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  1. First edition copy of the Hobbit found in England

    17 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  2. Immigration officers smash car windows to speed up arrests

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  3. Show HN: Hanaco Weather – A poetic weather SNS from the OS Yamato project

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  4. Disk sampling on a sphere

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  5. Why Developers Are Struggling on Apple's Increasingly Hostile Platforms

    17 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  6. Lenin Was a Mushroom

    17 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  7. When Disney Went Digital

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  8. Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  9. Optimizing My Disk Usage Program

    17 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  10. Bad Craziness

    17 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  11. The Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End Lasik

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  12. Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch

    17 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  13. AI agents fail tasks 70% of the time

    17 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  14. Creating high quality electronics schematics

    17 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  15. Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome

    17 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  16. Novo Nordisk offers Ozempic at $499/month to eligible US cash-paying customers

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  17. Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

    17 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  18. Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

    17 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  19. Canada's first commercial spaceport is under construction

    17 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  20. Performance Speed Limits (2019)

    17 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  21. Fed Gamble Risks Pushing Key Bond Rates Even Higher

    17 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  22. Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?

    17 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  23. Programming for Cats

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  24. Prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  25. Show HN: I've made an easy to extend and flexible JavaScript logger

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  26. AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  27. Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  28. Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  29. System Initiative Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  30. Is Universal Basic Income Effective? Not Really

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  31. Americans Are Having Less Sex

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  32. Decide Now; We Won't Know More Later Re UFOs

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  33. How to Lie with Statistics

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  34. Community Update #35 Baldur's Gate 3 Turns Two

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  35. Document.write

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  36. Termagotchi – A terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  37. A volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  38. SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  39. Dexter Cows and Kefir Cheese (2008)

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  40. Intel exec quits to run Analog Devices' Oregon factory

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  41. Eaton fire could have been prevented, utils fought removal of old power lines

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  42. Amazon's 'just walk out' checkout tech was powered by 1k Indian workers

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  43. Elon Musk's Self-Driving Tesla Lies Are Finally Catching Up to Him

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  44. America by Design

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  45. FTC sues LA Fitness for making it exceedingly hard to cancel gym memberships

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  46. Microsoft launch inquiry on Israel use of tech for surveillance of Palestinians

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  47. Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  48. Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  49. Show HN: HMPL – Small Template Language for Rendering UI from Server to Client

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  50. UK Court Ruling Leaves Wikipedia Years of Uncertainty Under Online Safety Act

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  51. America Should Assume the Worst About AI

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  52. Through the Liquid Glass

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  53. Hubble catches sharpest image yet of 3I/ATLAS

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  54. Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  55. Do blogs need to be so lonely?

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  56. Thousands of Company directors leave UK after Labour's tax changes

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  57. I trapped an LLM into a Raspberry Pi and it spiraled into an existential crisis

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  58. Instagram public accounts with less than 1k followers can no longer go live

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  59. My AI had fixed the code before I saw it

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  60. Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn't released one

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  61. Will data centers crash the economy?

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  62. New evidence strongly suggest AI is killing jobs for young programmers

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  63. Microsoft calls protest a 'destructive' act by outsiders

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  64. Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  65. The Scroll Art (Animated ASCII) Museum

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  66. Just 1% of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors died from radiation cancers, study

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  67. Embedding Text Documents with Qwen3

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  68. Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet; billionaires can sell you AI nudes

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  69. Sharing Is Scaring: Linking Cloud File-Sharing to Programming Language Semantics

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  70. ShWiM: Peer-to-peer terminal sharing

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  71. Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  72. Why AI Isn't Ready to Be a Real Coder

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  73. Is Today's Self-Help Teaching Everyone to Be a Jerk?

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  74. Tinyrenderer second edition: software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  75. Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza and JavaScript

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  76. '1984' Hasn't Changed, but America Has

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  77. Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  78. Linux 6.16.1 Fixes a Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression – Up to 30%

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  79. Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  80. Why is it so hard for startups to compete with Cadence?

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  81. AI Is Slowing Down Tracker

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  82. Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for debating)

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  83. Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  84. Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  85. Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  86. Anne Applebaum: 'the West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  87. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2018) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  88. Schools are next for Flock Safety's automatic license place reader cameras

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  89. Gleam v1.12.0 Released

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2025

  90. Partner with Product to pay down technical debt

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  91. DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  92. Go 1.25 Is Released

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  93. Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2025

  94. Tax the Rich. They Won't Leave New York

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  95. New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  96. Living with 12 Strangers to Ease a Housing Crunch

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  97. A defense of learning Latin and Greek

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  98. Termix – Self hosted web-based SSH terminal, reverse tunnels, and file editing

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  99. Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  100. Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they're victims, says Nick Clegg

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2025