Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years — and Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

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Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years hackster.io \| points: 757 \| comments: 189

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Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT genmon.github.io \| points: 644 \| comments: 162

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Battery-free Game Boy (2020) freethegameboy.info \| points: 519 \| comments: 153

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Flux Keyboard fluxkeyboard.com \| points: 459 \| comments: 188

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The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux da.vidbuchanan.co.uk \| points: 386 \| comments: 122

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Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes social.afront.org \| points: 316 \| comments: 267

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JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years medium.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 152

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What does "Copy clean link" mean? support.brave.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 122

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The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data wired.com \| points: 251 \| comments: 154

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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS zed.dev \| points: 228 \| comments: 184

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Audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015) current.org \| points: 225 \| comments: 128

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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) eukaryotewritesblog.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 136

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OpenXLA Is Available Now opensource.googleblog.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 67

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Chemicals released during wildfires in Australia damaged the ozone layer nature.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 83

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Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (2016) github.com \| points: 191 \| comments: 64

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WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief theguardian.com \| points: 183 \| comments: 140

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Single File Elixir Scripts fly.io \| points: 177 \| comments: 27

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Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps news.ycombinator.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 139

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Stylized Water Shader alexanderameye.github.io \| points: 167 \| comments: 18

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Code coverage for Go integration tests go.dev \| points: 160 \| comments: 19

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