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27361.

Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles (waymo.com)

41 points by ra7 on Dec 19, 2024 | 39 comments

27362.

Why did words that end in "tron" once sound so futuristic? (2017) (aeon.co)

41 points by mon_ on Jan 19, 2024 | 38 comments

27363.

Don't name packages common nouns (brandur.org)

41 points by PaulHoule on Jun 7, 2024 | 38 comments

27364.

WhatsApp Is Booming in the U.S. (bigtechnology.com)

41 points by kantrowitz on Jan 12, 2024 | 37 comments

27365.

OpenAI working on web search product (searchengineland.com)

41 points by vasco on May 2, 2024 | 37 comments

27366.

Earth has caught a 'second moon' (space.com)

41 points by divbzero on Oct 1, 2024 | 37 comments

27367.

Inline Scope for CSS (picostitch.com)

41 points by wolframkriesing on Oct 12, 2024 | 37 comments

27368.

PhotoDNA (en.wikipedia.org)

41 points by sandwichsphinx on Oct 17, 2024 | 37 comments

27369.

Stack Overflow Does Not Want to Help You (stackoverflow-makes-me-sad.bearblog.dev)

41 points by closed-offtopic on Nov 26, 2024 | 37 comments

27370.

AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience (simone.org)

41 points by smnrg on Dec 21, 2024 | 37 comments

27371.

Thoughts on Debugging (catskull.net)

41 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 25, 2024 | 36 comments

27372.

Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro (twitter.com)

41 points by trevin on Feb 14, 2024 | 35 comments

27373.

A Deal with the Devil (lithub.com)

41 points by Caiero on Jul 10, 2024 | 35 comments

27374.

AB 1637 requires all cities and counties to transition to a .gov domain (californiacitynews.org)

41 points by agwa on Jul 14, 2024 | 35 comments

27375.

MI couple running out of time to prove they found Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck (lansingstatejournal.com)

41 points by rmason on Sep 23, 2024 | 35 comments

27376.

I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes (askamanager.org)

41 points by chedar on Feb 13, 2024 | 34 comments

27377.

Google layoffs: Company fires entire Python team for 'cheaper labour' (hindustantimes.com)

41 points by thunderbong on Apr 29, 2024 | 34 comments

27378.

I became an anarchist while working for the Nevada state democratic party (post-goldfish.ghost.io)

41 points by panic on Nov 7, 2024 | 34 comments

27379.

Show HN: CodeAir – Control VS Code from Your Phone (codeair.app)

41 points by pk97 on Oct 5, 2024 | 33 comments

27380.

Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator (theguardian.com)

41 points by pshaw on Oct 31, 2024 | 33 comments

27381.

Why is stdout faster than stderr? (blog.orhun.dev)

41 points by mfrw on Jan 10, 2024 | 32 comments

27382.

Topologists tackle the trouble with poll placement (quantamagazine.org)

41 points by jyunwai on Mar 26, 2024 | 32 comments

27383.

Kodi 21.0 "Omega" (kodi.tv)

41 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 7, 2024 | 32 comments

27384.

The legalization of sports gambling in the US was a mistake (theguardian.com)

41 points by jbegley on Apr 22, 2024 | 32 comments

27385.

Did Apple kill the MicroLED industry? (yolegroup.com)

41 points by cubefox on Jun 24, 2024 | 32 comments

27386.

Watch carved from meteorite that hit Earth a million years ago (cnn.com)

41 points by cratermoon on Dec 8, 2024 | 32 comments

27387.

U.S. Failed to Stop Drone Attack Because of Identification Mixup (wsj.com)

41 points by mfiguiere on Jan 29, 2024 | 31 comments

27388.

An asteroid wiped out dinosaurs – did it help birds flourish? (nytimes.com)

41 points by gardenfelder on Feb 20, 2024 | 31 comments

27389.

Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns (garymarcus.substack.com)

41 points by simonebrunozzi on Apr 14, 2024 | 31 comments

27390.

Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' mimicking the human brain (livescience.com)

41 points by dosinga on Apr 19, 2024 | 31 comments