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1. I bricked my Christmas lights (whizzy.org)
692 points by willcooke on Dec 15, 2023 | 82 comments
2. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (cnn.com)
1273 points by my12parsecs on Dec 14, 2023 | 608 comments
3. Database Fundamentals (tontinton.com)
769 points by tontinton on Dec 15, 2023 | 128 comments
4. How Lego builds a new Lego set (theverge.com)
407 points by sohkamyung on Dec 15, 2023 | 226 comments
5. Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (retool.com)
398 points by type0 on Dec 15, 2023 | 128 comments
6. A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal (andrewhuth.substack.com)
89 points by ahuth on Dec 13, 2023 | 31 comments
7. Google Groups ending support for Usenet (support.google.com)
286 points by bilegeek on Dec 15, 2023 | 198 comments
8. Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)
297 points by CharlesW on Dec 14, 2023 | 630 comments
9. An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012) (betterexplained.com)
221 points by uticus on Dec 15, 2023 | 74 comments
10. Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser (spritely.institute)
183 points by paroneayea on Dec 15, 2023 | 48 comments
11. Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection (promptarmor.substack.com)
235 points by jackson-mcd on Dec 15, 2023 | 97 comments
12. Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it (github.com/ncruces)
234 points by ncruces on Dec 15, 2023 | 58 comments
13. Intel launches Core Ultra processors (techradar.com)
164 points by talboren on Dec 14, 2023 | 276 comments
14. LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud (cnbc.com)
187 points by helsinkiandrew on Dec 14, 2023 | 270 comments
15. Double-mirror illusion (journalofillusion.net)
118 points by weird_user on Dec 15, 2023 | 46 comments
16. Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house (clerkmaxwellfoundation.org)
77 points by joebig on Dec 15, 2023 | 33 comments
17. Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation (github.com/threestudio-project)
118 points by victormustar on Dec 15, 2023 | 21 comments
18. What happens in the brain while daydreaming? (hms.harvard.edu)
196 points by gmays on Dec 15, 2023 | 146 comments
19. AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip (ieee.org)
183 points by viewtransform on Dec 15, 2023 | 124 comments
20. Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors (ieee.org)
113 points by lutrinus on Dec 14, 2023 | 24 comments
21. Reverse Engineering an LCD Display (sudhir.nl)
180 points by erik on Dec 14, 2023 | 20 comments
22. First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot (paulrobichaux.com)
221 points by gbacon on Dec 14, 2023 | 180 comments
23. The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' (theatlantic.com)
124 points by samizdis on Dec 14, 2023 | 150 comments
24. Let it snow in your terminal (github.com/sontek)
195 points by ensocode on Dec 15, 2023 | 71 comments
25. 'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods (yale.edu)
101 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 15, 2023 | 53 comments
26. WebP is so great except it's not (2021) (aurelienpierre.com)
282 points by enz on Dec 15, 2023 | 393 comments
27. Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust (oxc-project.github.io)
299 points by pritambarhate on Dec 15, 2023 | 206 comments
28. Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame (hngitblame.com)
66 points by MovingTheLimit on Dec 14, 2023 | 36 comments
29. Ruby's private keyword is weird (jez.io)
109 points by jez on Dec 14, 2023 | 38 comments
30. Do large language models need all those layers? (amazon.science)
178 points by belter on Dec 15, 2023 | 82 comments

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