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  1. Global study: Wild megafauna shape ecosystem properties

    42 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  2. “I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid that computation is too carbon intensive”

    42 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  3. Thomas Stevens (Cyclist)

    42 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  4. Ask HN: Why isn't there a Rotten Tomatoes for consumer electronics?

    42 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  5. VMware vSphere ESXi free edition is dead

    41 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  6. Microsoft's Fast

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  7. Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka

    41 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  8. Homemade Pasta. Now Is the Time (2021)

    41 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  9. The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  10. Ask HN: Are app signup dark patterns getting worse?

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  11. Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  12. Keeping code simple: moving fast by avoiding over-engineering

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  13. Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  14. What is a species, anyway?

    41 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  15. Oxford PV sets new solar panel efficiency world record

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  16. Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death

    41 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  17. Attacks on Anonymity Systems: The Theory (2003)

    41 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  18. Show HN: A Tool to Help You Understand Your Anxious Friends Better

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  19. Air Canada must pay damages – chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

    41 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  20. Async Rust in a Nutshell

    41 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  21. SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast In-Memory Table Scan (2009) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  22. The Pleasure of Pattern

    41 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  23. Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

    41 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  24. London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime

    41 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  25. Harpastum – ancient Roman prototype of soccer and rugby

    41 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  26. Execute any JavaScript from any browser tab on any browser tabs

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  27. Nano-scale inks could lighten airliners by hundreds of kilograms

    41 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  28. Google abandoned "don't be evil" – and Gemini is the result

    41 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  29. I Ran a Background Check on a Startup

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  30. FuturesUnordered and the order of futures

    41 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  31. The Bitter Lesson (2019)

    41 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  32. NTP Timelord Dies

    41 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  33. An asteroid wiped out dinosaurs – did it help birds flourish?

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  34. Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects

    41 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  35. Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  36. 4-day week made permanent for 89% UK firms who took part in Worlds biggest trial

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  37. Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA

    41 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  38. Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking

    40 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  39. Bell's V-280 Valor Tiltrotor Picked as Army's Black Hawk Replacement (2022)

    40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  40. Learning Rust in 3 Attempts

    40 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  41. Lenovo's Project Crystal is first laptop with a transparent MicroLED display

    40 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  42. First Apple Vision Pro Kernel Exploit

    40 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  43. Review of Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication

    40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  44. Show HN: Rank a random subject every day

    40 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  45. In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter

    40 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  46. Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe

    40 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  47. Margaret Mead's LSD Memo

    40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  48. Show HN: SnapCode – a real Java IDE in the browser

    40 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  49. Problems in Gemini's Approach to Diversity

    40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  50. Libraries are on the front lines of America's problems

    40 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  51. Erlang: The Movie [video]

    40 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  52. Nix-shell shebang: run any script with arbitrary packages, self-contained

    40 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  53. The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland

    40 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  54. How were photos transmitted by wire in 1937?

    40 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  55. What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? [video]

    40 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  56. From Go to Rust: The Two Types of Readable Code

    40 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  57. What Is an Electronic Sackbut?

    40 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  58. Pigweed: Modern software development for embedded systems

    40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  59. Jetbrains unbundling AI assistant doing the right thing

    40 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  60. FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4

    40 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  61. "The issue was detected by our new AI-powered vulnerability scanner"

    40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  62. McDonald's pushed customers to the brink on price. They're starting to push back

    40 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  63. Environmental risks of car tyre microplastics and other road pollution runoff

    40 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  64. YouTuber Friendlyjordies takes down video after alleged death threats

    40 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  65. The Benefits of Mangroves (2023)

    40 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  66. Open Source Games

    40 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  67. VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support

    40 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  68. DOOM on Husqvarna Automower

    40 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  69. Poverty in Argentina hits 20-year high at 57.4%, study says

    40 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  70. 'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules

    40 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  71. So You Want to be a Big Shot: Advice on playing the promotion game

    40 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  72. Cybertruck owners say they're already rusting

    40 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  73. TechCrunch+ Termination

    39 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  74. Igalia: The Open Source Powerhouse You've Never Heard Of

    39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  75. Learning about debuggers

    39 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  76. Australian Federal Police would repeat undercover operation on autistic teenager

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  77. ESP8266 DIY Smart Socket (2017)

    39 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  78. Brazil's hydro power adds to global gas surplus

    39 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  79. Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended

    39 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  80. Bloated Google-cloud-CLI contains an entire Python installation (~300MB)

    39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  81. Science Fiction Short: Hijack

    39 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  82. Fort Botox, Where a Deadly Toxin Yields $2.8B Drug (2017)

    39 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  83. Nvidia open source driver to use NVK and Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

    39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  84. OnlyFans Paid Chatters Lawsuit

    39 points • comment • feb 03, 2024

  85. OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us'

    39 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  86. Show HN: Open-source coding assistant with terminal access

    39 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  87. Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days

    39 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  88. Ask HN: Does procrastination advice help you?

    39 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  89. Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness

    39 points • comment • feb 11, 2024

  90. Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations

    39 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  91. Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power

    39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  92. Transparent Image Layer Diffusion Using Latent Transparency

    39 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  93. Planito: A 9-day week for a balanced life

    39 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  94. A famous climate scientist is in court, with big stakes for attacks on science

    39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  95. Lift-off: The MDN Curriculum launch

    39 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  96. Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars

    39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  97. Magnificent 7 profits exceed almost every country in the world. Should we worry?

    39 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  98. CERN aims to build €20B collider

    39 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  99. JSON Parsing: Intel Sapphire Rapids versus AMD Zen 4

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  100. Open-Source Nvidia Driver Moving to NVK and Zink for OpenGL on Newer GPUs

    39 points • comment • feb 21, 2024