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1.
Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
518 points by groomlake 49 days ago | 296 comments
2.
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
946 points by senko 49 days ago | 589 comments
3.
_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
443 points by shaunpud 49 days ago | 168 comments
4.
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
356 points by moelf 49 days ago | 166 comments
5.
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
444 points by aanet 51 days ago | 105 comments
6.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
658 points by theanonymousone 48 days ago | 282 comments
7.
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
382 points by epestr 49 days ago | 106 comments
8.
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
215 points by electricant 49 days ago | 49 comments
9.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
449 points by bhavansig 49 days ago | 128 comments
10.
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
382 points by wglb 49 days ago | 82 comments
11.
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
434 points by 882542F3884314B 49 days ago | 434 comments
12.
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
199 points by MarcoDewey 48 days ago | 69 comments
13.
US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
322 points by rbanffy 49 days ago | 534 comments
14.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
406 points by Meleagris 49 days ago | 216 comments
15.
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
104 points by robinpdev 56 days ago | 8 comments
16.
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
122 points by rfarley04 49 days ago | 100 comments
17.
SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
166 points by zdw 56 days ago | 35 comments
18.
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
213 points by gumby 49 days ago | 198 comments
19.
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
92 points by rahen 49 days ago | 17 comments
20.
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
73 points by csmantle 55 days ago | 14 comments
21.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
265 points by geox 49 days ago | 168 comments
22.
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
63 points by surprisetalk 53 days ago | 5 comments
23.
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
170 points by 01-_- 49 days ago | 14 comments
24.
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
174 points by happosai 49 days ago | 114 comments
25.
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
138 points by yk 53 days ago | 65 comments
26.
BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
80 points by kkgupta 53 days ago | 16 comments
27.
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
51 points by denismenace 53 days ago | 4 comments
28.
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
64 points by skibz 48 days ago | 20 comments
29.
From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
92 points by mmoogle 52 days ago | 13 comments
30.
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
182 points by andrewpollack 49 days ago | 111 comments

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