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  1. "Blue Zones" exhibit patterns indicative of pension fraud

    59 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  2. Open Props – Supercharged CSS Variables

    59 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  3. Texan used Apple AirTags to discover plastics in Houston aren't being recycled

    59 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  4. Smaller, Weaker, yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling

    59 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  5. Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic

    59 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  6. Procreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration app

    58 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  7. AI Has Created a Battle over Web Crawling

    58 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  8. Porting C to Rust for a Fast and Safe AV1 Media Decoder

    58 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  9. Jax and Equinox: What are they and why should I bother?

    58 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  10. Haskell Postgres Stored Procedures

    57 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  11. James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies aged 93

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  12. She Ate Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  13. Fman Build System

    57 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  14. Creating a Git Commit: The Hard Way

    57 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  15. A Time Consuming Pitfall for 32-Bit Applications on AArch64

    57 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  16. Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process

    57 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  17. Visa to launch pay-by-bank payments, an alternative to credit cards

    57 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  18. my-new-rust-binary-search

    57 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  19. Tempted by the Dark Side, I now have a Commodore 128

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  20. We must break tech monopolies before they break us

    56 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  21. Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation

    56 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  22. Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control

    56 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  23. America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees

    56 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  24. The largest dam removal in US history is complete

    56 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  25. gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It?

    56 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  26. Java – Integrity by Default (JVMLS 2024)

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  27. In the beginning, there was computation

    56 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  28. Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known

    56 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  29. Show HN: I built TikTok but for studying with quizzes from your own notes

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  30. KDE Again Operated at a Loss During 2023

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  31. Exploring pre-1990 versions of wc(1) (2023)

    56 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  32. Europe Surpasses 900,000 Public EV Charge Points

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  33. The heiress at Harvard who helped revolutionize murder investigations

    56 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  34. Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc

    56 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  35. Lessons learnt building a real-time audio application in Python

    55 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  36. How to Compose Math Problems

    55 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  37. 9/11 in Realtime

    55 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  38. In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to S

    55 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  39. Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409

    55 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  40. The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  41. Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats

    55 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  42. Nikon sold more Z9 cameras in its first year than any flagship in past 15 years

    55 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  43. Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  44. Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in proper lighting conditions

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  45. OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy

    54 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  46. Shaving is too expensive

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  47. Show HN: Bin-graph: Visualize binary files

    54 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  48. Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?

    54 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  49. Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  50. Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack

    54 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  51. Hot Temperature and High Stakes Performance [pdf]

    54 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  52. The Design and Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine

    54 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  53. Scientists discover how many chemicals from food packaging enter our bodies

    54 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  54. My most downvoted StackOverflow answer

    54 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  55. Implement algorithms that minimize slippage

    54 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  56. Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess

    54 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  57. SQLite is not a toy database

    54 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  58. Linux kernel contributor swatted and handcuffed live on stream [video]

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  59. Rearchitecting Core Services at X

    53 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  60. Making things people want vs. making things that alter thinking

    53 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  61. The Decline of Usability (2020)

    53 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  62. Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple's 'It's Glowtime' Keynote

    53 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  63. A picture of the sun, taken with a neutrino detector, at night through the Earth

    53 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  64. I sold all my Tesla shares (TSLA), here's why

    53 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  65. Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

    53 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  66. A Logo on a Prosthesis Is Like a Tattoo You Didn't Ask For

    53 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  67. Build Simple Fuzzer (2020)

    53 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  68. 40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer – and Apple – History

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  69. Ask HN: Why no transflective LCD portables?

    52 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  70. Startup Mortality Rates

    52 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  71. Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?

    52 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  72. Computer Languages Timeline [pdf] (2022)

    52 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  73. Intel stock tumbles as Dow status questioned

    52 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  74. Tailscale SSH

    52 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  75. Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions

    52 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  76. Doom on a Volumetric Display [video]

    52 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  77. Interning in Go

    52 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  78. AI-powered music scam nets musician $10M in royalties–and federal charges

    52 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  79. He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive

    52 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  80. We are self-hosting our GPUs

    52 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  81. Show HN: A YouTube videos course generator

    52 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  82. Using rsync to create a limited ability to write remote files

    52 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  83. Trichloroethylene: An Invisible Cause of Parkinson's Disease?

    52 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  84. Work with people who tell you when you're stupid

    52 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  85. Anthropic Quickstarts

    52 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  86. API Complexity Is a Lie

    51 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  87. Major book publishers defeat Internet Archive appeal over digital scanning

    51 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  88. YAML is not a superset of JSON

    51 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  89. Ask HN: How does my school block DoH?

    51 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  90. What to do about America's killer cars

    51 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  91. Exploding Head Syndrome: What We Know About This Mysterious Disorder

    51 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  92. Dell and Palantir to join S&P 500; shares of both jump

    51 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  93. Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

    51 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  94. Newly discovered antibody protects against all Covid-19 variants

    50 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  95. The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing

    50 points • comment • sep 05, 2024

  96. The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

    50 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  97. The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies

    50 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  98. Ask HN: How can I monetise an open source app of mine that has become popular?

    50 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  99. Why children perceive time slower than adults

    50 points • comment • sep 07, 2024

  100. Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation

    50 points • comment • sep 14, 2024