| 1. | | The Penicillin Myth (asimov.press) |
| 201 points by surprisetalk 47 days ago | 113 comments |
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| 2. | | Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies (1517.substack.com) |
| 283 points by areoform on Oct 24, 2022 | 209 comments |
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| 3. | | Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library (medium.com/caitlin9165) |
| 491 points by rossant 10 months ago | 179 comments |
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| 4. | | Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers (science.org) |
| 400 points by igitur on Aug 1, 2024 | 146 comments |
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| 5. | | Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words (cohost.org) |
| 508 points by Fraterkes on Aug 13, 2023 | 248 comments |
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| 6. | | Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) (adriancooney.ie) |
| 362 points by djoldman on Aug 8, 2023 | 112 comments |
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| 7. | | Ask HN: Voice Controlled Programming? |
| 5 points by WoodenChair on April 7, 2015 | 3 comments |
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| 8. | | Plain text journaling in Vim (peppe.rs) |
| 254 points by gigatexal on June 19, 2023 | 74 comments |
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| 9. | | Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone (devever.net) |
| 132 points by xrayarx on Jan 28, 2023 | 124 comments |
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| 10. | | The Antikythera mechanism reveals new secrets (scientificamerican.com) |
| 344 points by ppod on Jan 4, 2022 | 200 comments |
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| 11. | | Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not (github.com/haampie) |
| 289 points by fanf2 on Dec 2, 2021 | 57 comments |
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| 12. | | The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video] (twitter.com/nickdale) |
| 512 points by tehnub on Oct 22, 2021 | 132 comments |
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| 13. | | A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (marginalia.nu) |
| 3441 points by Funes- on Sept 16, 2021 | 717 comments |
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| 14. | | POW Captcha: a lightweight, self-hosted proof-of-work captcha (sequentialread.com) |
| 116 points by wchar_t on Sept 10, 2021 | 108 comments |
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| 15. | | PAM Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations (github.com/nuvious) |
| 763 points by xanthine on Aug 22, 2021 | 343 comments |
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| 16. | | Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy (uchicago.edu) |
| 498 points by MindGods on July 22, 2020 | 121 comments |
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| 17. | | Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop (nytimes.com) |
| 115 points by rmason on Feb 16, 2020 | 133 comments |
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| 18. | | The Riemann Hypothesis (utexas.edu) |
| 294 points by gballan on Sept 8, 2019 | 87 comments |
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