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The curious case of adjacent difference 19 73 4mo +2d mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder 23Exploring EXIF (2023) 11 81 4mo +1d hturan.com/writing/exploring-exif 24Reserve First 0 31 4mo +1d matklad.github.io/2025/08/16/reserve-first.html 25Punch cards and dollar bills 0 10 4mo +1d johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/22/punch-card-dollar 26Help flight radar with a RasPi and SDR 7 13 4mo +39m flightradar24.com/build-your-own 27The F-35 is losing the trade war 130 70 4mo +12m jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35-fighter-jet-losing-trade-war 28Optimizing our way through Metroid 32 143 4mo +1d antithesis.com/blog/2025/metroid 29Arrays in Practice (2024) 0 12 4mo +2d programming-journal.org/2024/8/14 30Why was Apache Kafka created? 208 195 4mo +23h bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/why-was-apache-kafka-created 31Line scan camera image processing for train photography 81 439 4mo +2h daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2025m09d21 32Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips 186 173 4mo +1d cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-texas-instruments-60-billion-us-project.html 33Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023) 52 33 4mo +7h nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31492/w31492.pdf 34The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929B to likely be a bare rock 0 18 4mo +2h arxiv.org/abs/2508.12516 35The importance of counter-clockwise dance rituals 3 8 4mo +1h honest-broker.com/p/the-importance-of-counter-clockwise 36Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads 165 98 4mo +1h libreantisocial.com 37RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no 134 121 4mo +37m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02682-9 38Game math: precise control over numeric springing 1 13 4mo +2d allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing 39I hacked Monster Energy 166 194 4mo +32m bobdahacker.com/blog/monster-energy 40Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring an Applied AI Engineer 0 1 4mo +27s workatastartup.com/jobs/75647 41Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane 93 41 4mo +25m noahpinion.blog/p/europes-crusade-against-air-conditioning 42Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation 72 51 4mo +38m a16z.com/building-a16zs-personal-ai-workstation-with-four-nvidia-rtx-6000-pro-blackwell-max-q-gpus 43I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe) 25 39 4mo +3d bobdahacker.com/blog/mcdonalds-security-vulnerabilities 44Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us 15 35 4mo +49m techxplore.com/news/2025-08-robots-tools.html 45Using game theory to explain how institutions arise to manage limited resources 1 11 4mo +35m phys.org/news/2025-08-game-theory-naturally-limited-resources.html 46Ne Zha II is the biggest movie in the world 9 26 4mo +33m cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ne-zha-ii-1.7614698 47Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 47 61 4mo +18m mfbmina.dev/en/posts/waitgroups 48Converting an online game 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