob.es)
182 points by input_sh on Feb 28, 2021 | 30 comments
23.Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg (mattj.io)
172 points by Audiolite on Feb 28, 2021 | 51 comments
24.Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System (eclecticlight.co)
310 points by zdw on Feb 28, 2021 | 324 comments
25.Translating My Z3 Tutorial to Coq (philipzucker.com)
108 points by philzook on Feb 27, 2021 | 18 comments
26.Get a Life (stanford.edu)
176 points by akkartik on Feb 28, 2021 | 21 comments
27.Ancient Babylonian Algorithms: The Earliest Programs (historyofinformation.com)
125 points by robbbminson on Feb 27, 2021 | 56 comments
28.In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020) (dynomight.net)
136 points by souprock on Feb 27, 2021 | 332 comments
29.Apollo in Real Time – A journey through the Apollo missions (apolloinrealtime.org)
112 points by bane on Feb 28, 2021 | 18 comments
30.Try the new try.haxe (haxe.org)
178 points by MokaAkashiya on Feb 28, 2021 | 34 comments

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