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Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
184 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
184 points • comment • jan 25, 2025
Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog
184 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Posthog/.cursorrules
184 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone
184 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
184 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
183 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
In Colorado, a marriage of solar energy and farming
183 points • comment • jan 04, 2025
Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science
183 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Solving SICP
183 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
183 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Augurs demo
183 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up
183 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets
183 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations
183 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included
183 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
183 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations
182 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Bitwarden Authenticator
182 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Certificate Transparency in Firefox
182 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
182 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
182 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
182 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water
181 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
181 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
181 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
181 points • comment • jan 24, 2025
Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air
181 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
An investigation into egg prices
181 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust
181 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)
181 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
181 points • comment • mar 24, 2025
Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation
181 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest
181 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports
181 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Magnesium Self-Experiments
181 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
181 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
181 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
181 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV
181 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
181 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
181 points • comment • feb 08, 2025
E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays
180 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Hacking yourself a satellite – recovering BEESAT-1 [video]
180 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
180 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?
180 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
180 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States
180 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
180 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf]
180 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
180 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family
180 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI
180 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox
180 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi
180 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit
180 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
180 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
180 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters
180 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
179 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)
179 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
179 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)
179 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)
179 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Xcode constantly phones home
179 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
On Bloat
179 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
178 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo
178 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
178 points • comment • apr 04, 2025
The Importance of Fact-Checking
178 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Building AI agents to query your databases
178 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)
178 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication
178 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics
178 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
178 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C
178 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code
178 points • comment • mar 01, 2025
Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)
178 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
How X-Plane Works
178 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing
178 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo
178 points • comment • apr 03, 2025
The Internals of PostgreSQL
177 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
177 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location
177 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal
177 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Take this on-call rotation and shove it
177 points • comment • mar 27, 2025
Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
177 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
177 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
My Time at MIT
177 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Gleam v1.7
177 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators
176 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
176 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
176 points • comment • jan 22, 2025
Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension
176 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Mini-R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 "Aha Moment"
176 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm
176 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Finland's National Allergy Program Successfully Reduces Allergic Diseases
176 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
ForeverVM: Run AI-generated code in stateful sandboxes that run forever
176 points • comment • feb 26, 2025