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  1. Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

    409 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  2. Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1

    408 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  3. Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)

    408 points • comment • mar 21, 2025

  4. Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

    408 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  5. Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

    408 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  6. Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet

    408 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  7. US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

    408 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  8. Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer

    407 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  9. Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

    407 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  10. Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

    407 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  11. Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

    407 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  12. Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

    407 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  13. The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)

    407 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  14. Apple squandered the Holy Grail

    407 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  15. Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float

    406 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  16. PostgreSQL Full-Text Search: Fast When Done Right (Debunking the Slow Myth)

    406 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  17. Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

    405 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  18. 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds

    405 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  19. KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader

    405 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  20. Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

    404 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  21. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

    404 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  22. Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

    404 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  23. Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

    404 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  24. You might not need WebSockets

    404 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  25. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]

    403 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  26. Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

    403 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  27. US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

    403 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  28. Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster

    403 points • comment • jun 01, 2025

  29. Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()

    403 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  30. It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)

    402 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  31. Reasoning models don't always say what they think

    402 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  32. What if Eye...?

    402 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  33. The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

    402 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  34. Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs

    402 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  35. Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

    402 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  36. Life lessons from the first half-century of my career

    401 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  37. Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

    401 points • comment • mar 16, 2025

  38. Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

    401 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  39. An appeal to Apple from Anukari

    400 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  40. The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

    400 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  41. Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1

    400 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  42. Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union

    400 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  43. Home Loss File System

    400 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  44. PEP 750 – Template Strings

    400 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  45. But good sir, what is electricity?

    399 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  46. Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

    399 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  47. Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)

    399 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  48. I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

    399 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  49. Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

    399 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  50. How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

    399 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  51. What really happens inside a dating app

    399 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  52. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

    399 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  53. Solarpunk

    398 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  54. Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

    398 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  55. The Illustrated Guide to a PhD

    397 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  56. MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models

    397 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  57. U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules

    397 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  58. Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers

    397 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  59. What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)

    397 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  60. Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says

    396 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  61. I stopped everything and started writing C again

    396 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  62. Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

    396 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  63. “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System

    395 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  64. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)

    394 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  65. A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air

    394 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  66. Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

    394 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  67. International Workers' Day

    394 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  68. Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

    394 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  69. Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague

    393 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  70. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

    393 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  71. Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist

    393 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  72. Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning

    392 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  73. Write to Escape Your Default Setting

    392 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  74. A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon

    392 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  75. SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

    391 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  76. Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  77. Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  78. YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info

    391 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  79. Iconography of the PuTTY tools

    391 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  80. The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray

    390 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  81. Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers

    390 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  82. Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)

    390 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  83. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  84. Long live American Science and Surplus

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  85. Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

    389 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

  86. How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

    389 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  87. Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter

    389 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  88. 'Hey Number 17 '

    389 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  89. I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

    389 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  90. Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9

    388 points • comment • mar 26, 2025

  91. Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

    388 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  92. How University Students Use Claude

    388 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  93. DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling

    388 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  94. A server that wasn't meant to exist

    387 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  95. Overengineered Anchor Links

    387 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  96. Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests

    386 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  97. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  98. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

    386 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  99. The One-Person Framework in Practice

    386 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  100. DeepSeek-Prover-V2

    386 points • comment • apr 30, 2025