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Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024) (evan.widloski.com)

104 points by Evidlo 3 weeks ago | 21 comments

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A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) (woodrush.github.io)

104 points by pabs3 1 month ago | 7 comments

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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class (nytimes.com)

103 points by signa11 1 month ago | 345 comments

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Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks (blockclubchicago.org)

103 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 173 comments

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Codex vs. Claude Code (today) (build.ms)

103 points by gmays 3 weeks ago | 100 comments

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Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? (statusgator.com)

103 points by colinbartlett 3 weeks ago | 80 comments

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Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 (quad9.net)

103 points by pickledoyster 1 month ago | 61 comments

1208.

A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)

103 points by malt3 4 weeks ago | 56 comments

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Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (kroah.com)

103 points by voxadam 1 month ago | 54 comments

1210.

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop (exclav.es)

103 points by gsf_emergency_6 1 month ago | 40 comments

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Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale (tailscale.com)

103 points by nulbyte 1 month ago | 22 comments

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Intertapes – collection of found cassette tapes from different locations (intertapes.net)

103 points by wallflower 3 weeks ago | 9 comments

1213.

A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet (washingtonpost.com)

102 points by reaperducer 4 weeks ago | 129 comments

1214.

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963) (calteches.library.caltech.edu)

102 points by rramadass 1 month ago | 126 comments

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ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?' (politico.com)

102 points by standardUser 3 weeks ago | 102 comments

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WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe (tuta.com)

102 points by marvinborner 1 month ago | 88 comments

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VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" (code.visualstudio.com)

102 points by michidk 2 weeks ago | 71 comments

1218.

Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage (designboom.com)

102 points by tlyleung 1 month ago | 53 comments

1219.

Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript (github.com)

102 points by radeeyate 3 weeks ago | 29 comments

1220.

Experiments with Ableton-MCP (jhurliman.org)

102 points by jhurliman 2 weeks ago | 20 comments

1221.

How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX (github.com)

102 points by nill0 4 weeks ago | 11 comments

1222.

We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification (eff.org)

102 points by heavyset_go 1 month ago | 3 comments

1223.

The web runs on tolerance (shkspr.mobi)

101 points by speckx 1 month ago | 172 comments

1224.

Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011) (norvig.com)

101 points by atomicnature 1 month ago | 105 comments

1225.

How we automated federal retirements (ndstudio.gov)

101 points by caseysoftware 2 weeks ago | 99 comments

1226.

Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work (highimpactengineering.substack.com)

101 points by romannikolaev 1 month ago | 69 comments

1227.

COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in (tritium.legal)

101 points by piker 1 month ago | 68 comments

1228.

Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs (nakedcapitalism.com)

101 points by indigodaddy 3 weeks ago | 55 comments

1229.

Splice a Fibre (react-networks-lib.rackout.net)

101 points by matt-p 3 weeks ago | 43 comments

1230.

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record (washingtonpost.com)

101 points by ksenzee 1 month ago | 41 comments