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2023-03-04 Sat
The dogs of Chernobyl
29 comments (www.science.org)
Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector
23 comments (github.com)
Passing for Human: Philip K. Dick in Vancouver (2018)
54 comments (bctimeslip.skullcrackersuite.org)
2013-03-04 (10 yrs ago)
Where are the “big problem” jobs?
55 comments (lemire.me)
Virtual lane graphics for swimming with CSS3
34 comments (xy-kao.com)
2023-03-03 Fri
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?
248 comments (shopify.github.io)
Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser
43 comments (farlow.dev)
Self-replicating Python using ChatGPT
41 comments (github.com)
2013-03-03 (10 yrs ago)
Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology
66 comments (prog21.dadgum.com)
Mars trip to use astronaut poo as radiation shield
30 comments (www.newscientist.com)
The Apprentice Programmer
146 comments (tobi.lutke.com)
2023-03-02 Thu
Rethinking splice()
21 comments (lwn.net)
Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video]
84 comments (www.youtube.com)
Identifying as an Artist
53 comments (mattgemmell.scot)
2013-03-02 (10 yrs ago)
How Ink Is Made
43 comments (www.youtube.com)
MOOC Completion Rates
28 comments (www.katyjordan.com)
2023-03-01 Wed
Oldest water on earth, in a Canadian mine (2021)
29 comments (www.macleans.ca)
Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
84 comments (prog21.dadgum.com)
Bitwise Division
74 comments (h14s.p5r.org)
2013-03-01 (10 yrs ago)
The Rise Of The Artist
156 comments (techgnotic.deviantart.com)
Vim users: stop using hjkl
211 comments (vimcasts.org)
2023-02-27 Mon
What Is Anglish?
343 comments (anglish.org)
In neutron stars, astrophysicists see a form of matter like none other
71 comments (nautil.us)
Flight Simulator gave birth to 3D video-game graphics
48 comments (spectrum.ieee.org)
2013-02-27 (10 yrs ago)
The Glass Bicycle
177 comments (dcurt.is)
2023-02-26 Sun
Very Long-Term Backup (2008)
141 comments (longnow.org)
Beej's Guide to C Programming
62 comments (beej.us)
Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco (2008)
25 comments (research.swtch.com)
WebGL2 Fundamentals
44 comments (webgl2fundamentals.org)
2013-02-26 (10 yrs ago)
“PCs are going to be like trucks”
51 comments (cdixon.org)
Ask HN: If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?
91 comments (news.ycombinator.com)
2023-02-25 Sat
SymPy makes math fun again
86 comments (wordsandbuttons.online)
2013-02-25 (10 yrs ago)
Explain It to Me Again, Computer
24 comments (www.slate.com)
The Idea That Launched a Thousand Civilisations (2012) [pdf]
52 comments (www2.psych.ubc.ca)
We Aren’t the World
148 comments (www.psmag.com)
Cointoss
28 comments (alexmuir.com)
2023-02-17 Fri
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
125 comments (www.sweethome3d.com)
2013-02-17 (10 yrs ago)
How domains became backwards
37 comments (david.newgas.net)
Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp
13 comments (gergo.erdi.hu)
2023-02-16 Thu
Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
218 comments (basementcommunity.com)
The IBM 7094 and CTSS
21 comments (www.multicians.org)
2013-02-16 (10 yrs ago)
Command Line Accounting With Ledger and Reckon
27 comments (blog.andrewcantino.com)
2023-02-15 Wed
A Brief History of Random Numbers
53 comments (sr.ht)
Io_uring and Networking in 2023 [pdf]
37 comments (kernel.dk)
Squares in Squares
49 comments (erich-friedman.github.io)
Last Flight Out
312 comments (brr.fyi)
2013-02-15 (10 yrs ago)
Chocolate Duke3D - educational, compilable port of original Duke 3D
12 comments (github.com)
Ten predictions (2004)
309 comments (sites.google.com)
2023-02-14 Tue
Build your own fast, persistent KV store
48 comments (dinesh.wiki)
The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries
84 comments (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? (2021)
70 comments (www.lowtechmagazine.com)
2013-02-14 (10 yrs ago)
How to build a racing game
16 comments (codeincomplete.com)
3D Printing Revolution: The Complex Reality
58 comments (blog.makezine.com)
2023-02-13 Mon
Mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book
57 comments (www.bbc.com)
2013-02-13 (10 yrs ago)
