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  1. A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

    133 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  2. Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors

    133 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  3. Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days

    133 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  4. RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

    132 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  5. A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization

    132 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  6. Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

    132 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  7. WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol

    132 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  8. The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch

    132 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  9. Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  10. Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  11. The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  12. Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

    131 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  13. Airport for DuckDB

    131 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  14. Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

    131 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  15. AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  16. Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)

    131 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  17. Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required

    131 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  18. The Machine Stops (1909)

    131 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  19. Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax

    130 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  20. My five-year experiment with UTC

    130 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  21. GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases

    130 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  22. Calendars, Contacts and Files in Stalwart

    130 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  23. The Newark airport crisis

    130 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  24. U.S. Spy Agencies–One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Personal Data

    130 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  25. Withnail and I (2001)

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  26. Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors

    129 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  27. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study

    129 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  28. Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure

    129 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  29. Absolute Zero Reasoner

    129 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  30. Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'

    129 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  31. The Fall of Roam (2022)

    129 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  32. 32 bits that changed microprocessor design

    129 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  33. Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks

    128 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  34. Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

    128 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  35. TScale – Distributed training on consumer GPUs

    128 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  36. A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

    128 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  37. There Is No Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman

    128 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  38. Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts

    128 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  39. Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL

    128 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  40. Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

    127 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  41. Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD

    127 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  42. Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'

    127 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  43. The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

    127 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  44. Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire

    127 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  45. Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

    127 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  46. How LWN is faring in 2025

    126 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  47. Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

    126 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  48. Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code

    126 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  49. Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia

    126 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  50. Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice

    126 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  51. Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest

    126 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  52. Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field

    125 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  53. Making PyPI's test suite faster

    125 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  54. Phi-4 Reasoning Models

    125 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  55. Writing into Uninitialized Buffers in Rust

    125 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  56. Vatican Observatory

    125 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  57. Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

    125 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  58. Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

    124 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  59. Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023)

    124 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  60. Edamagit: Magit for VSCode

    124 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  61. The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?

    124 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  62. Stability by Design

    124 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  63. Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply

    124 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  64. Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)

    124 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  65. No Instagram, no privacy

    124 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  66. Show HN: Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt

    124 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  67. CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts

    124 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  68. Simpler Backoff

    124 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  69. Google Logo Ligature Bug

    123 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  70. ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan

    123 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  71. The metre originated in the French Revolution

    123 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  72. The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets

    123 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  73. Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux

    122 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  74. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

    122 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  75. Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI

    122 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  76. Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – An Army's Role

    122 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  77. React Three Ecosystem

    122 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  78. The WinRAR approach

    122 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  79. High-quality OLED displays now enabling integrated thin and multichannel audio

    122 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  80. When a team is too big

    121 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  81. ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction

    121 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  82. White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations

    121 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  83. Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day

    121 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  84. Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line?

    121 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  85. Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups

    121 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  86. Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals

    121 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  87. “The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind

    121 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  88. Implementing a Struct of Arrays

    121 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  89. The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini

    121 points • comment • may 29, 2025

  90. Attention Wasn't All We Needed

    120 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  91. RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

    120 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  92. I hacked my clock to control my focus

    120 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  93. An online exhibition of pretty software bugs

    120 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  94. My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  95. Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes

    120 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  96. TransMLA: Multi-head latent attention is all you need

    120 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  97. How the US built 5k ships in WWII

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  98. Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  99. Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties

    119 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  100. Towards the Cutest Neural Network

    119 points • comment • may 01, 2025