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Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
241 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Why use mailing lists?
241 points • comment • sep 26, 2025
Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly
241 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio
241 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Et Tu, Grammarly?
241 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta
241 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
241 points • comment • jun 03, 2025
ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data
241 points • comment • jul 18, 2025
Speeding up my ZSH shell
241 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
241 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More
241 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation
241 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
241 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Dave Täht has died
240 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
240 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design
240 points • comment • apr 15, 2025
Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
240 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
240 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
240 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem
240 points • comment • sep 18, 2025
The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port
240 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
240 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected
240 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
240 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
The Storm Hits the Art Market
240 points • comment • sep 08, 2025
Discovery Coding
240 points • comment • jan 29, 2025
Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day
240 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
240 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted
240 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
240 points • comment • jul 16, 2025
Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
240 points • comment • may 16, 2025
We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication
240 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
239 points • comment • sep 09, 2025
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
239 points • comment • may 12, 2025
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
239 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
How Unix spell ran in 64kb RAM
239 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
Goodbye K-9 Mail
239 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Animated Cursors
239 points • comment • jul 25, 2025
Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room
239 points • comment • sep 10, 2025
You can choose tools that make you happy
239 points • comment • may 22, 2025
Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
239 points • comment • apr 22, 2025
Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
239 points • comment • may 06, 2025
EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
239 points • comment • may 07, 2025
SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery
239 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo
239 points • comment • jul 06, 2025
Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning
239 points • comment • jan 26, 2025
Show HN: Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13
239 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Is NixOS truly reproducible?
239 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
239 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors
239 points • comment • jul 25, 2025
You might want to stop running atop
239 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code
239 points • comment • may 30, 2025
Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
239 points • comment • sep 22, 2025
Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction
239 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
239 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects
239 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
239 points • comment • aug 04, 2025
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
238 points • comment • jul 31, 2025
Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
238 points • comment • aug 09, 2025
South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
238 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil
238 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
238 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Microplastics in the human brain
238 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
238 points • comment • oct 03, 2025
The Fuzzing Book
238 points • comment • jan 19, 2025
In Defense of Text Labels
238 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
New records on Wendelstein 7-X
238 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store
238 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
Garmin's –$40B Pivot
238 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people
238 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs
238 points • comment • sep 22, 2025
The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
238 points • comment • sep 07, 2025
NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System
238 points • comment • jun 23, 2025
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
238 points • comment • feb 21, 2025
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
238 points • comment • may 04, 2025
Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
238 points • comment • jun 11, 2025
Don't force your kids to do math
238 points • comment • apr 19, 2025
Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas
237 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)
237 points • comment • jul 12, 2025
Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?
237 points • comment • jun 18, 2025
Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
237 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
237 points • comment • jun 06, 2025
FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics
237 points • comment • sep 29, 2025
I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
237 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
237 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Benzene at 200
237 points • comment • jun 16, 2025
Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”
237 points • comment • aug 07, 2025
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
237 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
Edit is now open source
237 points • comment • may 19, 2025
An opinionated critique of Duolingo
237 points • comment • sep 30, 2025
The Beauty of Programming (2001)
237 points • comment • sep 24, 2025
New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
237 points • comment • may 15, 2025
The first non-opoid painkiller
237 points • comment • jun 26, 2025
Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
237 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
237 points • comment • aug 10, 2025
The Dollar Is Dead
237 points • comment • aug 03, 2025
Obsidian is now free for work
237 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
parrot.live
237 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Vibe coding cleanup as a service
237 points • comment • sep 21, 2025
The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars
237 points • comment • feb 24, 2025