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  1. Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade

    137 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  2. The Forever Trial at Guantanamo

    137 points • comment • sep 12, 2021

  3. Pumpkin OS: x64 port/re-implementation of PalmOS

    137 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  4. Too much free time may be almost as bad as too little

    137 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  5. Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

    137 points • comment • sep 21, 2021

  6. AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

    137 points • comment • jul 30, 2021

  7. Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)

    137 points • comment • may 03, 2021

  8. Proof-of-stake is inherently self-referential

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  9. Building a Space-Based ISP

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  10. The Third Thumb Project

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  11. Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress

    137 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  12. The U.S. government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters

    137 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  13. Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud

    137 points • comment • sep 22, 2021

  14. Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python

    137 points • comment • aug 24, 2021

  15. CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine

    137 points • comment • may 10, 2021

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

    137 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  17. Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head

    137 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  18. Seal-mounted camera recovered after 3 years on ocean floor yields hours of video

    137 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  19. Singapore population sees biggest percentage drop since 1950

    137 points • comment • oct 06, 2021

  20. I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

    137 points • comment • sep 15, 2021

  21. Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig

    137 points • comment • may 13, 2021

  22. Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

    136 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  23. Pyre: A performant type-checker for Python 3

    136 points • comment • may 10, 2021

  24. Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)

    136 points • comment • dec 10, 2021

  25. Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

    136 points • comment • sep 14, 2021

  26. Live Not by Lies (1974)

    136 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  27. C++20 Modules with GCC11

    136 points • comment • aug 18, 2021

  28. Public Staircases

    136 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  29. Flask 2.0.0 has been merged into master

    136 points • comment • may 12, 2021

  30. Ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

    136 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  31. Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

    136 points • comment • jul 22, 2021

  32. Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)

    136 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  33. Silence Is a Commons (1983)

    136 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  34. Embedded malware in RC (NPM package)

    136 points • comment • nov 05, 2021

  35. What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016)

    136 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  36. $45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency

    136 points • comment • dec 14, 2021

  37. Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)

    136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  38. Back to EU

    136 points • comment • oct 13, 2021

  39. Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video]

    136 points • comment • jul 14, 2021

  40. Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

    136 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  41. After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M

    136 points • comment • aug 28, 2021

  42. Should a dog's sniff be enough to convict a person for murder?

    136 points • comment • oct 28, 2021

  43. Raspberry Pi Nixie Atomic Clock

    136 points • comment • sep 07, 2021

  44. FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative

    136 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  45. Ink programming language

    136 points • comment • jul 10, 2021

  46. Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

    136 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  47. Launch HN: Journey (YC W21) – a better tool for selling software

    136 points • comment • may 21, 2021

  48. Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

    136 points • comment • nov 26, 2021

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

    136 points • comment • jun 24, 2021

  50. ‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups

    136 points • comment • oct 11, 2021

  51. Notcurses 2.4

    136 points • comment • sep 06, 2021

  52. Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]

    136 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  53. Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts

    136 points • comment • jul 29, 2021

  54. Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something beautiful/terrible

    136 points • comment • dec 29, 2021

  55. I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family

    136 points • comment • aug 20, 2021

  56. Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health

    136 points • comment • dec 08, 2021

  57. Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    136 points • comment • may 14, 2021

  58. Debugging a weird 'file not found' error

    136 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  59. Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells

    136 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  60. The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (2015)

    136 points • comment • oct 17, 2021

  61. Windows Hello bypassed using infrared image

    136 points • comment • jul 19, 2021

  62. Containers vs. pods – taking a deeper look

    136 points • comment • oct 31, 2021

  63. The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing

    136 points • comment • sep 29, 2021

  64. Browsers eating RAM

    136 points • comment • feb 18, 2021

  65. Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2021

  66. Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power

    136 points • comment • apr 13, 2021

  67. Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks

    136 points • comment • sep 09, 2021

  68. Ten years of OP-1

    136 points • comment • apr 14, 2021

  69. Eating sardines regularly helps prevent type 2 diabetes

    136 points • comment • may 09, 2021

  70. Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

    136 points • comment • feb 21, 2021

  71. An Overview of Docker Desktop Alternatives

    136 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  72. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died

    136 points • comment • feb 23, 2021

  73. JSON Schema bundling formalised

    136 points • comment • sep 10, 2021

  74. Amazon insiders sound alarm over security

    136 points • comment • feb 25, 2021

  75. Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

    136 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  76. DNS Key Value Storage

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2021

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

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2021

  78. Demoscene the Amiga Years Volume 1

    136 points • comment • mar 01, 2021

  79. ListMonk – High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

    136 points • comment • sep 02, 2021

  80. Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal

    136 points • comment • jan 29, 2021

  81. New network of European sleeper trains planned

    136 points • comment • jun 23, 2021

  82. Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?

    136 points • comment • apr 20, 2021

  83. The curious case of fake NASA geniuses

    136 points • comment • sep 19, 2021

  84. India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report

    136 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  85. San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears

    136 points • comment • sep 26, 2021

  86. Binance Smart Chain DeFi Project Hacked for $31M

    136 points • comment • mar 05, 2021

  87. Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels

    136 points • comment • apr 27, 2021

  88. “Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)

    136 points • comment • mar 07, 2021

  89. Summary of June 8 outage

    136 points • comment • jun 09, 2021

  90. Command Path Security in Go

    136 points • comment • jan 23, 2021

  91. Intel Distribution for Python

    136 points • comment • jul 21, 2021

  92. CompilerGym: A toolkit for reinforcement learning for compiler optimization

    136 points • comment • feb 02, 2021

  93. EleutherAI One Year Retrospective

    136 points • comment • jul 08, 2021

  94. Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, Scaling Plans, NFTs, etc.

    136 points • comment • mar 10, 2021

  95. Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

    136 points • comment • jun 20, 2021

  96. AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains

    136 points • comment • feb 03, 2021

  97. Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

    136 points • comment • oct 08, 2021

  98. SUSE targets pre-summer IPO

    136 points • comment • mar 12, 2021

  99. Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser

    136 points • comment • aug 16, 2021

  100. Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested

    136 points • comment • jan 06, 2021