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1.A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years (nytimes.com)
444 points by perihelions on Oct 27, 2024 | 130 comments
2.You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web (github.com/soimort)
397 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2024 | 147 comments
3.Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org)
355 points by chmaynard on Oct 27, 2024 | 427 comments
4.'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain (yale.edu)
230 points by gnabgib on Oct 22, 2024 | 102 comments
5.NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer (flathub.org)
314 points by FuturisticGoo on Oct 27, 2024 | 96 comments
6.Character amnesia in China (globalchinapulse.net)
483 points by nabla9 on Oct 27, 2024 | 528 comments
7.Debugging my wife's alarm clock (ntietz.com)
137 points by zdw on Oct 26, 2024 | 81 comments
8.Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket (racket-lang.org)
179 points by nesarkvechnep on Oct 27, 2024 | 21 comments
9.I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel (2013) [video] (ccc.de)
273 points by joebig on Oct 27, 2024 | 67 comments
10.SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea (github.com/antirez)
115 points by kristianp on Oct 26, 2024 | 46 comments
11.Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS (jvns.ca)
137 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 27, 2024 | 41 comments
12.RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws (gcaptain.com)
115 points by tomohawk on Oct 27, 2024 | 50 comments
13.ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use (embracethered.com)
166 points by macOSCryptoAI on Oct 26, 2024 | 84 comments
14.Using SQLite as storage for web server static content (clace.io)
273 points by ajayvk on Oct 27, 2024 | 126 comments
15.Platform Strategy and Its Discontents (infrequently.org)
105 points by wmanley on Oct 27, 2024 | 66 comments
16.Optimizers need a rethink (typesanitizer.com)
149 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2024 | 167 comments
17.We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size (jonathancreamer.com)
334 points by kwantaz on Oct 27, 2024 | 213 comments
18.James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation (scitechdaily.com)
166 points by wglb on Oct 26, 2024 | 69 comments
19.Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism (maa.org)
92 points by hhs on Oct 27, 2024 | 53 comments
20.Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy (lllllllllllllllll.com)
143 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 27, 2024 | 57 comments
21.Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative (ibis.wiki)
209 points by mostcallmeyt on Oct 27, 2024 | 149 comments
22.Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds (oxfam.org)
344 points by wallbrownf on Oct 27, 2024 | 139 comments
23.Canvas Fingerprinting (browserleaks.com)
101 points by janandonly on Oct 26, 2024 | 117 comments
24.How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs (cloudinary.com)
156 points by bentocorp on Oct 23, 2024 | 71 comments
25.Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats (nature.com)
41 points by PaulHoule on Oct 24, 2024 | 13 comments
26.Using a BCI with LLM for enabling ALS patients to speak again with family (thevccorner.substack.com)
61 points by vasco_ on Oct 23, 2024 | 23 comments
27.How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero (quantamagazine.org)
74 points by apollinaire on Oct 26, 2024 | 89 comments
28.Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text (petewarden.com)
172 points by freediver on Oct 27, 2024 | 36 comments
29.What is the first American graphic novel? (haljohnsonbooks.substack.com)
62 points by paulpauper on Oct 27, 2024 | 26 comments
30.Highest-Voltage Electron Gun (bnl.gov)
48 points by gmays on Oct 23, 2024 | 44 comments

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