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  1. The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s

    284 points • comment • jun 17, 2020

  2. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    284 points • comment • apr 08, 2020

  3. Unofficial APIs

    283 points • comment • may 20, 2020

  4. Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox

    283 points • comment • apr 03, 2020

  5. We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application

    283 points • comment • oct 26, 2020

  6. Raise Less Money

    283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  7. KnightOS was an interesting operating system

    283 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  8. US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M

    283 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  9. Bash Pitfalls

    283 points • comment • sep 07, 2020

  10. Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

    283 points • comment • apr 25, 2020

  11. Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)

    283 points • comment • apr 24, 2020

  12. China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership

    283 points • comment • aug 12, 2020

  13. How much your computer can do in a second (2015)

    283 points • comment • jul 11, 2020

  14. iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps

    283 points • comment • jun 22, 2020

  15. Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]

    283 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  16. Motivation – Keli Language

    283 points • comment • aug 31, 2020

  17. Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

    283 points • comment • aug 08, 2020

  18. Looking Back at Postgres

    283 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  19. Vermont proposes providing broadband internet service to all state residents

    283 points • comment • may 19, 2020

  20. Omni Group Layoffs

    283 points • comment • apr 01, 2020

  21. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

    283 points • comment • jun 24, 2020

  22. Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

    283 points • comment • jun 20, 2020

  23. Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers

    283 points • comment • feb 12, 2020

  24. Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

    283 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  25. What Is the Geometry of the Universe?

    283 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  26. I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer

    283 points • comment • feb 14, 2020

  27. FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality

    283 points • comment • feb 21, 2020

  28. Should you self-host Google Fonts?

    283 points • comment • feb 23, 2020

  29. Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

    283 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  30. Hypothes.is: An Open Annotations Platform

    283 points • comment • jun 19, 2020

  31. The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)

    283 points • comment • dec 20, 2020

  32. ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well

    283 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  33. Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files

    283 points • comment • apr 26, 2020

  34. Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

    282 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  35. Lomuto's Comeback

    282 points • comment • may 17, 2020

  36. Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid

    282 points • comment • dec 03, 2020

  37. Apple Ending "Fortnite Save the World" Updates for Mac

    282 points • comment • sep 18, 2020

  38. Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch

    282 points • comment • apr 17, 2020

  39. The 2020 iPhone SE

    282 points • comment • apr 23, 2020

  40. Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access

    282 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  41. macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS

    282 points • comment • dec 01, 2020

  42. List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

    282 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  43. FreeBSD 11.4

    282 points • comment • jun 16, 2020

  44. Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

    282 points • comment • sep 16, 2020

  45. How I make $400/month with my technical eBook

    282 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  46. How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser

    282 points • comment • jul 21, 2020

  47. NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

    282 points • comment • aug 15, 2020

  48. GitHub was down

    282 points • comment • feb 27, 2020

  49. Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?

    282 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  50. Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology

    282 points • comment • dec 30, 2020

  51. A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (2012)

    282 points • comment • jul 09, 2020

  52. Ryzen 4000 Review

    282 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  53. OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web

    282 points • comment • apr 19, 2020

  54. Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

    281 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  55. Array Programming with NumPy

    281 points • comment • sep 17, 2020

  56. Why we’re changing to the AGPL license

    281 points • comment • oct 13, 2020

  57. TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google

    281 points • comment • jul 14, 2020

  58. God be with you till we meet again (1918)

    281 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  59. What Was TON And Why It Is Over

    281 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  60. Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

    281 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  61. Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips

    281 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  62. Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at the shell

    281 points • comment • may 09, 2020

  63. Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology

    281 points • comment • apr 05, 2020

  64. Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf]

    281 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  65. How to take smart notes with Org mode

    281 points • comment • feb 15, 2020

  66. Should I Use a Carousel?

    281 points • comment • jul 07, 2020

  67. Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019

    281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  68. What if we had Local-First Software?

    281 points • comment • oct 15, 2020

  69. FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

    281 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  70. MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

    281 points • comment • jul 02, 2020

  71. Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

    281 points • comment • sep 03, 2020

  72. College Notebook of Isaac Newton

    281 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  73. My experience with NixOS

    281 points • comment • apr 15, 2020

  74. What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

    281 points • comment • apr 11, 2020

  75. Popcorn Linux

    281 points • comment • may 03, 2020

  76. A TCP/IP Tutorial (1991)

    281 points • comment • apr 14, 2020

  77. iOS 13's Music App Sucks

    281 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  78. Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests

    281 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  79. NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs

    280 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  80. LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks

    280 points • comment • jun 18, 2020

  81. Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them

    280 points • comment • oct 16, 2020

  82. Can AI Become Conscious?

    280 points • comment • may 12, 2020

  83. Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat

    280 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  84. Is Apple Silicon Ready?

    280 points • comment • nov 20, 2020

  85. Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

    280 points • comment • aug 21, 2020

  86. Eco disaster at Kamchatka peninsula with mass death of sea animals

    280 points • comment • oct 03, 2020

  87. Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

    280 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  88. Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating

    280 points • comment • may 25, 2020

  89. Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English

    280 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  90. Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

    280 points • comment • sep 04, 2020

  91. Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

    280 points • comment • oct 02, 2020

  92. Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond

    280 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  93. Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

    280 points • comment • may 24, 2020

  94. Supreme Court declines to hear cases over qualified immunity

    280 points • comment • jun 15, 2020

  95. Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data

    280 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  96. Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

    280 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  97. Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots

    279 points • comment • nov 05, 2020

  98. I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF

    279 points • comment • aug 28, 2020

  99. FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation

    279 points • comment • apr 10, 2020

  100. Psilocybin Produced in Yeast

    279 points • comment • apr 18, 2020