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  1. The rise and fall of the English sentence (2017)

    93 points • comment • jan 14, 2025

  2. Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva Research Initiative

    93 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  3. Nonprofit's Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240M in Federal Food Aid

    93 points • comment • mar 21, 2025

  4. The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

    93 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  5. Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

    93 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  6. Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)

    93 points • comment • apr 07, 2025

  7. Millihertz 5 Mechanical Computer (2022)

    93 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  8. The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end

    93 points • comment • jun 23, 2025

  9. Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game

    93 points • comment • may 07, 2025

  10. Adam Riess and the Hubble tension

    93 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  11. How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

    93 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  12. XAI's Grok suddenly can't stop bringing up "white genocide" in South Africa

    93 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  13. Rust kernel policy

    93 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  14. Show HN: Meow – An Image File Format I made because PNGs and JPEGs suck for AI

    93 points • comment • jun 15, 2025

  15. Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

    93 points • comment • may 30, 2025

  16. A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans

    93 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  17. US Green-Card Holder and Columbia Student Arrested by ICE for Protest

    93 points • comment • mar 10, 2025

  18. Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets

    93 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  19. Making Software Fun

    93 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  20. Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain

    93 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  21. Refactoring Clojure

    93 points • comment • may 15, 2025

  22. NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV

    93 points • comment • apr 09, 2025

  23. Evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange

    93 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  24. Show HN: SafeHaven – A Minimal VPN Implementation in Go

    93 points • comment • mar 02, 2025

  25. There should be no Computer Art (1971)

    93 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  26. Show HN: Whippy Term - GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)

    93 points • comment • may 06, 2025

  27. A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL

    93 points • comment • apr 24, 2025

  28. OpenAI Is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry

    93 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  29. Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story

    93 points • comment • apr 30, 2025

  30. Web designs are getting too complicated

    93 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  31. Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games

    93 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  32. Nuclear fusion: it's time for a reality check

    93 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  33. DECtalk Archive

    93 points • comment • apr 29, 2025

  34. Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative

    93 points • comment • jun 17, 2025

  35. OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback

    93 points • comment • mar 31, 2025

  36. Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation

    93 points • comment • mar 12, 2025

  37. Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

    92 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  38. USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  39. Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele's prisons (2023)

    92 points • comment • apr 26, 2025

  40. Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF

    92 points • comment • apr 27, 2025

  41. C++26: more constexpr in the core language

    92 points • comment • apr 23, 2025

  42. Run Ruby on Rails in the browser using WebAssembly

    92 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  43. JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

    92 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  44. At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

    92 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  45. NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

    92 points • comment • mar 27, 2025

  46. Charts.css

    92 points • comment • apr 12, 2025

  47. The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter

    92 points • comment • jan 29, 2025

  48. Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy

    92 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  49. How to title your blog post or whatever

    92 points • comment • may 12, 2025

  50. Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses

    92 points • comment • jun 30, 2025

  51. Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)

    92 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  52. A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

    92 points • comment • apr 14, 2025

  53. Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC

    92 points • comment • apr 11, 2025

  54. Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers

    92 points • comment • apr 13, 2025

  55. Fun with Futex

    92 points • comment • jun 03, 2025

  56. Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal?

    92 points • comment • jan 27, 2025

  57. Fixing my monitor's power button

    92 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  58. Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR

    92 points • comment • mar 08, 2025

  59. Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

    92 points • comment • jul 18, 2025

  60. Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted

    92 points • comment • apr 04, 2025

  61. Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

    92 points • comment • jun 25, 2025

  62. Belkin ending support for older Wemo products

    92 points • comment • jul 10, 2025

  63. Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

    92 points • comment • jan 22, 2025

  64. Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

    92 points • comment • jun 09, 2025

  65. Hulk Hogan Has Died

    92 points • comment • jul 24, 2025

  66. Series C and scale

    92 points • comment • jun 06, 2025

  67. One Head, Two Brains: The origins of split-brain research (2015)

    92 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  68. 3-JSON

    92 points • comment • jul 21, 2025

  69. It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)

    92 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  70. Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

    92 points • comment • jul 12, 2025

  71. Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech

    92 points • comment • may 01, 2025

  72. Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

    92 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  73. Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  74. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β, restores memory in Alzheimer mouse model (2015)

    92 points • comment • jan 11, 2025

  75. Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

    92 points • comment • jul 20, 2025

  76. Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

    92 points • comment • jul 13, 2025

  77. New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2025

  78. Show HN: A unique generated maze to share with your valentine

    92 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  79. Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight

    92 points • comment • mar 30, 2025

  80. FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg

    92 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  81. Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools

    92 points • comment • mar 25, 2025

  82. Using Radicle CI

    92 points • comment • jul 23, 2025

  83. Vision Transformers Need Registers

    92 points • comment • apr 28, 2025

  84. The clustering behavior of sliding windows

    92 points • comment • mar 19, 2025

  85. Hk, a new Git hook manager

    92 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  86. Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2025

  87. VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

    92 points • comment • jul 11, 2025

  88. Working from home is here to stay

    92 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  89. Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

    92 points • comment • mar 29, 2025

  90. Knitting Your Parachute

    91 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  91. Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard

    91 points • comment • mar 04, 2025

  92. The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines (2023)

    91 points • comment • jan 05, 2025

  93. Good engineers are right, a lot

    91 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  94. Rules to improve air quality are under attack

    91 points • comment • mar 07, 2025

  95. How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)

    91 points • comment • jan 21, 2025

  96. The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower

    91 points • comment • may 24, 2025

  97. Amsterdam Compiler Kit for Cray X-MP

    91 points • comment • jan 26, 2025

  98. C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness (2023)

    91 points • comment • mar 28, 2025

  99. Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library

    91 points • comment • may 16, 2025

  100. Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

    91 points • comment • jun 24, 2025