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  1. Automat

    254 points • comment • nov 01, 2024

  2. Claude's Character

    254 points • comment • jun 08, 2024

  3. Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft

    254 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  4. Plastic bag bans work

    254 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  5. New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

    254 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  6. SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle

    254 points • comment • feb 27, 2024

  7. Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch

    254 points • comment • jul 14, 2024

  8. Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

    254 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  9. Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks

    254 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  10. Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question

    253 points • comment • sep 03, 2024

  11. AI copilots are changing how coding is taught

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  12. It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

    253 points • comment • oct 30, 2024

  13. The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

    253 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  14. eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

    253 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  15. Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

    253 points • comment • jul 05, 2024

  16. How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries

    253 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  17. Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

    253 points • comment • apr 11, 2024

  18. Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

    253 points • comment • aug 01, 2024

  19. Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

    253 points • comment • nov 20, 2024

  20. XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

    253 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  21. Native dual-range input

    253 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  22. Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone

    253 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  23. The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app

    253 points • comment • apr 30, 2024

  24. Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs

    253 points • comment • aug 28, 2024

  25. My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4

    253 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  26. SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python

    253 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  27. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    253 points • comment • jan 29, 2024

  28. How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?

    253 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  29. An embarrassingly simple approach to recover unlearned knowledge for LLMs

    253 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  30. Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava

    253 points • comment • oct 08, 2024

  31. Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal

    253 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  32. 1brc merykitty's magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words

    253 points • comment • mar 09, 2024

  33. Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls

    253 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  34. Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application

    253 points • comment • feb 29, 2024

  35. If you need the money, don't take the job

    253 points • comment • nov 03, 2024

  36. ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her

    253 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  37. Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)

    253 points • comment • apr 17, 2024

  38. German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator

    253 points • comment • jan 28, 2024

  39. Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)

    253 points • comment • jun 10, 2024

  40. WASM Is the New CGI

    253 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  41. James Gleick's Chaos: The Software

    253 points • comment • nov 16, 2024

  42. Why Not Comments

    253 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  43. American flag sort

    253 points • comment • apr 23, 2024

  44. Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk

    253 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  45. Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

    253 points • comment • dec 28, 2024

  46. VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles

    253 points • comment • dec 27, 2024

  47. Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide

    253 points • comment • dec 20, 2024

  48. Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers

    252 points • comment • mar 16, 2024

  49. SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat

    252 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  50. What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?

    252 points • comment • jan 22, 2024

  51. Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant

    252 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  52. The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

    252 points • comment • sep 01, 2024

  53. Lindroid

    252 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  54. What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner

    252 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  55. Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

    252 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  56. Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?

    252 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  57. Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney

    252 points • comment • feb 18, 2024

  58. Using Erlang hot code updates

    252 points • comment • nov 19, 2024

  59. UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)

    252 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  60. XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support

    252 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  61. You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

    252 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  62. Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy

    252 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  63. HPy – A better C API for Python

    252 points • comment • oct 06, 2024

  64. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained

    252 points • comment • mar 14, 2024

  65. Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993

    252 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  66. ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  67. Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming

    252 points • comment • feb 06, 2024

  68. Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2024

  69. Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?

    252 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  70. Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

    252 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  71. Three Laws of Software Complexity

    252 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  72. The Zombocom Problem

    252 points • comment • dec 29, 2024

  73. Tog's Paradox

    251 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  74. Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ

    251 points • comment • dec 03, 2024

  75. Macaroons Escalated Quickly

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  76. Crystal Ball Trading Game

    251 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  77. LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

    251 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  78. Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts

    251 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  79. Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)

    251 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  80. Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs

    251 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  81. The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue

    251 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  82. Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think

    251 points • comment • jan 24, 2024

  83. Notes on El Salvador

    251 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

  84. What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)

    251 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  85. Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

    251 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  86. Scandal at America's top science fair

    251 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  87. Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model

    251 points • comment • oct 14, 2024

  88. Show HN: Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs

    251 points • comment • jun 17, 2024

  89. Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder

    251 points • comment • may 21, 2024

  90. SIMD in Pure Python

    251 points • comment • jan 05, 2024

  91. Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems

    251 points • comment • nov 25, 2024

  92. So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)

    251 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  93. Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative

    251 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  94. The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes

    251 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  95. Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0

    251 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  96. When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?

    251 points • comment • feb 02, 2024

  97. Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

    251 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  98. Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana

    251 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  99. Zb: An Early-Stage Build System

    251 points • comment • sep 19, 2024

  100. Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership

    251 points • comment • may 08, 2024