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  1. Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace?
    ×1.00 #43 | 25 points by heartag 3 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: How do you do personal backups in 2023? (Google and Dropbox issues)
    ×0.97 | 3 points by cl42 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Try Our AI Assistant at 650-460-2286 – Feedback Welcome
    ×1.40 | 3 points by z61a 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
    ×2.21 | 211 points by vanschelven 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
    ×1.14 | 103 points by sandreas 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Ask HN: GPT 4 Vision can't tell the difference between fonts. Am I asking wrong?
    ×0.08 | 2 points by unsupp0rted 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: Meta's Threads is dead, isn't it?
    ×1.17 | 12 points by paganel 13 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: How to stick one project only so you can finish it
    ×0.58 | 8 points by mhrnik 15 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channels to follow?
    ×1.51 | 86 points by daynum 2 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: The sky was orange and purple for a few minutes today in Cardiff
    ×0.58 | 12 points by acheong08 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: How Do You Get over Worthlessness Feeling After Restructuring?
    ×0.54 | 5 points by tw3999482 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Can a startup do well with mediocre early employees?
    ×1.04 | 10 points by asilia 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Ask HN: 3 years ago the end of Centos Linux was announced, where are we now?
    ×0.77 | 9 points by porjo 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Life Changing Books on Sex and Relationships
    ×1.29 | 41 points by rookie123 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Plexiglass: A toolbox for testing against adversarial attacks in DNNs and LLMs
    ×0.18 | 5 points by kanxx030 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Tell HN: I Don't Want to Use Email as a Password
    ×1.70 | 22 points by CPLX 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: Are companies taking longer to extend offers?
    ×0.59 | 2 points by a_lifters_life 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: Best of Open-Source
    ×0.32 | 6 points by sujayk_33 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: Anyone else getting an empty landing page on YouTube while logged out?
    ×0.12 | 2 points by SiempreViernes 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Final in Java 22: Foreign Function and Memory API
    ×0.33 | 5 points by lichtenberger 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Ask HN: Is it possible to land a job after getting fired from YC startup
    ×0.58 | 6 points by mythrowawayacnt 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ask HN: What were the top AI product launches of 2023?
    ×0.25 | 5 points by guesto 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Tell HN: Amazon AWS abuse report form returns "Something went wrong"
    ×0.70 | 4 points by buccal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Ask HN: How did you land your first job?
    ×0.80 | 9 points by sujayk_33 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Postgres and wsl2 and podman vs. Postgres and windows
    ×0.21 | 3 points by osigurdson 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Tell HN: 23andMe Terms of Service Update
    ×1.15 | 29 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
    ×4.07 | 80 points by apantel 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Ask HN: Leave and exercise shares (and get poor), or stay put (and get bored)?
    ×0.25 | 4 points by marloc 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: Choice of Chair?
    ×0.21 | 3 points by danielovichdk 2 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Ask HN: How do you bootstrap your software projects?
    ×0.32 | 5 points by thesurlydev 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. OWASP PTK news feature – JWT Inspector
    ×0.15 | 2 points by DenisPodgurskii 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: AI Voice Reverse
    ×0.25 | 3 points by loregate 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Ask HN: How to use your sequenced genome?
    ×1.22 | 6 points by BrandoElFollito 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
    ×1.26 | 18 points by sujayk_33 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Ask HN: Using WebSockets instead of mqtt for IoT
    ×0.35 | 2 points by willemmerson 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Ask HN: Where do you find community outside of work?
    ×1.26 | 6 points by artkulak 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social Platforms Help?
    ×0.37 | 10 points by YT-Main 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: Do you user finger or other "old" protocols?
    ×0.19 | 5 points by shortrounddev2 3 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. You Do Not Need a Vector Database (For RAG): Benchmarking IR Methods
    ×0.55 | 9 points by ylow 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: What extra-ordinary presents can you think of for kids?
    ×0.35 | 4 points by mezod 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address
    ×6.53 | 68 points by cybice 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Ask HN: What do you want or not want to see in developer newsletters?
    ×0.52 | 3 points by shreythecray 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money?
    ×0.57 | 44 points by Gooblebrai 2 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?
    ×2.57 | 30 points by atleastoptimal 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: Why do so few people work on important problems?
    ×2.57 | 9 points by marrano 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: Discarding the climate argument, what's in it for a person buying an EV?
    ×1.68 | 5 points by JumpinJack_Cash 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ask HN: Why is it taken for granted that LLM models will keep improving?
