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  1. Creativity: The Helsinki bus station theory (medium.com)
    1 points 2
  2. Therapeutic Food (Child Malnutrition) (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: What silly or weird web search did you do recently?

    Web searches have become a common part of most peoples' lives. But there are times when an 'innocent bystander' might ask themselves: "What the #&$@ is that?". So: what web search did you do recently, where (imagining…

    1 points 3
  4. Nigeria: Lifting the Lid: Internal docs expose Shell's negligent oil operations (amnesty.org)
    3 points 1
  5. Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) (lwn.net)
    8 points 1
  6. Bortle Scale (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  7. Ask HN: How about a "Merge Stories" feature?

    There's often posts on HN linking to different articles on the same subject. Especially with general or high-profile tech news. It's not a big issue. HN users tend to upvote preferred sources, post cross-links, or…

    3 points 2
  8. Library Catalog (Card Catalog) (en.wikipedia.org)
    5 points 2
  9. Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (english.elpais.com)
    163 points 45
  10. Quills and conflict: How protection in the Strait of Hormuz is bought and sold (cnn.com)
    1 points 0
  11. Netherlands urgently needs agency to handle "disruptive innovation" (nltimes.nl)
    4 points 0
  12. The Most Important Scientist You've Never Heard of (2017) (mentalfloss.com)
    4 points 0
  13. Disco Demolition Night (Chicago, 1979) (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  14. Oil Dependence and U.S. Foreign Policy (cfr.org)
    1 points 1
  15. Ask HN: Favourite Assembly Instructions?

    One for the low-level gurus among you: what is/are your favourite assembly-language instructions, accross the ages & instruction sets? To get this started: for the good 'ol Z80, I'm torn between…

    5 points 4
  16. Ecological economics (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  17. Tensegrity (en.wikipedia.org)
    7 points 0
  18. High RISC, High Reward: RISC-V at 15 (riscv.org)
    4 points 0
  19. Designing interaction, not interfaces (2004) (semanticscholar.org)
    3 points 1
  20. Ask HN: What Makes a Good Datasheet?

    I've been browsing a few (RISC-V related) System-on-Chip datasheets. Have seen 1000s of datasheets (ROM/RAM/discrete logic/peripherals, opamps, voltage regulators, etc etc) in my life. Some lacking essential info like…

    7 points 0
  21. Initial Impressions of the THEJAS32 SoC – by Shree Kumar (2024) (techbitsatoms.substack.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Ask HN: Something like Unicode but for abstract concepts?

    Taking a recent HN post as example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440086 "Motor = something that puts into motion". "Engine = an ingenious, clever contraption". Related, but from an abstract point of view,…

    3 points 5
  23. 'Climbing is for ladies too': Transforming Malawi into a climbers' paradise (aljazeera.com)
    11 points 5
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  25. Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

    You get nerd-sniped. Assigned a bug to squash. Some new tech or gadget arrived, to familiarize yourself with. While researching / reading up / debugging, you stumble upon something interesting. Upon looking into that,…

    238 points 380