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A critical look at NetBSD’s installer
108 points • comment • jun 04, 2025
Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Fingerprinting
108 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight
108 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs
108 points • comment • jun 02, 2025
From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership
108 points • comment • jul 14, 2025
Iterated Log Coding
108 points • comment • feb 26, 2025
Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe
108 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI
108 points • comment • aug 11, 2025
Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser
108 points • comment • aug 21, 2025
Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars
108 points • comment • feb 02, 2025
Teen safety, freedom, and privacy
108 points • comment • sep 16, 2025
Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer called Digits
108 points • comment • jan 07, 2025
Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment
108 points • comment • aug 06, 2025
Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB
108 points • comment • apr 07, 2025
Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance
108 points • comment • mar 16, 2025
Use Plaintext Email (2019)
108 points • comment • jun 28, 2025
The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now
108 points • comment • mar 19, 2025
Jill – a functional programming language for the Nand2Tetris platform
108 points • comment • feb 15, 2025
Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025
108 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025
108 points • comment • apr 27, 2025
I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to
108 points • comment • may 16, 2025
The Internet's longest-serving PC email system, still being updated
108 points • comment • feb 22, 2025
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
108 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence
108 points • comment • apr 30, 2025
As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal
108 points • comment • jul 04, 2025
Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons
108 points • comment • sep 20, 2025
Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers
108 points • comment • feb 18, 2025
Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)
108 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
108 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
Hacker Laws
107 points • comment • mar 30, 2025
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
107 points • comment • may 06, 2025
A Lisp in 99LOC
107 points • comment • aug 16, 2025
A queasy selling of the family heirlooms
107 points • comment • sep 03, 2025
Why do we need DNSSEC?
107 points • comment • jun 19, 2025
Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2025
Procedural Island Generation (III)
107 points • comment • sep 17, 2025
It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI
107 points • comment • jan 21, 2025
Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects
107 points • comment • sep 15, 2025
Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis
107 points • comment • may 31, 2025
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]
107 points • comment • sep 27, 2025
How to build vector tiles from scratch
107 points • comment • sep 04, 2025
Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT
107 points • comment • jun 30, 2025
Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber
107 points • comment • jul 13, 2025
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024
107 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Reverse engineering Claude Code
107 points • comment • jun 08, 2025
Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor
107 points • comment • may 17, 2025
Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages
107 points • comment • aug 19, 2025
Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing
107 points • comment • apr 21, 2025
The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children
107 points • comment • aug 02, 2025
The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working as Designed
107 points • comment • aug 18, 2025
Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2025
The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
107 points • comment • jun 17, 2025
Jürgen Schmidhuber：the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award
107 points • comment • jun 20, 2025
A Beautiful Maths Game
107 points • comment • sep 20, 2025
I Wrote a Compiler
107 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
107 points • comment • may 09, 2025
Learn Arabic
107 points • comment • mar 08, 2025
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory
107 points • comment • may 05, 2025
Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation
107 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
107 points • comment • jan 27, 2025
History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600
107 points • comment • may 05, 2025
GitHub Is Down
107 points • comment • jan 30, 2025
Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing
107 points • comment • jun 14, 2025
Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2025
British naval dominance during the age of sail
107 points • comment • may 16, 2025
A drill bit that can also drive screws
107 points • comment • feb 09, 2025
Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)
107 points • comment • may 01, 2025
Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator
107 points • comment • aug 31, 2025
VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun
107 points • comment • may 02, 2025
Show HN: GS-Calc – A modern spreadsheet with Python integration
107 points • comment • apr 25, 2025
Honest Ahmed (2011)
107 points • comment • jan 18, 2025
Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
107 points • comment • jul 01, 2025
Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
10 Years of Betting on Rust
107 points • comment • jun 05, 2025
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields
107 points • comment • mar 20, 2025
Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano
107 points • comment • mar 28, 2025
The Age of Agent Experience
107 points • comment • feb 07, 2025
Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets
107 points • comment • mar 29, 2025
Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]
107 points • comment • sep 12, 2025
The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)
107 points • comment • jun 13, 2025
Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf]
107 points • comment • may 06, 2025
ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model
107 points • comment • may 06, 2025
Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups
107 points • comment • aug 27, 2025
TextKit 2 – The Promised Land
107 points • comment • aug 15, 2025
Path Isn't Real on Linux
107 points • comment • apr 29, 2025
Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock
107 points • comment • jun 15, 2025
200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
107 points • comment • jul 24, 2025
How to delete your Facebook account
107 points • comment • jan 09, 2025
Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
107 points • comment • sep 25, 2025
Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent
107 points • comment • aug 25, 2025
The enduring puzzle of static electricity
107 points • comment • aug 08, 2025
The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)
107 points • comment • mar 17, 2025
Wall Street sell-off turns 'ugly' as US recession fears grow
107 points • comment • mar 10, 2025
List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week
107 points • comment • feb 01, 2025
Contacts let you see in the dark with your eyes closed
107 points • comment • may 22, 2025
KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data
107 points • comment • may 23, 2025
First Hubble telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
107 points • comment • jul 22, 2025
Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)
107 points • comment • jun 22, 2025
Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine
107 points • comment • aug 30, 2025