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  1. DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

    601 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  2. TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

    599 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  3. Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

    599 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  4. How fast the days are getting longer (2023)

    599 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  5. WordPress Is in Trouble

    598 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  6. Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

    598 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  7. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone

    597 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  8. Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

    597 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  9. Why I wrote the BEAM book

    595 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  10. Evolving OpenAI's Structure

    595 points • comment • may 05, 2025

  11. Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

    595 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  12. Microsoft’s original source code

    595 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  13. A critical look at MCP

    594 points • comment • may 10, 2025

  14. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

    594 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  15. Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets

    593 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  16. Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?

    593 points • comment • jan 15, 2025

  17. Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

    593 points • comment • jun 11, 2025

  18. Go European: Discover European products and services

    592 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  19. Accountability Sinks

    592 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  20. Cursor 1.0

    592 points • comment • jun 04, 2025

  21. Google to buy Wiz for $32B

    591 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  22. Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

    591 points • comment • jan 18, 2025

  23. France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

    591 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  24. Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic

    591 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  25. AI tools are spotting errors in research papers

    591 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  26. “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams

    591 points • comment • mar 13, 2025

  27. Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

    591 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  28. String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'

    590 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  29. The best programmers I know

    590 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  30. Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim

    590 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  31. Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4

    590 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  32. Reinvent the Wheel

    589 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  33. Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

    589 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  34. I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

    588 points • comment • jun 28, 2025

  35. First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

    588 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  36. Python’s new t-strings

    588 points • comment • apr 21, 2025

  37. Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

    588 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  38. Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

    588 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  39. My Self-Hosting Setup

    588 points • comment • jul 19, 2025

  40. Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

    587 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  41. A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn

    587 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  42. Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty

    587 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  43. The Most Mario Colors

    587 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  44. Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

    586 points • comment • apr 20, 2025

  45. Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser

    586 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  46. US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

    586 points • comment • jul 08, 2025

  47. Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch

    584 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  48. Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

    582 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  49. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died

    582 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  50. Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL

    582 points • comment • jul 15, 2025

  51. Ozzy Osbourne has died

    580 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  52. Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update

    580 points • comment • mar 14, 2025

  53. Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

    579 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  54. Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops

    578 points • comment • mar 24, 2025

  55. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust

    577 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  56. The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

    577 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  57. Open source and self hostable/private file converter

    577 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  58. How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

    577 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  59. I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

    577 points • comment • may 04, 2025

  60. XOR

    576 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  61. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

    575 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  62. The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

    574 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  63. Tree Borrows

    573 points • comment • jul 09, 2025

  64. LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego

    573 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  65. Doom, the Gallery Experience

    572 points • comment • jan 06, 2025

  66. How to write blog posts that developers read

    571 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  67. “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

    570 points • comment • feb 24, 2025

  68. MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs

    569 points • comment • jan 02, 2025

  69. Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills

    569 points • comment • jun 10, 2025

  70. So you want to build your own data center

    569 points • comment • jan 17, 2025

  71. Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport

    567 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  72. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

    567 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  73. Happy 20th Birthday, Django

    567 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  74. Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images

    566 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  75. Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

    566 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  76. The United States withdraws from UNESCO

    566 points • comment • jul 22, 2025

  77. Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

    565 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  78. The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1

    565 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  79. Introducing deep research

    565 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  80. The impossible predicament of the death newts

    565 points • comment • jun 05, 2025

  81. Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

    564 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  82. Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence

    564 points • comment • jan 30, 2025

  83. Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

    563 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  84. The Rise of Whatever

    563 points • comment • jul 04, 2025

  85. How does a screen work?

    563 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  86. Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)

    563 points • comment • jun 22, 2025

  87. Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

    562 points • comment • jan 01, 2025

  88. Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion

    562 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  89. Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)

    561 points • comment • jul 02, 2025

  90. Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

    561 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  91. Succinct data structures

    561 points • comment • mar 06, 2025

  92. Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety

    561 points • comment • apr 19, 2025

  93. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions

    561 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  94. The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

    560 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  95. Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find

    560 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  96. Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

    560 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  97. Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office

    559 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  98. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

    559 points • comment • jul 07, 2025

  99. Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

    558 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  100. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025

    558 points • comment • jul 16, 2025