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  1. Before he wrote a thesaurus, Roget had to escape Napoleon’s dragnet

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2021

  2. Spherical Panoramas

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2021

  3. SmartFarm device to harvest air moisture for self-sustaining urban farming

    53 points • comment • apr 19, 2021

  4. Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

    53 points • comment • sep 08, 2021

  5. Facebookbreach.com – check if you or your friends' phone numbers are now public

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2021

  6. New Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Algae-Based Way to Fight Water Pollution

    53 points • comment • sep 16, 2021

  7. Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?

    53 points • comment • dec 24, 2021

  8. Why the Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late (2015)

    53 points • comment • jul 20, 2021

  9. The Forest People

    53 points • comment • nov 27, 2021

  10. GMP: The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library

    53 points • comment • sep 20, 2021

  11. Portal 2 crashes if you have 128 cores, due to 15 year old assumptions

    53 points • comment • dec 31, 2021

  12. Time machine: Solaris 2.6 on QEMU

    53 points • comment • oct 05, 2021

  13. What Problem Blockchains Solve

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  14. Asymmetric Effects of Tire Pressure Optimization

    53 points • comment • jul 02, 2021

  15. A rogues’ gallery of monster-sized gas giants

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  16. Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized

    53 points • comment • aug 06, 2021

  17. Vibration API

    53 points • comment • dec 17, 2021

  18. A personal story of treating social anxiety with 5-MeO-DMT (2016)

    53 points • comment • jul 11, 2021

  19. Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  20. Monorepos will ruin your life – but they're worth it

    53 points • comment • sep 01, 2021

  21. Hertz allegedly falsely reported cars as stolen, customers were jailed

    53 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  22. Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library

    53 points • comment • aug 23, 2021

  23. How Germany became Europe's cargo bike hub

    53 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  24. Large Ivermectin Study Retracted

    53 points • comment • jul 25, 2021

  25. Circular Programming in Clojure

    53 points • comment • nov 23, 2021

  26. Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models

    53 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  27. Ask HN: I purchased a domain and now the registry wants to take it back

    53 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  28. Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

    53 points • comment • may 31, 2021

  29. Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation

    53 points • comment • dec 02, 2021

  30. Boring Problems Need Attention Too

    53 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  31. Open cores, ISAs, etc.: what is open about them?

    53 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  32. What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor

    53 points • comment • jun 13, 2021

  33. ‘Your profit fuelled genocide’: Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2021

  34. Storytelling – Mamet’s Conflict Airing Theory

    53 points • comment • jun 29, 2021

  35. Smiley Lore :-) (2002)

    53 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  36. Getting Started with QEMU (2018)

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2021

  37. Show HN: PiTheremin

    53 points • comment • dec 26, 2021

  38. Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 has expired

    53 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  39. DDR4 memory protections are broken wide open by new Rowhammer technique

    53 points • comment • nov 15, 2021

  40. Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)

    53 points • comment • aug 08, 2021

  41. A Search for Analogs of Boyajian's Star: A Second List of Candidates

    53 points • comment • dec 19, 2021

  42. The art of Front end Engineering

    53 points • comment • jun 12, 2021

  43. Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme

    53 points • comment • dec 22, 2021

  44. We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede

    53 points • comment • sep 03, 2021

  45. Instead of cheques to fight climate change, billionaires should just pay taxes

    53 points • comment • nov 09, 2021

  46. Michael Burry warning of the biggest market bubble in history

    53 points • comment • jun 16, 2021

  47. Tesla Recalls over 475,000 U.S. Cars on Camera, Trunk Issues

    53 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  48. Ask HN: Is it worth to invest in learning TypeScript?

