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  1. What is HDR, anyway?

    773 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  2. Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

    773 points • comment • jan 07, 2025

  3. You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

    773 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  4. Let me pay for Firefox

    772 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  5. Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

    770 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  6. A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

    769 points • comment • aug 24, 2025

  7. The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

    769 points • comment • sep 12, 2025

  8. Zod 4

    767 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  9. Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

    765 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  10. A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

    764 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  11. Tailscale is pretty useful

    764 points • comment • mar 05, 2025

  12. Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

    762 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  13. OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

    762 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  14. Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

    758 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  15. NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

    758 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  16. Garfield Minus Garfield

    758 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  17. 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised

    757 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  18. Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

    757 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  19. Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

    756 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  20. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

    756 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  21. Find Your People

    756 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  22. Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

    755 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  23. Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

    755 points • comment • sep 27, 2025

  24. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

    754 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  25. “This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

    753 points • comment • aug 31, 2025

  26. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

    753 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  27. Debian bookworm live images now reproducible

    753 points • comment • mar 26, 2025

  28. How to Firefox

    752 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  29. Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS

    751 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  30. Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools

    751 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  31. TV Garden

    750 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  32. Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

    750 points • comment • aug 09, 2025

  33. Show HN: Autism Simulator

    749 points • comment • oct 01, 2025

  34. X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

    748 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  35. New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care

    747 points • comment • sep 09, 2025

  36. Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

    747 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  37. Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

    746 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  38. Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy

    746 points • comment • sep 22, 2025

  39. The Future of Htmx

    746 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  40. Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world

    745 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  41. I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

    745 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  42. Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

    745 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  43. DeepSeek-v3.1

    743 points • comment • aug 21, 2025

  44. Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

    743 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  45. Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

    741 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  46. Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

    740 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  47. AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

    740 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  48. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)

    738 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  49. PYX: The next step in Python packaging

    738 points • comment • aug 13, 2025

  50. Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

    738 points • comment • jul 01, 2025

  51. US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted

    738 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  52. Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

    737 points • comment • aug 29, 2025

  53. Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

    737 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  54. TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

    736 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  55. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

    736 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  56. OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

    735 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  57. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal

    734 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  58. Show HN: Atlas of Space

    734 points • comment • jan 08, 2025

  59. Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

    733 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  60. Our $100M Series B

    733 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  61. Chat Control Must Be Stopped

    731 points • comment • sep 08, 2025

  62. Vibe code is legacy code

    731 points • comment • jul 30, 2025

  63. The Frontend Treadmill

    731 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  64. Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories

    730 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  65. Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

    729 points • comment • apr 01, 2025

  66. Why blog if nobody reads it?

    729 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  67. Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself

    728 points • comment • sep 04, 2025

  68. Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over

    728 points • comment • sep 25, 2025

  69. CDC data are disappearing

    726 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  70. Models of European metro stations

    725 points • comment • sep 14, 2025

  71. Firing programmers for AI is a mistake

    725 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  72. Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

    724 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  73. Square Theory

    723 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  74. Owls in Towels

    723 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  75. I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

    723 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  76. The average college student today

    721 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  77. Making Software

    721 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  78. The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

    721 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  79. TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid

    720 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  80. OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

    719 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  81. Reflections on OpenAI

    719 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  82. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

    719 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  83. An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

    718 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  84. Claude Integrations

    716 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  85. Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

    716 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  86. Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

    715 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  87. It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

    715 points • comment • jul 25, 2025

  88. IRS Direct File on GitHub

    714 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  89. Human

    713 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  90. The “S” in MCP Stands for Security

    713 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  91. Microsoft is killing Skype

    713 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  92. $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

    713 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  93. Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard

    712 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  94. Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

    710 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  95. Face it: you're a crazy person

    710 points • comment • jul 28, 2025

  96. Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

    709 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  97. Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

    709 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  98. MacBook Air M4

    707 points • comment • mar 05, 2025

  99. Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

    706 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  100. Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

    705 points • comment • feb 22, 2025