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  1. Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says

    164 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  2. The magic (image resampling) kernel

    164 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  3. EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies

    164 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  4. VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak

    164 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  5. PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle

    163 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  6. NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

    163 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  7. OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

    163 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  8. Run Llama locally with only PyTorch on CPU

    163 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  9. Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI

    163 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  10. Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text

    162 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  11. 1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community

    162 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  12. Signal: Online MIDI Editor

    162 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  13. What is theoretical computer science?

    162 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  14. Scientists working to decode birdsong

    162 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  15. Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals

    162 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  16. Project Euler #912: Where are the Odds?

    162 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  17. Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

    162 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  18. Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera

    162 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  19. Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart

    161 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  20. On 17th century "cocaine"

    161 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  21. Playing with BOLT and Postgres

    161 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  22. Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks

    161 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  23. Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers

    161 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  24. Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

    161 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  25. Optimizing the Ion compiler back end

    160 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  26. Kagi Snaps

    160 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  27. Standardizing Automotive Connectivity

    160 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  28. Eighteen Years of ABI Stability

    159 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  29. Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

    159 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  30. Initial CUDA Performance Lessons

    159 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  31. Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

    159 points • comment • oct 20, 2024

  32. ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use

    159 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  33. Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)

    159 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  34. Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find

    159 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  35. PEP 760: No more bare excepts

    159 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  36. SlateDB – An embedded database built on object storage

    159 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  37. Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)

    159 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  38. Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter

    158 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  39. How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal

    158 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  40. Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms

    158 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  41. The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden University

    158 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  42. Fun with Go Iterators

    158 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  43. Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

    157 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  44. 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)

    157 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  45. IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)

    157 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  46. We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem

    157 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  47. What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)

    156 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  48. Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)

    156 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  49. Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller

    156 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  50. Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

    156 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  51. An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags

    156 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  52. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One

    156 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  53. Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation

    156 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  54. Mosaic REALMAP: Explore Prague in detail with 1.26M images

    155 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  55. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

    155 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  56. How ham radio endures

    155 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  57. Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory

    155 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  58. Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

    154 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  59. Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words

    154 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  60. Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second

    154 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  61. A Trail Gone Cold

    153 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  62. The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

    153 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  63. Improving Xwayland window resizing

    153 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  64. Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem

    153 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  65. Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

    153 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  66. Most gamers prefer single-player games

    152 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  67. The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store

    152 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  68. The Languages of English, Math, and Programming

    152 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  69. Async Rust in Three Parts

    152 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  70. Demystifying the regular expression that checks if a number is prime (2016)

    152 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  71. Show HN: Trench – Open-source analytics infrastructure

    152 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  72. How to delete your 23andMe data amid the company's turmoil

    152 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  73. Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial

    152 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  74. A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project

    152 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  75. ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)

    152 points • comment • oct 04, 2024

  76. Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet

    151 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  77. Show HN: I built a task manager that separates "do" and "due" dates

    151 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  78. The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking

    151 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  79. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

    150 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  80. Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)

    150 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  81. CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)

    150 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  82. John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf]

    149 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  83. US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements

    149 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  84. What Is LibreDrive (2019)

    149 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  85. Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)

    149 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  86. Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

    148 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  87. Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  88. Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  89. What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?

    147 points • comment • oct 31, 2024

  90. Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page

    147 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  91. Understanding Gaussians

    147 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  92. Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app

    147 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  93. Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

    147 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  94. Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder

    147 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  95. Show HN: FinetuneDB – AI fine-tuning platform to create custom LLMs

    147 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  96. Optimizers need a rethink

    147 points • comment • oct 23, 2024

  97. Sailfish Mobile OS

    147 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  98. Insider trader had all the answers

    146 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  99. Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

    146 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  100. Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go

    146 points • comment • oct 04, 2024