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1.
All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
1377 points by lumerina 7 months ago | 423 comments
2.
You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)
783 points by tonkkatonka 7 months ago | 412 comments
3.
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
772 points by fanf2 7 months ago | 212 comments
4.
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (hforsten.com)
616 points by picture 7 months ago | 60 comments
5.
Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)
267 points by higuidebot 7 months ago | 75 comments
6.
Debugging an Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
351 points by xmprt 7 months ago | 58 comments
7.
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
277 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | 499 comments
8.
San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time (sfstandard.com)
381 points by NaOH 7 months ago | 706 comments
9.
Spacetime maps: A map that warps to show travel time (vvolhejn.com)
165 points by kevinsundar 7 months ago | 28 comments
10.
On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018) (benningtonreview.org)
236 points by tie-in 7 months ago | 118 comments
11.
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics (github.com/umami-software)
348 points by ksec 7 months ago | 168 comments
12.
How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
400 points by azeemba 7 months ago | 65 comments
13.
List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
310 points by nafnlj 7 months ago | 89 comments
14.
X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)
803 points by confusing3478 7 months ago | 758 comments
15.
George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879 (learningfromexamples.com)
145 points by benbreen 7 months ago | 56 comments
16.
Gold Is Worth More in New York (bloomberg.com)
152 points by ioblomov 7 months ago | 133 comments
17.
Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M (coindesk.com)
322 points by techlover14159 7 months ago | 358 comments
18.
0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance (yosefk.com)
155 points by ingve 7 months ago | 96 comments
19.
When Not to Obey Orders (2019) (warontherocks.com)
308 points by throwaway19577 7 months ago | 196 comments
20.
The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)
191 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 20 comments
21.
Espargos: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array (espargos.net)
199 points by leoedin 7 months ago | 35 comments
22.
Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)
85 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 58 comments
23.
NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES (github.com/decrazyo)
129 points by Tiberium 7 months ago | 27 comments
24.
YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (reddit.com)
403 points by Tijdreiziger 7 months ago | 274 comments
25.
Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux (previnder.com)
142 points by previnder 7 months ago | 37 comments
26.
My Time at MIT (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
181 points by rrampage 7 months ago | 78 comments
27.
Launch HN: Roark (YC W25) – Taking the pain out of voice AI testing
60 points by zammitjames 7 months ago | 29 comments
28.
Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments (thomas-huehn.com)
113 points by Tomte 7 months ago | 62 comments
29.
Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf] (auckland.ac.nz)
132 points by commandersaki 7 months ago | 115 comments
30.
Physics Informed Neural Networks (nchagnet.pages.dev)
96 points by nchagnet 7 months ago | 20 comments

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