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Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
136 points • comment • jan 14, 2025
We are still using 88x31 buttons
136 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Sail-Trim Simulator
136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes
136 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation
136 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use
136 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again
136 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]
136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use
136 points • comment • apr 23, 2025
Hard Mode Rust (2022)
136 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics
136 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
136 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)
136 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Show HN: Editable Games
136 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
136 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
136 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
Bel in Clojure (2022)
136 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware
136 points • comment • may 26, 2025
Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol
136 points • comment • jan 10, 2025
Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study
136 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera
136 points • comment • jan 03, 2025
Wasting Inferences with Aider
136 points • comment • apr 13, 2025
Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
135 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights
135 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Backyard Cyanide
135 points • comment • mar 11, 2025
Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
135 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts
135 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Getting Older Isn't What You Think
135 points • comment • may 07, 2025
WorldGen: Open-source 3D scene generator for Game/VR/XR
135 points • comment • apr 28, 2025
Scaffold Level Editor
135 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Das Blinkenlights
135 points • comment • jan 12, 2025
Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs
135 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
The number line freaks me out (2016)
135 points • comment • feb 16, 2025
Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre
135 points • comment • may 23, 2025
North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
135 points • comment • apr 08, 2025
Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
135 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)
135 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Xcode Constantly Phones Home
135 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer
135 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
135 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Real Chilling Effects
135 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
Turing-Drawings
135 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies
135 points • comment • may 04, 2025
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom
135 points • comment • may 30, 2025
'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
135 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)
135 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
135 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Layered Design in Go
135 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
The value isn't in the code (2022)
135 points • comment • may 20, 2025
Show HN: Evolving Agents Framework
135 points • comment • mar 09, 2025
Deferred resignation email to federal employees
135 points • comment • jan 28, 2025
Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced with Japanese Woodworking
134 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Ruby, Ractors, and lock-free data structures
134 points • comment • mar 23, 2025
Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?
134 points • comment • may 11, 2025
A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband
134 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021)
134 points • comment • may 18, 2025
High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections
134 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
134 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
We need more optimistic science fiction
134 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
Nix Derivations, Without Guessing
134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Uncovering a 0-Click RCE in the SuperNote Nomad E-Ink Tablet
134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer
134 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
Typed Lisp, a Primer
134 points • comment • may 04, 2025
The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie
134 points • comment • apr 11, 2025
CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider
134 points • comment • apr 09, 2025
U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty
134 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful
134 points • comment • may 30, 2025
TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?
134 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter
134 points • comment • mar 21, 2025
You could just choose optimism
134 points • comment • may 01, 2025
ESP32 WiFi Superstitions
134 points • comment • mar 15, 2025
Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later
134 points • comment • feb 12, 2025
Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
134 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues
134 points • comment • may 12, 2025
A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes
134 points • comment • feb 28, 2025
The Greatest Motorcycle Photo
134 points • comment • apr 05, 2025
Signal Carnival
134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
Local-First and Ejectable
134 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly
134 points • comment • apr 10, 2025
Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
134 points • comment • may 28, 2025
Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016)
134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated
134 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag
134 points • comment • mar 12, 2025
Origami by Meenakshi
134 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality
134 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
Show HN: We made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own
134 points • comment • mar 22, 2025
FreeBSD Suspend/Resume
134 points • comment • jan 11, 2025
Robust autonomy emerges from self-play
134 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page
134 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML
134 points • comment • apr 20, 2025
Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
134 points • comment • may 02, 2025
MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
134 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found
134 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
134 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas
133 points • comment • mar 03, 2025
Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]
133 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
133 points • comment • feb 17, 2025
Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature
133 points • comment • jan 02, 2025
Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
133 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
Sublinear Time Algorithms
133 points • comment • feb 23, 2025