16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial
56 comments (www.photonstorm.com)
Industrial Mathematics
19 comments (www.the-adam.com)
2023-02-12 Sun
How does human echolocation work? (2017)
54 comments (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Charlie Chaplin: official website
51 comments (www.charliechaplin.com)
Vacuum Balloons (2020)
78 comments (www.salon.com)
Problem solving with dimensional analysis
53 comments (gregorygundersen.com)
2013-02-12 (10 yrs ago)
How to program if you are blind
33 comments (stackoverflow.com)
2023-02-11 Sat
Let's write a setjmp
97 comments (nullprogram.com)
Pangram
64 comments (en.wikipedia.org)
Silurian Hypothesis
60 comments (en.wikipedia.org)
My review of the C standard library in practice
114 comments (nullprogram.com)
2013-02-11 (10 yrs ago)
Starry, Starry, Starry Night
26 comments (www.nytimes.com)
"I Want Hue" – Colors for Data Scientists
37 comments (tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr)
Glibc and the kernel user-space API
11 comments (lwn.net)
2023-02-10 Fri
Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
234 comments (dl.acm.org)
Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models
92 comments (github.com)
Reverse engineering an e-ink display
53 comments (zeus.ugent.be)
2013-02-10 (10 yrs ago)
Map Shows Where 220mph Trains Would Go in the U.S.
73 comments (mashable.com)
How to generate random terrain
27 comments (blog.habrador.com)
2023-02-09 Thu
Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii
139 comments (www.theartnewspaper.com)
2013-02-09 (10 yrs ago)
Pixel Art Tutorial
38 comments (makegames.tumblr.com)
How to achieve 4 flops per cycle?
14 comments (stackoverflow.com)
2023-02-08 Wed
Top byte ignore for fun and memory savings
49 comments (www.linaro.org)
The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed
22 comments (www.nytimes.com)
George Orwell's 6 rules for writing (2018; originally published in 1946)
108 comments (infusion.media)
2013-02-08 (10 yrs ago)
Curiosity images strange metallic-looking object on Mars
147 comments (www.universetoday.com)
Ten Thousand Cents
30 comments (www.tenthousandcents.com)
2023-02-07 Tue
A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines
76 comments (github.com)
GPU-Backed User Interfaces
180 comments (digest.browsertech.com)
The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square
27 comments (web.archive.org)
2013-02-07 (10 yrs ago)
The result of pinging all the Internet IP addresses
53 comments (www.securityartwork.es)
Glibc fixes the value of TWO
28 comments (sourceware.org)
Not for sale
71 comments (milk.com)
2023-02-06 Mon
Floating manta ray with beating wing drive
24 comments (www.festo.com)
The Design of Postgres (1986) [pdf]
38 comments (dsf.berkeley.edu)
Building a legged robot in 80 days
35 comments (107-systems.org)
Web Design Museum 1991-2006
31 comments (www.webdesignmuseum.org)
2013-02-06 (10 yrs ago)
Ask HN: Which Shift key do you primarily use?
10 comments (news.ycombinator.com)
Packets of Death
113 comments (blog.krisk.org)
Kinda like apt-get, but for Windows
101 comments (chocolatey.org)
2023-02-05 Sun
Better than Free (2008)
20 comments (kk.org)
The Circumnavigators (2017)
34 comments (qrp-labs.com)
South Pole Topography
24 comments (brr.fyi)
How New Ideas Arise
25 comments (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
2013-02-05 (10 yrs ago)
Preventing users from pouring water into coffee machine beans compartment
90 comments (ux.stackexchange.com)
Four Hours of Concentration
86 comments (www.johndcook.com)
2023-02-04 Sat
Poline – esoteric color palette generator
63 comments (meodai.github.io)
The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)
21 comments (en.wikipedia.org)
yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor
53 comments (github.com)
2013-02-04 (10 yrs ago)
Use of Goto in Systems Code
55 comments (blog.regehr.org)
Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
52 comments (bradjasper.com)
2023-02-03 Fri
ESA – Space Suit Design Competition
64 comments (ideas.esa.int)
How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki
87 comments (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Why Is Everyone So Boring?
