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Optimistic Locking in B-Trees
174 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
174 points • comment • jan 23, 2025
Google will still have to break up its business, the Justice Department said
174 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
Zig; what I think after months of using it
173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
20 Years of YC / HN
173 points • comment • mar 18, 2025
Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
173 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
173 points • comment • feb 10, 2025
Show HN: LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
173 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
173 points • comment • feb 25, 2025
Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
173 points • comment • feb 06, 2025
FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money
173 points • comment • mar 14, 2025
Self-Hosting like it's 2025
173 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
173 points • comment • jun 24, 2025
Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]
173 points • comment • jan 31, 2025
GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
173 points • comment • jan 16, 2025
21st Century C++
173 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Sky-scanning complete for Gaia
173 points • comment • jan 15, 2025
Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
173 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
The Family Bass - Music with an NES
173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii
173 points • comment • jan 17, 2025
Crows can recognize geometric regularity
173 points • comment • apr 17, 2025
Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses
173 points • comment • apr 16, 2025
National Airspace System Status
173 points • comment • apr 24, 2025
OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models
172 points • comment • feb 04, 2025
Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Bring Back Shortwave
172 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago
172 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
Swiftly 1.0
172 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field
172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
172 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Photographs of the Old West
172 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
AI Angst
172 points • comment • jun 09, 2025
Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
172 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
C Plus Prolog
172 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
Evolving Scala
172 points • comment • mar 25, 2025
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)
172 points • comment • mar 31, 2025
Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)
172 points • comment • feb 11, 2025
Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
172 points • comment • jan 08, 2025
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan
172 points • comment • apr 01, 2025
The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era
172 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Agents built from alloys
172 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style
172 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
172 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland
172 points • comment • jun 21, 2025
Learn How to Break AES
172 points • comment • mar 04, 2025
Playwright Tools for MCP
171 points • comment • mar 26, 2025
Orpheus-3B – Emotive TTS by Canopy Labs
171 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
MARS.EXE → COM (2021)
171 points • comment • jul 12, 2025
The DevOps Engineer's Handbook
171 points • comment • jan 13, 2025
2025 Hiring Pause
171 points • comment • mar 02, 2025
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
171 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
171 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium
171 points • comment • jul 19, 2025
Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
171 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist
171 points • comment • feb 05, 2025
Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router
171 points • comment • jul 19, 2025
AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
171 points • comment • apr 12, 2025
Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
171 points • comment • apr 06, 2025
Kepler.gl
171 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023)
171 points • comment • mar 07, 2025
AI Responses May Include Mistakes
171 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Remarks on AI from NZ
171 points • comment • may 16, 2025
Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly
171 points • comment • jul 21, 2025
Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008)
171 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long
171 points • comment • may 13, 2025
Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
171 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Redesigned Swift.org is now live
171 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)
171 points • comment • feb 24, 2025
Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)
171 points • comment • jul 17, 2025
The Many Sides of Erik Satie
171 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down
171 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network
171 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Cross Views
171 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
London Street Views (1840)
171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
Building an AI server on a budget
171 points • comment • jun 06, 2025
Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
171 points • comment • feb 03, 2025
The most famous carbon dioxide absorber
171 points • comment • apr 14, 2025
The largest sofa you can move around a corner
171 points • comment • feb 14, 2025
TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives
171 points • comment • jan 20, 2025
How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale
171 points • comment • jul 20, 2025
Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)
170 points • comment • jan 05, 2025
Helm local code execution via a malicious chart
170 points • comment • jul 09, 2025
Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer
170 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
170 points • comment • may 21, 2025
Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
170 points • comment • may 14, 2025
Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription
170 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died
170 points • comment • mar 13, 2025
'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
170 points • comment • feb 23, 2025
Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015)
170 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
170 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
Demystifying Debuggers
170 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?
170 points • comment • mar 05, 2025
Self-Hostable Form Back End – OSS Alternative to Formspree
170 points • comment • jan 06, 2025
Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express
170 points • comment • jun 11, 2025
DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm
170 points • comment • feb 27, 2025
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
170 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
170 points • comment • jul 17, 2025
How to Make a Living as a Writer
170 points • comment • may 24, 2025
2048 with only 64 bits of state
170 points • comment • jun 19, 2025