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  1. Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage (euronews.com)
    ×4.00 10 #11 | 47 points by austinallegro 2 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak (wsj.com)
    ×3.18 44 #55 | 11 points by albertop 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)
    ×3.30 33 #38 | 128 points by bikenaga 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people (noahpinion.blog)
    ×3.25 45 | 6 points by teractiveodular 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The Rise of Post-Literate History (compactmag.com)
    ×1.93 13 #28 | 7 points by bertman 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. A Minecraft server written in COBOL (github.com/meyfa)
    ×2.87 11 #18 | 20 points by notamy 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Ask HN: What was your most successful project of 2024?
    ×2.46 53 | 4 points by ricardolive 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Understanding Cursor and WindSurf's Code Indexing Logic (pixelstech.net)
    ×2.32 55 | 4 points by misonic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Differential Growth Addon for Blender (okunskiy.name)
    ×2.03 3 #3 | 68 points by kelseyfrog 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)
    ×5.16 1 #4 | 1012 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Node.js enables TypeScript support by default (github.com/nodejs)
    ×2.34 44 | 4 points by satanacchio 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server (github.com/blackcandy-org)
    ×2.20 1 #1 | 248 points by nateb2022 6 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Racket School 2019: The "How to Design Languages" Track (racket-lang.org)
    ×1.42 8 #5 | 9 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten if it wasn't for a plague (theguardian.com)
    ×2.69 39 | 5 points by teleforce 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Merry Christmas Everyone
    ×7.99 36 #46 | 1390 points by joshagilend 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust (egui.rs)
    ×2.26 2 #2 | 197 points by josephcsible 7 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. $1600 aluminum Icebreaker keyboard (serene.industries)
    ×2.18 37 | 4 points by unsnap_biceps 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines did not pollute environment (eurekalert.org)
    ×1.38 1 #40 | 5 points by instagraham 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software (github.com/siyuan-note)
    ×2.05 2 #7 | 89 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Installing OpenWRT on an Unsupported Router (radiosocial.de)
    ×2.57 6 #12 | 78 points by _Microft 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
    ×1.09 69 | 5 points by Jsttan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony (pbat.ch)
    ×1.42 1 #6 | 47 points by zebproj 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (igorstechnoclub.com)
    ×2.73 22 #30 | 222 points by Igor_Wiwi 12 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Oregon house cat dies from eating product that tested positive for bird flu (cnn.com)
    ×2.50 17 #85 | 9 points by bikenaga 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Fans of Iain Banks, please explain – a.k.a. "player of games" book review
    ×1.91 14 | 4 points by shwouchk 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Escaping Ruby's Gem:SafeMarshal Sandbox (nastystereo.com)
    ×1.35 2 | 3 points by pentestercrab 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet (youtube.com)
    ×1.35 5 | 3 points by thecybernerd 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Tell HN: Check your old YouTube videos
    ×3.07 | 8 points by phendrenad2 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Seconds Since the Epoch (aphyr.com)
    ×1.75 4 #8 | 103 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The bald eagle is officially America's national bird. Here's why it took so long (npr.org)
    ×1.04 10 #71 | 3 points by divbzero 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
    ×3.24 31 #56 | 151 points by meridion 17 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Reasons of State: Why Didn't Denmark Sell Greenland? (gwern.net)
    ×1.39 13 | 3 points by Apocryphon 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Pollution resistance of Saturn's ring particles during micrometeoroid impact (nature.com)
    ×1.39 15 | 3 points by nobody9999 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?
    ×4.46 33 | 92 points by hubraumhugo 23 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Hackers are using Russian domains to launch document-based phishing attacks (msn.com)
    ×1.38 1 | 4 points by botanicals6 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
    ×5.25 20 #69 | 230 points by christophilus 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks (sherlockproject.xyz)
    ×2.66 25 #42 | 222 points by leonry 16 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Coccinelle (kernel.org)
    ×1.22 36 #80 | 18 points by josephcsible 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. High housing prices are caused by government's zoning laws (nahro.org)
    ×2.35 28 #47 | 16 points by madihaa 12 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road (theguardian.com)
    ×2.21 7 #16 | 125 points by thunderbong 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Ask HN: Practical Tips to Stay Productive?
    ×3.63 15 | 45 points by sujayk_33 21 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Nonlinear Circuits Handbook (1976) (analog.com)
    ×1.68 47 #50 | 7 points by segfaultbuserr 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com/Jaennaet)
    ×4.85 15 #31 | 1046 points by ajdude 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Design Space for Code Search Query (ast-grep.github.io)
    ×0.65 12 #9 | 11 points by ncts 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Ask HN: What to do when you're out of money and can't find a job?
