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1.Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale (twitter.com/danluu)
725 points by tagolli on Jan 29, 2022 | 271 comments
2.Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website (gdcolon.com)
896 points by TheresNoTime on Jan 29, 2022 | 204 comments
3.Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable (pypi.org)
500 points by crlees on Jan 29, 2022 | 288 comments
4.People don't work as much as they say (drmaciver.substack.com)
492 points by exolymph on Jan 29, 2022 | 305 comments
5.Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021) (washingtonpost.com)
289 points by Scramblejams on Jan 29, 2022 | 268 comments
6.Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation (torproject.org)
283 points by pabs3 on Jan 29, 2022 | 144 comments
7.How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021) (cloudsavvyit.com)
230 points by ingve on Jan 29, 2022 | 145 comments
8.Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service (jumboframeinternet.com)
274 points by jrrtokenring on Jan 29, 2022 | 114 comments
9.The battle for the world’s most powerful cyberweapon (nytimes.com)
141 points by ciconia on Jan 28, 2022 | 84 comments
10.Choosing tools for Game Boy development (gbdev.io)
136 points by detaro on Jan 29, 2022 | 37 comments
11.Plant-based epoxy enables recyclable carbon fiber (nrel.gov)
174 points by kungfudoi on Jan 29, 2022 | 27 comments
12.Turning back time with epigenetic clocks (nature.com)
166 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 29, 2022 | 88 comments
13.Counter-intuitive results in operations research (or.stackexchange.com)
133 points by sebg on Jan 27, 2022 | 27 comments
14.Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (2019) (blogicarian.blogspot.com)
178 points by dwohnitmok on Jan 29, 2022 | 191 comments
15.Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work (leeorengel.com)
167 points by kiyanwang on Jan 28, 2022 | 37 comments
16.PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years (2019) [video] (fosdem.org)
152 points by belter on Jan 29, 2022 | 46 comments
17.A pure Go embedded SQL database (gitlab.com/cznic)
152 points by eatonphil on Jan 29, 2022 | 49 comments
18.Writing Literate API Documentation in Emacs Org Mode (joseph8th.github.io)
105 points by joseph8th on Jan 29, 2022 | 29 comments
19.On self-modifying executables in Rust (dend.ro)
96 points by lukastyrychtr on Jan 28, 2022 | 41 comments
20.Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues (brave.com)
185 points by skellertor on Jan 28, 2022 | 118 comments
21.Pirates spammed an infamous Soviet-era short-wave radio station with memes (vice.com)
142 points by caaqil on Jan 27, 2022 | 40 comments
22.A man who gave himself away (2016) (mosaicscience.com)
72 points by drdee on Jan 27, 2022 | 6 comments
23.Can a biologist fix a radio?–Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf] (cell.com)
76 points by breck on Jan 28, 2022 | 18 comments
24.Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearthed at Luxor (arstechnica.com)
99 points by diodorus on Jan 27, 2022 | 17 comments
25.Reasons for servers to support IPv6 (jvns.ca)
266 points by pingiun on Jan 29, 2022 | 310 comments
26.Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation (economist.com)
98 points by axiomdata316 on Jan 29, 2022 | 194 comments
27.The Smart Modem (computer.rip)
110 points by zdw on Jan 28, 2022 | 37 comments
28.Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation (nature.com)
108 points by groar on Jan 29, 2022 | 36 comments
29.Tango: Create step-by-step documentation with screenshots (tango.us)
102 points by amrrs on Jan 29, 2022 | 15 comments
30.Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable (chzsoft.de)
95 points by fm77 on Jan 27, 2022 | 6 comments

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