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  1. A story about USB floppy drives (2004)

    71 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  2. Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?

    71 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  3. Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam

    71 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  4. How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

    71 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  5. The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far

    71 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  6. USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

    71 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  7. Dual-Link QR Code Generator

    71 points • comment • jan 25, 2025

  8. Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  9. Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  10. What We've Learned from 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes

    71 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  11. Show HN: Resonate – real-time high temporal resolution spectral analysis

    71 points • comment • apr 15, 2025

  12. A brief history of the numeric keypad

    71 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  13. Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms [pdf] (2006)

    71 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  14. Show HN: Heap Explorer

    71 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  15. "I vibe coded and shipped an app in three days. It got hacked. Twice."

    71 points • comment • jun 02, 2025

  16. HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP

    71 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  17. Native American names extend earthquake history of northeastern North America

    71 points • comment • apr 18, 2025

  18. Books on Making and Maintaining Friendships

    71 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  19. How to Average in Prolog (2017)

    71 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  20. The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here

    71 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  21. Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today

    71 points • comment • jan 28, 2025

  22. Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator

    71 points • comment • mar 20, 2025

  23. Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager

    71 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  24. US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine

    71 points • comment • mar 05, 2025

  25. Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?

    71 points • comment • jan 09, 2025

  26. Show HN: I turned my kid's worksheet into a math game in 10 minutes with Claude

    71 points • comment • apr 06, 2025

  27. Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

    71 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  28. More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator (2022)

    71 points • comment • mar 11, 2025

  29. How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)

    71 points • comment • may 03, 2025

  30. AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites

    71 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  31. All Placebos are not created equal (2021)

    71 points • comment • mar 21, 2025

  32. Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

    71 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  33. Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2025

  34. Writing your own C++ standard library part 2

    71 points • comment • may 31, 2025

  35. Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation processors

    71 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  36. Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

    71 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  37. How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  38. Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root).

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  39. Show HN: ActorCore – Stateful serverless framework that runs anywhere

    71 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  40. Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

    71 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  41. VIC 20 Elite

    71 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  42. Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

    71 points • comment • jan 24, 2025

  43. Show HN: Fast Transition from Firefox to Librewolf

    71 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  44. Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents?

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2025

  45. Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework

    71 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  46. The Speed of VITs and CNNs

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  47. Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  48. On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (2011)

    70 points • comment • may 28, 2025

  49. Tiny Ten DSP-Based HF Transceiver

    70 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  50. Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models

    70 points • comment • may 22, 2025

  51. Two Bites of Data Science in K

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  52. Let's Quit X

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  53. Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  54. Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models

    70 points • comment • may 08, 2025

  55. Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices?

    70 points • comment • mar 23, 2025

  56. GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  57. Obsidian is now free for work

    70 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  58. Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO

    70 points • comment • apr 03, 2025

  59. Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running

    70 points • comment • jan 16, 2025

  60. Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018)

    70 points • comment • may 02, 2025

  61. A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones

    70 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  62. When good pseudorandom numbers go bad

    70 points • comment • may 19, 2025

  63. Preparing for when the machine stops

    70 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  64. How I use audio journaling and AI to improve my trading decisions

    70 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  65. Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit

    70 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  66. QRP Labs QMX SSB beta firmware relased

    70 points • comment • mar 18, 2025

  67. LFSR CPU Running Forth

    70 points • comment • jun 02, 2025

  68. Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023)

    70 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  69. Relational Graph Transformers

    70 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  70. Hyundai just launched its cheapest EV in Japan

    70 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  71. Show HN: HNSW index for vector embeddings in approx 500 LOC

    70 points • comment • apr 08, 2025

  72. StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text

    70 points • comment • mar 22, 2025

  73. Improving Naval Ship Acquisition

    70 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  74. Orbit Spirograph (2019)

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2025

  75. Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB

    70 points • comment • mar 03, 2025

  76. Patience too cheap to meter

    70 points • comment • may 17, 2025

  77. Russia's Hidden War Debt

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  78. Insomnia, Control

    70 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  79. Confessions about my smart home

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  80. OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions

    70 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  81. ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

    70 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  82. We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data

    70 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  83. Teachable Machine

    70 points • comment • may 20, 2025

  84. Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds

    70 points • comment • may 13, 2025

  85. Alkanes on Mars

    70 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  86. DeepSeek FAQ

    70 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  87. GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California's EV Mandate

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2025

  88. Let's talk about bird tongues (2014)

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2025

  89. Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU

    70 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  90. Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  91. Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)

    70 points • comment • apr 22, 2025

  92. Evidence suggesting Quasar Alpha is OpenAI's new model

    70 points • comment • apr 10, 2025

  93. The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI

    70 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  94. Ask HN: Physics PhD at Stanford or Berkeley

    70 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  95. Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires

    70 points • comment • jan 12, 2025

  96. Liskov Substitution: The real meaning of inheritance

    70 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  97. Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider

    70 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  98. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds

    70 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  99. Tetris in PostScript

    70 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  100. Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2025