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  1. A DIY near-IR spectrometer

    361 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  2. When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished

    361 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  3. Emoji Generator with AI

    358 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  4. New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds

    358 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  5. 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code

    358 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  6. The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)

    356 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  7. Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

    356 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  8. I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually

    352 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  9. An analysis of the Google antitrust trial

    352 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  10. Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

    349 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  11. Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives

    349 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  12. Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips

    348 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  13. Deno Queues

    347 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  14. Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes

    345 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  15. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    344 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  16. NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)

    340 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  17. The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

    335 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  18. Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

    334 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  19. Doing laundry on campus without a phone

    334 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  20. Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language

    331 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  21. Nintendo 3DS Architecture

    331 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  22. Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather

    330 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  23. Molly Holzschlag has died

    330 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  24. The casino in your pocket

    330 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  25. FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel

    330 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  26. If you can use open source, you can build hardware

    329 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  27. We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure

    329 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  28. Generative Image Dynamics

    327 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  29. My favorite Erlang program (2013)

    327 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  30. SpamChannel: Spoofing emails from 2M domains and virtually becoming Satan [pdf]

    327 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  31. Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

    325 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  32. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

    324 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  33. How does Linux NAT a ping?

    324 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  34. FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers

    324 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  35. A currently maintained fork of SSHFS

    324 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  36. Coffee in a Can

    323 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  37. FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”

    323 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  38. 50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?

    322 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  39. Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP

    322 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  40. So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)

    319 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  41. Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training

    319 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  42. X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

    319 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  43. How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]

    318 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  44. Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models

    317 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  45. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

    316 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  46. Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022

    315 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  47. The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)

    315 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  48. Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers

    315 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  49. LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter

    315 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  50. Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline

    314 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  51. Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

    314 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  52. Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

    314 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  53. Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints

    314 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  54. Meta in Myanmar

    314 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  55. Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

    313 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  56. Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?

    312 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  57. Hacking the Timex m851

    312 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  58. The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary

    312 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  59. Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

    312 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  60. Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

    312 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  61. Solar

    311 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  62. XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

    311 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  63. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

    311 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  64. Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom

    311 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  65. Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    310 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  66. Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs

    310 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  67. I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

    308 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  68. Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?

    308 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  69. How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)

    308 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  70. Shrinkflation Tracker

    307 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  71. Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter

    305 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  72. How Query Engines Work

    304 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  73. Show HN: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL

    304 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  74. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools

    303 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  75. RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE

    302 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  76. AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4

    302 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  77. Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge

    300 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  78. Inflation in Austria

    299 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  79. Gaussian splatting is pretty cool

    299 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  80. PID Control Challenges

    297 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  81. Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

    297 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  82. Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard

    297 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  83. SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents

    297 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  84. Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

    297 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  85. Amtrak Explorer

    297 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  86. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

    296 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  87. iCloud Drive silently deletes your content

    296 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  88. Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing

    294 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  89. The Power of Prolog

    294 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  90. Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?

    291 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  91. Skip the API, ship your database

    291 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  92. Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure

    291 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  93. Ways to capture changes in Postgres

    291 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  94. A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations

    290 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  95. Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal

    290 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  96. Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late

    290 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  97. Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot

    288 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  98. PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)

    287 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  99. Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones

    286 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  100. Terry Tao's generals (2012)

    286 points • comment • sep 21, 2023