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  1. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

    117 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  2. Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

    117 points • comment • jun 22, 2026

  3. The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

    117 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  4. Killed by Apple

    117 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  5. Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc.

    117 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  6. The largest number representable in 64 bits

    117 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  7. A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

    117 points • comment • jun 15, 2026

  8. NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)

    117 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  9. WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

    117 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  10. Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds

    117 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  11. VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

    117 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  12. Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  13. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)

    117 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  14. EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

    117 points • comment • jun 30, 2026

  15. Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself

    117 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  16. Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  17. Thought-Terminating Cliché

    117 points • comment • feb 04, 2026

  18. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

    117 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  19. Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

    117 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  20. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

    117 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  21. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

    117 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  22. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

    117 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  23. 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

    117 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  24. Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

    116 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  25. Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  26. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

    116 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  27. Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

    116 points • comment • jun 09, 2026

  28. Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

    116 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  29. GitHub Incident

    116 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  30. Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

    116 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  31. Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids

    116 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  32. Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

    116 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  33. New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

    116 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  34. Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

    116 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  35. Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

    116 points • comment • feb 12, 2026

  36. Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

    116 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  37. Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software

    116 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  38. Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  39. Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

    116 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  40. MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation

    116 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  41. Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

    116 points • comment • jun 29, 2026

  42. Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  43. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

    116 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  44. Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild

    116 points • comment • jun 23, 2026

  45. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production

    116 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  46. Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

    116 points • comment • jun 11, 2026

  47. European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

    116 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  48. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

    116 points • comment • jun 18, 2026

  49. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  50. Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

    116 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  51. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

    116 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  52. Lisp in the Rust Type System

    116 points • comment • jun 20, 2026

  53. Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

    116 points • comment • feb 26, 2026

  54. Building Principia for Windows XP

    116 points • comment • jun 29, 2026

  55. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

    116 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  56. Using Thunderbird for RSS

    116 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  57. Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

    116 points • comment • jun 26, 2026

  58. C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma

    116 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  59. Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

    116 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  60. Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

    116 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  61. Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

    116 points • comment • jun 19, 2026

  62. EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

    116 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  63. North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

    116 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  64. Signing data structures the wrong way

    116 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  65. Spherical Voronoi Diagram

    116 points • comment • jun 03, 2026

  66. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

    116 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  67. On the slow death of scaling

    115 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  68. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

    115 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  69. 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  70. UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

    115 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  71. Ju Ci: The Art of Repairing Porcelain

    115 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  72. Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video

    115 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  73. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger

    115 points • comment • feb 01, 2026

  74. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

    115 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  75. A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

    115 points • comment • jun 27, 2026

  76. Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

    115 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  77. databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver

    115 points • comment • jun 02, 2026

  78. Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her

    115 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  79. Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

    115 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  80. Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short

    115 points • comment • jun 28, 2026

  81. Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI

    115 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  82. Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking

    115 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  83. Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

    115 points • comment • jun 13, 2026

  84. Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary

    115 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  85. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

    115 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  86. BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

    115 points • comment • jun 11, 2026

  87. The worst acquisition in history, again

    115 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  88. Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

    115 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  89. All Look Same?

    115 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  90. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

    115 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  91. The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

    115 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  92. Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

    115 points • comment • jun 08, 2026

  93. Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

    115 points • comment • apr 29, 2026

  94. Desmond Morris has died

    115 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  95. We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical

    115 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  96. I made a programming language with M&Ms

    115 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  97. Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

    115 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  98. Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

    115 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  99. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  100. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

    115 points • comment • apr 11, 2026