126 comments (www.overcomingbias.com)
2013-02-03 (10 yrs ago)
A look inside the Final Fantasy 7 Game Engine [pdf]
22 comments (q-gears.sourceforge.net)
2023-02-02 Thu
An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster
57 comments (www.ncrabbithole.com)
QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format
78 comments (phoboslab.org)
Estimating square roots in your head
111 comments (gregorygundersen.com)
2013-02-02 (10 yrs ago)
Why did men stop wearing high heels?
55 comments (www.bbc.co.uk)
Blank screen if kids yell too much
176 comments (superuser.com)
2023-02-01 Wed
Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
340 comments (colinpurrington.com)
Float Compression 3: Filters
22 comments (aras-p.info)
How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
256 comments (colossal.com)
2013-02-01 (10 yrs ago)
The Turn (1993)
23 comments (www.theatlantic.com)
Three charts are all I need
34 comments (37signals.com)
Submarine Cable Map 2013
10 comments (submarine-cable-map-2013.telegeography.com)
2023-01-31 Tue
Write simply (2021)
168 comments (www.paulgraham.com)
Is AM radio dead?
334 comments (www.jeffgeerling.com)
2013-01-31 (10 yrs ago)
Draft. Version control for writing
58 comments (ninjasandrobots.com)
Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years
49 comments (www.bbc.com)
Cache Rules Everything Around Me
26 comments (iainkfraser.blogspot.co.uk)
2023-01-30 Mon
The x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction
63 comments (www.righto.com)
The limits of "computational photography"
220 comments (yager.io)
Cistercian Numerals
51 comments (kottke.org)
The art of eating well in Antarctica (2022)
21 comments (www.atlasobscura.com)
2013-01-30 (10 yrs ago)
Why not make your URLs responsive?
28 comments (responsiveurl.co.uk)
MIT Web Programming Competition Finalists
10 comments (6.470.scripts.mit.edu)
The sound of the dialup, pictured
46 comments (windytan.blogspot.com)
2023-01-29 Sun
The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed
129 comments (build-your-own.org)
The window trick of Las Vegas hotels
344 comments (www.schedium.net)
80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
141 comments (8020.net)
Low-level is easy (2008)
24 comments (yosefk.com)
2013-01-29 (10 yrs ago)
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
178 comments (coderwall.com)
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
244 comments (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Man uses GitHub as a bug tracker for his house
22 comments (www.wired.com)
Brython, Python in the browser
65 comments (brython.info)
2023-01-28 Sat
Show HN: QuadSort, Esoteric Fast Sort
23 comments (github.com)
2013-01-28 (10 yrs ago)
Why You Truly Never Leave High School
30 comments (nymag.com)
When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
109 comments (mentalfloss.com)
2023-01-27 Fri
Building a Sleeper Computer from an SGI Indy
49 comments (buu342.me)
Why CRT in sci fi deep space ships actualy make sense
40 comments (news.ycombinator.com)
Reverse engineering programs with unknown instruction sets (2012) [pdf]
25 comments (www.recon.cx)
The Mystery of the Dune Font
95 comments (fontsinuse.com)
2013-01-27 (10 yrs ago)
Is Ken Thompson's compiler hack still a threat?
