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  1. Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow

    16 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  2. NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause Science

    16 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  3. 18-Year-Old U.S. Teen Develops AI to Reveal 1.5M New Space Objects

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  4. Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away)

    16 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  5. How did geometry create modern physics?

    16 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  6. A Simple Spit Test Could Reveal Prostate Cancer, Outperforming a Blood Test

    16 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  7. Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies

    16 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  8. Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Employee Burnout to Breach Corporate Defenses

    16 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  9. Erlang/OTP 28 Highlights

    16 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  10. Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  11. Show HN: Kudos.wiki – Discover the best movies on Wikipedia

    16 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  12. Jewels linked to Buddha remains go to auction, sparking ethical debate

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  13. SEC Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers

    16 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  14. What Can You Do with a Slide Rule?

    16 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  15. Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming

    16 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  16. TwoFold (2f), CLI text expander/template engine

    16 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  17. Level-5 CEO says games being made 80-90% by AI "aesthetic sense" a must for devs

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  18. The Imaginary 16-Bit Amiga Games of Suzanne Treister

    16 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  19. Apple Created a Legal Mess When It Skirted Judge's Ruling

    16 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  20. I bought a $1k electric boat from China. Here's what showed up

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  21. Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition

    16 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  22. Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine

    16 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  23. Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal

    16 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  24. Linux wiper malware hidden in malicious Go modules on GitHub

    16 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  25. They Were Every Student's Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back

    16 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  26. Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know

    16 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  27. The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

    15 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  28. Charles M. Lieber joins Tsinghua University

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  29. The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021)

    15 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  30. America's consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

    15 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  31. World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  32. If Everyone Has Trauma, Everyone Has Trauma

    15 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  33. Oops, I accidentally vibe-coded a ChatGPT client for my Apple Watch

    15 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  34. NASA celebrated employee's story of resilience, tried to scrub it, and fired her

    15 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  35. HHS Finds Columbia University in Violation of Federal Civil Rights Law

    15 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  36. How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  37. How Qatar Bought America

    15 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  38. Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

    15 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  39. Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, with Little Regulation and Big Promises

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  40. Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech at University of Maryland

    15 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  41. Google's Veo3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content

    15 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  42. I Miss Visual Basic

    15 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  43. Gradient-Based Program Repair: Fixing Bugs in Continuous Program Spaces

    15 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  44. What is Humphrey's Executor? A look at the 90-year-old Supreme Court decision

    15 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  45. $20B manufacturer has no bosses, just an internal currency called Will

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  46. Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022)

    15 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  47. Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  48. Show HN: Live Air Quality Monitor

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  49. Show HN: Kokoro TTS – Free Text to Speech Converter with Multilingual AI Voices

    15 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  50. NYC MTA scavenges for parts on eBay to maintain subway system

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  51. What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech

    15 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  52. The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  53. Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound

    15 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  54. The Boring Company Achieves "Holy Grail" Zero-People-in-Tunnel Continuous Mining

    15 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  55. Rerum Novarum ("The thirst for innovation") (1891)

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  56. The way of code: Rick Rubin

    15 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  57. Dodge Confirms Electric Charger Daytona R/T Is Dead as Unsold Cars Pile Up

    15 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  58. A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  59. White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI

    15 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  60. Warming of 1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  61. Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

    15 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  62. AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  63. Tech Conferences are ramping up security to quell employee protests

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  64. The first year of free-threaded Python

    15 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  65. A Cool HTTP Feature for Simple Real-Time Updates

    15 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  66. Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  67. Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold

    15 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  68. A romance scam compound–and how people get tricked into being there

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  69. Sequencing for Value

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  70. MCP Is Not Good, Yet

    15 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  71. DNSanity: Quickly validate DNS servers at scale

    15 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  72. The Whole Unicode Table

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  73. Robert Musil Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    15 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  74. The AI jobs crisis is here, now

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  75. Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic?

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  76. Non-Pointless Software Projects for New Devs in the LLM Age

    15 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  77. If Free Buses Aren't Wise, What About Cheaper Citi Bikes?

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  78. 8% of the reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  79. Petrichor

    15 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  80. Type 2 diabetes alters brain circuits involved in reward processing

    15 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  81. Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

    15 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  82. Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'?

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  83. Why Did Grok Start Talking About 'White Genocide'?

    15 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  84. Skin wounds in humans heal nearly three times slower than in other primates

    15 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  85. GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime

    15 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  86. FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar

    15 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  87. The Guide to Cloudflare's Durable Objects

    15 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  88. Determining favorite t-shirt color using science

    15 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  89. Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

    15 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  90. Not causal chains, but interactions and adaptations

    15 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  91. Telegram's Extraordinary Business Model

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  92. Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without pilots

    14 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  93. Show HN: Translate between dialects and share SQL queries on the browser

    14 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  94. Grok: "xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right but my focus [is] on truth"

    14 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  95. Cloudflare CEO: AI is killing the business model of the web

    14 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  96. Humanoid Robots in Kickboxing Competition

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  97. Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  98. Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?

    14 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  99. News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft'

    14 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  100. I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop

    14 points • comment • may 31, 2025