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  1. Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks

    251 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • sep 08, 2024

  3. Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder

    251 points • comment • may 21, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • jun 26, 2024

  5. Crystal Ball Trading Game

    251 points • comment • dec 15, 2024

  6. Notes on El Salvador

    251 points • comment • mar 30, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • may 04, 2024

  8. Numbers Are Leaves

    251 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  9. Qwen2 LLM Released

    251 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  10. Macaroons Escalated Quickly

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  12. Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

    251 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

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

    251 points • comment • oct 01, 2024

  14. A data table thousands of years old (2020)

    251 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  15. CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers

    250 points • comment • jan 25, 2024

  16. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)

    250 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  17. WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses

    250 points • comment • apr 14, 2024

  18. A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material

    250 points • comment • jun 11, 2024

  19. Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real

    250 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  20. Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python

    250 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  21. Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance

    250 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  22. Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024

    250 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  23. The best browser bookmarking system is files

    250 points • comment • sep 30, 2024

  24. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)

    250 points • comment • dec 16, 2024

  25. A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)

    250 points • comment • apr 25, 2024

  26. Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't

    250 points • comment • oct 07, 2024

  27. -2000 Lines of Code (2007)

    250 points • comment • mar 23, 2024

  28. Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job

    250 points • comment • may 03, 2024

  29. A particle physics course for high-school students

    250 points • comment • dec 04, 2024

  30. Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?

    250 points • comment • may 22, 2024

  31. Rethinking Text Resizing on Web

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2024

  32. Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds

    250 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  33. Pygfx

    250 points • comment • oct 22, 2024

  34. Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC

    250 points • comment • jun 06, 2024

  35. Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review

    250 points • comment • aug 03, 2024

  36. Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

    250 points • comment • jul 04, 2024

  37. What you've got is in fact a people problem

    250 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  38. Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat

    250 points • comment • feb 15, 2024

  39. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

    250 points • comment • jan 26, 2024

  40. Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys

    250 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  41. Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews

    250 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  42. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

    250 points • comment • jan 30, 2024

  43. Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building

    249 points • comment • jul 22, 2024

  44. Short Message Compression Using LLMs

    249 points • comment • dec 26, 2024

  45. AI your home on street view

    249 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  46. Working Turing Machine

    249 points • comment • sep 24, 2024

  47. CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

    249 points • comment • dec 21, 2024

  48. Bouba/kiki effect

    249 points • comment • jun 16, 2024

  49. 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

    249 points • comment • sep 12, 2024

  50. How did Ancient Greek music sound?

    249 points • comment • may 02, 2024

  51. Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram

    249 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  52. Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library

    249 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  53. EU ChatControl is back on the agenda

    249 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  54. Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband

    249 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  55. Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)

    249 points • comment • dec 11, 2024

  56. DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card

    249 points • comment • mar 24, 2024

  57. French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity

    249 points • comment • jan 19, 2024

  58. Using a list to manage executive function

    249 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  59. Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

    249 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  60. Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island

    249 points • comment • dec 23, 2024

  61. What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)

    249 points • comment • may 15, 2024

  62. How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)

    249 points • comment • mar 18, 2024

  63. Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD

    249 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  64. Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages

    249 points • comment • may 19, 2024

  65. Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?

    249 points • comment • feb 24, 2024

  66. Civet: A Superset of TypeScript

    249 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  67. When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first

    249 points • comment • mar 29, 2024

  68. How to Study Mathematics (2017)

    249 points • comment • dec 01, 2024

  69. Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C

    249 points • comment • may 08, 2024

  70. F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language

    249 points • comment • dec 25, 2024

  71. European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

    249 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  72. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?

    249 points • comment • dec 13, 2024

  73. Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling

    249 points • comment • mar 05, 2024

  74. Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says

    249 points • comment • feb 08, 2024

  75. Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)

    249 points • comment • apr 05, 2024

  76. One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One

    249 points • comment • aug 15, 2024

  77. Do Skis Get Blunt?

    249 points • comment • jul 08, 2024

  78. The Origin of Emacs in 1976

    249 points • comment • jul 24, 2024

  79. IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states

    249 points • comment • mar 13, 2024

  80. Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure

    249 points • comment • mar 12, 2024

  81. Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data

    249 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  82. Why is it so hard to build an airport?

    248 points • comment • mar 22, 2024

  83. Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs

    248 points • comment • jan 11, 2024

  84. The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    248 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  85. How to use Postgres for everything

    248 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  86. LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

    248 points • comment • sep 16, 2024

  87. 418 I’m a teapot

    248 points • comment • oct 28, 2024

  88. FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)

    248 points • comment • may 26, 2024

  89. Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL

    248 points • comment • feb 28, 2024

  90. Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

    248 points • comment • aug 13, 2024

  91. Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF

    248 points • comment • sep 11, 2024

  92. LineageOS 22

    248 points • comment • dec 31, 2024

  93. Biggest shell programs

    248 points • comment • dec 07, 2024

  94. Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?

    248 points • comment • jul 23, 2024

  95. FLUX is fast and it's open source

    248 points • comment • oct 13, 2024

  96. 99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python

    248 points • comment • nov 15, 2024

  97. Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show

    248 points • comment • mar 19, 2024

  98. Extracting financial disclosure and police reports with OpenAI Structured Output

    248 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  99. Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

    248 points • comment • aug 20, 2024

  100. New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy

    248 points • comment • jan 18, 2024