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  1. Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief

    144 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  2. Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories

    143 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  3. Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

    143 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  4. Departing the New York Times

    143 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  5. First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body

    143 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  6. Show HN: Pyper – Concurrent Python Made Simple

    143 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  7. No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more

    143 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  8. Has LLM killed traditional NLP?

    142 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  9. Writing as Transformation

    142 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  10. You probably don't need query builders

    142 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  11. Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Mod

    142 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  12. Rsync vulnerabilities

    142 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  13. French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism

    142 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  14. A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf]

    142 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  15. OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit games

    142 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  16. 43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on

    142 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  17. LMD: A new, less wasteful metal 3D printing technique

    141 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  18. I will never need to buy a new computer again

    141 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  19. Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

    141 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  20. Show HN: Compile C to Not Gates

    141 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  21. Show HN: A new native app for 20 year old OS X

    141 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  22. Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)

    141 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  23. Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends

    141 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  24. Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay

    141 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  25. Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

    140 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  26. The Anti-Social Century

    140 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  27. Court strikes down US net neutrality rules

    140 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  28. Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

    140 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  29. The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles

    139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  30. WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics

    139 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  31. Web apps built with Ruby on Rails

    139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  32. The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria

    139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  33. Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language

    139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  34. LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters

    139 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  35. Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf]

    139 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  36. An update on Dart macros and data serialization

    139 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  37. Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'

    139 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  38. Glicol: Next-generation computer music language

    139 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  39. Minimal 64x4 Home Computer

    138 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  40. Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease

    138 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  41. Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction

    138 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  42. The British Micro Behemoth

    138 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  43. VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

    137 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  44. Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

    137 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  45. In Zig, what's a writer?

    137 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  46. Stay Gold, America

    137 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  47. Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)

    137 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  48. GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

    137 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  49. 'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly

    137 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  50. Hard Mode Rust (2022)

    136 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  51. Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol

    136 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  52. Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again

    136 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  53. The State of Vim

    136 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  54. OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  55. Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet

    136 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  56. Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs

    135 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  57. Deferred resignation email to federal employees

    135 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  58. Das Blinkenlights

    135 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  59. Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena

    134 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  60. A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband

    134 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  61. FreeBSD Suspend/Resume

    134 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  62. Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case

    133 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  63. Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities

    133 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  64. What it's like working for American companies as an Australian

    133 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  65. Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure

    133 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  66. Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture

    133 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  67. The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility

    133 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  68. Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature

    133 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  69. Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

    132 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  70. Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)

    132 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  71. Paxo: A DIY Phone

    132 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  72. An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)

    132 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  73. Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0

    132 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  74. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

    132 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  75. Snake Game in 56 Bytes

    132 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  76. Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting

    131 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  77. Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)

    131 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  78. How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

    131 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  79. The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++

    130 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  80. Anatomy of a Formal Proof

    130 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  81. Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops

    130 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  82. My Favorite Book on AI

    130 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  83. Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed

    130 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  84. Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628 CE): The Last Great War of Antiquity (2023)

    129 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  85. You could have invented Fenwick trees

    129 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  86. Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials

    129 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  87. The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

    129 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  88. Automated accessibility testing at Slack

    129 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  89. Diffusion training from scratch on a micro-budget

    128 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  90. PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies

    128 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  91. Zusie – My Relay Computer

    128 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  92. Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From ‘Suicide' to 'Active Investigation’

    128 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  93. Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT

    128 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  94. Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

    128 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  95. Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness

    128 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  96. Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally

    128 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  97. Context should go away for Go 2 (2017)

    127 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  98. Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine

    127 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  99. Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area

    127 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  100. Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts

    127 points • comment • jan 15, 2025