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  1. Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

    250 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  2. Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)

    250 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  3. Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo

    250 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  4. Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

    250 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  5. Bloat is still software's biggest vulnerability (2024)

    250 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  6. Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

    250 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  7. Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

    250 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  8. Amateur Telescope Making Main Page

    250 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  9. Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

    250 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  10. Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency

    250 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  11. Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy

    250 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  12. LumoSQL

    250 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  13. Obvious things C should do

    249 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  14. Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?

    249 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  15. Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace

    249 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  16. Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

    249 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  17. PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024

    249 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  18. Two narratives about AI

    249 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  19. Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

    249 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  20. Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed

    249 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  21. Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS?

    249 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  22. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst

    249 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  23. Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

    249 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  24. Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready

    249 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  25. Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

    249 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  26. Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

    249 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  27. Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds

    248 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  28. The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

    248 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  29. High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers

    248 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  30. World Emulation via Neural Network

    248 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  31. Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

    248 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  32. You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

    248 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  33. Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord

    248 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  34. The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

    248 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  35. New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation

    248 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  36. Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament

    248 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  37. Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

    248 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  38. Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026

    248 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  39. Windows NT for GameCube/Wii

    248 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  40. How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?

    247 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  41. Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

    247 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  42. New book-sorting algorithm almost reaches perfection

    247 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  43. Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets

    247 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  44. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

    247 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  45. Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

    247 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  46. Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

    247 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  47. Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises

    247 points • comment • mar 15, 2025

  48. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

    247 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  49. In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more

    247 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  50. A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states

    247 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  51. Some programming language ideas

    247 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  52. In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs

    247 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  53. In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

    247 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  54. For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

    246 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  55. macOS Icon History

    246 points • comment • jul 05, 2025

  56. Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions

    246 points • comment • jul 06, 2025

  57. Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

    246 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  58. OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

    246 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  59. MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

    246 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  60. Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service

    246 points • comment • may 11, 2025

  61. Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

    246 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  62. War rooms vs. deep investigations

    246 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  63. How rqlite is tested

    246 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  64. World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

    246 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  65. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    246 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  66. Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost

    246 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  67. DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python

    246 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  68. Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++

    245 points • comment • apr 05, 2025

  69. What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?

    245 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  70. Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code

    245 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  71. One year after switching from Java to Go

    245 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  72. NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

    245 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  73. WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

    245 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  74. A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime

    245 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  75. AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

    245 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  76. Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms

    245 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  77. Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

    245 points • comment • mar 16, 2025

  78. Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

    245 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  79. Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms

    245 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  80. Konva.js - Declarative 2D Canvas for React, Vue, and Svelte

    245 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  81. Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch

    245 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  82. Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)

    245 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  83. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    245 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  84. Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

    245 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  85. France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking

    244 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  86. Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance

    244 points • comment • jul 14, 2025

  87. MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

    244 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  88. How friction is being redistributed in today's economy

    244 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  89. Maxima in the browser using Embedded Common Lisp on WASM

    244 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  90. A brief history of code signing at Mozilla

    244 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  91. Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection

    244 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  92. Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming

    244 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  93. EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud

    244 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  94. AOSP project is coming to an end

    244 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  95. Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine

    244 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  96. Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance

    244 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  97. LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?

    244 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  98. Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

    244 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  99. Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead

    244 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  100. Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

    244 points • comment • jan 18, 2025