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1. How video games use lookup tables (frost.kiwi)
673 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 28, 2024 | 106 comments
2. The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 (lwn.net)
817 points by jrepinc on Feb 29, 2024 | 616 comments
3. Antarctic English (wikipedia.org)
369 points by benbreen on Feb 28, 2024 | 158 comments
4. Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages (jamesg.blog)
344 points by zerojames on Feb 29, 2024 | 151 comments
5. You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? (gaultier.github.io)
380 points by broken_broken_ on Feb 29, 2024 | 347 comments
6. A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019) (ferrous-systems.com)
221 points by simonpure on Feb 29, 2024 | 115 comments
7. GGUF, the Long Way Around (vickiboykis.com)
249 points by Tomte on Feb 29, 2024 | 30 comments
8. Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023) (micahlerner.com)
237 points by mlerner on Feb 29, 2024 | 95 comments
9. Financial systems take a holiday (bitsaboutmoney.com)
228 points by nfriedly on Feb 29, 2024 | 200 comments
10. Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
524 points by sjr1 on Feb 29, 2024 | 481 comments
11. Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application (github.com/jovandeginste)
263 points by jovdg on Feb 29, 2024 | 97 comments
12. Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015) (mixu.net)
297 points by Tomte on Feb 28, 2024 | 99 comments
13. Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap (lumafield.com)
268 points by viasfo on Feb 29, 2024 | 462 comments
14. Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play (afterbabel.com)
407 points by paulpauper on Feb 28, 2024 | 440 comments
15. Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine (biorxiv.org)
209 points by Michelangelo11 on Feb 29, 2024 | 53 comments
16. Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution (opencollective.com)
173 points by chenrui on Feb 28, 2024 | 42 comments
17. Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound [video] (youtube.com)
217 points by gardenfelder on Feb 29, 2024 | 92 comments
18. "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages (newyorker.com)
211 points by drdee on Feb 28, 2024 | 250 comments
19. Functional ownership through fractional uniqueness (arxiv.org)
122 points by matt_d on Feb 29, 2024 | 49 comments
20. Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth (worldsensorium.com)
114 points by dnetesn on Feb 29, 2024 | 15 comments
21. Talc – A fast and flexible allocator for no_std and WebAssembly (github.com/sfbdragon)
121 points by excsn on Feb 29, 2024 | 27 comments
22. I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021) (bryanbraun.com)
195 points by surprisetalk on Feb 29, 2024 | 45 comments
23. Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform (medium.com/zhaodongyu)
79 points by camel-cdr on Feb 28, 2024 | 52 comments
24. Scheduling Internals (tontinton.com)
186 points by signa11 on Feb 28, 2024 | 21 comments
25. The floppy disk music scene (theverge.com)
116 points by thm on Feb 28, 2024 | 33 comments
26. The Claro Programming Language (clarolang.com)
159 points by signa11 on Feb 29, 2024 | 74 comments
27. Indexed types for a statically safe WebAssembly [pdf] (williamjbowman.com)
51 points by luu on Feb 28, 2024 | 4 comments
28. Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests (olegkutkov.me)
146 points by alphabettsy on Feb 29, 2024 | 148 comments
29. Hetzner switches to new billing model (hetzner.com)
325 points by throwaway220033 on Feb 29, 2024 | 199 comments
30. A Social History of Jell-O Salad (2023) (seriouseats.com)
51 points by EndXA on Feb 28, 2024 | 58 comments

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