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  1. Ask HN: Given enough expertise and resources, what project(s) would you work on?
    5 points 2
  2. How to Invent a Musical Instrument (2016) (thelongandshort.org)
    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: If you weren't in tech, what profession would you likely have today?
    2 points 2
  4. Trust Networks: How We Know Things (jsanilac.com)
    1 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Where have you found "your people" in real life?

    Outside of work, school, and the Web, how have you discovered groups of other people you felt understood you and your individual interests without having to over-explain or qualify your statements? I don't mean hobby…

    9 points 17
  6. The Natural Number Game (ma.imperial.ac.uk)
    2 points 0
  7. Harold Cohen and Aaron–A 40-Year Collboration (computerhistory.org)
    1 points 0
  8. A Closer Look at Asia's Favorite Chord Progression (2013) (blog.animeinstrumentality.net)
    3 points 0
  9. The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020) (invention.si.edu)
    92 points 49
  10. Ask HN: Desktop mail client with good rule setting and filtering

    I've been using the new Outlook for some time now, and many of the redeeming qualities of its predecessor are gone while its negatives remain or, in some respects, have been exacerbated. While the new client is betaware…

    3 points 2
  11. Free-Net (en.wikipedia.org)
    4 points 0
  12. Sale of physical Suica and unregistered PASMO cards suspended by Japan Rail (twitter.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Ask HN: How would you go about building a startup government?

    I've noticed a bit of fanfare these days for gov-/citizen-tech. However, a rarely mentioned obstacle (outside present company) regarding work for or on behalf currently established governments are how they are hobbled…

    3 points 5
  14. Ask HN: How has AI/ML affected the hardware/EE side of the industry?
    1 points 2
  15. Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978 (templetons.com)
    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Could LLMs become intelligent enough to be good romantic partners?

    As mentioned several times before on HN, ChatGPT and other LLMs are impressive feats of technology. These models are able to emulate patterns of human interaction at multiple levels of complexity. It's also dawned on me…

    1 points 1
  17. Your next job recruiter might be an AI bot (computerworld.com)
    4 points 3
  18. Sim Wong Hoo, founder of Sound Blaster maker Creative Labs, has died (pcgamer.com)
    4 points 0
  19. John B. Goodenough (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  20. Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?

    During the '90s and the early '00s, dedicated soundcards were in-demand components in much the same way GPUs are today. From what I know, Creative won, on-board sound became good enough sometime between Windows XP and…

    220 points 238
  21. Swedish grandmother has 40Gbps Internet connection (2007) (slashdot.org)
    3 points 0
  22. How would a royalty system work for software?

    Screenwriters, songwriters, and authors can obtain lifetime residuals for a script, song, or book they wrote forever and half ago. Most coders/engineers however are payed for the length of their usefulness on a project…

    3 points 13
  23. Ask HN: Best free/cheap Japanese Mincho (serif) fonts for paper and web

    I like the look of Adobe's Ten Mincho and its consistency with Garamondesuqe Latin characters, but I dislike the fact that the font is exclusive to TypeKit. Source Han Serif seems quite thin in comparison but takes up…

    3 points 1
  24. Ask HN: Are there any companies that are doing interesting work in hardware?

    Outside of ML/computer vision and processors, what companies are pushing the envelope in more esoteric domains of hardware?

    29 points 28
  25. Ask HN: Alternatives to Server-Side JavaScript/Node.js?

    Preferably highly performant and well supported by a community or corporation.

    1 points 4