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  1. Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring

    200 points • 131 comments • aug 19, 2024

  2. The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth

    200 points • 93 comments • aug 16, 2024

  3. EU ChatControl is back on the agenda

    200 points • 143 comments • aug 31, 2024

  4. Transformers in music recommendation

    200 points • 121 comments • aug 19, 2024

  5. FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)

    200 points • 109 comments • aug 17, 2024

  6. Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

    199 points • 44 comments • aug 13, 2024

  7. Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps

    199 points • 74 comments • aug 07, 2024

  8. Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid

    198 points • 124 comments • aug 21, 2024

  9. The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist

    198 points • 68 comments • aug 13, 2024

  10. Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?

    198 points • 98 comments • aug 17, 2024

  11. GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments

    197 points • 80 comments • aug 07, 2024

  12. Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died

    196 points • 93 comments • aug 02, 2024

  13. FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention

    196 points • 21 comments • aug 08, 2024

  14. Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups

    195 points • 90 comments • aug 02, 2024

  15. Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

    195 points • 175 comments • aug 28, 2024

  16. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

    195 points • 98 comments • aug 16, 2024

  17. Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing

    194 points • 53 comments • aug 08, 2024

  18. Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

    194 points • 125 comments • aug 08, 2024

  19. What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models

    194 points • 57 comments • aug 22, 2024

  20. Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query

    193 points • 57 comments • aug 24, 2024

  21. Panasonic Toughbook 40

    193 points • 172 comments • aug 28, 2024

  22. Seven basic rules for causal inference

    193 points • 65 comments • aug 16, 2024

  23. Consistently Making Wrong Decisions Whilst Writing Recreational C

    192 points • 29 comments • aug 24, 2024

  24. Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)

    192 points • 152 comments • aug 15, 2024

  25. Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

    192 points • 29 comments • aug 20, 2024

  26. Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)

    192 points • 48 comments • aug 13, 2024

  27. Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

    192 points • 89 comments • aug 28, 2024

  28. Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust

    191 points • 26 comments • aug 10, 2024

  29. No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda

    191 points • 189 comments • aug 22, 2024

  30. Why are Texas interchanges so tall?

    191 points • 298 comments • aug 20, 2024

  31. New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China's 'Volt Typhoon'

    190 points • 46 comments • aug 27, 2024

  32. New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings

    190 points • 60 comments • aug 29, 2024

  33. Grok-2 Beta Release

    189 points • 281 comments • aug 14, 2024

  34. Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)

    189 points • 118 comments • aug 10, 2024

  35. Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"

    189 points • 107 comments • aug 05, 2024

  36. RP2350 PicoDVI Preview

    189 points • 71 comments • aug 15, 2024

  37. Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

    189 points • 81 comments • aug 20, 2024

  38. Praise My GitHub Profile

    189 points • 63 comments • aug 04, 2024

  39. BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time

    188 points • 221 comments • aug 23, 2024

  40. Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)

    187 points • 119 comments • aug 25, 2024

  41. OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

    187 points • 97 comments • aug 11, 2024

  42. Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft

    187 points • 60 comments • aug 28, 2024

  43. Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)

    187 points • 119 comments • aug 22, 2024

  44. The future of Deep Learning frameworks

    187 points • 88 comments • aug 16, 2024

  45. Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment

    186 points • 123 comments • aug 08, 2024

  46. What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces?

    186 points • 120 comments • aug 07, 2024

  47. Web Design Museum

    186 points • 38 comments • aug 29, 2024

  48. Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp

    186 points • 43 comments • aug 26, 2024

  49. Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping

    186 points • 33 comments • aug 04, 2024

  50. How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

    186 points • 81 comments • aug 01, 2024

  51. Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

    186 points • 90 comments • aug 16, 2024

  52. Someone's been messing with Python's floating point subnormals

    186 points • 66 comments • aug 10, 2024

  53. Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)

    185 points • 82 comments • aug 24, 2024

  54. Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty

    185 points • 139 comments • aug 01, 2024

  55. Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?

    185 points • 138 comments • aug 01, 2024

  56. Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half

    184 points • 32 comments • aug 06, 2024

  57. The Future of TLA+ [pdf]

    184 points • 77 comments • aug 28, 2024

  58. Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker

    184 points • 43 comments • aug 22, 2024

  59. Firedancer: Language for 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns

    183 points • 52 comments • aug 12, 2024

  60. Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate

    183 points • 78 comments • aug 02, 2024

  61. Maximal min() and max()

    182 points • 106 comments • aug 07, 2024

  62. NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

    182 points • 127 comments • aug 24, 2024

  63. DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems

    182 points • 122 comments • aug 09, 2024

  64. I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

    182 points • 74 comments • aug 17, 2024

  65. Lenticular Clock

    182 points • 44 comments • aug 19, 2024

  66. SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring

    181 points • 71 comments • aug 21, 2024

  67. Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.

    181 points • 38 comments • aug 18, 2024

  68. A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust

    180 points • 65 comments • aug 05, 2024

  69. Firewall rules: not as secure as you think

    180 points • 75 comments • aug 29, 2024

  70. RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

    180 points • 66 comments • aug 02, 2024

  71. Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

    179 points • 75 comments • aug 29, 2024

  72. Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

    179 points • 68 comments • aug 31, 2024

  73. 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam

    178 points • 70 comments • aug 07, 2024

  74. Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system

    178 points • 66 comments • aug 15, 2024

  75. Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM

    178 points • 51 comments • aug 21, 2024

  76. Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

    177 points • 108 comments • aug 13, 2024

  77. I lost my Google Play dev account

    177 points • 78 comments • aug 23, 2024

  78. Hacking a Virtual Power Plant

    177 points • 41 comments • aug 08, 2024

  79. The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)

    177 points • 99 comments • aug 18, 2024

  80. Belenios: Verifiable online voting system

    177 points • 281 comments • aug 04, 2024

  81. Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity

    177 points • 48 comments • aug 04, 2024

  82. 1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide

    176 points • 162 comments • aug 07, 2024

  83. How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis

    176 points • 136 comments • aug 08, 2024

  84. Jerk

    176 points • 25 comments • aug 04, 2024

  85. Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

    176 points • 169 comments • aug 28, 2024

  86. Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood

    176 points • 66 comments • aug 03, 2024

  87. WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner

    176 points • 24 comments • aug 31, 2024

  88. "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

    175 points • 111 comments • aug 27, 2024

  89. Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing

    175 points • 69 comments • aug 15, 2024

  90. Open Source Twitch for Developers

    175 points • 40 comments • aug 30, 2024

  91. Just use Postgres

    175 points • 154 comments • aug 17, 2024

  92. Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work

    175 points • 61 comments • aug 04, 2024

  93. The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

    174 points • 101 comments • aug 13, 2024

  94. Ruby in Jupyter Notebook

    174 points • 53 comments • aug 25, 2024

  95. Primitive Recursive Functions for a Working Programmer

    174 points • 55 comments • aug 03, 2024

  96. Intel's Immiseration

    173 points • 178 comments • aug 08, 2024

  97. X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to San Jose

    173 points • 229 comments • aug 06, 2024

  98. What Is a Knowledge Graph?

    173 points • 51 comments • aug 16, 2024

  99. Hardware Virtualization

    173 points • 32 comments • aug 22, 2024

  100. The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

    173 points • 71 comments • aug 11, 2024