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1.		Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)
		810 points by Vincent_Yan404 16 days ago \| 369 comments
2.		Two kinds of vibe coding (davidbau.com)
		137 points by jxmorris12 25 days ago \| 106 comments
3.		It’s been a very hard year (bell.bz)
		446 points by surprisetalk 43 days ago \| 675 comments
4.		Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020) (mathoverflow.net)
		250 points by nill0 45 days ago \| 82 comments
5.		A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird (audubon.org)
		169 points by zeech 51 days ago \| 31 comments
6.		Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?
		320 points by urnicus 68 days ago \| 309 comments
7.		Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
		773 points by jger15 4 months ago \| 223 comments
8.		NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency (lewiscampbell.tech)
		310 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago \| 198 comments
9.		The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth (nationalgeographic.com)
		121 points by Anon84 6 months ago \| 60 comments
10.		Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011) (swtch.com)
		103 points by mcyc 6 months ago \| 19 comments
11.		The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (grugbrain.dev)
		1087 points by smartmic 6 months ago \| 578 comments
12.		Port a Unity Game to Your Own Engine: Part 1 (altdevarts.com)
		40 points by generichuman on Oct 23, 2023 \| 6 comments
13.		Is Winter Coming? (2024) (datagubbe.se)
		122 points by rbanffy 7 months ago \| 127 comments
14.		What is HDR, anyway? (lux.camera)
		806 points by _kush 8 months ago \| 342 comments
15.		Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten (picower.mit.edu)
		215 points by gmays 8 months ago \| 133 comments
16.		It's Not the Incentives (2018) (talyarkoni.org)
		48 points by godelski 8 months ago \| 52 comments
17.		East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021) (maxhertzberg.co.uk)
		134 points by walterbell 8 months ago \| 241 comments
18.		Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord (julik.nl)
		255 points by julik 8 months ago \| 75 comments
19.		The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state (nber.org)
		506 points by imakwana 8 months ago \| 497 comments
20.		How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) (alexarmbr.github.io)
		147 points by skidrow 8 months ago \| 17 comments
21.		Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)
		448 points by nimbleplum40 9 months ago \| 275 comments
22.		Technical Mathematics (1954) [pdf] (sliderulemuseum.com)
		27 points by Tomte 10 months ago \| 4 comments
23.		Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1 (crocspace.substack.com)
		418 points by lzr_mihnea 10 months ago \| 117 comments
24.		After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem (quantamagazine.org)
		450 points by isaacfrond 10 months ago \| 131 comments
25.		Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm (redpenguin101.github.io)
		204 points by redpenguin101 11 months ago \| 19 comments
26.		Hacker News for Gamedev (gamedev.city)
		544 points by ahub 11 months ago \| 219 comments
27.		Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
		246 points by lakshikag 12 months ago \| 112 comments
28.		Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines (racenis.github.io)
		660 points by racenis on Jan 7, 2025 \| 237 comments
29.		Write a Shell in C (2015) (brennan.io)
		205 points by sebg on Dec 26, 2024 \| 16 comments
30.		How types make hard problems easy (mayhul.com)
		158 points by tlf on Dec 19, 2024 \| 167 comments
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