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1.Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019) (geoffreylitt.com)
596 points by mufty on Feb 4, 2024 | 311 comments
2.Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token (shyam.blog)
474 points by tplrbv on Feb 4, 2024 | 85 comments
3.Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine (stract.com)
437 points by FLpxpyJ on Feb 4, 2024 | 108 comments
4.Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? (ux.stackexchange.com)
471 points by wscourge on Feb 4, 2024 | 315 comments
5.The underground world of hobby tunneling (bloomberg.com)
272 points by robinhouston on Feb 3, 2024 | 163 comments
6.Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO (cnn.com)
491 points by bsdz on Feb 4, 2024 | 339 comments
7.Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird (ifixit.com)
330 points by zdw on Feb 4, 2024 | 349 comments
8.How Doom didn't kill the Amiga (datagubbe.se)
177 points by zdw on Feb 4, 2024 | 177 comments
9.Rolling Airframe Missile (navalgazing.net)
191 points by cwillu on Feb 4, 2024 | 124 comments
10.AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET (avaloniaui.net)
180 points by thunderbong on Feb 4, 2024 | 118 comments
11.Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly (torrentfreak.com)
462 points by notamy on Feb 4, 2024 | 910 comments
12.The first amateur radio station on the moon (arrl.org)
161 points by Stratoscope on Feb 4, 2024 | 23 comments
13.ProofWiki: Online compendium of mathematical proofs (proofwiki.org)
154 points by Tomte on Feb 4, 2024 | 32 comments
14.Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) (pncnmnp.github.io)
139 points by pncnmnp on Feb 4, 2024 | 91 comments
15.How the codpiece flopped (bbc.com)
138 points by rntn on Feb 4, 2024 | 63 comments
16.Interpreting neural networks through the polytope lens (2022) (lesswrong.com)
80 points by sva_ on Feb 4, 2024 | 7 comments
17.Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022) (philosophygeek.medium.com)
388 points by drcwpl on Feb 4, 2024 | 317 comments
18.Plastic bag bans work (zmescience.com)
264 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 4, 2024 | 575 comments
19.41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective (uxtigers.com)
135 points by ravirajx7 on Jan 29, 2024 | 69 comments
20.Solving the darknet riddle (2022) (sizeof.life)
122 points by FLpxpyJ on Feb 4, 2024 | 28 comments
21.How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days (aphyr.com)
357 points by tl on Feb 4, 2024 | 263 comments
22.Rye: A Vision Continued (pocoo.org)
182 points by ksbrooksjr on Feb 4, 2024 | 42 comments
23.Keeler's Theory of Plot (xavier.edu)
54 points by riffraff on Feb 2, 2024 | 5 comments
24.Bernoulli's Principle Applied to Firefighting – Box Alarm Training (boxalarmtraining.com)
52 points by thunderbong on Feb 4, 2024 | 10 comments
25.Nuclear power saved Armenia (thebulletin.org)
143 points by pseudolus on Feb 4, 2024 | 79 comments
26.In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon (cbc.ca)
107 points by geox on Feb 4, 2024 | 58 comments
27.Write code for the web (mrmr.io)
446 points by mnvrth on Feb 4, 2024 | 358 comments
28.60-Bit Computing (2022) (thechipletter.substack.com)
77 points by klelatti on Feb 3, 2024 | 73 comments
29.A reasonable configuration language (ruudvanasseldonk.com)
141 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 4, 2024 | 109 comments
30.Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017) (gdmarmerola.github.io)
57 points by pncnmnp on Feb 4, 2024 | 13 comments

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