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  1. Here's what an organized Substack / HN plagiarism campaign looks like
    ×12.59 | 26 points by troydavis 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat (ubuntu.com)
    ×9.17 | 164 points by jeswin 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold (arstechnica.com)
    ×7.39 | 114 points by addaon 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: Anyone else depressed by the relentless monetization and spying?
    ×6.08 | 59 points by Razengan 15 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal (reuters.com)
    ×5.91 | 528 points by amateurhuman 2 days ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest (theverge.com)
    ×5.82 | 788 points by vyrotek 2 days ago | 1652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris (elpais.com)
    ×5.79 | 130 points by geox 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: OSS Gallery – Crowdsourced list of the best open-source projects (oss.gallery)
    ×5.45 | 20 points by steventey 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Passkeys: A shattered dream (blackhats.net.au)
    ×5.24 #16 | 527 points by nmjenkins 16 hours ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. 'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines (japantimes.co.jp)
    ×5.03 | 115 points by mikhael 2 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules (nytimes.com)
    ×5.02 #33 | 951 points by throwup238 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×4.94 | 225 points by ngetchell 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Big telecom used fake and dead people to fight net neutrality, New York AG says (vice.com)
    ×4.84 | 155 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion (ibm.com)
    ×4.65 | 360 points by hnrc 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft (reddit.com)
    ×4.64 | 104 points by iosystem 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing (mataroa.blog)
    ×4.54 | 102 points by ludicity 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting (wsj.com)
    ×4.50 | 396 points by impish9208 2 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ask HN: What are your unused domain names? 2024 Edition
    ×4.50 | 5 points by JohnTHaller 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community (pretty.direct)
    ×4.41 #77 | 105 points by skilled 6 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.35 #75 | 24 points by rntn 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services (federalregister.gov)
    ×4.18 | 487 points by chadsix 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice (thebaltimorebanner.com)
    ×4.12 | 208 points by timcobb 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights (go.com)
    ×4.07 | 696 points by vyrotek 1 day ago | 340 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×4.07 #66 | 144 points by docdeek 13 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says (seattletimes.com)
    ×3.88 | 132 points by 8BitArmour 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years (loglog.games)
    ×3.85 #1 | 535 points by darthdeus 3 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Half of Russia's payments to China made through middlemen (reuters.com)
    ×3.81 | 6 points by JumpCrisscross 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×3.75 | 815 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.61 | 132 points by toss1 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. School principal framed using AI-generated racist rant. Co-worker charged (cbsnews.com)
    ×3.61 #85 | 69 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks (wadetregaskis.com)
    ×3.59 | 242 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Ask HN: Has anyone improved their life by underachieving at work?
    ×3.58 | 4 points by temp1714136778 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Albert Einstein: Why Socialism? (archive.org)
    ×3.54 #71 | 8 points by TotalCrackpot 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.49 | 153 points by marban 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, We Made a FF Extension to Replace (theluddite.org)
    ×3.49 | 105 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.47 | 169 points by MBCook 22 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Jeff Lawson buys The Onion (nytimes.com)
    ×3.33 #49 | 368 points by coloneltcb 21 hours ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: What is the next step in a software engineer's career?
