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4981.

Snow Simulation Toy (potch.me)

173 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 44 comments

4982.

Julia (borretti.me)

173 points by ashergill 4 months ago | 33 comments

4983.

Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration (linuxiac.com)

173 points by mvdwoord 3 months ago | 31 comments

4984.

Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)

173 points by elayabharath 4 months ago | 22 comments

4985.

Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)

173 points by speckx 1 month ago | 15 comments

4986.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

172 points by whoishiring 5 months ago | 413 comments

4987.

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed (bbc.co.uk)

172 points by AndrewDucker 2 months ago | 407 comments

4988.

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)

172 points by ghd_ 3 months ago | 322 comments

4989.

Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution (travel.state.gov)

172 points by supernova215 3 months ago | 259 comments

4990.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)

172 points by layer8 4 months ago | 194 comments

4991.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)

172 points by tchalla 2 months ago | 188 comments

4992.

LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant (github.com)

172 points by MallocVoidstar 4 months ago | 155 comments

4993.

AI sticker shock hits corporate America (axios.com)

172 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 month ago | 145 comments

4994.

Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (japantimes.co.jp)

172 points by mikhael 2 months ago | 133 comments

4995.

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe (cepr.org)

172 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | 133 comments

4996.

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (support.apple.com)

172 points by dragonsenseiguy 1 month ago | 114 comments

4997.

LotusNotes (computer.rip)

172 points by TMWNN 3 months ago | 109 comments

4998.

Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com)

172 points by sebakubisz 1 month ago | 82 comments

4999.

curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd (astrid.tech)

172 points by astralbijection 3 months ago | 65 comments

5000.

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)

172 points by luispa 1 month ago | 64 comments

5001.

Kernighan on Programming

172 points by chrisjj 4 months ago | 62 comments

5002.

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024) (thonking.ai)

172 points by tosh 1 month ago | 57 comments

5003.

Corroded: Illegal Rust (github.com)

172 points by csmantle 5 months ago | 56 comments

5004.

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies (projectsaltbox.com)

172 points by cdrnsf 1 month ago | 53 comments

5005.

Decorative Cryptography (dlp.rip)

172 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 52 comments

5006.

Xbox UI Portfolio Site (gabrielcabrera.co)

172 points by valgaze 4 months ago | 51 comments

5007.

I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)

172 points by speckx 2 months ago | 47 comments

5008.

Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side (puzer.github.io)

172 points by puzer 5 months ago | 39 comments

5009.

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference (science.org)

172 points by gmays 1 month ago | 24 comments

5010.

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details (arcanenibble.github.io)

172 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | 20 comments