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1.		Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop (tinycorelinux.net)
		460 points by LorenDB 22 hours ago \| 200 comments
2.		Eighteenth-century mechanical automaton: the Writer (youtube.com)
		1 point by leoc on Sept 26, 2021 \| 1 comment
3.		[flagged] Show HN: I engineered a 2mm micro-bearing D20 ring that free-spin for 20 seconds
		23 points by spinity 11 days ago \| 14 comments
4.		Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (britneyspears.ac)
		286 points by lachlan_gray 20 days ago \| 87 comments
5.		FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT (bit-hack.net)
		235 points by andsoitis 20 days ago \| 49 comments
6.		A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser (greg.technology)
		139 points by vaibhavsagar 20 days ago \| 37 comments
7.		AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is (fastcompany.com)
		700 points by felineflock 27 days ago \| 562 comments
8.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
		464 points by david927 27 days ago \| 1369 comments
9.		Game design is simple (raphkoster.com)
		560 points by vrnvu 30 days ago \| 173 comments
10.		Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust (github.com/ricosjp)
		86 points by adamnemecek on March 8, 2023 \| 44 comments
11.		CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser (mattferraro.dev)
		669 points by samwillis on May 21, 2024 \| 241 comments
12.		Mr TIFF (inventingthefuture.ghost.io)
		1052 points by speckx 32 days ago \| 150 comments
13.		Show HN: Find and download fonts from any website (weekend project) (typecatch.com)
		20 points by zdenham 35 days ago \| 4 comments
14.		Simple CPU Design (simplecpudesign.com)
		316 points by _benj 10 months ago \| 48 comments
15.		Making Electronic Calipers (kevinlynagh.com)
		181 points by surprisetalk on Nov 8, 2024 \| 69 comments
16.		The OpenFlexure 3D printable microscope (openflexure.org)
		189 points by enceladus06 on Nov 12, 2024 \| 20 comments
17.		OpenRAMAN – Low-cost, high-performance, open-source Raman spectrometer (open-raman.org)
		149 points by philipkglass on May 5, 2020 \| 30 comments
18.		How the cochlea computes (2024) (dissonances.blog)
		484 points by izhak 37 days ago \| 150 comments
19.		Elektročas HH3 – the most accurate pendulum clock on the planet (cern.ch)
		109 points by tverbeure 11 months ago \| 42 comments
20.		First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself (quantamagazine.org)
		547 points by fleahunter 43 days ago \| 163 comments
21.		Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors (rkirov.github.io)
		224 points by birdculture 49 days ago \| 75 comments
22.		Notes on Waveguide Synthesis (2018) (osar.fr)
		38 points by jstrieb 45 days ago \| 1 comment
23.		Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible (wikimedia.org)
		226 points by uticus 50 days ago \| 41 comments
24.		Distributed Ray-Tracing (4rknova.com)
		37 points by ibobev 51 days ago \| 11 comments
25.		Picturing Mathematics (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
		109 points by jamespropp 49 days ago \| 4 comments
26.		MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks (news.mit.edu)
		98 points by pykello 56 days ago \| 42 comments
27.		Show HN: A large format XY scanning hyperspectral camera (anfractuosity.com)
		44 points by anfractuosity 57 days ago \| 10 comments
28.		Someone Has to Run the Fabs (noahpinion.blog)
		81 points by jseliger on April 26, 2023 \| 91 comments
29.		Why it's so hard to build a jet engine (construction-physics.com)
		444 points by mhb 9 months ago \| 209 comments
30.		Konrad Zuse's Helix Tower [pdf] (iaarc.org)
		89 points by xg15 60 days ago \| 6 comments
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