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1.
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (wisc.edu)
901 points by tux3 7 days ago | 406 comments
2.
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 (bbc.com)
503 points by danso 7 days ago | 101 comments
3.
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)
623 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 521 comments
4.
Excitable cells (jenevoldsen.com)
306 points by johannes_ne 11 days ago | 48 comments
5.
Glubux's Powerwall (2016) (secondlifestorage.com)
388 points by bentobean 7 days ago | 273 comments
6.
Go Optimization Guide (goperf.dev)
483 points by jedeusus 8 days ago | 161 comments
7.
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org)
748 points by tipiirai 8 days ago | 567 comments
8.
A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up (captrice.io)
459 points by adityaathalye 11 days ago | 136 comments
9.
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst (glthr.com)
252 points by tobr 7 days ago | 74 comments
10.
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (fluentsubs.com)
470 points by ph4evers 8 days ago | 184 comments
11.
KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader (github.com/koreader)
420 points by charleshan 8 days ago | 105 comments
12.
Why F#? (batsov.com)
446 points by bozhidar 7 days ago | 413 comments
13.
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com/dfd-tud)
286 points by pavel_lishin 7 days ago | 99 comments
14.
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
527 points by goldenskye 8 days ago | 251 comments
15.
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11 (schneegans.de)
224 points by nixass 10 days ago | 79 comments
16.
Shared DNA in Music (pudding.cool)
250 points by ksampath02 7 days ago | 59 comments
17.
Netflix’s Media Production Suite (netflixtechblog.com)
256 points by MattSayar 8 days ago | 141 comments
18.
Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing (github.com/williamw520)
113 points by ww520 7 days ago | 47 comments
19.
Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars (github.com/nizarmah)
163 points by nizarmah 7 days ago | 89 comments
20.
Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods (acm.org)
173 points by yarapavan 7 days ago | 54 comments
21.
How Silica Gel Took Over the World (scopeofwork.net)
230 points by Hooke 7 days ago | 174 comments
22.
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)
338 points by mackopes 7 days ago | 107 comments
23.
Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps
90 points by dli123 7 days ago | 61 comments
24.
RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components (github.com/ruby-ui)
168 points by ksec 7 days ago | 39 comments
25.
Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)
121 points by bavarianbob 7 days ago | 36 comments
26.
The case against conversational interfaces (julian.digital)
279 points by nnx 8 days ago | 217 comments
27.
Experimental Tauri Verso Integration (tauri.app)
143 points by stareatgoats 10 days ago | 45 comments
28.
LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow (github.com/astronomer)
131 points by alittletooraph2 8 days ago | 41 comments
29.
US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops (interestingengineering.com)
134 points by jdmark 11 days ago | 94 comments
30.
Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes (github.com/hassanshaikley)
104 points by hmmokidk 9 days ago | 36 comments

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