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  1. 5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance

    116 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  2. The Black-Scholes/Merton equation [video]

    116 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  3. Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20

    116 points • comment • jun 04, 2024

  4. Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant

    116 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  5. The Broadway Windowing System

    116 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  6. Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise

    116 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  7. The Telechron master station clock was used to maintain power grid frequency

    116 points • comment • mar 01, 2024

  8. Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec

    116 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  9. Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement

    116 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  10. Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral

    116 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  11. Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  12. Conversational Game Theory

    116 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  13. How the Hourglass Won

    116 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  14. Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative

    116 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  15. LLM as Database Administrator (2023)

    116 points • comment • aug 04, 2024

  16. Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail

    116 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  17. Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'

    116 points • comment • nov 28, 2024

  18. Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API

    116 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  19. Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?

    116 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  20. A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)

    116 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  21. The People Deliberately Killing Facebook

    116 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  22. China's manufacturers are going broke

    116 points • comment • aug 17, 2024

  23. Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse

    116 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  24. Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft

    116 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  25. Amber: A code search and replace tool

    116 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  26. The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)

    116 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  27. Some strange Macintosh computers

    116 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  28. Blue field entoptic phenomenon

    116 points • comment • may 24, 2024

  29. Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)

    116 points • comment • may 06, 2024

  30. Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling

    116 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  31. Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit

    116 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  32. The government is making it more difficult to track private aircraft travel

    116 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  33. ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST

    116 points • comment • oct 24, 2024

  34. Rule-based NLP system beats LLM for analysis of psychiatric clinical notes

    116 points • comment • apr 04, 2024

  35. The Potent Pollution of Noise

    116 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  36. Tokenisation Is NP-Complete

    116 points • comment • dec 22, 2024

  37. Show HN: Open-source LLM provider price comparison

    116 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  38. Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes

    116 points • comment • may 09, 2024

  39. 0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations

    116 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  40. Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)

    116 points • comment • feb 17, 2024

  41. First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live

    116 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  42. I am not a supplier (2022)

    116 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  43. The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022)

    116 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  44. I2P Anonymous Network

    116 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  45. OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown

    116 points • comment • oct 03, 2024

  46. On the trail of my identity thief

    116 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  47. ARM64EC (and ARM64X) Explained

    116 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  48. I'm Coder

    116 points • comment • feb 25, 2024

  49. Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI

    116 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  50. Seeing America by train

    116 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  51. Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says

    116 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  52. Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13

    116 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  53. Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending

    116 points • comment • jan 27, 2024

  54. The history of Alt+number sequences

    116 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  55. PiDP-10 – a modern replica of the PDP-10

    116 points • comment • jun 09, 2024

  56. Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday

    116 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  57. Against the burden of knowledge

    116 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  58. Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions

    116 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  59. Show HN: A 5th order motion planner with PH spline blending, written in Ada

    116 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  60. Vimium – The Hacker's Browser

    116 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  61. Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990

    116 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  62. A History of Microwave Ovens

    115 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  63. Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?

    115 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  64. Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  65. Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours

    115 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  66. ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’

    115 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  67. llm.c: multi-GPU, bfloat16, flash attention, ~7% faster than PyTorch

    115 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  68. X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers

    115 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  69. Smalltalk simplicity and consistency vs. other languages (2022) [video]

    115 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  70. Amber: Smalltalk for the Web

    115 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  71. Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime

    115 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  72. Nvidia's "Grace" Arm CPU holds its own against x86 for HPC

    115 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  73. Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software

    115 points • comment • jul 25, 2024

  74. Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat

    115 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  75. Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos

    115 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  76. Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking

    115 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  77. Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War

    115 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  78. Lessons from Ancient File Systems

    115 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  79. How Netflix really uses Java

    115 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  80. htmx 2.0.0-beta1

    115 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  81. Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]

    115 points • comment • oct 26, 2024

  82. Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

    115 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  83. Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser

    115 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  84. Waiting for many things at once with io_uring

    115 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  85. "The Door Problem" (2014)

    115 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  86. Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

    115 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  87. Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)

    115 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  88. Demystifying Git Submodules

    115 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  89. AMD ROCm Software Blogs

    115 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  90. Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters

    115 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  91. Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (or without) Rayon

    115 points • comment • nov 29, 2024

  92. Build a simple LSM-Tree storage engine in a week

    115 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  93. All You Need Is 4x 4090 GPUs to Train Your Own Model

    115 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  94. Maxtext: A simple, performant and scalable Jax LLM

    115 points • comment • apr 24, 2024

  95. NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework

    115 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  96. Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application

    115 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  97. Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance

    115 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  98. Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries

    115 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  99. Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024

  100. Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

    115 points • comment • oct 29, 2024