Stratoscope's favorites

1.		3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] (retrocmp.de)
		122 points by susam 11 days ago \| 40 comments
2.		A brief history of random numbers (2018) (crates.io)
		214 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago \| 72 comments
3.		Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023) (si.edu)
		289 points by thunderbong 22 days ago \| 32 comments
4.		Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible (wikimedia.org)
		226 points by uticus 22 days ago \| 41 comments
5.		The Programmer Identity Crisis (hojberg.xyz)
		276 points by imasl42 18 days ago \| 307 comments
6.		EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars (restofworld.org)
		431 points by belter 22 days ago \| 962 comments
7.		Heroin addicts often seem normal (justismills.substack.com)
		165 points by surprisetalk 28 days ago \| 239 comments
8.		Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
		363 points by ofalkaed 28 days ago \| 891 comments
9.		Examples are the best documentation (exotext.com)
		454 points by Bogdanp 30 days ago \| 173 comments
10.		The Debugging Book (debuggingbook.org)
		195 points by signa11 33 days ago \| 13 comments
11.		Vibe engineering (simonwillison.net)
		654 points by janpio 32 days ago \| 719 comments
12.		Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)
		388 points by praptak 32 days ago \| 122 comments
13.		I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone (forums.macrumors.com)
		367 points by dabinat 36 days ago \| 545 comments
14.		Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?
		38 points by AbstractH24 40 days ago \| 61 comments
15.		The Prehistory of Computing, Part II (oranlooney.com)
		70 points by olooney 42 days ago \| 9 comments
16.		Pasta Cooking Time (jefftk.com)
		206 points by bariumbitmap 39 days ago \| 202 comments
17.		Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement (wsj.com)
		303 points by bookofjoe 39 days ago \| 481 comments
18.		Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too (theguardian.com)
		66 points by Freak_NL 39 days ago \| 61 comments
19.		The ABS programming language (abs-lang.org)
		75 points by gjvc 39 days ago \| 38 comments
20.		Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024) (ontheseams.substack.com)
		141 points by hyperific 40 days ago \| 41 comments
21.		Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014) (publicdomainreview.org)
		43 points by NaOH 45 days ago \| 1 comment
22.		Quicksort explained IKEA-style (idea-instructions.com)
		689 points by foehrenwald 48 days ago \| 133 comments
23.		Nine things I learned in ninety years (edwardpackard.com)
		1006 points by coderintherye 46 days ago \| 382 comments
24.		Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua (luau.org)
		186 points by andsoitis 51 days ago \| 92 comments
25.		Human writers have always used the em dash (theringer.com)
		129 points by FromTheArchives 57 days ago \| 146 comments
26.		QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system (github.com/qgis)
		573 points by rcarmo 57 days ago \| 127 comments
27.		Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
		679 points by mpweiher 57 days ago \| 533 comments
28.		Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer (github.com/cursortouch)
		135 points by djhu9 60 days ago \| 26 comments
29.		Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging (mahesh-hegde.github.io)
		257 points by never_inline 62 days ago \| 214 comments
30.		Claude now has access to a server-side container environment (anthropic.com)
		659 points by meetpateltech 60 days ago \| 345 comments
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