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1.		Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades (tuwien.at)
		413 points by geox 19 hours ago \| 181 comments
2.		Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (esa.int)
		686 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago \| 205 comments
3.		I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs (github.com/khiner)
		197 points by khiner 2 days ago \| 180 comments
4.		Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe (theins.ru)
		549 points by dralley 9 hours ago \| 332 comments
5.		Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres (postgres.ai)
		326 points by thunderbong 1 day ago \| 67 comments
6.		6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf] (reactivemicro.com)
		118 points by siraben 1 day ago \| 6 comments
7.		Reentry – An Orbital Simulator (reentrygame.com)
		148 points by belter 1 day ago \| 39 comments
8.		Memary: Open-Source Longterm Memory for Autonomous Agents (github.com/kingjulio8238)
		179 points by james_chu 13 hours ago \| 51 comments
9.		Pdf.tocgen (krasjet.com)
		163 points by nbernard 1 day ago \| 38 comments
10.		The Myth of the Second Chance (pressreader.com)
		308 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 364 comments
11.		DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game (masswerk.at)
		103 points by smartmic 1 day ago \| 43 comments
12.		Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself (akamai.com)
		135 points by rexbee 20 hours ago \| 66 comments
13.		Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line (github.com/rcoh)
		121 points by kqr 17 hours ago \| 28 comments
14.		Cheyenne Super Computer Auction (gsaauctions.gov)
		179 points by zrules 12 hours ago \| 125 comments
15.		FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator (philpem.me.uk)
		100 points by luu 1 day ago \| 46 comments
16.		93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev)
		299 points by ellieh 13 hours ago \| 72 comments
17.		The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (lunduke.locals.com)
		365 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago \| 303 comments
18.		Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022) (anniecherkaev.com)
		89 points by skilled 1 day ago \| 94 comments
19.		How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? (uxdesign.cc)
		220 points by simonw 9 hours ago \| 94 comments
20.		Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B (github.com/ollama)
		187 points by ashvardanian 1 day ago \| 61 comments
21.		What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017) (merriam-webster.com)
		201 points by rglullis 12 hours ago \| 289 comments
22.		I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS (codedbearder.com)
		267 points by granra 9 hours ago \| 75 comments
23.		Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills (bbc.com)
		155 points by 8BitArmour 14 hours ago \| 49 comments
24.		Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds (matteason.co.uk)
		110 points by matteason 1 day ago \| 46 comments
25.		Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game (pncnmnp.github.io)
		46 points by pncnmnp 23 hours ago \| 9 comments
26.		China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made (nature.com)
		139 points by politelemon 4 days ago \| 62 comments
27.		Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] (youtube.com)
		69 points by zdw 1 day ago \| 13 comments
28.		Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017) (99percentinvisible.org)
		111 points by not_a_boat 9 hours ago \| 36 comments
29.		Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default (github.com/carsonpo)
		56 points by carsonpoole 1 day ago \| 26 comments
30.		GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview (github.blog)
		227 points by davidbarker 8 hours ago \| 255 comments
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