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  1. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  2. Italy Railways Sabotaged

    89 points • comment • feb 07, 2026

  3. Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

    89 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  4. Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

    89 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  5. Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE

    89 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  6. KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android

    89 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  7. The behavioral cost of personalized pricing

    89 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  8. Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

    89 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  9. Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld

    89 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  10. Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction

    89 points • comment • feb 13, 2026

  11. Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

    89 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  12. Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress

    89 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  13. Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

    88 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  14. Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

    88 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  15. A simulation where life unfolds in real time

    88 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  16. Code Is Clay

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  17. Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

    88 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  18. We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole

    88 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  19. Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  20. Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global

    88 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  21. BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5

    88 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  22. The Mathematics of Tuning Systems

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  23. Sinclair C5

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  24. P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

    88 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  25. Cows can use sophisticated tools

    88 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  26. Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

    88 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  27. Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

    88 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  28. Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

    88 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  29. The five orders of ignorance (2000)

    87 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  30. Use social media mindfully

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  31. MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?

    87 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  32. Technocracy 2.0

    87 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  33. Plasma Effect (2016)

    87 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  34. Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  35. Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless

    87 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  36. MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China

    87 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  37. Adding insular script like it's 1626

    87 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  38. Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  39. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

    87 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  40. Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis

    87 points • comment • feb 06, 2026

  41. Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)

    87 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  42. Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing

    87 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  43. Best of Moltbook

    87 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  44. Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)

    87 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  45. Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar

    87 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  46. Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems

    87 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  47. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    86 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  48. Why I don't have fun with Claude Code

    86 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  49. HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  50. Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built

    86 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  51. How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  52. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

    86 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  53. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  54. Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  55. Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  56. Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

    86 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  57. Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts

    86 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  58. How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  59. How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

    86 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  60. Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

    86 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  61. Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

    86 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. The PGP problem (2019)

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  63. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

    86 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  64. How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  65. White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  66. San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  67. Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market

    85 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  68. In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

    85 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  69. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

    85 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  70. More than one hundred years of Film Sizes

    85 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  71. Blade Runner Costume Design (2020)

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  72. Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea

    85 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  73. Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)

    85 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  74. Railway (PaaS) global outage

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  75. European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  76. A header-only C vector database library

    85 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  77. HTTP RateLimit Headers

    85 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  78. Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  79. EU inc: a new European company structure

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  80. Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders

    85 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  81. Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  82. Selling SaaS in Japan

    85 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  83. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

    85 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  84. Heathrow drops the liquids rule

    84 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  85. Lessons from Hash Table Merging

    84 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  86. Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)

    84 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  87. The Value of Things

    84 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  88. From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease

    84 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  89. Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

    84 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  90. The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand

    84 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  91. Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health

    84 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  92. Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

    84 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  93. How HTML changes in ePub

    84 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  94. Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

    84 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  95. 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation

    84 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  96. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)

    84 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  97. Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml

    84 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  98. Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]

    84 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  99. Miami, your Waymo ride is ready

    83 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  100. The World of Harmonics – With a Coffee, Guitar and Synth

    83 points • comment • feb 09, 2026