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1. The SR-71's predecessor used cesium-laced fuel to create radar-absorbing exhaust (thedrive.com)
70 points by ivanech 2 hours ago | hide | 22 comments
2. California bans private prisons (theguardian.com)
1497 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | hide | 466 comments
3. The exponential function is a miracle (plover.com)
58 points by ColinWright 3 hours ago | hide | 25 comments
4. ChocoPy: A Programming Language for Compilers Courses (chocopy.org)
66 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | hide | 5 comments
5. Building a Better Go Linker (golang.org)
144 points by rjammala 6 hours ago | hide | 54 comments
6. French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport (france24.com)
74 points by UglyToad 5 hours ago | hide | 40 comments
7. Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found (bbc.com)
226 points by michalu 9 hours ago | hide | 147 comments
8. Wintergatan's Marble Machine in Minecraft [video] (youtube.com)
52 points by CaliforniaKarl 4 hours ago | hide | 6 comments
9. A lighter V8 (v8.dev)
392 points by tosh 13 hours ago | hide | 162 comments
10. The ancient world teemed with birds (aeon.co)
21 points by autokill 2 hours ago | hide | 1 comment
11. WebGPU and WSL in Safari (webkit.org)
223 points by chmaynard 10 hours ago | hide | 118 comments
12. Cloudflare S-1/Amendment (sec.gov)
78 points by hugoromano 6 hours ago | hide | 22 comments
13. Experimental replication: knives manufactured from frozen human feces don't work (sciencedirect.com)
8 points by nkurz 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments
14. Heidegger, the homesick philosopher (newstatesman.com)
33 points by deepbow 5 hours ago | hide | 21 comments
15. Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out (cnet.com)
245 points by lelf 13 hours ago | hide | 130 comments
16. Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning (nanonets.com)
152 points by ole_gooner 10 hours ago | hide | 55 comments
17. A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript (ajennings.net)
131 points by ajennings 10 hours ago | hide | 58 comments
18. An Oral History of ‘Snake’ on Nokia (melmagazine.com)
50 points by andrelaszlo 6 hours ago | hide | 17 comments
19. Templates for Cutting Gears from Wood (woodgears.ca)
64 points by rmbryan 7 hours ago | hide | 29 comments
20. The Rise of the Electric Scooter (codinghorror.com)
192 points by idoco 12 hours ago | hide | 264 comments
21. Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day (bloomberg.com)
75 points by hhs 3 hours ago | hide | 77 comments
22. Load Handling vs. Data Integrity: Tradeoffs in Distributed Data Store Design (hazelcast.com)
19 points by nfrankel 2 hours ago | hide | discuss
23. Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B (bizjournals.com)
156 points by specifications 12 hours ago | hide | 259 comments
24. New use of insulin compound could treat aggressive brain cancer: study (eurekalert.org)
120 points by charbet 12 hours ago | hide | 16 comments
25. MathSharp, a vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics (github.com)
56 points by gokhan 7 hours ago | hide | 13 comments
26. The thoroughly modern George Gershwin (washingtonpost.com)
4 points by tintinnabula 1 hour ago | hide | discuss
27. Efficient string copying and concatenation in C (redhat.com)
129 points by beefhash 12 hours ago | hide | 136 comments
28. End Software Patents (endsoftpatents.org)
103 points by praveenscience 5 hours ago | hide | 125 comments
29. Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism (outsideonline.com)
130 points by gerbilly 15 hours ago | hide | 241 comments
30. Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar (filamentgroup.com)
187 points by robin_reala 13 hours ago | hide | 140 comments

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