318

Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?

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281

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

241

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209

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199

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173

High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98

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Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

164

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162

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135

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133

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128

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YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled

108

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106

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101

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97

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96

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91

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Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD

78

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77

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77

Future gigantic solar farms might impact solar power elsewhere in the world

74

The incredible shrinking podcast industry?

69

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65

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50

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46

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45

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43

MIT MicroMasters

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43

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42

Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud

41

Beaver Drop

40

Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers

40

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40

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39

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39

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39

How much of the world is it possible to model?

39

GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him

37

Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging

37

SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support

36

App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline

35

Fossify – Open-source fork of Simple Mobile Tools

35

A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust

34

Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

34

Ask HN: Do companies hire principal and staff level engineers from job postings?

31

What's Gone Wrong at Boeing

31

"Paste this post into ChatGPT 4"

31

PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games

29

Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?

29

Show HN: A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game

25

RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs

25

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss

24

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

24

Tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. It keeps laying off humans

23

Why are cars designed to be capable of going much faster than the speed limit?

23

Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres

23

Ask HN: Learn React or Vue?

22

Americans are fake and the Dutch are rude (2022)

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How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

20

Five richest men have doubled their wealth since 2020

19

AI to hit almost 40% of jobs worldwide

19

Pwned Certificates on the Fediverse

19

Verizon to keep charging controversial fee despite $100M settlement

19

Google is no longer bringing the full Chrome browser to Fuchsia

18

Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide

17

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ARMv8 AArch64/ARM64 Full Beginner's Assembly Tutorial

16

The Metric Red Herring

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Grindavík residents face uncertain future after volcano erupts again

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Oppo Find X7 Ultra: smartphone features the first dual periscope zooms

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Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)

12

86-DOS Revisited

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Cat Drop

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8

The BeOS Bible (1999)

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Boeing to increase quality inspections of 737 MAX production

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Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%

5

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Emu War

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Microsoft is working on a Copilot Pro subscription (APK Teardown)

3

Tell HN: HMD Global might not be the exclusive licensee of Nokia phones anymore

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GameStop Ends NFT Marketplace, Is This Beginning of the End?