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  1. Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case

    133 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  2. Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days

    133 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  3. Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300

    133 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  4. A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

    133 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  5. No Pay, No Work; Early Career Lessons

    133 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  6. What's Going on at the FBI?

    133 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  7. Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

    133 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  8. The complex origin story of domestic cats

    133 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  9. BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable

    132 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  10. A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)

    132 points • comment • jun 27, 2025

  11. Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets

    132 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  12. An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016)

    132 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  13. Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

    132 points • comment • jun 14, 2025

  14. Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]

    132 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  15. The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021)

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  16. Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  17. How to professionally say (2022)

    132 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  18. US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops

    132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  19. Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors

    132 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  20. WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol

    132 points • comment • may 26, 2025

  21. Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

    132 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  22. The story behind Caesar salad

    132 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  23. Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)

    132 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  24. Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers

    132 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  25. Datalog in miniKanren

    132 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  26. Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

    132 points • comment • jan 03, 2025

  27. Canal Boat Simulator

    132 points • comment • jun 22, 2025

  28. Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0

    132 points • comment • jan 31, 2025

  29. Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660

    132 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  30. RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory

    132 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  31. Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true

    132 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  32. Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library

    132 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  33. Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)

    132 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  34. Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

    132 points • comment • may 23, 2025

  35. Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)

    132 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  36. Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  37. Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

    132 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  38. Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

    132 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  39. A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  40. Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

    132 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  41. Napkin Math Tool

    132 points • comment • mar 17, 2025

  42. A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization

    132 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  43. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    132 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  44. Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework

    132 points • comment • jun 26, 2025

  45. Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

    132 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  46. Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)

    132 points • comment • jun 29, 2025

  47. Snake Game in 56 Bytes

    132 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  48. Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

    132 points • comment • may 27, 2025

  49. Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  50. Paxo: A DIY Phone

    132 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  51. BM25 in PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  52. The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch

    132 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  53. Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports

    132 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  54. Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

    131 points • comment • may 14, 2025

  55. Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs

    131 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  56. Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)

    131 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  57. 2025 ARRL Field Day

    131 points • comment • jun 28, 2025

  58. Auto-Differentiating Any LLM Workflow: A Farewell to Manual Prompting

    131 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  59. Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

    131 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  60. Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

    131 points • comment • mar 01, 2025

  61. Show HN: Eyesite – Experimental website combining computer vision and web design

    131 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  62. Subreply – An open source text-only social network

    131 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  63. Deno 2.4

    131 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  64. Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

    131 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  65. SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

    131 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  66. Zinc, a systems programming language prototype

    131 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  67. Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight

    131 points • comment • mar 22, 2025

  68. OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

    131 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  69. The Machine Stops (1909)

    131 points • comment • may 21, 2025

  70. Some __nonstring__ Turbulence

    131 points • comment • apr 25, 2025

  71. Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska

    131 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  72. Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required

    131 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  73. Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)

    131 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  74. Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

    131 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  75. Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself

    131 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  76. How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

    131 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  77. 'Shameful' CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians

    131 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  78. Airport for DuckDB

    131 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  79. Bitter Lesson is about AI agents

    131 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  80. Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

    131 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  81. The Humble Programmer (1972)

    131 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  82. AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  83. Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

    131 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  84. U.S. Spy Agencies–One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Personal Data

    130 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  85. Withnail and I (2001)

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  86. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

    130 points • comment • jun 12, 2025

  87. The Newark airport crisis

    130 points • comment • may 25, 2025

  88. Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

    130 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  89. Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust

    130 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  90. New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes

    130 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  91. Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser

    130 points • comment • jun 20, 2025

  92. DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

    130 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  93. The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++

    130 points • comment • jan 19, 2025

  94. GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases

    130 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  95. Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets

    130 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  96. Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity

    130 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  97. Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models

    130 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  98. Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED

    130 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  99. The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view

    130 points • comment • feb 14, 2025

  100. My Favorite Book on AI

    130 points • comment • jan 05, 2025