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  1. Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

    174 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  2. Axum 0.8

    174 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  3. Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi

    174 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  4. Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me

    172 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  5. Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)

    170 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  6. University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics

    163 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  7. Software is eating the world, all right (2024)

    162 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  8. Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space

    161 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  9. Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models

    161 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  10. The evolution of a structural code editor

    160 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  11. Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

    160 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  12. Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

    158 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  13. Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

    157 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  14. Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine

    156 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  15. UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting

    154 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  16. Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers

    152 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  17. Lord of the Io_uring (2020)

    149 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  18. Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events

    148 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  19. Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects

    146 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  20. Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

    145 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  21. The DIY Multideck

    145 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  22. A Return to Polymathy (2015) [pdf]

    142 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  23. Court strikes down US net neutrality rules

    140 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  24. OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera

    136 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  25. Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena

    134 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  26. Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature

    133 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  27. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

    132 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  28. PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies

    128 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  29. Indexing Code at Scale with Glean

    126 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  30. It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)

    125 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  31. Reflections

    124 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  32. How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

    123 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  33. A path to O1 open source

    123 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  34. Show HN: connet – A P2P reverse proxy with NAT traversal

    122 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  35. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  36. Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication

    121 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  37. Bogus Software

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  38. Counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84

    120 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  39. Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'

    119 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  40. C: Simple Defer, Ready to Use

    116 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  41. Nanoimprint Lithography Aims to Take on EUV

    116 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  42. Do Files want to be Actors?

    115 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  43. System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC

    115 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  44. Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs

    113 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  45. Wildcard: Customize HN using a spreadsheet view (2020)

    113 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  46. Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project

    112 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  47. Spline Distance Fields

    112 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  48. How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year

    112 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  49. Conscious unbossing

    112 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  50. Printf debugging is ok

    109 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  51. Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)

    106 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  52. Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)

    105 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  53. The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless

    105 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  54. Ray Tracing in One Weekend

    105 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  55. My Favorite Book on AI

    104 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  56. An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail

    104 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  57. Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

    103 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  58. No-hole surgery: no keyhole, yet surgeons can now still operate under your skin (2023)

    102 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  59. Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier

    100 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  60. Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?

    100 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  61. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook

    100 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  62. The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems)

    99 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  63. The State of Generative Models

    98 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  64. Duolicious – Open-source dating app

    97 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  65. Notes on the New Deepseek v3

    97 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  66. Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres

    96 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  67. Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?

    96 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  68. Learn New Skills

    93 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  69. OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

    91 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  70. You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React

    90 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  71. PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine

    90 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  72. The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines (2023)

    89 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  73. Passengers Say Turkish Airlines Flights Have Unwelcome Guests: Bedbugs

    88 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  74. Game dev in Rust: a year later

    88 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  75. How saffron became an American cash crop

    87 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  76. TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  77. Triptych Proposals

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  78. Blur Busters Open Source Display Initiative – Refresh Cycle Shaders

    86 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  79. Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?

    86 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  80. Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method – LANL (2023)

    85 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  81. Reliable system call interception

    84 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  82. Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos

    83 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  83. UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

    83 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  84. How to triangulate a polyline with thickness

    83 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  85. H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    82 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  86. A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian

    82 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  87. Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks

    81 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  88. The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer

    80 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  89. AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths

    80 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  90. Show HN: I aggregated over 200 Go-To-Market strategies

    79 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  91. The Peter Principle still resonates

    78 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  92. Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk

    78 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  93. Einsum in Depth

    76 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  94. Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan

    76 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  95. Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day

    75 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  96. Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer

    75 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  97. Refurb Weekend: Atari Stacy

    75 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  98. Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3

    75 points • comment • jan 04, 2025

  99. The Recursive Book of Recursion

    75 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  100. Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools

    74 points • comment • jan 05, 2025