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  1. The history of lead pencils and their lack of any lead (2021)

    89 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  2. Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete (2012)

    89 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  3. Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity

    89 points • comment • aug 05, 2024

  4. French company ramps up production to meet demand for its military drone radar

    89 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  5. Emacs Speaks Statistics

    89 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  6. Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg

    89 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  7. Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling

    89 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  8. Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza

    89 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  9. Japan cracks down on use of rideable electric suitcases amid tourist boom

    89 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  10. Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

    89 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  11. Compile and Run C in JavaScript

    89 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  12. Ask HN: Well architected React and Node repos?

    89 points • comment • jun 20, 2024

  13. Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG

    89 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  14. Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card (1981) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  15. Algorithmic price-fixing of rents is here

    89 points • comment • aug 10, 2024

  16. Show HN: Greenmask 0.2 – Database anonymization tool

    89 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  17. Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)

    89 points • comment • aug 24, 2024

  18. Eight Years of GraphQL

    89 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  19. A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)

    89 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  20. BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel

    89 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  21. Zimtohrli: A New Psychoacoustic Perceptual Metric for Audio Compression

    89 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  22. The Byte Order Fiasco (2021)

    89 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  23. Why is language documentation still so terrible?

    89 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  24. From Julia to Rust (2021)

    89 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  25. Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century

    89 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  26. DIY, 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV (2020)

    89 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  27. Principality of Hutt River

    89 points • comment • jan 12, 2024

  28. Gaussian Splatting SLAM

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  29. Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing

    89 points • comment • sep 21, 2024

  30. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

    89 points • comment • jun 30, 2024

  31. Transactional Object Storage?

    89 points • comment • nov 17, 2024

  32. Complain and Propose (2014)

    89 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  33. Nassim Taleb says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt

    89 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  34. Launch HN: Outerport (YC S24) – Instant hot-swapping for AI model weights

    89 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  35. A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi's reliability

    89 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  36. Sudo-rs dependencies: when less is better

    89 points • comment • mar 26, 2024

  37. RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama

    89 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  38. Oklahoma receives first "Made in Oklahoma" EV

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2024

  39. Integral Calculator

    89 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  40. Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine

    89 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  41. Nomic

    89 points • comment • mar 27, 2024

  42. BMX: A Freshly Baked Take on BM25

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  43. iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access

    89 points • comment • jun 12, 2024

  44. Why isn't Colorado's snowpack ending up in the Colorado River?

    89 points • comment • aug 18, 2024

  45. How to Reverse Engineer a 12 EUR Intel PCIe FPGA Card IBM 98Y2610

    89 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  46. More than 80 AI models from Qualcomm

    89 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  47. AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2024

  48. Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?

    89 points • comment • jul 26, 2024

  49. The Strangeness of Grief (2019)

    89 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  50. The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of (2022)

    88 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  51. I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)

    88 points • comment • nov 10, 2024

  52. How I got scammed out of $50k

    88 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  53. Memorizing the first 100 perfect squares (2022)

    88 points • comment • sep 06, 2024

  54. Show HN: Venator – Open-source threat detection

    88 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  55. Forgejo forks its own path forward

    88 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  56. Shu Ha Ri (2014)

    88 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  57. Enhance WASM: Back End Agnostic SSR for Web Components

    88 points • comment • apr 10, 2024

  58. Show HN: Burr – A framework for building and debugging GenAI apps faster

    88 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  59. Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It

    88 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  60. Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?

    88 points • comment • oct 09, 2024

  61. Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent

    88 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  62. Law Enforcement Undermines Tor

    88 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  63. Type-erased generic functions for C: A modest non-proposal

    88 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  64. Why I Live in IRC (2015)

    88 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  65. Dissent – A GTK4 Discord client written in Go

    88 points • comment • mar 20, 2024

  66. HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers

    88 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  67. Programmer in Berlin: Culture

    88 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  68. He spent his life building a $1M stereo

    88 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  69. There's a place for everyone

    88 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  70. People Behind “The Print Shop” (1985)

    88 points • comment • jul 27, 2024

  71. Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI

    88 points • comment • sep 26, 2024

  72. Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon

    88 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  73. Eclipse Tracks

    88 points • comment • mar 17, 2024

  74. Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin

    88 points • comment • jan 15, 2024

  75. The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"

    88 points • comment • apr 07, 2024

  76. Implementation of mixture of experts language model in a single file of PyTorch

    88 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  77. Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism

    88 points • comment • oct 27, 2024

  78. Our tools shape our selves

    88 points • comment • apr 02, 2024

  79. Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir

    88 points • comment • jan 04, 2024

  80. Transforming Colors with Matrices

    88 points • comment • oct 11, 2024

  81. Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy

    88 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  82. Slow-spinning radio neutron star breaks all the rules

    88 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  83. The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998)

    88 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  84. USB-C power for your Amiga 500, 600 and 1200

    88 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  85. An approach to the fundamental theory of physics

    88 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  86. Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2024

  87. Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag

    88 points • comment • dec 14, 2024

  88. Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video

    88 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  89. Ask HN: How to grow a concert visuals business?

    88 points • comment • jul 12, 2024

  90. An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021)

    88 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  91. Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police

    88 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  92. I'm a Professional

    88 points • comment • oct 02, 2024

  93. I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay's Getting Off Easy

    88 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  94. Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app

    88 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  95. Nasopharyngeal Lymphatics Found to Be Crucial for Cerebrospinal Fluid Outflow

    88 points • comment • feb 01, 2024

  96. Godot 4.3 Game Engine to Feature Native Wayland Support

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  97. Adapter lets you use cheap eSIM plans on any Android phone

    88 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  98. Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients?

    88 points • comment • nov 11, 2024

  99. Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday)

    88 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  100. Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem

    88 points • comment • jan 01, 2024