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1. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing (pluralistic.net)
1597 points by jay_kyburz on Dec 9, 2023 | 794 comments
2. Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application (github.com/chriskiehl)
769 points by lsferreira42 on Dec 9, 2023 | 118 comments
3. A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
680 points by xenophonf on Dec 9, 2023 | 297 comments
4. Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers (bbc.com)
307 points by thunderbong on Dec 7, 2023 | 156 comments
5. Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results (arstechnica.com)
346 points by CHB0403085482 on Dec 7, 2023 | 262 comments
6. Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo (dougengelbart.org)
272 points by gjvc on Dec 9, 2023 | 99 comments
7. Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C# (github.com/isadorasophia)
322 points by ibobev on Dec 9, 2023 | 117 comments
8. PysimpleGUI (github.com/pysimplegui)
277 points by nothrowaways on Dec 9, 2023 | 153 comments
9. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine (w4games.com)
445 points by j_maffe on Dec 9, 2023 | 87 comments
10. Sneakers Film Promotional Floppy (archive.org)
177 points by dcminter on Dec 9, 2023 | 54 comments
11. Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker (arstechnica.com)
402 points by Shank on Dec 8, 2023 | 163 comments
12. Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools (github.com/secureai-tools)
234 points by d7y on Dec 9, 2023 | 60 comments
13. OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault (github.com/openbao)
314 points by thinkmassive on Dec 9, 2023 | 125 comments
14. Vulnerabilities in TETRA radio networks (cryptomuseum.com)
214 points by porsupah on Dec 9, 2023 | 81 comments
15. Make Apps for Linux (makealinux.app)
304 points by jay-barronville on Dec 9, 2023 | 405 comments
16. CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG (richg42.blogspot.com)
237 points by dirkf on Dec 7, 2023 | 120 comments
17. Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing (nebula.org)
167 points by all2 on Dec 9, 2023 | 86 comments
18. Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games (gingerbeardman.com)
101 points by ecliptik on Dec 9, 2023 | 36 comments
19. QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs (cornell-relaxml.github.io)
201 points by jasondavies on Dec 8, 2023 | 59 comments
20. Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for (osssoftware.org)
245 points by johnrushx on Dec 9, 2023 | 95 comments
21. Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing (pncnmnp.github.io)
151 points by pncnmnp on Dec 9, 2023 | 51 comments
22. NetworkX – Network Analysis in Python (networkx.org)
187 points by comradesmith on Dec 9, 2023 | 62 comments
23. Flatpack field hospitals that can be airdropped to disaster zones (theguardian.com)
222 points by tosh on Dec 8, 2023 | 69 comments
24. Just Your Handyman (plough.com)
205 points by merrier on Dec 8, 2023 | 77 comments
25. WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program (internet-janitor.itch.io)
166 points by RodgerTheGreat on Dec 7, 2023 | 19 comments
26. Programming Bottom-Up (1993) (paulgraham.com)
75 points by tzury on Dec 7, 2023 | 33 comments
27. EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS (acs.org)
182 points by geox on Dec 9, 2023 | 50 comments
28. NeurIPS 2023 Posters Cluster Visualization (vizhub.ai)
103 points by skadamat on Dec 9, 2023 | 13 comments
29. Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations (phys.org)
92 points by wglb on Dec 8, 2023 | 57 comments
30. Nikon makes firmware for astronauts to block cosmic rays in photos (petapixel.com)
121 points by isaacfrond on Dec 8, 2023 | 66 comments

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