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  1. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

    81 points • comment • feb 19, 2024

  2. Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale

    81 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  3. WoWMIPS – MIPS Emulator for Windows, Part 1: Introduction

    81 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  4. Notes on Text Editing

    81 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  5. Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32

    81 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  6. Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (2022)

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  7. A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages

    81 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  8. Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanish

    81 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  9. Daunting papers/books and how to read them

    81 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  10. Aldi: Culture and Operations of a Hard Discounter (2023)

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  11. A new way to see the activity inside a living cell

    81 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  12. MKUltra

    81 points • comment • may 16, 2024

  13. 'Britain's Pompeii' reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time

    81 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  14. Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market

    81 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  15. Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees

    81 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  16. Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker removes non-enterprise price tiers

    81 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  17. The dangers of single line regular expressions

    81 points • comment • apr 22, 2024

  18. Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

    81 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  19. A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)

    81 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  20. Instagram's co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app

    81 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  21. 1195725856 and other mysterious numbers (2020)

    81 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  22. Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

    81 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  23. Mini-Gemini: Mining the Potential of Multi-Modality Vision Language Models

    80 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  24. Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  25. Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering

    80 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  26. The complete story of Gödel incompleteness

    80 points • comment • mar 11, 2024

  27. Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix (2019)

    80 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  28. VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble

    80 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  29. 23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach

    80 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  30. Securing Git Repositories with Gittuf

    80 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  31. Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing

    80 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  32. Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company

    80 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  33. Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana

    80 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  34. She was accused of faking incriminating video of cheerleaders. Nothing was fake

    80 points • comment • may 11, 2024

  35. Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

    80 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  36. Trunk-Based Development

    80 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  37. Show HN: FXYT – Tiny, esoteric, stack-based, postfix, canvas colouring language

    80 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  38. On climbing the stat arb leaderboard, comparative advantage, and careers

    80 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  39. Linux fu: getting started with systemd

    80 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  40. Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months

    80 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  41. Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users to Edge

    80 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  42. Libwa: WhatsApp C Library

    80 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  43. Mysticism and Empiricism

    80 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  44. Digitopia is ruining our lives

    80 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  45. Main-Thread-Scheduling

    80 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  46. Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)

    80 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  47. Generative AI flooding online crocheting spaces with unrealistic amigurumi pics

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  48. Pornhub Blocked in Texas

    80 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  49. Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd

    80 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  50. Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  51. James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  52. What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power? (2021)

    80 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  53. Konrad Zuse (1994)

    80 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  54. Show HN: tu – Convert natural language date/time to UTC

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  55. Leaving Substack

    80 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  56. How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

    80 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  57. IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

    80 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  58. World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year

    80 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  59. The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)

    80 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  60. Ludum Mortuus Est

    80 points • comment • jan 20, 2024

  61. What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?

    80 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  62. A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

    80 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  63. Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)

    80 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  64. Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear

    80 points • comment • jan 09, 2024

  65. ScanAllFish

    80 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  66. An artist's perplexing tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem (2009)

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  67. How the first fourth-generation nuclear power plant works

    80 points • comment • jan 07, 2024

  68. Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps

    80 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  69. FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps

    80 points • comment • mar 15, 2024

  70. The building blocks of offline support

    80 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  71. Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request doorbell video from users

    80 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  72. Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method (2023)

    80 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  73. LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit

    80 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  74. Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time

    80 points • comment • jan 13, 2024

  75. Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm

    80 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  76. Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control

    80 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  77. Google engineer indicted for stealing AI secrets to aid Chinese companies

    80 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  78. The London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay

    80 points • comment • mar 21, 2024

  79. GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art for Visualizing Buffer Overflows

    80 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  80. Cold Chemistry Is Different

    80 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  81. Dijkstra on real map data with raylib

    80 points • comment • may 13, 2024

  82. Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones

    80 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  83. Cosmic Desktop Is Slated to Debut with Pop _OS 24.04 LTS

    80 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  84. Alzheimer's Might Not Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals

    80 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  85. The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside

    79 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  86. 30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1

    79 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  87. A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam

    79 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  88. After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private

    79 points • comment • mar 08, 2024

  89. UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers

    79 points • comment • apr 20, 2024

  90. STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++

    79 points • comment • jan 06, 2024

  91. AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

    79 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  92. Please don't share our links on Mastodon

    79 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  93. Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]

    79 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  94. How to optimally trap points in high-dimensional spaces inside ellipsoids

    79 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  95. Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long

    79 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  96. Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account

    79 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  97. TrueType Fonts for OpenTTD

    79 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  98. Cicadas' unique urination unlocks new understanding of fluid dynamics

    79 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  99. Pulumi AI is poisoning Google search results with AI answers

    79 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  100. Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot

    79 points • comment • apr 17, 2024