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31.
How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero? (johndcook.com)
69 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 53 comments
32.
Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)
95 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 28 days ago | 23 comments
33.
Agent memory as a file format (calpaterson.com)
191 points by ingve 24 days ago | 96 comments
34.
Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
49 points by baud147258 29 days ago | 50 comments
35.
Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk (cgicoffee.com)
112 points by aryonoco 23 days ago | 60 comments
36.
The safest job from AI may be writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
153 points by ilreb 24 days ago | 211 comments
37.
Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most (uga.edu)
91 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | 59 comments
38.
Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care (hank.bond)
122 points by hankbond 26 days ago | 70 comments
39.
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)
148 points by doppp 24 days ago | 175 comments
40.
1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (bbc.com)
67 points by dabinat 24 days ago | 68 comments
41.
What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive (studyfinds.com)
73 points by mdp2021 28 days ago | 17 comments
42.
Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding (heise.de)
167 points by virtualritz 24 days ago | 81 comments
43.
Malleable software = solid bases and custom code (mdubakov.me)
111 points by tablet 24 days ago | 33 comments
44.
C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (cppstories.com)
91 points by ibobev 24 days ago | 53 comments
45.
Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)
120 points by kmstout 30 days ago | 2 comments
46.
The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash (aeon.co)
75 points by Hooke 24 days ago | 55 comments
47.
Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com/andrew_n_carr)
132 points by notRobot 26 days ago | 82 comments
48.
DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure (ripe.net)
84 points by jruohonen 25 days ago | 48 comments
49.
ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
156 points by marttt 24 days ago | 44 comments
50.
I attended the State of the Map conference (povesham.wordpress.com)
70 points by altilunium 24 days ago | 4 comments
51.
A CVE Dispute (haxx.se)
190 points by theanonymousone 24 days ago | 54 comments
52.
Racter (1984) (ubu.com)
34 points by buescher 27 days ago | 10 comments
53.
Euphemisation of Taboo Areas (2023) [pdf] (uwr.edu.pl)
42 points by Eridanus2 28 days ago | 5 comments
54.
Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)
29 points by zdw 31 days ago | 15 comments
55.
'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (quantamagazine.org)
74 points by tzury 24 days ago | 29 comments
56.
Using floci to emulate Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) (flowg.cloud)
40 points by linkdd 27 days ago | 11 comments
57.
Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem (github.com/plby)
22 points by robinhouston 28 days ago | 14 comments
58.
Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (theguardian.com)
63 points by ziofill 24 days ago | 241 comments
59.
The art of CHIP-8 (beyondloom.com)
58 points by surprisetalk 31 days ago | 11 comments
60.
Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double (publishersweekly.com)
108 points by seam_carver 24 days ago | 119 comments

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