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1. Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
289 points by moonka 72 days ago | 309 comments
2. Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR (auntiepdf.com)
99 points by bilater 3 months ago | 40 comments
3. Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code (simonwillison.net)
979 points by k__ 4 months ago | 746 comments
4. Where is London's most central sheep? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
247 points by GeoAtreides 4 months ago | 161 comments
5. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (might.net)
257 points by vismit2000 6 months ago | 104 comments
6. Show HN: Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests (e10v.me)
150 points by e10v_me 10 months ago | 48 comments
7. CLI tool and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases (datasette.io)
4 points by punnerud 11 months ago | 1 comment
8. Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
200 points by mjbale116 12 months ago | 201 comments
9. Sentry: From the Beginning (cra.mr)
199 points by ellieh on Nov 1, 2023 | 55 comments
10. Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development (github.com/joelparkerhenderson)
287 points by pramodbiligiri on Sept 16, 2023 | 54 comments
11. Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew (simonwillison.net)
22 points by samwillis on Aug 1, 2023 | 6 comments
12. Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript (simonwillison.net)
508 points by sebg on May 13, 2023 | 175 comments
13. How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette (simonwillison.net)
164 points by swyx on Jan 22, 2023 | 31 comments
14. Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
342 points by WhackyIdeas on Jan 23, 2023 | 319 comments
15. ChatRWKV, like ChatGPT but powered by the RWKV (RNN-based, open) language model (github.com/blinkdl)
300 points by maraoz on Jan 19, 2023 | 132 comments
16. The Perfect Commit (simonwillison.net)
197 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 29, 2022 | 219 comments
17. DDR5 RAM prices crashed by 20% in May (tech4gamers.com)
293 points by ddtaylor on June 4, 2022 | 172 comments
18. Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data (simonwillison.net)
436 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2020 | 59 comments
19. There are only four billion floats, so test them all (2014) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
501 points by tape_measure on Oct 11, 2020 | 175 comments
20. DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion (securitum.com)
161 points by fanf2 on Oct 6, 2020 | 81 comments
21. Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3 (jepsen.io)
769 points by aphyr on June 12, 2020 | 140 comments
22. Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos (simonwillison.net)
216 points by markx2 on May 22, 2020 | 36 comments
23. Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?
146 points by crocodiletears on May 22, 2020 | 42 comments
24. How to Speak (2018) [video] (ocw.mit.edu)
531 points by pagade on April 12, 2020 | 43 comments
25. DeltaPy – Tabular Data Augmentation (colab.research.google.com)
126 points by firedup on April 9, 2020 | 2 comments
26. Ffcms – FFmpeg's -filter_complex made simple (stryku.pl)
93 points by stryku2393 on March 22, 2020 | 26 comments
27. Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App (atrium.co)
1620 points by jenthoven on Jan 4, 2019 | 559 comments
28. Japan eyes startup visa program (nikkei.com)
372 points by benguild on Dec 8, 2017 | 213 comments
29. Using a logbook to improve your programming (routley.io)
295 points by jmlr on Nov 23, 2017 | 74 comments
30. Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker (brandmark.io)
328 points by Jack000 on Sept 25, 2017 | 65 comments

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