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1.
Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
513 points by groomlake 4 days ago | 293 comments
2.
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
933 points by senko 4 days ago | 575 comments
3.
_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
440 points by shaunpud 4 days ago | 166 comments
4.
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
354 points by moelf 5 days ago | 166 comments
5.
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
443 points by aanet 7 days ago | 102 comments
6.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
654 points by theanonymousone 4 days ago | 283 comments
7.
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
380 points by epestr 4 days ago | 107 comments
8.
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
214 points by electricant 4 days ago | 49 comments
9.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
447 points by bhavansig 4 days ago | 130 comments
10.
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
381 points by wglb 4 days ago | 82 comments
11.
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
433 points by 882542F3884314B 4 days ago | 434 comments
12.
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
198 points by MarcoDewey 4 days ago | 68 comments
13.
US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
316 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 527 comments
14.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
402 points by Meleagris 4 days ago | 216 comments
15.
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
104 points by robinpdev 11 days ago | 8 comments
16.
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
120 points by rfarley04 4 days ago | 100 comments
17.
SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
165 points by zdw 11 days ago | 35 comments
18.
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
213 points by gumby 4 days ago | 199 comments
19.
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
92 points by rahen 4 days ago | 14 comments
20.
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
72 points by csmantle 10 days ago | 11 comments
21.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
265 points by geox 4 days ago | 168 comments
22.
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
63 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 5 comments
23.
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
170 points by 01-_- 4 days ago | 14 comments
24.
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
173 points by happosai 4 days ago | 114 comments
25.
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
138 points by yk 8 days ago | 65 comments
26.
BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
80 points by kkgupta 8 days ago | 16 comments
27.
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
51 points by denismenace 8 days ago | 5 comments
28.
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
64 points by skibz 4 days ago | 20 comments
29.
From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
92 points by mmoogle 7 days ago | 13 comments
30.
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
182 points by andrewpollack 4 days ago | 110 comments

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