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1. 'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment (theconversation.com)
99 points by amichail 5 months ago | 24 comments
2. Is My Blue Your Blue? (ismy.blue)
1426 points by bpierre 5 months ago | 525 comments
3. Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006) (shamusyoung.com)
107 points by pathless 5 months ago | 23 comments
4. How I got my laser eye injury (funraniumlabs.com)
792 points by omnibrain 6 months ago | 361 comments
5. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
615 points by treve 6 months ago | 145 comments
6. Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine (mitpress.mit.edu)
440 points by jarmitage 7 months ago | 165 comments
7. Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol [pdf] (2007) (rangevoting.org)
51 points by yimmothathird 8 months ago | 14 comments
8. What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers (arxiv.org)
126 points by mathgenius 8 months ago | 101 comments
9. Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics (davekilian.com)
159 points by sph 9 months ago | 69 comments
10. Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game (truncate.town)
188 points by liambigelow 10 months ago | 117 comments
11. Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000) (nih.gov)
369 points by alecst 10 months ago | 177 comments
12. A world from a sheet of paper (2023) [video] (youtube.com)
295 points by jhncls 10 months ago | 17 comments
13. A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down (utcc.utoronto.ca)
194 points by ingve 11 months ago | 122 comments
14. The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s (questdb.io)
274 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 41 comments
15. How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017) (pixelbeat.org)
100 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 15 comments
16. Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits (cbarrick.dev)
138 points by thunderbong 11 months ago | 102 comments
17. Adventures with compression (jamesg.blog)
73 points by zerojames on Dec 30, 2023 | 49 comments
18. Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019) (austinhenley.com)
573 points by azhenley on Dec 26, 2023 | 332 comments
19. Representations and srategies for games with imperfect information (1996) [pdf] (sfu.ca)
91 points by luu on Nov 4, 2023 | 5 comments
20. How to help someone use a computer (1996) (ucla.edu)
87 points by alexmolas on Nov 3, 2023 | 46 comments
21. Confusing Git Terminology (jvns.ca)
602 points by soheilpro on Nov 2, 2023 | 307 comments
22. 4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available online (pbr-book.org)
330 points by mariuz on Nov 2, 2023 | 52 comments
23. Why ACPI? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
266 points by ingve on Nov 1, 2023 | 96 comments
24. Amiga ASCII Art (glyphdrawing.club)
221 points by california-og on Oct 22, 2023 | 23 comments
25. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D (thomaskole.nl)
919 points by GuardianCaveman on Oct 22, 2023 | 100 comments
26. Reimplementing git clone in Haskell from the bottom up (2013) (saasen.me)
85 points by subset on Oct 21, 2023 | 6 comments
27. Mindblowing dissertations (ideophone.org)
134 points by belter on Oct 14, 2023 | 26 comments
28. Populating the page: how browsers work (2020) (developer.mozilla.org)
277 points by sigma5 on Oct 13, 2023 | 36 comments
29. Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code (stephango.com)
194 points by surprisetalk on Oct 9, 2023 | 42 comments
30. How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) (mazzo.li)
515 points by SEJeff on Oct 5, 2023 | 105 comments

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