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1.Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (oldmapsonline.org)
1306 points by agilek on Dec 12, 2024 | 180 comments
2.Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
443 points by verbify on Dec 12, 2024 | 210 comments
3.Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (lichess.org)
1118 points by alexmolas on Dec 12, 2024 | 464 comments
4.Unexpected Keyboard (github.com/julow)
270 points by twoquestions on Dec 10, 2024 | 148 comments
5.Cold Email Handbook (za-zu.com)
356 points by baxtr on Dec 8, 2024 | 210 comments
6.Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata (richiejp.com)
97 points by richiejp on Dec 12, 2024 | 22 comments
7.Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths (bbc.com)
505 points by vinni2 on Dec 12, 2024 | 824 comments
8.Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable (github.com/skuep)
232 points by CTOSian on Dec 6, 2024 | 65 comments
9.OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs (wired.com)
368 points by impish9208 on Dec 11, 2024 | 615 comments
10.Android XR (blog.google)
354 points by dagmx on Dec 12, 2024 | 299 comments
11.Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling (quantus.finance)
279 points by misstercool on Dec 12, 2024 | 50 comments
12.Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it (theengineeringmanager.substack.com)
255 points by thunderbong on Dec 12, 2024 | 171 comments
13.The secret life of DNS packets (2019) (stripe.com)
95 points by ohjeez on Dec 12, 2024 | 15 comments
14.Dear OAuth Providers (pilcrowonpaper.com)
439 points by franciscop on Dec 11, 2024 | 143 comments
15.Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013) (invisiblethings.org)
117 points by transpute on Dec 12, 2024 | 45 comments
16.A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte (science.org)
131 points by fs_tab on Dec 12, 2024 | 69 comments
17.Show HN: Lfi – a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library (lfi.dev)
98 points by tomeraberbach on Dec 11, 2024 | 48 comments
18.Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches (github.com/luchina-gabriel)
165 points by goodburb on Dec 11, 2024 | 49 comments
19.BlenderGPT (blendergpt.org)
460 points by handfuloflight on Dec 12, 2024 | 197 comments
20.Programming Language Memory Models (2021) (swtch.com)
140 points by fanf2 on Dec 12, 2024 | 29 comments
21.A letter to open-source maintainers (xuanwo.io)
178 points by xuanwo on Dec 9, 2024 | 82 comments
22.Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit (npr.org)
300 points by airstrike on Dec 10, 2024 | 441 comments
23.A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023) (carlini.com)
350 points by chubot on Dec 12, 2024 | 118 comments
24.A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop (phys.org)
117 points by dxs on Dec 3, 2024 | 45 comments
25.Tricking c64 basic into clearing a hi-res screen quickly (retro64.altervista.org)
61 points by amichail on Dec 7, 2024 | 16 comments
26."Rules" that terminal programs follow (jvns.ca)
298 points by charlieok on Dec 12, 2024 | 147 comments
27.The world of tomorrow (worksinprogress.co)
115 points by diodorus on Dec 8, 2024 | 130 comments
28.Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger) (nfsa.gov.au)
98 points by gnabgib on Dec 12, 2024 | 61 comments
29.Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say (techcrunch.com)
214 points by impish9208 on Dec 12, 2024 | 76 comments
30.Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why (arstechnica.com)
216 points by rbanffy on Dec 3, 2024 | 132 comments

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