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1.		Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (britannica11.org)
		288 points by ahaspel 16 hours ago \| 100 comments
2.		447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane (zenodo.org)
		265 points by iliatoli 10 days ago \| 154 comments
3.		Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app)
		291 points by frasermarlow 14 days ago \| 70 comments
4.		The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites (elizabethspiers.com)
		100 points by speckx 20 days ago \| 27 comments
5.		Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules (gadgetreview.com)
		138 points by vidyesh 25 days ago \| 160 comments
6.		Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' (phys.org)
		114 points by pseudolus 32 days ago \| 46 comments
7.		A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)
		493 points by cainxinth 32 days ago \| 392 comments
8.		Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)
		417 points by mariuz 33 days ago \| 615 comments
9.		Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables (worksinprogress.news)
		141 points by bensouthwood 41 days ago \| 67 comments
10.		War prediction markets are a national-security threat (theatlantic.com)
		258 points by fortran77 45 days ago \| 151 comments
11.		Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (science.org)
		226 points by tzury 47 days ago \| 42 comments
12.		Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023) (tovejansson.com)
		223 points by abelanger 53 days ago \| 123 comments
13.		Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)
		271 points by ingve 72 days ago \| 259 comments
14.		1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (cnn.com)
		133 points by breve 81 days ago \| 36 comments
15.		Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)
		48 points by bryanrasmussen 81 days ago \| 14 comments
16.		Incredible Rolling Objects which aren't Spheres [video] (youtube.com)
		1 point by thunderbong 83 days ago
17.		Pharos: The Lighthouse at Alexandria (uchicago.edu)
		45 points by teleforce 3 months ago \| 11 comments
18.		The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
		646 points by glimshe 3 months ago \| 522 comments
19.		The longest Greek word (wikipedia.org)
		187 points by firloop 3 months ago \| 93 comments
20.		Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout (yale.edu)
		775 points by mrtksn 3 months ago \| 572 comments
21.		TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)
		737 points by admp 3 months ago \| 314 comments
22.		Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)
		803 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago \| 119 comments
23.		[flagged] I'm a developer for a major food delivery app (reddit.com)
		623 points by apayan 3 months ago \| 296 comments
24.		The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network (subseacables.blogspot.com)
		228 points by giuliomagnifico 3 months ago \| 60 comments
25.		What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
		2510 points by zdw 3 months ago \| 409 comments
26.		Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English (npmjs.com)
		420 points by josharsh 3 months ago \| 198 comments
27.		Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)
		223 points by flaxxen 3 months ago \| 470 comments
28.		Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 (egyptianhieroglyphs.net)
		169 points by jameslk 4 months ago \| 72 comments
29.		What was typography like in the Soviet Union? (A Bluesky thread.) (bsky.app)
		3 points by pavel_lishin 4 months ago
30.		The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth (damninteresting.com)
		3 points by bookofjoe 4 months ago
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