    53 points • comment • nov 07, 2021

  49. I built a web app inspired by the 4 Disciplines of Execution for goal completion

    53 points • comment • dec 20, 2021

  50. On autoloading

    53 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  51. The Party Math Trick

    53 points • comment • nov 28, 2021

  52. Ask HN: What are some technically inspiring movies, TV shows or documentaries?

    53 points • comment • nov 04, 2021

  53. Woman discovers AirTag on her vehicle after receiving iPhone alert

    53 points • comment • nov 19, 2021

  54. A spoonful of sugar helps the radioactive oatmeal go down (2017)

    53 points • comment • nov 08, 2021

  55. Your phone app has an email client (as well)

    53 points • comment • nov 14, 2021

  56. Ask HN: Switch from development to security?

    53 points • comment • oct 24, 2021

  57. A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  58. New leak of Epik data exposes company’s entire server

    53 points • comment • sep 30, 2021

  59. Icon Programming Language – A brief introduction (1993)

    53 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  60. Netflix fires organizer of trans employee walkout

    53 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  61. Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry

    53 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  62. ISPs quietly selling netflow data, can be used to trace traffic through VPNs

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  63. Ask HN: “HN” for Sysadmins?

    53 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  64. Refactoring vs. defactoring

    53 points • comment • oct 27, 2021

  65. For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy

    53 points • comment • dec 27, 2021

  66. Making sounds using SDL and visualizing them on a simulated oscilloscope

    53 points • comment • dec 28, 2021

  67. A no-reload HTML/CSS/JS playground with instant editor / output sync

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2021

  68. A Discussion of Oberon

    53 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  69. The satirical Non-Fungible Olive Gardens sold more than $130k in volume

    53 points • comment • dec 23, 2021

  70. Where Is Webb?

    53 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  71. Scrcpy v1.20

    53 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  72. The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real

    52 points • comment • oct 01, 2021

  73. Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  74. Ask HN: I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?

    52 points • comment • aug 25, 2021

  75. MEMS Microspeakers Made from Silicon

    52 points • comment • dec 25, 2021

  76. Children of the night: the strange and epic tale of modern Romania

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  77. Serialized roaring bitmaps in Golang

    52 points • comment • dec 09, 2021

  78. Drones from Scraps

    52 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  79. Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?

    52 points • comment • dec 21, 2021

  80. Doctors and pharmacists ramp up calls for Americans to stop using ivermectin

    52 points • comment • sep 04, 2021

  81. DoD's First Chief Software Officer Resigns in Frustration

    52 points • comment • nov 17, 2021

  82. Taiwan's digital minister, Audrey Tang, built an open government platform

    52 points • comment • may 29, 2021

  83. Tell HN: Major GCP Outage? (Spotify, Discord down)

    52 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  84. How mindfulness could make you selfish

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2021

  85. A home theater layout tool in Purecript

    52 points • comment • dec 12, 2021

  86. 60% (of candidates) looking for new roles bc current company switching to onsite

    52 points • comment • jul 06, 2021

  87. Ask HN: Please Give Me Advice

    52 points • comment • dec 05, 2021

  88. Australian Citizen is told that he wasn't a citizen when renewing his passport

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  89. Slack Introduces New Platform with Help from Deno

    52 points • comment • nov 16, 2021

  90. The U.S. government’s failed 1890s attempt to forge unity through currency

    52 points • comment • jun 11, 2021

  91. Suspension of the 15-minute wait for vaccination with mRNA vaccine for Covid-19

    52 points • comment • dec 15, 2021

  92. Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement

    52 points • comment • oct 15, 2021

  93. Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes

    52 points • comment • dec 30, 2021

  94. Schoellkopf Power Station Disaster – a history

    52 points • comment • oct 30, 2021

  95. FDA says abortion pills can be sent by mail

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2021

  96. I’m not a pilot, but I just flew a helicopter over California

    52 points • comment • oct 26, 2021

  97. Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide

    52 points • comment • dec 06, 2021

  98. Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2021

  99. Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce

    52 points • comment • nov 29, 2021

  100. IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6, 2nd Edition

    52 points • comment • sep 30, 2021