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1. Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (oldmapsonline.org)
1306 points by agilek 5 months ago | 180 comments
2. Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
443 points by verbify 5 months ago | 210 comments
3. Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (lichess.org)
1118 points by alexmolas 5 months ago | 464 comments
4. Unexpected Keyboard (github.com/julow)
270 points by twoquestions 5 months ago | 148 comments
5. Cold Email Handbook (za-zu.com)
356 points by baxtr 5 months ago | 210 comments
6. Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata (richiejp.com)
97 points by richiejp 5 months ago | 22 comments
7. Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths (bbc.com)
505 points by vinni2 5 months ago | 824 comments
8. Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable (github.com/skuep)
232 points by CTOSian 5 months ago | 65 comments
9. OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs (wired.com)
368 points by impish9208 5 months ago | 615 comments
10. Android XR (blog.google)
354 points by dagmx 5 months ago | 299 comments
11. Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling (quantus.finance)
279 points by misstercool 5 months ago | 50 comments
12. Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
255 points by thunderbong 5 months ago | 171 comments
13. The secret life of DNS packets (2019) (stripe.com)
95 points by ohjeez 5 months ago | 15 comments
14. Dear OAuth Providers (pilcrowonpaper.com)
439 points by franciscop 5 months ago | 143 comments
15. Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013) (invisiblethings.org)
117 points by transpute 5 months ago | 45 comments
16. A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte (science.org)
131 points by fs_tab 5 months ago | 69 comments
17. Show HN: Lfi – a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library (lfi.dev)
98 points by tomeraberbach 5 months ago | 48 comments
18. Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches (github.com/luchina-gabriel)
165 points by goodburb 5 months ago | 49 comments
19. BlenderGPT (blendergpt.org)
460 points by handfuloflight 5 months ago | 197 comments
20. Programming Language Memory Models (2021) (swtch.com)
140 points by fanf2 5 months ago | 29 comments
21. A letter to open-source maintainers (xuanwo.io)
178 points by xuanwo 5 months ago | 82 comments
22. Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit (npr.org)
300 points by airstrike 5 months ago | 441 comments
23. A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023) (carlini.com)
350 points by chubot 5 months ago | 118 comments
24. A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop (phys.org)
117 points by dxs 5 months ago | 45 comments
25. Tricking c64 basic into clearing a hi-res screen quickly (retro64.altervista.org)
61 points by amichail 5 months ago | 16 comments
26. "Rules" that terminal programs follow (jvns.ca)
298 points by charlieok 5 months ago | 147 comments
27. The world of tomorrow (worksinprogress.co)
115 points by diodorus 5 months ago | 130 comments
28. Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger) (nfsa.gov.au)
98 points by gnabgib 5 months ago | 61 comments
29. Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say (techcrunch.com)
214 points by impish9208 5 months ago | 76 comments
30. Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why (arstechnica.com)
216 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 132 comments

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