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  1. StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet
    (629 points | Comments)

  2. SUSE to Go Private
    (236 points | Comments)

  3. The aging brain: is misplaced DNA to blame?
    (119 points | Comments)

  4. Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption
    (239 points | Comments)

  5. YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
    (131 points | Comments)

  6. “Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
    (166 points | Comments)

  7. Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
    (221 points | Comments)

  8. RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills
    (145 points | Comments)

  9. An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
    (118 points | Comments)

  10. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
    (305 points | Comments)

  11. Joys and pains of insects
    (123 points | Comments)

  12. Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study
    (129 points | Comments)

  13. Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
    (150 points | Comments)

  14. How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole
    (629 points | Comments)

  15. SUSE to go private
    (289 points | Comments)

  16. Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers
    (126 points | Comments)

  17. Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
    (370 points | Comments)

  18. A look into the finances of SpaceX
    (171 points | Comments)

  19. Market Map
    (137 points | Comments)

  20. Too many fonts in Windows 10 can cause slow application starts
    (108 points | Comments)

  21. A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
    (111 points | Comments)

  22. My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair
    (154 points | Comments)

  23. YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto
    (117 points | Comments)

  24. 1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards
    (316 points | Comments)

  25. Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
    (103 points | Comments)

  26. Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
    (191 points | Comments)

  27. Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
    (113 points | Comments)

  28. Railway Safety Posters (2022)
    (162 points | Comments)

  29. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems
    (284 points | Comments)

  30. I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)
    (262 points | Comments)

  31. AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
    (172 points | Comments)

  32. Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
    (162 points | Comments)

  33. Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
    (535 points | Comments)

  34. AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
    (293 points | Comments)

  35. Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency
    (114 points | Comments)

  36. Debian celebrates 30 years
    (344 points | Comments)

  37. Fusion Foolery
    (195 points | Comments)

  38. Mullvad Browser
    (325 points | Comments)

  39. Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say
    (327 points | Comments)

  40. Managing difficult software engineers
    (175 points | Comments)

  41. Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters
    (185 points | Comments)

  42. We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change
    (107 points | Comments)

  43. Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
    (555 points | Comments)

  44. Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
    (300 points | Comments)

  45. DIY Espresso (2020)
    (254 points | Comments)

  46. Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
    (146 points | Comments)

  47. New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
    (139 points | Comments)

  48. Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point
    (127 points | Comments)

  49. A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
    (157 points | Comments)

  50. NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)
    (128 points | Comments)

  51. Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves
    (139 points | Comments)

  52. A search for technosignatures around nearby stars
    (129 points | Comments)

  53. Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
    (439 points | Comments)

  54. Unit: A visual programming system [video]
    (104 points | Comments)

  55. Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    (195 points | Comments)

  56. A simple way to test the charge level on alkaline batteries (2015) [video]
    (111 points | Comments)

  57. QR codes appearing in Google street view?
    (223 points | Comments)