27 comments (programmers.stackexchange.com)
A few thoughts about Open Source Software
136 comments (antirez.com)
2023-01-26 Thu
Blogging is not dying anytime soon
104 comments (dariusforoux.com)
2013-01-26 (10 yrs ago)
Features Unique to Opera Browser
17 comments (www.slashgeek.net)
2023-01-25 Wed
9k-year-old Stonehenge-like structure found under Lake Michigan
74 comments (www.thearchaeologist.org)
I Am the Only User
24 comments (blubsblog.bearblog.dev)
2013-01-25 (10 yrs ago)
NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator
30 comments (www.space-travel.com)
Opposite of a Bloom Filter
18 comments (github.com)
2023-01-24 Tue
The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
198 comments (ranum.com)
2013-01-24 (10 yrs ago)
Google Conway's Game of Life
11 comments (www.google.com)
2023-01-23 Mon
Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
64 comments (zserge.com)
Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier
37 comments (github.com)
NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (2012)
124 comments (gizmodo.com)
2013-01-23 (10 yrs ago)
How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?
45 comments (tex.stackexchange.com)
Body mass is correlated with lifespan
24 comments (www.npr.org)
2023-01-22 Sun
My Dream Computer
90 comments (bluelander.bearblog.dev)
Rotation with three shears
63 comments (cohost.org)
WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
195 comments (vpnoverview.com)
2013-01-22 (10 yrs ago)
Megafail
198 comments (fail0verflow.com)
OldSF – Pictures of San Francisco from 1850-2000
22 comments (www.oldsf.org)
2023-01-21 Sat
Show HN: Names
112 comments (joostjansen.me)
Make up a guy
168 comments (www.antipope.org)
2013-01-21 (10 yrs ago)
Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen
55 comments (www.hoektronics.com)
Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?
29 comments (www.slate.com)
2023-01-20 Fri
From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (2019)
31 comments (interrupt.memfault.com)
When bees get a taste for dead things (2021)
17 comments (news.ucr.edu)
Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996)
132 comments (math.ucr.edu)
2013-01-20 (10 yrs ago)
Why Is Flu Common in Winter?
27 comments (online.wsj.com)
The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (2008)
34 comments (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de)
2023-01-19 Thu
A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)
106 comments (github.com)
Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater
195 comments (www.smithsonianmag.com)
2013-01-19 (10 yrs ago)
Who Can Name the Biggest Number?
40 comments (www.scottaaronson.com)
Some Notes About Time
113 comments (unix4lyfe.org)
2023-01-18 Wed
Hello, PNG
155 comments (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Screenshots as the Universal API
90 comments (matt-rickard.com)
2013-01-18 (10 yrs ago)
2023-01-17 Tue
Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism
190 comments (tegowerk.eu)
The Quest for a Dumber Phone
200 comments (every.to)
2013-01-17 (10 yrs ago)
Moore’s Law won’t kill passwords
24 comments (www.lightbluetouchpaper.org)
I sent a balloon up to capture 360x180 degree imagery/video from 100K feet
39 comments (robotrising.org)
2023-01-16 Mon
Hubble finds black hole twisting captured star into donut shape
79 comments (phys.org)
2013-01-16 (10 yrs ago)
Thorium Reactors
126 comments (rein.pk)
2023-01-15 Sun
Byte Magazine 1975-1995
98 comments (worldradiohistory.com)
Learning Physics With Ringworld (2010)
19 comments (www.tor.com)
A formula for the nth digit of 𝜋 and 𝜋^n
133 comments (arxiv.org)
How the blog broke the web (2017)
117 comments (stackingthebricks.com)
2013-01-15 (10 yrs ago)
Edison's revenge
19 comments (www.economist.com)
2023-01-14 Sat
Feathered robotic wing paves way for flapping drones
42 comments (www.alphagalileo.org)
Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment in Common Lisp
71 comments (project-mage.org)
Show HN: Hacker News Without News
89 comments (hn.build-your-own.org)
2013-01-14 (10 yrs ago)
Design Books Every Hacker Should Read
86 comments (davidmckinney.com)
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
25 comments (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
42 comments (www.somethingsimilar.com)
2023-01-13 Fri
Analog Chess
215 comments (github.com)
ABC: A C compiler for printable x86
22 comments (tom7.org)
Liu Cixin's Technologies of the Future
188 comments (vincelwt.com)
2013-01-13 (10 yrs ago)
I hate the news
74 comments (www.aaronsw.com)
How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?
