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  1. Write plain text files

    719 points • comment • mar 01, 2022

  2. Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

    719 points • comment • nov 16, 2022

  3. How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

    719 points • comment • jul 01, 2022

  4. UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol

    717 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  5. Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

    716 points • comment • nov 14, 2022

  6. I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house

    716 points • comment • jan 22, 2022

  7. Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

    715 points • comment • oct 03, 2022

  8. One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

    715 points • comment • jun 21, 2022

  9. Spotifyd

    715 points • comment • dec 19, 2022

  10. Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years

    715 points • comment • apr 19, 2022

  11. Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

    715 points • comment • nov 18, 2022

  12. NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

    714 points • comment • oct 19, 2022

  13. Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon

    714 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  14. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

    714 points • comment • dec 11, 2022

  15. For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

    714 points • comment • feb 04, 2022

  16. Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

    714 points • comment • dec 06, 2022

  17. The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

    712 points • comment • mar 07, 2022

  18. VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

    711 points • comment • jun 03, 2022

  19. The last person standing in the floppy disk business

    711 points • comment • sep 13, 2022

  20. Stable Diffusion Public Release

    710 points • comment • aug 22, 2022

  21. Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux

    710 points • comment • jan 02, 2022

  22. Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud

    709 points • comment • nov 29, 2022

  23. The ACLU Has Lost Its Way

    709 points • comment • may 10, 2022

  24. An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model

    709 points • comment • nov 01, 2022

  25. How to build a personal webpage from scratch

    708 points • comment • sep 29, 2022

  26. Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides

    708 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  27. Pelé has died

    708 points • comment • dec 29, 2022

  28. ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location

    708 points • comment • dec 22, 2022

  29. Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

    707 points • comment • jun 13, 2022

  30. Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud

    706 points • comment • dec 07, 2022

  31. Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

    706 points • comment • jan 28, 2022

  32. Things to know about databases

    705 points • comment • jun 27, 2022

  33. Cloudflare had a partial outage

    705 points • comment • jun 21, 2022

  34. What are your most used self-hosted applications?

    704 points • comment • may 04, 2022

  35. Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

    704 points • comment • dec 18, 2022

  36. Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance

    704 points • comment • jul 06, 2022

  37. TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia

    704 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  38. SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)

    703 points • comment • jul 10, 2022

  39. Outhorse Your Email

    703 points • comment • may 19, 2022

  40. In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

    702 points • comment • mar 17, 2022

  41. Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale

    702 points • comment • jan 29, 2022

  42. It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

    702 points • comment • sep 20, 2022

  43. H.264 is Magic (2016)

    701 points • comment • mar 17, 2022

  44. Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

    701 points • comment • mar 04, 2022

  45. If OpenSSL were a GUI

    700 points • comment • jun 10, 2022

  46. 58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

    699 points • comment • sep 25, 2022

  47. A 3D-printed ethernet RJ45 clip to secure/repair/fix broken tab (2020)

    697 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  48. Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

    697 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  49. More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

    697 points • comment • jan 13, 2022

  50. Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds

    697 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  51. Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022

    697 points • comment • jun 21, 2022

  52. Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

    695 points • comment • feb 01, 2022

  53. Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac

    695 points • comment • sep 12, 2022

  54. Stadia died because no one trusts Google

    694 points • comment • oct 02, 2022

  55. Turns are better than radians

    693 points • comment • sep 26, 2022

  56. Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22

    693 points • comment • jan 01, 2022

  57. Epic Games acquires Bandcamp

    693 points • comment • mar 02, 2022

  58. See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

    692 points • comment • aug 18, 2022

  59. I've locked myself out of my digital life

    692 points • comment • jun 07, 2022

  60. I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)

    691 points • comment • oct 26, 2022

  61. Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]

    691 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  62. Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem

    691 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  63. DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

    691 points • comment • jul 14, 2022

  64. Oh, 2022

    690 points • comment • jan 09, 2022

  65. Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

    690 points • comment • feb 11, 2022

  66. Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme

    690 points • comment • jul 21, 2022

  67. Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data

    689 points • comment • jun 01, 2022

  68. Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

    689 points • comment • may 16, 2022

  69. Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?

    688 points • comment • jun 26, 2022

  70. Map of Reddit

    687 points • comment • may 12, 2022

  71. How Wine works 101

    687 points • comment • oct 10, 2022

  72. The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned

    687 points • comment • nov 30, 2022

  73. Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old

    687 points • comment • may 20, 2022

  74. We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it

    687 points • comment • may 01, 2022

  75. Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market

    686 points • comment • mar 12, 2022

  76. Webcams aren't good enough

    686 points • comment • jun 19, 2022

  77. US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

    686 points • comment • aug 31, 2022

  78. Do things, tell people (2012)

    686 points • comment • feb 03, 2022

  79. We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

    686 points • comment • nov 03, 2022

  80. 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

    685 points • comment • aug 10, 2022

  81. New(ish) command line tools

    684 points • comment • apr 12, 2022

  82. UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus

    682 points • comment • apr 18, 2022

  83. Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide

    681 points • comment • jan 26, 2022

  84. TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting

    681 points • comment • jul 20, 2022

  85. India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

    680 points • comment • nov 07, 2022

  86. Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

    680 points • comment • may 21, 2022

  87. Why is it so hard to give Google money?

    680 points • comment • jul 26, 2022

  88. Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

    679 points • comment • aug 26, 2022

  89. More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

    679 points • comment • jul 23, 2022

  90. Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system

    677 points • comment • mar 01, 2022

  91. Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime

    677 points • comment • sep 27, 2022

  92. Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch

    677 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  93. Platform certificates used to sign malware

    676 points • comment • dec 01, 2022

  94. Red Light Green Light

    676 points • comment • jan 31, 2022

  95. My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

    676 points • comment • jan 21, 2022

  96. What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?

    676 points • comment • jun 24, 2022

  97. Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

    675 points • comment • nov 24, 2022

  98. How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

    675 points • comment • jun 02, 2022

  99. Difftastic, the fantastic diff

    675 points • comment • sep 07, 2022

  100. Enclave: An Unpickable Lock

    674 points • comment • jun 26, 2022