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235

Happy New Year HN!

221

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208

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207

I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

161

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147

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130

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124

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112

Git Things

102

Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?

102

Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors

96

How to run a small social network (2019)

95

Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

92

Steamboat Willie [video]

82

Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023

78

A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback

68

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66

The forecasting fallacy (2020)

66

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python

62

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59

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa

57

Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network

56

Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language

55

Live proxy and VPN detection

54

iOS Wi-Fi Profile Generator

50

Blockbuster Alzheimer's paper retracted by former Stanford president

48

Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

47

Threads.net is the new app.net but with ads and interoperable

46

Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos

43

Getting things done in small increments (2022)

41

Sweden Solar System

40

There is an oom kill count in Linux

40

My SBC Collection

37

Will we be addicted to our phones forever? An optimistic outlook

37

Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019)

34

Read fewer books and feel better about it

33

Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.

31

Pushing It Back

31

Ambient Co-Presence

28

Ottopot, a sophisticated DIY MIDI controller

28

Synctify – Sync a music drop with a time in the real world

27

Counterfactual Regret Minimisation or How I won any money in Poker?

26

Test Smarter, Not Harder: Focus on Outcomes, Not Outputs

25

I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay's Getting Off Easy

24

Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines

24

Warchalking

23

A future for SQL on the web (2021)

22

WWII heroics of 'Bazooka Charlie' doubted until daughter sets record straight

21

Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars

21

Logistic Regression for Image Classification Using OpenCV

21

An Easy Fix

20

Half of High School Seniors Won't Apply to Colleges Costing More Than $40k

19

Emoji by Year

17

Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem

17

Return to Innocence

16

Show HN: Pokemon prototype game made with JavaScript and p5.js

16

Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientist declare the first marine fish extinction

15

Nim on a Real-Time Operating System: Apache NuttX RTOS and Ox64 BL808 SBC

15

I want a city, not a museum

14

Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

12

O(1) Build File

12

Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)

11

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)

11

How I destroyed the company's DB

11

White Elephant is surprisingly effective

10

Tesla Cybertruck Charging Curve Confirms Poor Charging Performance

10

January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day

8

Coproc Tutorial (2011)

7

Genuary 2024: Generative Art / Creative Coding Month

7

Steam and Electricity, Part 1: Electric Light

7

Watch out, Fly.io suddenly charging for IPv4 addresses

6

Show HN: Raiseto – Discover and Share Ideas

5

Record Number of Tornadoes in the NWS Chicago Forecast Area in 2023

4

Molecular jackhammers eradicate cancer cells by vibronic-driven action

4

vmcache: Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management [pdf]

3

Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment

3

2023: Year in Review

3

Electric school buses more than doubled in USA from March 2022 to June 2023

3

Mazzle – A Pipelines as Code Tool

3

Ask HN: Is there a data set for GitHub repos associated with academic papers?

2

Karl Hans Janke – The "artist-inventor"

2

Why Android Developers No Longer Need Windows USB Drivers

2

The enduring symbolism of the swimming pool

1

Generative Uncertainty

1

Ask HN: What low risk passive income makes you feel secure?

1

86-DOS Version 0.11 Found

1

Permanent Weight Loss

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Cheapest and Most Expensive Appliances to Run Each Year

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Beep Beep