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  1. Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

    2230 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  2. FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

    1636 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  3. 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

    1619 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  4. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public

    1485 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  5. ChatGPT Search

    1455 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  6. Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

    1391 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  7. First images from Euclid are in

    1368 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  8. Busy Status Bar

    1319 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  9. Helping wikis move away from Fandom

    1168 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  10. Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

    1128 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  11. We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

    1079 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  12. DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

    1064 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  13. Meta Movie Gen

    1060 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  14. Internet Archive: Security breach alert

    1058 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  15. Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

    1028 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  16. Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

    989 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  17. Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

    943 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  18. A $1k Wheelchair

    942 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  19. AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

    936 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  20. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

    928 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  21. Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

    904 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  22. Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

    880 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  23. M4 MacBook Pro

    879 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  24. Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

    879 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  25. How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

    878 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  26. GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

    871 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  27. The Fastest Mutexes

    868 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  28. Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

    856 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  29. We're forking Flutter

    830 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  30. Rider is now free for non-commercial use

    800 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  31. Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

    796 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  32. The quiet art of attention

    795 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  33. Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

    795 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  34. Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

    793 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  35. Dookie Demastered

    769 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  36. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

    761 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  37. Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

    757 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  38. Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

    757 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  39. Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

    756 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  40. Web Browser Engineering (2021)

    744 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  41. The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications

    699 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  42. Get me out of data hell

    677 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  43. Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

    665 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  44. Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court

    661 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  45. Show HN: HTML for People

    654 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  46. It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

    642 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  47. Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

    638 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  48. Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

    631 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  49. ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

    627 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  50. Sqlite3 WebAssembly

    623 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  51. Noise

    620 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  52. An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers

    611 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  53. Crokinole

    605 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  54. Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license

    601 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  55. Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

    600 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  56. Sq.io: jq for databases and more

    599 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  57. Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

    592 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  58. Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices

    591 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  59. Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

    588 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  60. Working from home is powering productivity

    586 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  61. A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write

    582 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  62. Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

    579 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  63. FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

    578 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  64. Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

    576 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  65. Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

    575 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  66. Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

    569 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  67. Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison

    562 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  68. The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

    561 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  69. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

    557 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  70. Differential Transformer

    550 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  71. John Carmack on inlined code (2014)

    547 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  72. Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]

    544 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  73. Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

    542 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  74. Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

    541 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  75. Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

    540 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  76. Inkscape 1.4

    540 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  77. Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

    539 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  78. What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

    534 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  79. Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

    531 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  80. Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

    527 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  81. "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

    527 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  82. The Static Site Paradox

    524 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  83. New iMac with M4

    523 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  84. How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends

    516 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  85. Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver

    515 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  86. AWS data center latencies, visualized

    507 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  87. The C23 edition of Modern C

    500 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  88. Were RNNs all we needed?

    498 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  89. Is the world really running out of sand?

    497 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  90. Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint

    496 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  91. Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

    494 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  92. Jazz – Apps with Distributed State

    493 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  93. The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)

    493 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  94. Accountability sinks

    492 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  95. Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

    488 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  96. Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction

    476 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  97. 12 Months of Mandarin

    474 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  98. AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

    473 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  99. Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

    470 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  100. Diffusion for World Modeling

    469 points • comment • oct 13, 2024