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1981.

Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)

483 points by bjhess 1 week ago | 74 comments

1982.

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)

482 points by voxadam 3 months ago | 787 comments

1983.

How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)

482 points by iamskeole 2 months ago | 671 comments

1984.

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world (axios.com)

482 points by skx001 5 months ago | 378 comments

1985.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (anthropic.com)

482 points by vismit2000 3 months ago | 347 comments

1986.

Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)

482 points by gurjeet 2 months ago | 326 comments

1987.

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed (utcc.utoronto.ca)

482 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 299 comments

1988.

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)

482 points by throw0101a 2 months ago | 211 comments

1989.

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking (lighthousereports.com)

482 points by _tk_ 6 months ago | 162 comments

1990.

FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font (arcade.pirillo.com)

482 points by rendx 1 month ago | 157 comments

1991.

Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

482 points by ffin 2 weeks ago | 152 comments

1992.

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

482 points by jxmorris12 11 months ago | 150 comments

1993.

Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear (rockefeller.edu)

482 points by marc__1 7 months ago | 92 comments

1994.

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel (0xkato.xyz)

482 points by 0xkato 6 months ago | 89 comments

1995.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (reuters.com)

481 points by c420 2 months ago | 959 comments

1996.

Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to (huijzer.xyz)

481 points by huijzer 5 months ago | 372 comments

1997.

Pebble Round 2 (repebble.com)

481 points by jackwilsdon 4 months ago | 296 comments

1998.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) (africa.upenn.edu)

481 points by hn_acker 3 months ago | 170 comments

1999.

“Are you the one?” is free money (blog.owenlacey.dev)

481 points by samwho 4 months ago | 115 comments

2000.

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch (github.com)

481 points by yousef_g 10 months ago | 77 comments

2001.

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (newyorker.com)

481 points by thm 4 months ago | 68 comments

2002.

Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem (epoch.ai)

480 points by in-silico 1 month ago | 706 comments

2003.

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine (solarshades.club)

480 points by notarobot123 11 months ago | 647 comments

2004.

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (martinalderson.com)

480 points by jnord 1 month ago | 351 comments

2005.

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers (lwn.net)

480 points by pabs3 8 months ago | 326 comments

2006.

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)

480 points by user5994461 3 months ago | 276 comments

2007.

The Onion to Take over InfoWars (nytimes.com)

480 points by lxm 1 week ago | 269 comments

2008.

Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)

480 points by speckx 2 months ago | 261 comments

2009.

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture (unkey.com)

480 points by vednig 6 months ago | 260 comments

2010.

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware (blog.google)

480 points by AbhishekParmar 6 months ago | 258 comments