    ×1.51 | 49 points by slalomskiing 3 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for yourself?
    ×0.88 | 2 points by artkulak 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ask HN: Need ethical advice on separation involving illness
    ×2.00 | 4 points by momo89 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. How do you reach management/decision makers at companies that hide 'em?
    ×0.75 | 2 points by 4midori 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server? (how-did-i-get-here.net)
    ×3.29 | 647 points by archmaster 3 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android (beeper.com)
    ×5.47 | 1490 points by erohead 3 days ago | 863 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. iMessage, explained (jjtech.dev)
    ×3.68 | 609 points by spoon16 3 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Common Voice (mozilla.org)
    ×1.81 | 319 points by oblib 3 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Show HN: Desert Atlas, a self-hosted OpenStreetMap app for Sandstorm (sandstorm.org)
    ×0.81 | 99 points by orblivion 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft (generallyintelligent.substack.com)
    ×1.74 | 354 points by dmakian 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web (bikobatanari.art)
    ×1.42 | 157 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python (github.com/DropbaseHQ)
    ×1.37 | 202 points by jimmyechan 3 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Show HN: Open-Source JSON Schema Enforcer for LLMs (github.com/olivierDuchenne)
    ×1.01 | 5 points by duchenne 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Solving NYT Connections with ChatGPT (github.com/ericsoderstrom)
    ×0.84 | 7 points by ekms 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need (arxiv.org)
    ×1.33 | 179 points by tosh 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework (rubyonjets.com)
    ×1.59 #70 | 286 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform (twitter.com/OldRowSwig)
    ×3.12 | 220 points by hammock 3 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive (googleblog.com)
    ×1.39 | 253 points by r00tbeer 3 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. All my favorite tracing tools (thume.ca)
    ×1.91 | 342 points by trishume 3 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Frogtab – Private, peaceful task management (frogtab.com)
    ×1.24 | 6 points by dwilding 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.56 | 221 points by derstander 3 days ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script? (drhyperion451.github.io)
    ×2.83 | 285 points by colinprince 3 days ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Marginalia Integrated Site Explorer (marginalia.nu)
    ×1.86 | 11 points by marginalia_nu 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. MLX: NumPy like framework for Apple Silicon by Apple (ml-explore.github.io)
    ×1.86 | 159 points by dagmx 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Show HN: SOTA Sentence Embeddings on MTEB Leaderboard (github.com/SeanLee97)
    ×0.62 | 3 points by yokee 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon (github.com/ml-explore)
    ×2.29 | 233 points by jacobkahn 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. An update on Twitch in Korea (twitch.tv)
    ×3.63 | 214 points by zeroCalories 3 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Go Testing by Example [video] (swtch.com)
    ×1.53 | 177 points by ash 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. JSONB has landed (sqlite.org)
    ×4.02 | 656 points by nalgeon 2 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? (aphyr.com)
    ×2.08 | 463 points by manicennui 2 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam (tuta.com)
    ×4.19 | 226 points by grammers 2 days ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up (newatlas.com)
    ×1.85 | 161 points by clouddrover 2 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling (scarletink.com)
    ×2.33 | 170 points by jseliger 2 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. I'm building a self-destructing USB drive (2022) (interruptlabs.ca)
    ×0.82 #88 | 46 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. WikEM, the Global Emergency Medicine Wiki (wikem.org)
    ×1.05 #90 | 103 points by pndy 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020) (thehustle.co)
    ×2.54 #69 | 414 points by Vagantem 1 day ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation (pythonafrica.blogspot.com)
    ×3.22 | 305 points by Vinnl 2 days ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. The Morgan XP-1 is an eccentric English electric vehicle (arstechnica.com)
    ×1.60 #10 | 11 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Show HN: Round-Trip Encrypted HTTPS Exfiltration Tool (github.com/blackhillsinfosec)
    ×0.41 | 9 points by ImpostorKeanu 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. The Case of the Missing Vega AVUM Propellant Tanks (europeanspaceflight.com)
    ×0.27 #27 | 6 points by georgecmu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: Free story generator using Cloudflare Workers AI (aiphotoshoot.com)
    ×0.98 | 5 points by jackculpan 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: Free No-code tool to design and deploy cloud infrastructure in minutes (archformation.com)
    ×1.30 | 6 points by irynapoida 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Rethinking serverless with FLAME (fly.io)
    ×2.56 | 393 points by kiwicopple 2 days ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade (svt.se)
    ×4.05 | 214 points by thecopy 2 days ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???