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  1. Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
    ×3.22 #67 | 312 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 835 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?
    ×3.03 | 55 points by swaptr 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities?
    ×1.85 | 75 points by achenet 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
    ×1.14 | 64 points by pjacotg 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Is AWS S3 having an outage?
    ×1.50 | 90 points by GGO 19 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
    ×1.49 | 81 points by lukaesch 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Why is Google Workspace tech support so bad?
    ×3.43 | 18 points by tepehuani 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: What are your go-to sources for culinary info?
    ×4.25 | 8 points by Michelangelo11 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: Going to oncology (just for adjuvant chemo) how to prepare mentally?
    ×1.29 | 22 points by RicoElectrico 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
    ×1.15 | 8 points by lukaesch 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
    ×2.44 | 115 points by widenrun 3 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?
    ×1.44 | 45 points by sssilver 2 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Hacker News leaderboard with submission and comment counts and average karma
    ×0.53 | 3 points by naveen99 17 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: How do you stay up to date without over consuming?
    ×1.77 | 25 points by haliskerbas 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: What is the misunderstood difference between X-Windows and Wayland?
    ×1.41 | 9 points by vfclists 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Want to get in touch with founders / indie devs who feel burnt out
    ×0.63 | 4 points by PatriceGorissen 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
    ×2.73 | 70 points by jeanlucas 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Is Cookie Pop-Up Protection a Good Idea?
    ×0.24 | 3 points by pipo234 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do you remember what you have read in a book?
    ×0.54 | 20 points by sodiumtech 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Is there service that can add SaaS to many of directories at once?
    ×0.43 | 3 points by ignalex 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: What have been the previous trends in tech?
    ×0.58 | 5 points by Gooblebrai 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: In 2024, is SWE a sustainable career?
    ×2.33 | 38 points by throwaway123198 22 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: What's your experience with building mobile apps using PWA?
    ×0.82 | 17 points by nikasakana 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What are your complaints about Docker/containers, and do VMs address them?
    ×0.63 | 2 points by ATechGuy 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Ask HN: How you all do sales research?
    ×0.49 | 4 points by quoteexcec 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
    ×2.12 | 236 points by MrsPeaches 5 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: How did you improve your ability to do deep work?
    ×1.01 | 14 points by darpyu 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Did anyone adopt any design to code tools in your workflow?
    ×0.77 | 5 points by kavidhasanm 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Do some people combine dumb phones with tablets?
    ×0.85 | 4 points by amichail 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: Is there an API that enables something similar to notebooklm?
    ×0.16 | 2 points by etewiah 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Could HN search special case "HTTP"?
    ×0.33 | 3 points by yawpitch 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Can AI solve the problem of differentiation?
    ×0.24 | 3 points by bstmartin 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to partition tenant data in queue for predictable performance?
    ×0.47 | 3 points by acidity 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Recovered Keychain Passwords After Migration Issue Using iChainbreaker
    ×0.34 | 4 points by asakaev 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. SubsManager: A subscription management tool to manage your online subscriptions
    ×0.50 | 4 points by godarkrai 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Why is the gray color of TailwindCSS dark blue?
    ×0.22 | 5 points by ugur2nd 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Tech Approach to Porch Pirates?
