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  1. FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage worsens

    74 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  2. Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it

    74 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  3. Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means

    73 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  4. Show HN: Hyperparam: OSS tools for exploring datasets locally in the browser

    73 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  5. Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser

    73 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  6. Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux

    72 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  7. Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit

    72 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  8. The Speed of VITs and CNNs

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  9. Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  10. Kate and Python Language Server

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  11. Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?

    70 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  12. Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications

    70 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  13. Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)

    70 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  14. Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text)

    70 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  15. A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones

    70 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  16. Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge

    69 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  17. Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  18. A new sign that AI is competing with college grads?

    68 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  19. Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball

    68 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  20. Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

    67 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  21. Pixels in Islamic art: square Kufic calligraphy

    67 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  22. EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027

    66 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  23. How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)

    65 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  24. When Americana doesn't mean American

    65 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  25. An Appeal to Apple from Anukari: one tiny macOS detail to make Anukari fast

    65 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  26. Programmers Guide to the AMIBIOS (1993) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  27. V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory

    64 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  28. Censorship concerns rise over Texas book bill; Abilene bookstore pushes back

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  29. DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs

    64 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  30. You sent the message, but did you write it?

    63 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  31. Lilith and Modula-2

    63 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  32. 'Bizarro World' (2007)

    63 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  33. Burning Mao

    62 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  34. Open-source AI platform for ear-based sensing applications

    60 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  35. If you're in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  36. Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020

    59 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  37. How the Water System Works

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  38. London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  39. Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA

    59 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  40. Fast(er) regular expression engines in Ruby

    58 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  41. Circuitpainter: Create PCBs using a simplfiied graphics language

    57 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  42. How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

    56 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  43. MathML with Pandoc

    56 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  44. A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

    55 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  45. The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)

    55 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  46. Understanding-j: An introduction to the J programming language that gets to the

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  47. An appeal to companies doing AI

    54 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  48. OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Windsurf for $3B

    53 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  49. Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics (2024)

    53 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  50. Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan

    51 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  51. The Art of Managing Skunks

    50 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  52. Spain-Portugal blackouts: what happened

    50 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  53. Show HN: Pipask – safer pip without compromising convenience

    48 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  54. Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs

    48 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  55. Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise

    48 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  56. Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches

    48 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  57. A memory of the nineteen nineties (1997)

    47 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  58. Clair Obscur Metacritic user score

    47 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  59. Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)

    46 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  60. Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sleep bruxism

    46 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  61. 'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon

    45 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  62. Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research

    45 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  63. Mathematician solves algebra's oldest problem using intriguing number sequences

    45 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  64. The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain

    44 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  65. The Craft 001: A conversation about craft, code, and freedom with Neal Agarwal

    44 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  66. Anyon_e: A highly integrated, high end, open source laptop

    44 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  67. Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?

    44 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  68. All roses were once yellow

    44 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  69. Maybe Zelenskiy Should Be Writing the Art of the Deal

    44 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  70. Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon

    43 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  71. Normalizing Ratings

    43 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  72. Blood droplets on inclined surfaces reveal new cracking patterns

    40 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  73. Vibe Coding Is Overrated

    40 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  74. Show HN: EZ-TRAK Satellite Hand Tracking Suite

    40 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  75. RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

    40 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  76. TLA+ creator Leslie Lamport: 'Programmers need abstractions'

    40 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  77. How your mouth could be killing your heart

    39 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  78. Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

    39 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  79. Feather: Feather: A web framework that skips Rust's async boilerplate and jus

    38 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  80. Lessons from Harlem

    38 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  81. Show HN: Robot Unlock – an open-ended programming game/zachlike

    38 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  82. Greek Woman Divorces Husband After ChatGPT 'Predicted' He Would Cheat on Her

    38 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  83. Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale

    37 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  84. Autonomous trucks in Texas, no safety driver

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  85. "Silent Spring" remains a rousing call to action (2022)

    37 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  86. Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

    37 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  87. Taxes and fees not included: T-Mobile's latest price lock is nearly meaningless

    36 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  88. Stockhausen: Sounds in Space

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  89. The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)

    36 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  90. Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026

    36 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  91. Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  92. Fuzzy images are our first look at Amazon's super-secret satellites

    36 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  93. 'ProtectEU' security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  94. Switzerland suspends Deutsche Bahn trains due to chronic delays

    36 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  95. Elm Test Distributions

    35 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  96. Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material

    35 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  97. The Design of Compact Elastic Binary Trees (Cebtree)

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  98. A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  99. Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 source code isn't lost

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  100. 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2025