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1.Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (quantamagazine.org)
993 points by jasondavies on May 16, 2024 | 287 comments
2.Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2) (github.com/higherorderco)
1041 points by LightMachine on May 17, 2024 | 253 comments
3.Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video] (ccc.de)
607 points by robin_reala on May 17, 2024 | 170 comments
4.Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective (toon3d.studio)
414 points by lnyan on May 17, 2024 | 111 comments
5.ADSL works over wet string (2017) (revk.uk)
273 points by fanf2 on May 17, 2024 | 109 comments
6.A forged Apple employee badge (cabel.com)
952 points by ecliptik on May 16, 2024 | 348 comments
7.Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online (useequityval.com)
287 points by trevzercap on May 17, 2024 | 150 comments
8.Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely (github.com/google)
279 points by nequo on May 16, 2024 | 68 comments
9.The beauty of concrete (worksinprogress.co)
174 points by jger15 on May 17, 2024 | 87 comments
10.A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans (dukehealth.org)
282 points by geox on May 17, 2024 | 68 comments
11.Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017) (dolphin-emu.org)
222 points by Grognak on May 16, 2024 | 69 comments
12.Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email (gabrielsieben.tech)
396 points by gjsman-1000 on May 17, 2024 | 301 comments
13.500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks (newscientist.com)
120 points by gumby on May 17, 2024 | 27 comments
14.Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton (arstechnica.com)
88 points by nobody9999 on May 16, 2024 | 31 comments
15.HMT: Hierarchical Memory Transformer for Long Context Language Processing (arxiv.org)
87 points by jasondavies on May 17, 2024 | 6 comments
16.Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API (github.com/metaskills)
227 points by metaskills on May 17, 2024 | 80 comments
17.Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting (smudge.ai)
390 points by seabass on May 16, 2024 | 49 comments
18.Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia (domluna.com)
180 points by lunaticd on May 16, 2024 | 23 comments
19.Ideas and Creativity (2019) (rieck.me)
113 points by Pseudomanifold on May 17, 2024 | 27 comments
20.Exercises to Learn Rust (rust-exercises.com)
752 points by sebg on May 17, 2024 | 123 comments
21.Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (lesswrong.com)
123 points by FigurativeVoid on May 16, 2024 | 54 comments
22.Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research (arxiv.org)
85 points by snats on May 17, 2024 | 31 comments
23.Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles (arduino.cc)
48 points by PaulHoule on May 17, 2024 | 9 comments
24.Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life (2020) (bdtechtalks.com)
130 points by DeathArrow on May 17, 2024 | 83 comments
25.Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress (architecturalrecord.com)
140 points by ayanai on May 16, 2024 | 94 comments
26.The case against dual axis charts (and what to use instead) (2018) (datawrapper.de)
152 points by Leftium on May 17, 2024 | 65 comments
27.Growing sodium chloride crystals at home (crystalverse.com)
198 points by behnamoh on May 16, 2024 | 62 comments
28.Arch Linux RISC-V (archriscv.felixc.at)
166 points by hggh on May 15, 2024 | 29 comments
29.ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F# (github.com/m4rs-mt)
157 points by neonsunset on May 17, 2024 | 35 comments
30.A transport protocol's view of Starlink (potaroo.net)
214 points by fanf2 on May 17, 2024 | 45 comments

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