    ×0.88 | 5 points by A4ET8a8uTh0 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Home-Made RTOS on Renode Simulation
    ×0.69 | 7 points by Eplankton 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The Color of Surveillance: Surveillance/Resistance: November 18 (Conference)
    ×0.40 | 4 points by susiecambria 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped (economist.com)
    ×2.78 | 584 points by teleforce 5 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B (nytimes.com)
    ×4.23 | 235 points by gmaster1440 5 days ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio (github.com/tqwewe)
    ×1.38 | 105 points by tqwewe 5 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: Hexabot, Open-source AI Chatbot/Agent Tool (github.com/Hexastack)
    ×3.26 | 18 points by medmarrouchi 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Show HN: Temp.now – A free temporary disposable email generator (temp.now)
    ×2.11 | 45 points by Airyisland 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers (theregister.com)
    ×1.97 #72 | 73 points by LinuxBender 20 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: Zero – A no-framework approach to modern front end development (github.com/nhh)
    ×1.03 | 5 points by _nhh 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: TabGPT - Ask Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude at the Same Time in Chrome (franz101.substack.com)
    ×1.14 | 31 points by hoerzu 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] (wpengine.com)
    ×4.69 | 571 points by dangrossman 5 days ago | 615 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: State-in-url package for state management with URL sync (github.com/asmyshlyaev177)
    ×1.71 | 5 points by asmyshlyaev177 5 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library (flyonui.com)
    ×2.92 | 176 points by devsoul 5 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store (frozenfractal.com)
    ×4.60 | 190 points by grodriguez100 5 days ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Terminal colours are tricky (jvns.ca)
    ×2.05 | 366 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. What excessive screen time does to the adult brain (stanford.edu)
    ×3.76 | 266 points by yamrzou 5 days ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved (goldenowlhunt.com)
    ×1.50 | 192 points by femtozer 5 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.91 | 196 points by andystanton 5 days ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade (ieee.org)
    ×1.03 #39 | 112 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting (unite.ai)
    ×1.18 | 233 points by Hard_Space 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (cloudflare.com)
    ×6.61 | 1499 points by jgrahamc 5 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes (gregorygundersen.com)
    ×1.76 | 210 points by alexmolas 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs (replicate.com)
    ×1.67 | 227 points by fagerhult 5 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018) (plos.org)
    ×1.63 | 324 points by Tomte 5 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    ×1.28 | 247 points by simonpure 5 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Tiiny Color Palette Generator (tiinycolor.com)
    ×0.65 | 11 points by foginni 5 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone (mikrophone.net)
    ×1.47 | 225 points by voxadam 4 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I have published a mobile HN client to have coffee chat with HN users
    ×0.87 | 58 points by canergl 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims (starlink.com)
    ×2.98 | 236 points by ohjeez 4 days ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs (dragas.net)
    ×2.26 | 332 points by msangi 4 days ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT (openai.com)
    ×4.15 | 974 points by davidbarker 4 days ago | 673 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Were RNNs all we needed? (arxiv.org)
    ×2.21 | 508 points by beefman 4 days ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Show HN: A challenging, infinite jumping game with lots of bombs (dotventure.vercel.app)
    ×1.94 | 7 points by sh4jid 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx (htmx.org)
    ×5.99 | 438 points by rmason 4 days ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan (entrepreneur.com)
    ×4.82 | 279 points by christhecaribou 4 days ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: TabGPT – Ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude at the same time with one click (google.com)
    ×1.03 | 5 points by hoerzu 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.92 #86 | 215 points by LinuxBender 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: ASim – generate usable mobile apps instantly (asim.sh)
    ×1.05 | 5 points by dli123 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died (ieee.org)
    ×1.55 | 349 points by jnord 4 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui) (github.com/cxreiff)
    ×1.10 | 119 points by cxreiff 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: Shots Maker – Automate fashion photoshoots with AI (shotsmaker.com)
    ×0.34 | 2 points by felixding 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Show HN: Zero – DX focused non framework to interact with the DOM (github.com/nhh)
    ×0.64 | 33 points by _nhh 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020) (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.56 | 245 points by RadixDLT 4 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: One-click webpage to markdown Chrome extension (for LLM use) (google.com)
    ×0.53 | 2 points by richardreeze 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space (github.com/mitoma)
    ×2.56 | 238 points by hiroshi3110 4 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017) (stackexchange.com)
    ×4.79 | 1042 points by jamesy0ung 4 days ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data (independent.co.uk)
    ×2.70 | 244 points by cpncrunch 4 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing (szymonkaliski.com)
    ×2.89 | 605 points by cernocky 4 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones (nv1t.github.io)
    ×1.53 | 229 points by mtlynch 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Prioritise your to-do list with Eisenhower Matrix, and break them down (zendo.cc)
    ×1.46 | 8 points by peterudokaa 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.53 | 261 points by gniting 4 days ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Study Music Player – One-click extension for focus-enhancing music (google.com)
    ×0.42 | 2 points by drvinays 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: MQTT Alive Daemon – Report Custom Command Results to Home Assistant
    ×1.35 | 5 points by earcar 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???