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841.

Space Elevator (neal.fun)

1456 points by nivethan on Apr 19, 2023 | 207 comments

842.

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites (haaretz.com)

1455 points by ahmetcadirci25 on Jun 28, 2025 | 1122 comments

843.

CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals (sciencedirect.com)

1455 points by shannietron on May 2, 2017 | 239 comments

844.

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen (theverge.com)

1454 points by kwindla on Apr 25, 2025 | 1297 comments

845.

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (anthropic.com)

1454 points by weirdcat on Oct 22, 2024 | 735 comments

846.

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN (techcrunch.com)

1454 points by randomacct3847 on Jan 29, 2019 | 445 comments

847.

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months (samcurry.net)

1454 points by samwcyo on Oct 8, 2020 | 308 comments

848.

Is that ship still stuck? (istheshipstillstuck.com)

1453 points by ColinWright on Mar 25, 2021 | 1237 comments

849.

Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays (news.ycombinator.com)

1452 points by O__________O on Dec 23, 2022 | 152 comments

850.

I made a smart watch from scratch (m.imgur.com)

1451 points by mnem on Apr 30, 2019 | 216 comments

851.

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system (twitter.com)

1450 points by dmit on May 10, 2017 | 522 comments

852.

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos (fightchatcontrol.eu)

1450 points by MrBruh 5 months ago | 393 comments

853.

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

1450 points by andrelaszlo on Feb 18, 2022 | 202 comments

854.

I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)

1449 points by mfiguiere 6 months ago | 1131 comments

855.

Facebook acquires Oculus VR (facebook.com)

1449 points by nav on Mar 25, 2014 | 837 comments

856.

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (svd.se)

1448 points by sandbach 6 months ago | 809 comments

857.

Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees (dystroy.org)

1448 points by gilad on Jan 9, 2020 | 287 comments

858.

Amazon's customer service backdoor (medium.com)

1447 points by grapehut on Jan 24, 2016 | 356 comments

859.

A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used (jsfiddle.net)

1447 points by ondras on Nov 13, 2013 | 259 comments

860.

NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild (citizenlab.ca)

1446 points by ericzawo on Sep 7, 2023 | 832 comments

861.

This is a teenager (pudding.cool)

1445 points by gmays on Apr 16, 2024 | 815 comments

862.

Outlawed by Amazon DRM (bekkelund.net)

1445 points by paulsilver on Oct 22, 2012 | 479 comments

863.

Console.mihai(); (incompleteness.me)

1445 points by julien on Apr 27, 2015 | 50 comments

864.

The Big [Censored] Theory (pudding.cool)

1444 points by feross on Aug 29, 2022 | 835 comments

865.

A half-hour to learn Rust (fasterthanli.me)

1444 points by selvan on Jan 2, 2021 | 330 comments

866.

Factorio: Space Age (factorio.com)

1443 points by haunter on Aug 25, 2023 | 354 comments

867.

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (theolivepress.es)