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  1. Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach (2000)

    150 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  2. Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (2010)

    150 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  3. Pynguin – Generate Python unit tests automatically

    150 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  4. A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun

    149 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  5. MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection

    149 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  6. Cloudera taken private for $5.3B, acquires Datacoral and Cazena

    149 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  7. Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’

    149 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  8. Taxes Are for the Little People

    149 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  9. How I Learned Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis

    149 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  10. Building a DIY Smart Doorbell

    148 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  11. Tucson copter cop says mysterious, ‘sophisticated’ super-drone ‘like no other’

    148 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  12. I still use plain text for everything. (2016)

    148 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  13. Implementing a LLVM Micro C compiler in Haskell

    148 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  14. SproutLife – Evolving version of Conway’s Game of Life

    148 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  15. Immutability Changes Everything (2016)

    148 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  16. Remove left turns for less dangerous city traffic

    147 points • comment • jun 06, 2021

  17. Six ways to make async Rust easier

    147 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  18. Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online learning

    147 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  19. How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works

    147 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  20. Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz

    147 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  21. There is no “us” in team

    146 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  22. Writing ARM64 Code for Apple Platforms

    146 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  23. Playwright for .NET is now stable

    146 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  24. The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018)

    145 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  25. How Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs

    145 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  26. Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)

    145 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  27. My approach to taking notes in meetings

    145 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  28. Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture

    145 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  29. Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time

    145 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  30. General Fusion to build demonstration plant in UK

    144 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  31. Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.

    144 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  32. The Big Alien Theory

    144 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  33. How to average floating point numbers (2015)

    144 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  34. Immutability is not enough (2016)

    144 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  35. Bakeware: Compile any Elixir application into a single binary

    144 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  36. ET-Jekyll: Edward Tufte-inspired Jekyll theme

    144 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  37. Dr. Software: An unfinished journey starting from dirty code [pdf]

    144 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  38. Play online chess with a real chess board

    144 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  39. Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)

    144 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  40. Ftxui: C++ Functional Terminal User Interface

    143 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  41. Taking students from schematic to silicon in one semester (2018) [pdf]

    143 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  42. Show HN: Fuzzynote – terminal-based, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking

    143 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  43. Show HN: An interactive visual history of Git development

    143 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  44. Amazon warehouse injuries '80% higher' than competitors, report claims

    142 points • comment • jun 02, 2021

  45. A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]

    142 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  46. Tips for Interviewing over Zoom

    142 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  47. Clever vs. Insightful Code

    142 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  48. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

    142 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  49. AWS Frankfurt incident

    142 points • comment • jun 10, 2021

  50. Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

    142 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  51. The Surveilled Student

    142 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  52. The Unlikely Survival of the 1,081 Year-Old Redwood El Palo Alto

    141 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  53. Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns

    141 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  54. Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

    141 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  55. Ask HN: Books for Effective Communication

    141 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  56. Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus headsets

    141 points • comment • jun 17, 2021

  57. Catalog of viruses from human metagenomes reveals chronic disease associations

    141 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  58. IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics

    141 points • comment • jun 05, 2021

  59. Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds

    141 points • comment • jun 26, 2021

  60. Classified Ministry of Defence documents found at bus stop

    141 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  61. Perl Data Language: Scientific Computing with Perl

    141 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  62. Snowtrack – a new version control software for graphic designers and 3D artists

    141 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  63. The Fine Art of Combining Harmonics

    141 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  64. One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing

    140 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  65. Lambda Calculus Examples (2009) [pdf]

    140 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  66. Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control

    140 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  67. El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin

    140 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  68. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned

    140 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  69. “The Martian” + Starship

    140 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  70. Advancing AI theory with first-principles understanding of deep neural networks

    140 points • comment • jun 19, 2021

  71. Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets

    140 points • comment • jun 30, 2021

  72. Baseball's dirty little secret is out – we decided to experiment

    140 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  73. The Aducanumab Approval

    139 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  74. Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood

    139 points • comment • jun 27, 2021

  75. Building a WebAuthn Click Farm

    139 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  76. There are at least 10 different Microsoft design conventions in Windows 11

    139 points • comment • jun 18, 2021

  77. FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline

    139 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  78. Show HN: Freeciv-Web

    139 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  79. Alpaca Attack

    139 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  80. The Lightness of Windows

    139 points • comment • jun 28, 2021

  81. Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files

    139 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  82. Holden's Lightning Flight

    139 points • comment • jun 14, 2021

  83. The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)

    139 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  84. Is Julia Really Fast?

    139 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  85. How to Think about Pleasure

    139 points • comment • jun 21, 2021

  86. Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars

    138 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  87. Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers

    138 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  88. Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'

    138 points • comment • jun 22, 2021

  89. Spatial Audio

    138 points • comment • jun 15, 2021

  90. Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head

    137 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  91. Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools

    137 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  92. Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

    137 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  93. Software maker Altium rejects $3.9B takeover bid from Autodesk

    137 points • comment • jun 07, 2021

  94. A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease

    137 points • comment • jun 01, 2021

  95. Non-technical security best-practices for open source projects

    137 points • comment • jun 04, 2021

  96. The Plan for React 18

    137 points • comment • jun 08, 2021

  97. The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  98. Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money

    136 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  99. New network of European sleeper trains planned

    136 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  100. Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

    136 points • comment • jun 20, 2021