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  1. Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
    (198 points | Comments)

  2. I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)
    (202 points | Comments)

  3. Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables
    (179 points | Comments)

  4. Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage
    (129 points | Comments)

  5. FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)
    (215 points | Comments)

  6. Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?
    (233 points | Comments)

  7. Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
    (1113 points | Comments)

  8. The secret lives of snowblowers
    (115 points | Comments)

  9. How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI
    (150 points | Comments)

  10. Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
    (340 points | Comments)

  11. Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
    (816 points | Comments)

  12. Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
    (497 points | Comments)

  13. DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model
    (116 points | Comments)

  14. Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
    (295 points | Comments)

  15. pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
    (186 points | Comments)

  16. X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
    (344 points | Comments)

  17. Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
    (257 points | Comments)

  18. Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
    (187 points | Comments)

  19. An unordered list of things I miss in Go
    (155 points | Comments)

  20. China's manufacturers are going broke
    (123 points | Comments)

  21. Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]
    (378 points | Comments)

  22. NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
    (105 points | Comments)

  23. Hacking with PDF (2022)
    (122 points | Comments)

  24. Xapian: Open source search engine library
    (172 points | Comments)

  25. Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
    (608 points | Comments)

  26. The weird of function-local types in Rust
    (116 points | Comments)

  27. X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
    (488 points | Comments)

  28. Just use Postgres
    (236 points | Comments)

  29. Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
    (181 points | Comments)

  30. The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
    (110 points | Comments)

  31. Slackdump
    (189 points | Comments)

  32. Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)
    (111 points | Comments)