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  1. Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night

    27 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  2. Show HN: Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy

    27 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  3. Canon Law Ninja

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  4. How to disappear– Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants

    27 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  5. Static Types Are for Perfectionists

    27 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  6. Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps

    27 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  7. Retro Computing

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  8. Python in LibreOffice (LibrePythonista Extension)

    27 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  9. 3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine

    27 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  10. British ICC chief prosecutor lost access to email and has bank accounts frozen

    27 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  11. From RPC to transactions and durable executions

    27 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  12. µPC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100 Layer Networks

    27 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  13. Show HN: VoltAgent – Open-Source Observability-First TS AI Agent Framework

    27 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  14. Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App

    27 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  15. Programming Basics with Tiki

    27 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  16. The Gmail app will now create AI summaries

    27 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  17. Illinois man has spent 40 years rebuilding a WWII-era B-17 bomber in his barn

    27 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  18. X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account

    27 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  19. Microsoft's new "passwordless by default" is great but comes at a cost

    27 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  20. There's a national egg crisis, and one company is making a lot of money

    27 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  21. Old Growth Wood

    27 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  22. GodAmp: Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in Godot, with cross-platform support

    27 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  23. Reading "Business" Books Is a Waste of Time

    27 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  24. How to Automate Software Engineering

    26 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  25. Turning into Turing (2022)

    26 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  26. Federal judge halts Trump admin ban on Harvard's ability to enroll intl students

    26 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  27. Randomness Requirements for Security (2005)

    26 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  28. Self Rewarding Self Improving: Autonomous LLM Improvement

    26 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  29. Show HN: MP3 File Editor for Bulk Processing

    26 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

    26 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  31. Show HN: Infinite Hagakure

    26 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  32. Solving physics-based initial value problems with unsupervised machine learning

    26 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  33. Three Faces of American Capitalism: Buffett, Musk, and Trump

    26 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  34. RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals

    26 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  35. Ask HN: Is anyone else burnt out on AI?

    26 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  36. Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise (2017)

    26 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  37. Ask HN: Has anyone been able to overcome crippling executive dysfunction?

    26 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  38. Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes

    26 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  39. Concrete spheres for energy storage; California plans a 9-meter diameter sphere

    26 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  40. The Language That Never Was

    26 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  41. Some Life Lessons from VAX/VMS (2013)

    26 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  42. Nothing Radicalizes You Against Dirty Diesels Like Riding a Motorcycle

    26 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  43. US President Donald Trump Seeks to Cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return

    26 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  44. Show HN: Claude Code in the Cloud

    26 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  45. State of the Art PFAS [pdf]

    26 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  46. Lead Bullets (2011)

    26 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  47. GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

    26 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  48. The Beam Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime System

    26 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  49. Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth

    26 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  50. 84% of the coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

    26 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  51. Internet Phone Book

    26 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  52. What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996)

    26 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  53. The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in Mind

    26 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  54. Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales

    26 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  55. Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script for chimney

    26 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  56. Why I'm getting off US tech

    26 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  57. Show HN: BetterFriend – a CRM just to be a better friend

    26 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  58. SQL Workbench – Republicans not welcome

    26 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  59. Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?

    26 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  60. Google can train search AI with web content even with opt-out

    26 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  61. New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified

    25 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  62. PScientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat

    25 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  63. Cosmos-482 descent craft re-entry prediction

    25 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  64. White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs

    25 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  65. Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome

    25 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  66. No! Repent! From! Harlan! (1998)

    25 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  67. Ask HN: Building LLM apps? How are you handling user context?

    25 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  68. Is America Headed for an Age of Dumb Phones?

    25 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  69. Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy

    25 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  70. Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (2017)

    25 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  71. Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, eyes closed

    25 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  72. Old and Small Technology

    25 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  73. Show HN: Stack Error – ergonomic error handling for Rust

    25 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  74. Throwaway Code: Don't recycle, throw it away (2017)

    25 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  75. Thermoelectric generator based on a robust carbon nanotube/BiSbTe foam

    25 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  76. Conspiracy Theorists Can Be Deprogrammed

    25 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  77. Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden

    25 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  78. Study finds a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades

    25 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  79. Shape and topology morphing of closed surfaces integrating origami and kirigami

    25 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  80. Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  81. Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong

    25 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  82. You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer

    25 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  83. US EPA plans to cut staff to 1980s levels, dissolve research office

    25 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  84. Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection

    25 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  85. The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  86. "Police state" search got censored in Italy

    25 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  87. We're beating $359M in funding with two people and OCaml

    25 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  88. I so hate the phrase "vibe coding"

    25 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  89. Reducing Huntington’s-related repeat expansions in patient cells and in mice

    25 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  90. Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera

    25 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  91. Ancient humans used sunscreen to survive a deadly magnetic pole shift

    25 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  92. Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go (2001)

    25 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  93. Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search

    25 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  94. How Complex Systems Fail

    25 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  95. We Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Lasts Thousands of Years

    25 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  96. DuckLake: SQL as a Lakehouse Format

    25 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  97. Loving 21st century gaming like an 18th century furniture expert

    25 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  98. Sieving pores: stable,fast alloying chemistry of Si -electrodes in Li-ion batt

    24 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  99. Oil companies protected ahead of selling fracking water

    24 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  100. Source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2025