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  1. How to slow down a program and why it can be useful

    153 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  2. The History of Windows XP

    153 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  3. Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

    153 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  4. CRDT: Text Buffer

    153 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  5. Zig Error Patterns

    153 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  6. Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

    153 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  7. MapLibre Tile: A next generation geospatial format optimized for rendering

    153 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  8. What does it mean to be thirsty?

    153 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  9. Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025

    152 points • comment • aug 30, 2025

  10. All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers

    152 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  11. AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

    152 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  12. Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

    152 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  13. F-Droid site certificate expired

    152 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  14. Build durable workflows with Postgres

    152 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  15. How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

    151 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  16. I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)

    151 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  17. Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost

    151 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  18. Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

    151 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  19. UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans

    151 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  20. Good EU regulations

    150 points • comment • aug 23, 2025

  21. Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects

    150 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  22. Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

    150 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  23. A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union

    150 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  24. Millau Viaduct

    149 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  25. Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)

    149 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  26. Long Term Support

    149 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  27. Cross-Site Request Forgery

    149 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  28. AOL closes its dial up internet service

    149 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  29. Debounce

    149 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  30. Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

    149 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  31. Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

    149 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  32. A privacy VPN you can verify

    148 points • comment • aug 15, 2025

  33. Mosh Mobile Shell

    148 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  34. Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

    148 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  35. Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need

    148 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  36. Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back

    148 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  37. Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

    147 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  38. A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability

    146 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  39. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager

    146 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  40. SQL Design Patterns (2010)

    146 points • comment • aug 27, 2025

  41. Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

    146 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  42. Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

    146 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  43. You know more Finnish than you think

    146 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  44. Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

    145 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  45. Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library

    145 points • comment • aug 25, 2025

  46. Open Banking and Payments Competition

    145 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  47. Elegant mathematics bending the future of design

    145 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  48. Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable

    144 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  49. Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet

    144 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  50. SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

    144 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  51. Strange CW Keys

    144 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  52. A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)

    144 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  53. Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections

    144 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  54. Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest

    144 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  55. Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH

    144 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  56. AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators

    143 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  57. Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

    143 points • comment • aug 07, 2025

  58. My Retro TVs

    143 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  59. Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

    143 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  60. Going faster than memcpy

    143 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  61. OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple

    143 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  62. Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

    143 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  63. Comptime.ts: compile-time expressions for TypeScript

    143 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  64. The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

    143 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  65. Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

    142 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  66. My Ideal Array Language

    142 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  67. Rolling the dice with CSS random()

    142 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  68. AnduinOS

    142 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  69. How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

    142 points • comment • aug 08, 2025

  70. A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Environment on a Pa-RISC Laptop

    142 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  71. Optimizing our way through Metroid

    142 points • comment • aug 22, 2025

  72. Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes

    142 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  73. Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry

    142 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  74. Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]

    142 points • comment • aug 04, 2025

  75. iPhone DevOps (2023)

    141 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  76. What could have been

    141 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  77. Melonking Website

    141 points • comment • aug 10, 2025

  78. Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

    141 points • comment • aug 18, 2025

  79. New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

    141 points • comment • aug 01, 2025

  80. Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat

    141 points • comment • aug 02, 2025

  81. The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find

    141 points • comment • aug 14, 2025

  82. The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

    141 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  83. Show HN: I integrated my from-scratch TCP/IP stack into the xv6-riscv OS

    141 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  84. Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context

    140 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  85. Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

    140 points • comment • aug 20, 2025

  86. Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines

    140 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  87. WebR – R in the Browser

    140 points • comment • aug 19, 2025

  88. Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning

    140 points • comment • aug 16, 2025

  89. SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript

    140 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  90. Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

    139 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  91. We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

    139 points • comment • aug 06, 2025

  92. Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

    139 points • comment • aug 11, 2025

  93. Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

    139 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  94. Run a legal LTE network at home for $100

    138 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  95. Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo

    138 points • comment • aug 03, 2025

  96. The Math Behind GANs (2020)

    138 points • comment • aug 28, 2025

  97. Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)

    138 points • comment • aug 26, 2025

  98. LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises

    138 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  99. Recto – A Truly 2D Language

    137 points • comment • aug 12, 2025

  100. Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore

    137 points • comment • aug 12, 2025