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

    401 points • comment • mar 16, 2025

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

    401 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  3. Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1

    400 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

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

    400 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  5. PEP 750 – Template Strings

    400 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  6. Home Loss File System

    400 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

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

    400 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  8. An appeal to Apple from Anukari

    400 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  9. (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

    400 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  10. What really happens inside a dating app

    399 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  11. Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

    399 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  12. IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes

    399 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  13. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

    399 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  14. LLM architecture comparison

    399 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  15. How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

    399 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  16. The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

    399 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

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

    399 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

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

    399 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

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

    399 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  20. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century

    399 points • comment • jul 16, 2025

  21. But good sir, what is electricity?

    399 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  22. uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS

    399 points • comment • jun 21, 2025

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

    398 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  24. Preliminary report into Air India crash released

    398 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  25. Solarpunk

    398 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

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

    397 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

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

    397 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

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

    397 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  29. Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination

    397 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

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

    397 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  31. The Illustrated Guide to a PhD

    397 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

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

    396 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  33. Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

    396 points • comment • jun 21, 2025

  34. I stopped everything and started writing C again

    396 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  35. The Promised LAN

    396 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

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

    396 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  37. Google restricts Android sideloading

    396 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  38. TODOs aren't for doing

    396 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

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

    395 points • comment • apr 17, 2025

  40. I drank every cocktail

    394 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

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

    394 points • comment • may 22, 2025

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

    394 points • comment • may 26, 2025

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

    394 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  44. International Workers' Day

    394 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  45. Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

    394 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

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

    393 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

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

    393 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  48. Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

    393 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  49. New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

    392 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  50. Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

    392 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  51. Write to Escape Your Default Setting

    392 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

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

    392 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  53. Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable

    392 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  54. AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more

    392 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  55. Introducing Gemma 3n

    392 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  56. A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon

    392 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

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

    391 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  58. Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

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

    391 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  60. Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals

    391 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

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

    391 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  62. Iconography of the PuTTY tools

    391 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  63. Books I Loved Reading in 2024

    390 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  64. FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

    390 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

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

    390 points • comment • may 30, 2025

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

    390 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

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

    390 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  68. 'Hey Number 17 '

    389 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

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

    389 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

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

    389 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

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

    389 points • comment • jan 20, 2025

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

    389 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  73. Long live American Science and Surplus

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2025

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

    388 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  75. Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

    388 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

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

    388 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  77. How University Students Use Claude

    388 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

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

    388 points • comment • mar 26, 2025

  79. A server that wasn't meant to exist

    387 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  80. Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

    387 points • comment • jun 30, 2025

  81. Overengineered Anchor Links

    387 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  82. Brian Wilson has died

    387 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

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

    386 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  84. Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

    386 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  85. DeepSeek-Prover-V2

    386 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  86. The One-Person Framework in Practice

    386 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  87. Open Deep Research

    386 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  88. Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application

    386 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

  89. Glubux's Powerwall (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  90. Apple vs the Law

    386 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  91. YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients

    386 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  92. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

    386 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  93. Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience

    386 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  94. Alternative Layout System

    385 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  95. A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People

    385 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  96. “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

    385 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  97. Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg

    385 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  98. When flat rate movers won't answer your calls

    385 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  99. Layoffs Don't Work

    385 points • comment • mar 09, 2025

  100. Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers

    384 points • comment • may 27, 2025