16 comments (stackoverflow.com)
Going for a seven-year walk
31 comments (www.bbc.co.uk)
2023-01-12 Thu
Lid – Lo-fi image dithering
35 comments (rawtext.club)
Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977
27 comments (www.righto.com)
Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
92 comments (www.zephray.me)
2013-01-12 (10 yrs ago)
A Chat With Aaron Swartz
8 comments (www.blogoscoped.com)
2023-01-11 Wed
Education in the Soviet Union – emphasis on science (1958)
105 comments (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)
'Oumuamua: An analysis of the debate regarding the first interstellar visitor
444 comments (uu.diva-portal.org)
What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’
54 comments (www.warp.dev)
The Computer Science Book (2020)
22 comments (thecomputersciencebook.com)
2013-01-11 (10 yrs ago)
Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?
91 comments (news.ycombinator.com)
Dark vs. Light Theme Battery Stats on SAMOLED
23 comments (forum.xda-developers.com)
2023-01-10 Tue
The remarkable emptiness of existence
44 comments (nautil.us)
Minimalism and the art of photography
37 comments (johnpweiss.com)
Efficient and performance-portable vector software
30 comments (github.com)
2013-01-10 (10 yrs ago)
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
14 comments (rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org)
Real-world aimbot: The $17,000 rifle with a Linux-powered scope
76 comments (www.extremetech.com)
2023-01-09 Mon
Tetris is capable of universal computation
74 comments (meatfighter.com)
I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books
291 comments (news.ycombinator.com)
2013-01-09 (10 yrs ago)
I have finally run the entire London Underground
27 comments (harrystuberunners.blogspot.co.uk)
2023-01-08 Sun
ssh whoami.filippo.io
79 comments (words.filippo.io)
2013-01-08 (10 yrs ago)
Show HN: Type Zebra - Test your fonts in a web browser
32 comments (typezebra.com)
2023-01-07 Sat
Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
74 comments (github.com)
Dedicated biomass is not a good idea
96 comments (climateer.substack.com)
Will we know alien life when we see it?
115 comments (nautil.us)
2013-01-07 (10 yrs ago)
The $5000 Compression Challenge
61 comments (www.patrickcraig.co.uk)
Why do most public toilet doors open inwards?
59 comments (ux.stackexchange.com)
Battlecode: MIT's longest-running hardcore programming competition
46 comments (cory.li)
2023-01-06 Fri
Perfect Circle
131 comments (neal.fun)
Why was Roman concrete so durable?
270 comments (news.mit.edu)
2013-01-06 (10 yrs ago)
Suckless Philosophy and Manifesto
33 comments (suckless.org)
Mosh: the mobile shell
89 comments (mosh.mit.edu)
2023-01-05 Thu
A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)
25 comments (woodrush.github.io)
Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics
70 comments (clickhouse.com)
Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)
398 comments (shiftrobotics.io)
How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)
187 comments (mathematica.stackexchange.com)
2013-01-05 (10 yrs ago)
An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone
48 comments (www.androidpolice.com)
2023-01-04 Wed
How to Befriend Crows?
61 comments (worldbirds.com)
The oldest evidence for humans swimming is from 100k years ago
31 comments (phys.org)
Moiré no more (2021)
31 comments (newsletter.shifthappens.site)
Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
58 comments (lnav.org)
2013-01-04 (10 yrs ago)
The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: Power Analysis of Atom, Krait, and Cortex A15
51 comments (www.anandtech.com)
2023-01-03 Tue
Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
48 comments (github.com)
2013-01-03 (10 yrs ago)
Quantum gas goes below absolute zero
64 comments (www.nature.com)
2023-01-02 Mon
Infinite AI Array
108 comments (ianbicking.org)
The strangest computer manual ever written
109 comments (ironicsans.substack.com)
2013-01-02 (10 yrs ago)
Inception Explained – HTML + CSS Experiment
26 comments (www.inception-explained.com)
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