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  1. Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling

    157 points • comment • sep 04, 2024

  2. Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)

    157 points • comment • sep 29, 2024

  3. We sped up time series by 20-30x

    157 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  4. The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive

    157 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  5. How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster

    157 points • comment • sep 10, 2024

  6. Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills

    157 points • comment • apr 29, 2024

  7. Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic

    157 points • comment • aug 12, 2024

  8. Writing memory safe JIT compilers

    157 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  9. The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service

    157 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  10. Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system

    157 points • comment • nov 27, 2024

  11. MFJ is ceasing its on-site production

    157 points • comment • apr 26, 2024

  12. Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models

    157 points • comment • aug 16, 2024

  13. Looking for a Job Is Tough

    157 points • comment • nov 14, 2024

  14. Math as a habit

    157 points • comment • feb 13, 2024

  15. Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

    157 points • comment • aug 26, 2024

  16. What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)

    156 points • comment • oct 05, 2024

  17. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  18. Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller

    156 points • comment • oct 19, 2024

  19. Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?

    156 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  20. 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors

    156 points • comment • jun 15, 2024

  21. Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies

    156 points • comment • jul 17, 2024

  22. Base 3 Computing Beats Binary

    156 points • comment • aug 09, 2024

  23. Show HN: Moocable – find people studying the same online course/book

    156 points • comment • jul 21, 2024

  24. Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2024

  25. Hearing aids slow cognitive decline in people at high risk

    156 points • comment • jan 31, 2024

  26. VectorChord: Store 400k Vectors for $1 in PostgreSQL

    156 points • comment • dec 05, 2024

  27. Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

    156 points • comment • nov 22, 2024

  28. Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

    156 points • comment • feb 05, 2024

  29. What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?

    156 points • comment • nov 05, 2024

  30. An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags

    156 points • comment • oct 18, 2024

  31. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  32. Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    156 points • comment • nov 06, 2024

  33. Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)

    156 points • comment • oct 10, 2024

  34. A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2024

  35. AI Infrastructure Landscape

    156 points • comment • feb 26, 2024

  36. I made a website to share rejection letters

    156 points • comment • jan 18, 2024

  37. Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?

    156 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  38. Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI

    156 points • comment • feb 14, 2024

  39. The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)

    156 points • comment • jul 09, 2024

  40. Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026

    156 points • comment • sep 09, 2024

  41. The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

    156 points • comment • sep 14, 2024

  42. STEMFIE, a 3D-printable construction set toy

    156 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  43. Oldest largest German Minecraft server shut down and open sourced everything

    156 points • comment • jun 03, 2024

  44. Traffic noise hurts children's brains

    156 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  45. SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone

    156 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  46. How God Plays Chess (2018)

    156 points • comment • dec 09, 2024

  47. Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites]

    156 points • comment • feb 23, 2024

  48. Three.js Shading Language

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  49. A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

    156 points • comment • jul 01, 2024

  50. Thoughts on Vision Pro

    156 points • comment • mar 25, 2024

  51. DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data

    156 points • comment • nov 04, 2024

  52. Three ways to think about Go channels

    156 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  53. How far could the sun possibly be?

    156 points • comment • jan 21, 2024

  54. What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy

    156 points • comment • sep 17, 2024

  55. Use Your Potions and Scrolls

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2024

  56. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

    156 points • comment • apr 01, 2024

  57. Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)

    156 points • comment • mar 03, 2024

  58. Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models

    156 points • comment • apr 27, 2024

  59. For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

    156 points • comment • jul 13, 2024

  60. Green's Dictionary of Slang

    156 points • comment • apr 12, 2024

  61. Show HN: Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell

    156 points • comment • jul 06, 2024

  62. A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K

    156 points • comment • feb 10, 2024

  63. Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice

    156 points • comment • apr 03, 2024

  64. Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models

    156 points • comment • sep 18, 2024

  65. Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa

    156 points • comment • feb 16, 2024

  66. Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35.3B all-stock deal

    156 points • comment • feb 20, 2024

  67. Black Hat Rust

    156 points • comment • dec 08, 2024

  68. When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)

    156 points • comment • dec 02, 2024

  69. Gordon Mah Ung has died

    156 points • comment • dec 24, 2024

  70. Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

    156 points • comment • may 10, 2024

  71. Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022)

    156 points • comment • jun 23, 2024

  72. Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen

    156 points • comment • aug 31, 2024

  73. LLMs can't do probability

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2024

  74. Understanding x86_64 Paging

    156 points • comment • jan 16, 2024

  75. Update on Llama adoption

    156 points • comment • aug 29, 2024

  76. ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2024

  77. Linux ext2 filesystem driver now marked as deprecated

    156 points • comment • mar 28, 2024

  78. Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video]

    156 points • comment • aug 30, 2024

  79. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One

    156 points • comment • oct 12, 2024

  80. New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros

    156 points • comment • feb 04, 2024

  81. Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation

    156 points • comment • oct 25, 2024

  82. Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

    156 points • comment • oct 16, 2024

  83. WizardLM 2

    156 points • comment • apr 15, 2024

  84. Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web

    156 points • comment • jun 05, 2024

  85. Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

    156 points • comment • aug 19, 2024

  86. Bytehound: Memory Profiler for Linux

    156 points • comment • may 23, 2024

  87. The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening

    156 points • comment • jun 07, 2024

  88. The Erlang Runtime System

    155 points • comment • feb 12, 2024

  89. The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought

    155 points • comment • mar 04, 2024

  90. What Happened to GE? (2021)

    155 points • comment • jan 14, 2024

  91. Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners

    155 points • comment • mar 31, 2024

  92. Dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History

    155 points • comment • sep 02, 2024

  93. Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects

    155 points • comment • sep 23, 2024

  94. The Illustrated Transformer (2018)

    155 points • comment • jul 02, 2024

  95. Thoughts on tech employment

    155 points • comment • feb 09, 2024

  96. Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel

    155 points • comment • sep 20, 2024

  97. Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all

    155 points • comment • nov 13, 2024

  98. The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw

    155 points • comment • dec 12, 2024

  99. A peek at Intel's future foundry tech

    155 points • comment • feb 22, 2024

  100. Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)

    155 points • comment • may 21, 2024