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1981.

The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (dl.acm.org)

362 points by ksec 3 months ago | 280 comments

1982.

Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)

362 points by tosh 3 weeks ago | 249 comments

1983.

Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)

362 points by trocado 2 months ago | 239 comments

1984.

ESP32-S31 (espressif.com)

362 points by volemo 2 weeks ago | 200 comments

1985.

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (bbc.com)

362 points by tchalla 3 months ago | 194 comments

1986.

We installed a single turnstile to feel secure (idiallo.com)

362 points by firefoxd 3 months ago | 192 comments

1987.

Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events (nytimes.com)

361 points by RestlessMind 2 months ago | 843 comments

1988.

BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal (bloomberg.com)

361 points by toomuchtodo 5 months ago | 662 comments

1989.

Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)

361 points by azhenley 4 months ago | 219 comments

1990.

Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app (ente.com)

361 points by matthiaswh 2 months ago | 178 comments

1991.

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)

361 points by jamie-simon 1 month ago | 166 comments

1992.

European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps (only-eu.eu)

361 points by madman_dev 2 months ago | 158 comments

1993.

Even more batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)

361 points by signa11 1 week ago | 135 comments

1994.

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)

361 points by adityaathalye 2 months ago | 121 comments

1995.

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system (news.mit.edu)

361 points by speckx 6 days ago | 55 comments

1996.

Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching (sciencedirect.com)

360 points by jdthedisciple 2 months ago | 514 comments

1997.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

360 points by whoishiring 5 months ago | 410 comments

1998.

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (dexerto.com)

360 points by slymax 5 days ago | 330 comments

1999.

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)

360 points by prophylaxis 4 months ago | 270 comments

2000.

WebMCP is available for early preview (developer.chrome.com)

360 points by andsoitis 3 months ago | 216 comments

2001.

Termux (github.com)

360 points by tosh 4 months ago | 180 comments

2002.

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (github.com)

360 points by sammyyyyyyy 5 months ago | 123 comments

2003.

Can Bundler be as fast as uv? (tenderlovemaking.com)

360 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 102 comments

2004.

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year (arstechnica.com)

360 points by greenchair 4 days ago | 4 comments

2005.

Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway (cleantechnica.com)

359 points by whynotmaybe 4 months ago | 366 comments

2006.

Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)

359 points by jwilk 2 weeks ago | 345 comments

2007.

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)

359 points by doener 5 months ago | 331 comments

2008.

Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police (twitter.com)

359 points by I_am_tiberius 10 hours ago | 319 comments

2009.

Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC (openai.com)

359 points by hackerBanana 1 week ago | 317 comments

2010.

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

359 points by gasull 1 month ago | 214 comments