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1.
First, make me care (gwern.net)
813 points by andsoitis 19 days ago | 249 comments
2.
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch (github.com/tldev)
692 points by dnw 19 days ago | 223 comments
3.
Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study (usc.edu)
598 points by hhs 20 days ago | 638 comments
4.
A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times (columbia.edu)
715 points by timr 20 days ago | 374 comments
5.
Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android (androidauthority.com)
651 points by _____k 25 days ago | 732 comments
6.
Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems (diljitpr.net)
258 points by tanelpoder 19 days ago | 81 comments
7.
Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet (netzbremse.de)
636 points by tietjens 20 days ago | 311 comments
8.
Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint (github.com/steffest)
250 points by bananaboy 19 days ago | 30 comments
9.
Doom has been ported to an earbud (doombuds.com)
438 points by arin-s 19 days ago | 136 comments
10.
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes (dlt.github.io)
328 points by dlt 20 days ago | 16 comments
11.
Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps (alasdairmonk.com)
245 points by sgottit 19 days ago | 33 comments
12.
Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback (consumerrights.wiki)
465 points by validatori 19 days ago | 278 comments
13.
A Lament for Aperture (ikennd.ac)
243 points by firloop 24 days ago | 55 comments
14.
Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (arstechnica.com)
297 points by Bender 20 days ago | 144 comments
15.
Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds (bbc.com)
220 points by Rygian 19 days ago | 222 comments
16.
Two Weeks Until Tapeout (essenceia.github.io)
194 points by client4 20 days ago | 49 comments
17.
I was right about ATProto key management (nora.codes)
182 points by todsacerdoti 19 days ago | 197 comments
18.
I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck (modulovalue.com)
187 points by modulovalue 24 days ago | 92 comments
19.
We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable (eclypsium.com)
202 points by aa_is_op 20 days ago | 82 comments
20.
Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications (github.com/mitjafelicijan)
138 points by mitjafelicijan 20 days ago | 44 comments
21.
Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) (therpf.com)
168 points by exvi 20 days ago | 78 comments
22.
Bitwise conversion of doubles using only FP multiplication and addition (2020) (dougallj.wordpress.com)
57 points by vitaut 19 days ago | 6 comments
23.
Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware (arxiv.org)
123 points by transpute 20 days ago | 23 comments
24.
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019) (bbc.com)
316 points by choult 19 days ago | 230 comments
25.
Typography on Pencils (2023) (presentandcorrect.com)
110 points by NaOH 24 days ago | 11 comments
26.
Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts (lr.org)
157 points by geox 19 days ago | 101 comments
27.
Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday (windowscentral.com)
221 points by speckx 20 days ago | 180 comments
28.
Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days (github.com/nvidia)
200 points by tosh 20 days ago | 51 comments
29.
Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters (github.com/danthegoodman1)
58 points by dangoodmanUT 19 days ago | 7 comments
30.
ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors (turbopuffer.com)
109 points by _peregrine_ 23 days ago | 47 comments

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