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1.		Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com/zenfyrdev)
		173 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 86 comments
2.		The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AWK (stephenramsay.net)
		31 points by benhoyt on Jan 16, 2023 \| 6 comments
3.		Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 (xania.org)
		380 points by vismit2000 4 days ago \| 67 comments
4.		Using an Array of Needles to Create Solid Knitted Shapes (acm.org)
		86 points by PaulHoule 14 days ago \| 28 comments
5.		Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s (theguardian.com)
		324 points by hackernj 11 days ago \| 258 comments
6.		Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
		249 points by davikr 11 days ago \| 40 comments
7.		Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world (ucsc.edu)
		460 points by XzetaU8 11 days ago \| 304 comments
8.		Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C (github.com/t9nzin)
		137 points by t9nzin 12 days ago \| 32 comments
9.		Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf] (holycross.edu)
		363 points by o4c 12 days ago \| 78 comments
10.		Having Fun with Complex Numbers (mathwonder.org)
		48 points by smm16r 17 days ago \| 13 comments
11.		The Boring Part of Bell Labs (elizabethvannostrand.substack.com)
		184 points by AcesoUnderGlass 16 days ago \| 51 comments
12.		Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL (peterullrich.com)
		175 points by pjullrich 25 days ago \| 52 comments
13.		Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter (bitsnpieces.dev)
		1278 points by random_moonwalk 23 days ago \| 209 comments
14.		Dark Pattern Games (darkpattern.games)
		350 points by robotnikman 19 days ago \| 138 comments
15.		JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective (purplesyringa.moe)
		91 points by birdculture 31 days ago \| 4 comments
16.		Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable (aethermug.com)
		171 points by mrcgnc 21 days ago \| 124 comments
17.		Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
		227 points by evolve2k 27 days ago \| 300 comments
18.		Forth – Is it still relevant? (github.com/chochain)
		118 points by lioeters 27 days ago \| 97 comments
19.		Becoming a compiler engineer (rona.substack.com)
		295 points by lalitkale 28 days ago \| 153 comments
20.		What is a manifold? (quantamagazine.org)
		393 points by isaacfrond 32 days ago \| 133 comments
21.		A friendly tour of process memory on Linux (0xkato.xyz)
		246 points by 0xkato 32 days ago \| 33 comments
22.		Linkers (2007) (airs.com)
		81 points by mattrighetti 32 days ago \| 4 comments
23.		The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (newyorker.com)
		278 points by ascertain 32 days ago \| 1011 comments
24.		Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz (mynamelowercase.com)
		97 points by Gormisdomai 32 days ago \| 40 comments
25.		Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024) (needleful.net)
		371 points by gudzpoz 32 days ago \| 163 comments
26.		Collatz-Weyl Generators: Pseudorandom Number Generators (2023) (arxiv.org)
		59 points by danny00 38 days ago \| 1 comment
27.		Word2vec-style vector arithmetic on docs embeddings (technicalwriting.dev)
		81 points by kaycebasques 34 days ago \| 17 comments
28.		How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep (massgeneralbrigham.org)
		179 points by XzetaU8 42 days ago \| 88 comments
29.		Why do some radio towers blink? (jeffgeerling.com)
		179 points by warrenm 38 days ago \| 120 comments
30.		A brief history of random numbers (2018) (crates.io)
		214 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago \| 72 comments
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