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  1. An asteroid wiped out dinosaurs – did it help birds flourish?

    41 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  2. NYT vs. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  3. Meta Fires Employee Making $400k per Year over a $25 Meal Voucher

    41 points • comment • oct 17, 2024

  4. The Reasonable Effectiveness of Using Old Phones as Servers

    41 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  5. Is the Future of Moore's Law in a Particle Accelerator?

    41 points • comment • jun 13, 2024

  6. Auto chip aging accelerates in hot climates

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  7. It's 2024 and drought is optional

    41 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  8. Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe

    41 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  9. What Happens When Your Bank Isn't a Bank and Your Money Disappears?

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  10. Vintage Wooden Homes on Wheels: Photos of Mobile Living from Early 20th Century

    41 points • comment • jun 25, 2024

  11. Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet

    41 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  12. The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro"

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2024

  13. A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11 (2021)

    41 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  14. Pseudonymity in Academic Publishing

    41 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  15. Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs

    41 points • comment • jun 21, 2024

  16. Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to 10.4%, Just Below Worst of GFC Meltdown

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  17. WhatWeb: Next Generation Web Scanner (2021)

    41 points • comment • jul 15, 2024

  18. Books of the world, stand up and be counted All 129,864,880 of you. (2010)

    41 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  19. Layman's Guide to Python Built-in Functions

    41 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  20. Napkin-math: Techniques for estimating system performance from first-principles

    41 points • comment • sep 15, 2024

  21. Several people detained in Switzerland over death in a 'suicide capsule'

    41 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  22. Why dentists say you shouldn't rinse after brushing

    41 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  23. JGS ASCII ART gallery (2001)

    41 points • comment • nov 12, 2024

  24. A Missing IDE Feature

    41 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  25. Tesla discloses it spent $200k advertising on X

    41 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  26. Harpastum – ancient Roman prototype of soccer and rugby

    41 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  27. Brute-Forcing the LLM Guardrails

    41 points • comment • nov 02, 2024

  28. Show HN: Build Your WSL Distro in Docker

    41 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  29. Keeping code simple: moving fast by avoiding over-engineering

    41 points • comment • feb 07, 2024

  30. Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty

    41 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  31. CLI tool, written in Rust, to diff directory snapshots

    41 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  32. Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

    41 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  33. Inline Scope for CSS

    41 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  34. Show HN: TurtleSpaces Web Logo – online 3D Logo implementation

    41 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  35. The man who reinvented the cat

    41 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  36. For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im

    41 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  37. Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsing history

    41 points • comment • jul 03, 2024

  38. Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users' piracy

    41 points • comment • nov 26, 2024

  39. Open-Source Lucidchart Alternative

    41 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  40. New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains

    41 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  41. An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages

    41 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  42. Internet Archive Services Update

    41 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  43. Forest Elephants and Infrasound

    41 points • comment • jan 01, 2024

  44. Top AIs still fail IQ tests

    41 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  45. Mark Zuckerberg himself appears in the list of direct contributors to Llama 3

    41 points • comment • apr 21, 2024

  46. Azerbaijani airline plane shot down by Russia

    41 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  47. OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models

    41 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  48. Pictures of Pensions

    41 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  49. A $557B Drop in Office Values Eclipses a Revival of Cities

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  50. Show HN: I coded my own JSON translation tool to easily localize my side project

    41 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  51. New minerals on the moon explaining the mystery of the lunar landscape

    41 points • comment • apr 08, 2024

  52. Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse

    41 points • comment • sep 13, 2024

  53. On Self-Respect (1961)

    41 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  54. An 'Algorithm' Turned Apartment Pools Green

    41 points • comment • jun 19, 2024

  55. GameStop Shuts Down Game Informer, the Longest-Running Gaming Magazine in the US

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2024

  56. Strategy for EU Bootstrapping Hardware Startups: Don't Sell to Anyone in EU

    41 points • comment • jul 16, 2024

  57. Dangerzone: Convert PDFs, documents, or images to a safe PDF

    41 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  58. Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year

    41 points • comment • may 07, 2024

  59. UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  60. Air Canada must pay damages – chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

    41 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  61. Disassembling Dalvik

    41 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  62. A Canadian lobby group is promoting "widespread adoption of age verification"

    41 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  63. ParadeDB – PostgreSQL for Search

    41 points • comment • jan 02, 2024

  64. Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 MAX crashes, DOJ says

    41 points • comment • may 14, 2024

  65. Eight Transaction Papers by Jim Gray

    41 points • comment • apr 19, 2024

  66. AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  67. Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants

    41 points • comment • jul 18, 2024

  68. EU Commission protects consumers in Apple music streaming case

    41 points • comment • mar 06, 2024

  69. Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating

    41 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  70. 29 New Vulnerabilities Found in GStreamer

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  71. Using a 1965 Dutch Rotary Phone via VoIP (T65) in 2024

    41 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  72. Employment increases by 206K in June; unemployment rate changes little at 4.1%

    41 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  73. Running late for college, and the scooter is stuck in an update

    41 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  74. Orwell: The Rewrite

    41 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  75. The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source

    41 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  76. Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?

    41 points • comment • dec 18, 2024

  77. Oxford PV sets new solar panel efficiency world record

    41 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  78. CDC ditches 5-day Covid isolation, argues Covid is becoming flu-like

    41 points • comment • mar 02, 2024

  79. Probing unknown unknowns: A new generation of telescopes

    41 points • comment • nov 07, 2024

  80. 4-day week made permanent for 89% UK firms who took part in Worlds biggest trial

    41 points • comment • feb 21, 2024

  81. Beyond Dune: Accelerating with EVM Query Language

    41 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  82. Romhack Research and Liveblog

    41 points • comment • oct 15, 2024

  83. I "Blitzed" 50 Books in 50 Days – My Experiment in Language Learning

    41 points • comment • apr 13, 2024

  84. Factorio: Generic interrupts and Train stop priority

    41 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  85. Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn to the World's Most Harrowing Film?

    41 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  86. Plagiarism Claims Are Brought Against University of Maryland's President

    41 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  87. How We Sort the World

    41 points • comment • sep 22, 2024

  88. How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL

    41 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  89. Why it takes NYC nearly 10 years to install 500 feet of pipes

    41 points • comment • jun 27, 2024

  90. Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users

    41 points • comment • jun 14, 2024

  91. London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime

    41 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  92. Computing Without Processors (2011)

    41 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  93. When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  94. Monaspace font 1.1 released

    41 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  95. YouTube Cuts 100 Employees as Tech Layoffs Continue

    41 points • comment • jan 17, 2024

  96. Whisper-WebUI

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2024

  97. Ask HN: Are app signup dark patterns getting worse?

    41 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  98. The Bitter Lesson (2019)

    41 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  99. Schengen ain't what it used to be

    41 points • comment • jul 28, 2024

  100. The broligarchs are trying to have their way

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2024