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What 5 Megabytes of Data Looked Like in 1966 (62,500 punched cards)
15 points • comment • feb 19, 2025
Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Building an offline-first, cross-platform IMAP client
15 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Trump administration directs widespread pause of federal loans and grants
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
VT220 Font Emulation in Browser
15 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC–but it sure is fast
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Harvard Hit with $2.2B Freeze After Defying Trump
15 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
U.K. asks to backdoor iCloud Backup encryption
15 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
15 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
EU Officially Begins Work on $11B Starlink Rival IRIS2, Eta 2030
15 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Post Apocalyptic Computing
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting
15 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Getting a Signal on the Moon: 4G network for lunar missions
15 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
Ask HN: Did AI make you a worse programmer?
15 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
'Fighting crime blindfolded': Europe is coming after encryption
15 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation
15 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Groups move for disclosure of Chemours' sealed PFAS documents
15 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now
15 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
"Periodic table of machine learning" could fuel AI discovery
15 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Global chocolate supply is limited by low pollination and high temperatures
15 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
.gov Sites Are Offline
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Cholesterol-elevating substances found in coffee from machines at work
15 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Google Imports Ex Israeli Spies
15 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
The smallest VLM ever: 250M parameters
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Things people get wrong about Electron
15 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Elon Musk's xAI buys Elon Musk's X for $33B on paper
15 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Ask HN: Who else is doing a local meetup? (We are, in Helsinki)
15 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Public Housing in Hong Kong
15 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
LLM Hallucination Benchmark: R1, o1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash Think Exp 01-21
15 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
15 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide
15 points • comment • may 02, 2025
I used simple rules to make DFAs that kinda match accepted physics models
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
How Clay's UI Layout Algorithm Works [video]
15 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Homeless in Colorado may sleep in their cars if they have a job
15 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Tesla is in worse shape than you think
15 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
We Issued Our First Six Day Cert
15 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
15 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet
15 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Human-Computer Input via a Wrist-Based SEMG Wearable
15 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
A romance scam compound–and how people get tricked into being there
15 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this?
15 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Ask HN: Is Clean Code a waste of time?
15 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
The Guide to Cloudflare's Durable Objects
15 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Show HN: Live Air Quality Monitor
15 points • comment • may 03, 2025
Apple to pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of snoopy eavesdropping
15 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
FreeBSD Jails Security
15 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
A quarkless supercollider may finally shed light on dark matter
15 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Threads Drives 73.6% More Engagement Than X
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Warming of 1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets
15 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime ZSTD Compression and Other Performance Optimizations
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Tesla Will Die
15 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Anthropic Economic Index: AI's Impact on Software Development
15 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Show HN: I made a price aggregator to find the best PC parts deals across eBay
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Ask HN: What do you use for analytics for a statically generated website?
15 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development
15 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
15 points • comment • may 10, 2025
Rerum Novarum ("The thirst for innovation") (1891)
15 points • comment • may 11, 2025
AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Ownership of High-Risk ("Vicious") Dogs as a Marker for Deviant Behaviors
15 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Apple Is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Designing the Sublime Boullée and Ledoux's Architectural Revolution
15 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
Why American Men Think It's Not Worth Going to College Anymore
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
FramePack – Enabling Fast Video Generation on Consumer GPUs
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did
15 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022)
15 points • comment • may 08, 2025
Show HN: E-Paper Life Organizer with Pico and Inky Frame
15 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads
15 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
The biggest AI flops of 2024
15 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
How to Read a Paper (2016)
15 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
What's New in Python 3.14.0a4
15 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
CLP Calculus Textbooks
15 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been wrong concerning open source
15 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
15 points • comment • may 13, 2025
The Curious Similarity Between LLMs and Quantum Mechanics
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
8% of the reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake
15 points • comment • may 25, 2025
Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before
15 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
How Qatar Bought America
15 points • comment • may 15, 2025
The NASA RIF has begun
15 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Non-Pointless Software Projects for New Devs in the LLM Age
15 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Light Phone III camera sample photos
15 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns
15 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Writing a Linux Debugger (2017)
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective
15 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Trump, Doge Are Trying to Get Around Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
15 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy
15 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Analysis of amplified ground motion in Bangkok from recent earthquakes (2023)
15 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Running Local LLMs? [Tenstorrent] 32GB Card Might Be Better Than Your RTX 5090
15 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
UK Home Office loses attempt to keep legal battle with Apple secret
15 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Show HN: I made a tool that generates your Chinese name based on your name
15 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
GrapheneOS: Private and secure mobile OS with Android app compatibility
15 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Launching the First Optical Grating Clock Successfully Miniaturized
15 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
WikiFlix – video streaming that uses Wikidata to find freely available movies
15 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights
15 points • comment • may 05, 2025
As Russian losses in Ukraine mount, Putin faces devastating demographic timebomb
15 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Ambermoon Advanced
15 points • comment • mar 31, 2025