517

Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

297

Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test

263

The type system is a programmer's best friend

243

Birdwatch, Twitter's collaborative fact checking system

233

Quantum winter is coming

232

Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?

220

Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot

200

Mastodon Explained

200

Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)

163

Idaho Stop

156

Negative 2000 Lines of Code (1982)

140

Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds

137

NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures

120

Engineered ‘Superplant’ Cleans Indoor Air Like 30 Regular Plants

120

Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’

118

Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing

103

Searchable List of Mastodon Servers

96

To get kids into science, just do it

96

Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

95

The RS-232 protocol [video]

89

TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough

87

Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back

86

Context to Twitter's 2023 advertisers issues

86

Thoughts on the “guard” proposal for Go's error handling

85

Twitter, when the wall came down

77

Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving

75

Bars in Antarctica

68

Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim

64

World’s largest exoskeleton mech suit inspires a new sport

64

Peto’s Paradox

63

Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range

63

Git as a janky Twitter replacement

61

Physical Warp Drives (2021)

58

PayPal Allows Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication with a Button Click

57

10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator

57

Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter

57

Microneedle patch digs deep to regenerate hair in bald mice

56

Jack Dorsey: “I grew the company size too quickly”

55

Poll: How Old Are You?

53

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

51

3D OpenStreetMap

51

Centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate knowledge

50

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less

48

The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers

42

Pathfinding Visualizer

40

Bashing new myths about digital nomads

40

Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel

39

Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased

39

Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

38

Ask HN: How to deal with my team speaking a different language?

38

On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away

37

Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method

36

Sega is keeping mini consoles alive

35

IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

34

Ask HN: Is everyone on Hacker News super charismatic?

34

Will Twitter outlast this lettuce?

34

Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection

26

Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth

24

A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother

24

Color of text on monochrome terminals with green-on-black and amber-on-black?

23

Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040

22

eBPF – Adding functionality to OS at runtime

19

Stewart Brand says he’s still an optimist

18

Meta’s Meltdown Shows How Big Tech’s Invincible Era Is Over

16

QualityScaler: Image/video deeplearning upscaler with any GPU

16

Hurricane Ian and EV Fires

15

An antiwar masterpiece misunderstood… or was it? [video]

15

Pieca: A Raspberry Pi Camera System for Leica M Mount Lenses

14

Soul, SQLite REST server is realtime now. WebSockets added

14

A Step by Step Backpropagation Example (2015)

14

The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody

13

Ask HN: How do you discover features in unknown code bases?

13

About political messages on the Rust blog

13

Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee

13

The Technorati Generation

12

Twitter UK staff get deadline over cuts consultation

11

drgn: A programmable C debugger, scriptable from Python

10

Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age

9

Telescope Rule (2008)

9

Writing as Microcosm, Part One: Publish and Perish

9

So today musl discovered a longstanding bug in Linux's ELF loader

9

Anscombe's Quartet

8

Towards Moore's Law Software (2008)

7

Fast Functional Lists, Hash-Lists, Deques and Variable Length Arrays [pdf] (2002)

7

Tell HN: Linode's Abuse form is absolute garbage

6

“I worked at Facebook when we [were] 200. [Twitter’s] layoffs are appropriate”

6

Manyverse

6

Mastodon – Simplified Federation

5

The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice

5

Fractal tasks and the journey through the forest of the infinite (2020)

4

Pinafore is a web client for Mastodon, designed for speed and simplicity

4

Pleroma, LitePub, ActivityPub and JSON-LD (2018)

4

Indieweb and self-hosting my own space

4

Z-Library eBook site domains seized by U.S. Dept of Justice

4

Newton Minow discusses broadcasting (1964) [audio]

4

Janus-UAE (Amiga Emulator)

4

Using sound to model the world

3

Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC

3

Lessons from the invention of the thermometer

3

Performance Musings