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  1. Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library

    254 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  2. Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?

    254 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  3. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

    254 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  4. University of Florida gets a 1% cut of Gatorade profits

    254 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  5. A $10k poker win changed how I think

    254 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  6. Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely

    254 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  7. The goal of standards is to improve our future actions

    253 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  8. Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list

    253 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  9. Vintage Byte Magazine Library

    253 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  10. Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal

    253 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  11. Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown

    252 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  12. William Gibson is a literary genius

    252 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  13. Chekhov's Gun

    252 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  14. Scikit-Learn Version 1.0

    251 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  15. Slack is experiencing a service disruption

    251 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  16. Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an absence of copyright?

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  17. Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  18. Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking

    250 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  19. Thoughts on Clojure UI framework

    249 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  20. On YouTube’s recommendation system

    249 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  21. What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos

    249 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  22. GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment

    249 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  23. Donate to the Internet Archive

    249 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  24. Telling the Bees

    248 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  25. Netflix is not a tech company (2019)

    248 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  26. Record number of environmental activists murdered

    248 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  27. Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

    247 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  28. What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020)

    247 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  29. Fourier Series Visualisation with D3

    246 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  30. Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y

    246 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  31. Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?

    246 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  32. Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser

    246 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  33. Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language

    245 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  34. It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage

    245 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  35. What if I were 1% charged? (2013)

    245 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  36. Neurocracy

    245 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  37. Deno 1.14

    244 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  38. AlphaGo documentary (2020) [video]

    244 points • comment • sep 11, 2021

  39. Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarre floating point bug

    243 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  40. Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair

    242 points • comment • sep 17, 2021

  41. GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website

    242 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  42. Domain-Driven Design

    242 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  43. Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing

    242 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  44. Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

    242 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  45. Pinky and the Brain

    242 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  46. L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics

    242 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  47. Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40M conference call gone wrong

    242 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  48. Borb – A Python library to read, write, and edit PDF files

    241 points • comment • sep 18, 2021

  49. Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)

    241 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  50. U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds

    240 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  51. The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

    240 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  52. Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail

    240 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  53. Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future

    240 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  54. Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram

    240 points • comment • sep 23, 2021

  55. Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers

    240 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  56. Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings

    239 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  57. Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia

    239 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  58. Did IBM Just Preview the Future of Caches?

    238 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  59. EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters

    237 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  60. An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers

    237 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  61. Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout

    237 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  62. Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile

    237 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  63. Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation

    236 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  64. Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees

    236 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  65. ‘Every message was copied to the police’

    236 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  66. Researchers successfully potty-train cows

    235 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  67. Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New

    235 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  68. Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video]

    234 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  69. Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS

    234 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  70. Stripe launched 10 years ago today

    233 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  71. Fast Rust Builds

    233 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  72. The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964)

    233 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  73. Software should convey a sense of calm

    233 points • comment • sep 13, 2021

  74. CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaught

    232 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  75. If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

    232 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  76. MDMA reopens child-like “critical periods” in the brain

    232 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  77. I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash

    231 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  78. Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness

    231 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  79. Terraform is currently not reviewing community pull requests

    231 points • comment • sep 05, 2021

  80. Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces

    230 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  81. When McDonalds Came to Denmark

    230 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  82. Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap

    229 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  83. Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)

    229 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  84. Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now

    229 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  85. FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app

    229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  86. False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK

    229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  87. Amazon’s AI cameras are punishing drivers for mistakes they didn’t make

    229 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  88. Using RSS to replace social media

    229 points • comment • sep 24, 2021

  89. Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

    229 points • comment • sep 28, 2021

  90. Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel

    228 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  91. Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy

    228 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  92. Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)

    228 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  93. The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines

    227 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  94. No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny

    226 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  95. An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19

    226 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  96. Write More, but Shorter

    226 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  97. Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)

    226 points • comment • sep 27, 2021

  98. Spherical Gear [video]

    224 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  99. FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis

    224 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  100. John Carmack on Hiring

    224 points • comment • sep 07, 2021