416

Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?

378

The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature

337

The truffle industry is a scam

263

Consider working on genomics

195

Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut

154

Quest for my perfect watch

148

Regulators OK largest dam demolition in history to restore salmon habitat

142

Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

121

Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs

112

Digging 10 miles underground could yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth

101

How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

99

A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon

99

Putting Z-Library on IPFS

99

Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin

98

Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says

97

Is our definition of burnout all wrong?

96

I quit my programmer job to become a chicken

95

Class-action lawsuit filed against US state agency over mobile 'spyware'

81

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

77

HelenOS: a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch

75

Decision Fatigue

75

Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online

71

Why does the E12 resistor sequence use 27 and 33 instead of 26 and 32?

69

Twitter was special. But it's time to leave

67

Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

61

First Tasting of Plant-Based Oysters in Berkeley, CA

57

Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence

54

Music Mouse

52

'It's like living in an igloo' People are turning off their heat as prices surge

52

Wickr Me is shutting down December 31, 2023

51

Twitter at 1am on a Friday

51

Mystery Blips

49

Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too

48

How the famous “comfy shorts” quote worked in Japanese Pokémon (2018)

47

Show HN: Easylang – A browser-based first programming language

45

Closures and Objects Are Equivalent (2013)

44

Content moderation is broken (2019)

43

Men’s World Cup Soccer Ball, the Al Rihla, Has the Aerodynamics of a Champion

43

Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

42

Latam Airlines Airbus A320neo hits fire engine on runway during take-off

40

Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh

39

Ask HN: How do I build a website as a backend engineer?

37

Go First Dice

37

An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs

37

Power struggles among nice people

36

What the “superforecasters” predict for major events in 2023

35

Show HN: Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser

34

Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects

34

Sweet Shell: With Oh-My-Zsh, SpaceVim, Starship, True Color, and Demo Mode

34

Paris mulls e-scooter ban in global test for micromobility industry

34

Classifying Minds

27

Show HN: OKSolar: Improving Solarized using the OKLab perceptual colorspace

26

TIC-80 tiny computer

26

Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver

25

TinyBIOS – A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun

25

Ask HN: Has there been more conspiracy comments on HN lately?

24

Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school?

24

Twitter removed their diversity page some time between November 16, 2022 and now

23

271 years before Pantone, every color imaginable in an 800-page book

23

Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer (1933)

23

Strategy 101: An introduction to power

23

Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader

22

Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)

21

Marble Solitaire

20

Starting FORTH (1981) [pdf]

20

QuickJS Running in WebAssembly

20

Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator

18

Trust in Musk or go federated with Nextcloud Social

18

Live Coding Video Synth

16

Let's Kill the Universe

14

Ask HN: Any pain points worth building an MVP for?

11

Torsors (2010)

11

DeFi’s Rise to Shame: Its Problems and How to Fix Them

10

Burnham, Elon, and the Revenge of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

10

Berkson's Paradox

9

In Japan, Artisans Create ‘Cut Glass from Edo’

9

Tell HN: DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt

8

The Diligence That's Due

7

Where My Characters Come From

6

Collapse of Carvana, the 'Amazon of Used Cars', Continues

5

The secret lives of compers

5

Restoring my Commodore P50 calculator with a little solder and a 3D printer

5

Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time with a bucket of tricks

5

The hardest to reach website on the internet (?)

5

Siag Office – A Free Office Package for Unix (2006)

5

How to Use Exceptions Correctly

4

Leader as shock absorber

4

Steps to improve your writing (2020)

4

Nix-Lisp: A Lisp implementation written in Nix

4

The Radiation Printer (2000)

4

Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build AI cloud computer

3

Chip Letter Links: ASML, RISC-V, IBM Research, Unix History

3

The Last Viridian Note (2008)

3

Greg Bear to be taken off life support this week end

2

The “Great Reset” is too stupid to be a conspiracy

2

Evolution of tree roots may have caused mass extinction 300M years ago

2

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia

2

Oral History of Blaine Garst (2016) [pdf]

1

Software Rituals [audio]

1

Oikema House of Pleasure by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (2020)