    ×3.31 | 3 points by cranberryturkey 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims,trial reveals (theguardian.com)
    ×3.15 #2 | 143 points by swores 5 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs (sans.edu)
    ×3.10 | 140 points by babuskov 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op (theguardian.com)
    ×3.06 | 293 points by toss1 2 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: I put PubMed in a vector DB (pubmedisearch.com)
    ×3.00 #56 | 53 points by mpmisko 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Open Sourcing DOS 4 (hanselman.com)
    ×2.96 #18 | 701 points by ndiddy 23 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. React 19 Beta (react.dev)
    ×2.96 #79 | 38 points by DustinBrett 15 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: CTO – The Missing Manual for Managing (amazingcto.com)
    ×2.95 | 7 points by KingOfCoders 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: AI / LLM bot blocker web server configs (github.com/anthmn)
    ×2.81 | 2 points by anthonyhn 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.80 #89 | 377 points by elorant 1 day ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Alabama House of Representatives advances bill allowing arrest of librarians (alreporter.com)
    ×2.77 #54 | 6 points by hollywood_court 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com)
    ×2.74 #63 | 357 points by agomez314 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. AI earbuds startup aims to ship its first product this year (businessinsider.com)
    ×2.72 | 3 points by barium 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. It's Been a Year and Georgia.gov Continues to Be Hacked (boehs.org)
    ×2.71 #74 | 147 points by internetter 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them (malcolmcoles.com)
    ×2.68 #36 | 19 points by fanf2 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. I Kinda Hate the Internet Now (trend-mill.com)
    ×2.63 | 4 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. What I remember about Flint water crisis was how state government lied (freep.com)
    ×2.63 #9 | 26 points by rmason 57 minutes ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.60 | 140 points by panabee 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Lost opportunity: We could've started fighting climate change in 1971 (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.59 #50 | 19 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition (theregister.com)
    ×2.56 #30 | 178 points by rntn 8 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread (statnews.com)
    ×2.55 | 127 points by divbzero 11 hours ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. A useful front-end confetti animation library (github.com/catdad)
    ×2.51 #80 | 454 points by blini2077 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning (github.com/myshell-ai)
    ×2.50 #47 | 225 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party (aftermath.site)
    ×2.49 | 222 points by gaws 2 days ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014) (nautil.us)
    ×2.48 #13 | 211 points by ColinWright 12 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Ask HN: Anyone following UAP disclosure and what are your thought?
    ×2.47 | 3 points by mdgrech23 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Tell HN: Protonmail Is Having an Outage
    ×2.41 | 3 points by Raed667 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. I could have been happy with Windows (hey.com)
    ×2.40 | 4 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Enshittification in Action: Escape from Tarkov's Unheard Edition
    ×2.34 | 7 points by Arrath 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Ask HN: How do you use ChatGPT in your daily activities?
    ×2.34 | 2 points by Igor_Wiwi 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)
    ×2.33 | 222 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Discover what tools makers and designers are using daily (ramen.tools)
    ×2.31 | 5 points by sam_fr 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. When do we stop finding new music? (statsignificant.com)
    ×2.24 #78 | 391 points by commons-tragedy 2 days ago | 553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. How I search in 2024 (vickiboykis.com)
    ×2.23 | 3 points by exolymph 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf] (abc.xyz)
    ×2.23 #82 | 154 points by neel8986 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments (nbcnews.com)
    ×2.22 | 3 points by kevmo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. The US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming elections (cnn.com)
    ×2.22 | 3 points by MilnerRoute 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again (digiday.com)
    ×2.21 | 159 points by Vinnl 2 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets (breakingdefense.com)
    ×2.19 #72 | 244 points by dcgoss 1 day ago | 396 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. What is a good machine to run LLM's on?
    ×2.18 | 3 points by rabbitofdeath 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts (reason.com)
    ×2.18 #67 | 213 points by perihelions 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model (replicate.com)
    ×2.16 | 309 points by cuuupid 2 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Regulators Tie Tesla's Autopilot to More Than 12 Fatalities, Crashes (wsj.com)
    ×2.16 | 3 points by gnicholas 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Message from a Gazan to Campus Protesters: You're Hurting the Palestinian Cause (newsweek.com)
    ×2.15 | 4 points by orisho 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. MFJ is ceasing its on-site production (mailchi.mp)
    ×2.13 #70 | 154 points by lightlyused 20 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (mit.edu)
    ×2.13 #34 | 245 points by bauruine 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×2.11 #21 | 176 points by GalaxySnail 8 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Americans Just Work Harder (sherwood.news)
    ×2.09 | 3 points by Anon84 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Ask HN: The Lottery Question
    ×2.09 | 1 points by Quinzel 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Palm OS and the devices that ran it (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.08 | 150 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Show HN: I made a site for practicing front end debugging with real-world bugs (codemender.io)
    ×2.07 | 4 points by selvio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties (jakearchibald.com)
    ×2.05 #53 | 360 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Building an open data pipeline in 2024 (twingdata.com)
    ×2.04 | 1 points by dangoldin 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???