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1. Why is my dryer radioactive? (physics.stackexchange.com)
674 points by jpitz on May 18, 2023 | 159 comments
2. What happened with ASUS routers this morning? (downtowndougbrown.com)
736 points by zdw on May 18, 2023 | 450 comments
3. ChatGPT app for iOS (openai.com)
675 points by rememberlenny on May 18, 2023 | 404 comments
4. LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009) (gist.github.com)
186 points by avinassh on May 18, 2023 | 65 comments
5. Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement (petapixel.com)
308 points by kens on May 18, 2023 | 394 comments
6. The Great CPU Stagnation (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
246 points by greghn on May 18, 2023 | 219 comments
7. CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue (loro-dev.notion.site)
206 points by samwillis on May 18, 2023 | 51 comments
8. Windows XP Activation: Game Over (tinyapps.org)
248 points by sysadm1n on May 18, 2023 | 148 comments
9. How to quit cars (newyorker.com)
264 points by amatheus on May 18, 2023 | 801 comments
10. Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos” (twitter.com/benguild)
181 points by benguild on May 18, 2023 | 143 comments
11. NYC skyscrapers sit vacant (bloomberg.com)
185 points by mirthlessend on May 18, 2023 | 413 comments
12. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (2019) (jezzamon.com)
184 points by zerojames on May 17, 2023 | 28 comments
13. Apple’s new headset meets reality (bloomberg.com)
234 points by sudheer_paturi on May 18, 2023 | 505 comments
14. Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung (nikkei.com)
244 points by thunderbong on May 18, 2023 | 323 comments
15. User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018) (userinyerface.com)
362 points by onion2k on May 18, 2023 | 113 comments
16. The simple joys of scaling up (motherduck.com)
150 points by eatonphil on May 18, 2023 | 45 comments
17. Unit Testing eBPF Programs (ldelossa.is)
114 points by ldelossa on May 18, 2023 | 11 comments
18. TikTok is now banned in Montana (theverge.com)
281 points by tortilla on May 17, 2023 | 536 comments
19. My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919) (archive.org)
144 points by cbracketdash on May 18, 2023 | 62 comments
20. Language models cost much more in some languages than others (yenniejun.com)
260 points by yenniejun111 on May 18, 2023 | 171 comments
21. Simulated Hospital (github.com/google)
191 points by axutio on May 17, 2023 | 100 comments
22. Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998) (cmu.edu)
113 points by DerekBickerton on May 18, 2023 | 73 comments
23. Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std (github.com/ziglang)
267 points by huydotnet on May 18, 2023 | 174 comments
24. European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects (opensource.org)
297 points by rbanffy on May 18, 2023 | 184 comments
25. Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com/abiosoft)
132 points by luu on May 18, 2023 | 55 comments
26. The Case for Bash (2021) (neversaw.us)
125 points by memalign on May 18, 2023 | 184 comments
27. Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games (github.com/nickm980)
112 points by nm980 on May 17, 2023 | 31 comments
28. Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)
201 points by msephton on May 18, 2023 | 113 comments
29. CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (simonwillison.net)
204 points by simonw on May 18, 2023 | 51 comments
30. DuckDB 0.8 (duckdb.org)
187 points by nnx on May 18, 2023 | 98 comments

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