    ×3.75 32 | 13 points by whoshiring57392 17 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth' (grist.org)
    ×2.40 56 #88 | 140 points by rntn 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker (supersnowflakemaker.com)
    ×1.62 17 #36 | 107 points by shalanah 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.60 32 #62 | 67 points by starbugs 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: I built an AI-powered website builder–no code required (aiwebsitebuilder.tech)
    ×1.15 48 | 3 points by bilalmoten26 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Ruby 3.4.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×3.35 6 #33 | 354 points by aaronbrethorst 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Ask HN: What are you working on (December 2024)?
    ×2.38 17 | 14 points by vitaly-pavlenko 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Tell HN: 2FA code for Google account gone after Google Authenticator update
    ×2.13 4 | 18 points by butz 15 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports (github.com/drk1wi)
    ×1.77 4 #10 | 249 points by nateb2022 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. DNS Nameservers (potaroo.net)
    ×1.16 50 #53 | 7 points by belter 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Reads Causing Writes in Postgres (jesipow.com)
    ×1.42 7 #13 | 114 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Ask HN: Are living through a quiet offshoring wave akin to the 90s wave?
    ×2.12 42 | 8 points by rizs12 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor (danielmangum.com)
    ×1.42 18 #15 | 81 points by hasheddan 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI (theregister.com)
    ×5.43 53 #67 | 98 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Ncurses-rs has been archived (github.com/jeaye)
    ×0.79 89 #60 | 3 points by zdw 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Is Christmas Efficient? (2013) (marginalrevolution.com)
    ×0.91 14 #21 | 35 points by arcdefoo 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Ask HN: Best thing you learned in 2024?
    ×3.02 62 | 11 points by Igor_Wiwi 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Map of YC Startups (yc-map.vercel.app)
    ×1.03 13 #24 | 52 points by yoouareperfect 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Another Hoarder,but Running on a Cloudflare Worker
    ×2.70 77 | 6 points by Ray-D-Song 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Homepagr – Bookmarks for Work (homepagr.com)
    ×1.40 57 | 6 points by memset 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Boids, an artificial life program, which simulates flocking behavior of birds (cornell.edu)
    ×1.67 42 #51 | 26 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Show HN: Podcast API (listennotes.com)
    ×1.73 80 | 4 points by wenbin 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I Thought I Found a Bug (os2museum.com)
    ×1.03 9 #22 | 72 points by MBCook 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: What are the best books you read in 2024?
    ×2.41 67 | 9 points by arcticf0x 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war (theguardian.com)
    ×1.57 17 #25 | 141 points by Sami_Lehtinen 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?
    ×1.26 15 #49 | 123 points by thinking_banana 17 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. 'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images (abovethelaw.com)
    ×6.78 27 | 382 points by haunter 3 days ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. This open problem taught me what topology is [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.98 7 #17 | 402 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Merry Christmas
    ×2.92 64 | 21 points by aabiji 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Ask HN: How far did you get with your 2024 goals?
    ×1.29 78 | 5 points by meridion 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free (twitter.com/spatiallyjess)
    ×3.32 18 | 267 points by taubek 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. F*: A proof oriented general purpose programming language (fstar-lang.org)
    ×1.36 14 #14 | 198 points by akkad33 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers (mitanshu.tech)
    ×1.85 16 #29 | 258 points by Quizzical4230 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Show HN: SMS Reminders for Birthdays (birthdaytexts.com)
    ×1.01 83 | 4 points by mperu 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Into CPS, Never to Return (bernsteinbear.com)
    ×0.91 7 #19 | 96 points by g0xA52A2A 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (wolfram.com)
    ×2.10 9 #52 | 378 points by ryeguy_24 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide (doctorswithoutborders.org)
    ×13.28 94 | 315 points by lr0 6 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one? (ourworldindata.org)
    ×1.05 20 #39 | 49 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. 38th Chaos Communication Congress (ccc.de)
    ×3.19 21 | 342 points by joeig 2 days ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. A new learning experience on MDN (mozilla.org)
    ×1.21 20 #20 | 150 points by Vinnl 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Converting shopping malls into apartments [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.75 24 #27 | 37 points by debo_ 13 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Avid Hates You (avidhatesyou.blogspot.com)
    ×1.56 49 #64 | 37 points by gnulinux996 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe (cnx-software.com)
    ×0.80 24 #26 | 48 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?
    ×3.63 53 | 101 points by dheera 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. C++ is an absolute blast (learncodethehardway.com)
    ×4.06 16 | 299 points by ok123456 2 days ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. My Colleague Julius (ploum.net)
    ×4.10 13 | 530 points by dabacaba 2 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???