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  1. Regulatory gridlock in the U.S. risks losing the drone arms race

    79 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  2. High‑dose Vitamin D reduces disease activity in early multiple sclerosis onset

    79 points • comment • mar 25, 2025

  3. Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school

    79 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  4. Virtual Punch Card Creator

    79 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  5. Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams

    79 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  6. Permacomputing

    79 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  7. Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint

    79 points • comment • mar 16, 2025

  8. DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia

    78 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  9. Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine

    78 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  10. Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape

    78 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  11. FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval

    78 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  12. The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps

    78 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  13. OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes

    78 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  14. The Mystery of the Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until 1856

    78 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  15. We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%

    78 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  16. A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top

    78 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  17. Bra and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS

    77 points • comment • mar 22, 2025

  18. AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers'

    77 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  19. When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013)

    77 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  20. Canoeing on the Danube

    77 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  21. Some thoughts on autoregressive models

    77 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  22. Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away

    77 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  23. How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

    77 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  24. Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis

    77 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  25. Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window

    76 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  26. Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means

    76 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  27. Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives

    76 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  28. Runway Gen-4

    76 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  29. Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less

    76 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  30. The End of Weather Forecasting

    76 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  31. Declarative Web Push

    76 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  32. Brother refutes "false claims" that it bricked printers using third-party ink

    76 points • comment • mar 05, 2025

  33. More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises

    76 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  34. Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?

    76 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  35. For Many of America's Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream'

    76 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  36. Amazon introduces Nova Chat

    76 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  37. Neonatal fungi: lifelong metabolic health via macrophage β cell development

    76 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  38. The Calculated Typer

    75 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  39. We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

    75 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  40. Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

    75 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  41. What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

    75 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  42. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

    75 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  43. A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

    75 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  44. Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers

    75 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  45. Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS

    75 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  46. The Child and the Shadow (1975) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  47. Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys

    75 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  48. 'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

    75 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  49. Show HN: AudioNimbus – Steam Audio's immersive spatial audio, now in Rust

    75 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  50. Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis

    74 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  51. The Nobel Duel

    74 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  52. iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app

    74 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  53. Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]

    74 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  54. Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust

    74 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  55. Rotors: A practical introduction for 3D graphics (2023)

    74 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  56. Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me?

    74 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  57. The Strategic Crypto Swindle

    74 points • comment • mar 05, 2025

  58. Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX

    74 points • comment • mar 25, 2025

  59. The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect

    74 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  60. Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings

    74 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  61. Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free

    74 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  62. Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign

    74 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  63. Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?

    74 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  64. Sublogic Flight Simulator

    74 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  65. The shrouded sinister history of the bulldozer

    74 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  66. Pets Can't Stop Watching 'Flow,' the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie

    73 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  67. In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by gravity waves

    73 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  68. What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge

    73 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  69. The long flight to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate

    73 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  70. How much traffic can a pre-rendered Next.js site handle?

    73 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  71. First C compiler source code from 1972

    73 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  72. Gatehouse – a composable, async-friendly authorization policy framework in Rust

    73 points • comment • mar 24, 2025

  73. Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers

    73 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  74. Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester

    73 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  75. Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure

    73 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  76. Working with Systemd Timers

    73 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  77. Clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4

    73 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  78. Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled

    73 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  79. Testing the latest AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites

    72 points • comment • mar 26, 2025

  80. EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods

    72 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  81. Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)

    72 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  82. Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT keywords

    72 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  83. 2FA or Not 2FA

    72 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  84. Village Roadshow Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

    72 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  85. Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems

    72 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  86. Show HN: Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal

    72 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  87. Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

    72 points • comment • mar 25, 2025

  88. Ozempic for Sleep

    72 points • comment • mar 15, 2025

  89. Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM

    72 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  90. I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format (2009)

    72 points • comment • mar 22, 2025

  91. Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors

    72 points • comment • mar 15, 2025

  92. European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January

    72 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  93. The Secret History of the War in Ukraine

    72 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  94. Intel: A Bug and a Pro

    72 points • comment • mar 24, 2025

  95. Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

    72 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  96. Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

    72 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  97. George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

    72 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  98. Pressure grows to hold secret Apple data privacy hearing in public

    72 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  99. The Day the Muse Died

    71 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  100. Show HN: Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis

    71 points • comment • mar 14, 2025