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1981.
Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed (utcc.utoronto.ca)
476 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | 298 comments
1982.
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
476 points by throw0101a 1 month ago | 211 comments
1983.
The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela (kaveland.no)
475 points by rkaveland 9 months ago | 340 comments
1984.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
475 points by askl 4 weeks ago | 278 comments
1985.
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
475 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 274 comments
1986.
What Is the Fourier Transform? (quantamagazine.org)
475 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 206 comments
1987.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (community.kde.org)
475 points by snthd 5 months ago | 196 comments
1988.
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (zigtools.org)
475 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 145 comments
1989.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)
475 points by twalichiewicz 11 months ago | 138 comments
1990.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)
475 points by luisb 5 months ago | 99 comments
1991.
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
475 points by whiteboardr 6 days ago | 93 comments
1992.
12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (github.com)
475 points by dhorthy 11 months ago | 78 comments
1993.
Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
474 points by rocauc 2 months ago | 307 comments
1994.
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)
474 points by jmsflknr 10 months ago | 295 comments
1995.
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)
474 points by amrrs 10 months ago | 269 comments
1996.
D4D4 (nmichaels.org)
474 points by csense 7 months ago | 56 comments
1997.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
473 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 924 comments
1998.
I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf (jeffgeerling.com)
473 points by calcifer 7 months ago | 672 comments
1999.
Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity (elliotcsmith.com)
473 points by smitec 7 months ago | 389 comments
2000.
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
473 points by bundie 8 months ago | 325 comments
2001.
Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (github.com)
473 points by simonpure 6 months ago | 240 comments
2002.
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (nlnet.nl)
473 points by edent 11 months ago | 228 comments
2003.
Ripgrep 15.0 (github.com)
473 points by robin_reala 5 months ago | 113 comments
2004.
Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (telegraph.co.uk)
472 points by wslh 10 months ago | 1248 comments
2005.
Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars (newsroom.porsche.com)
472 points by m463 2 months ago | 728 comments
2006.
OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems (openai.com)
472 points by meetpateltech 6 months ago | 632 comments
2007.
In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution (e360.yale.edu)
472 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 499 comments
2008.
How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (electrospaces.net)
472 points by Harvesterify 11 months ago | 433 comments
2009.
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (tech.slashdot.org)
472 points by miles 9 months ago | 328 comments
2010.
Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed (lapcatsoftware.com)
472 points by zdw 1 week ago | 293 comments