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Hacker News (Jan 2023)

  1. CEO Jack Altman’s email to Lattice employees

    159 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  2. Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16

    159 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  3. Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best

    159 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  4. Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996)

    159 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  5. Launch HN: Odigos (YC W23) – Instant distributed tracing for Kubernetes clusters

    159 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  6. Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

    159 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  7. OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B

    159 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  8. Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

    158 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  9. Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (2018)

    158 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  10. Quiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans

    158 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  11. Sam Bankman-Fried's anonymous bail sponsors should be public, judge says

    158 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  12. Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail?

    158 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  13. Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM

    158 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  14. Unearthing a long-ignored African writing system

    157 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  15. Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE

    157 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  16. Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away

    157 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  17. Modeling my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry (2021)

    157 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  18. Where are my Git UI features from the future?

    157 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  19. Rust vs. C++ Formatting

    156 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  20. The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer

    156 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  21. How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking

    156 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  22. A secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope

    156 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  23. Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

    156 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  24. Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it

    156 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  25. Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy

    156 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  26. Two surprises in browser crashes

    155 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  27. Douglas Adams on Hypercard and new educational models

    155 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  28. The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)

    155 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  29. The Quest for a Dumber Phone

    155 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  30. Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

    154 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  31. Liu Cixin's Technologies of the Future

    154 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  32. The Story behind ASINs – Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (2021)

    154 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  33. Websites selling abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google

    154 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  34. Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs

    154 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  35. Ask HN: What is the best source to learn Docker in 2023?

    154 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  36. CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months

    154 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  37. Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)

    154 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  38. Extracting training data from diffusion models

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  39. Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]

    153 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  40. Safari is released to the world (2013)

    153 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  41. Exploiting null-dereferences in the Linux kernel

    153 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  42. Bflat – a single ahead-of-time crosscompiler and runtime for C#

    153 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  43. Tell Cloudflare: You're Breaking Tor/VPN/Shared IPs Again

    152 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  44. How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette

    152 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  45. Contiki – OS for networked, memory-constrained systems

    152 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  46. There’s no planet B

    152 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  47. Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims

    151 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  48. Galmon – Galileo/GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou open source monitoring

    151 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  49. Ruby on Jets: Like Rails but serverless

    151 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  50. Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide (2021)

    151 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  51. 'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time

    151 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  52. Light from an ionized state of helium in a distant galaxy

    151 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  53. Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)

    150 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  54. Conditional CSS

    150 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  55. EPA proposes to strengthen air quality standards

    150 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  56. High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours

    150 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  57. Optimal hydration may slow down the aging process in humans

    150 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  58. Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2015)

    150 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  59. Ask HN: Google spam filter getting worse?

    149 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  60. Tell HN: Maarten van Emden died on January 4, 2023

    149 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  61. How to prioritize tasks?

    149 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  62. Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work”

    148 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  63. Small Visual Basic

    148 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  64. College that fired prof for showing image of Muhammad could lose accreditation

    148 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  65. Secure Scuttlebutt

    148 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  66. Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua

    148 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  67. Coinbase halts operations in Japan

    148 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  68. I, Libertine

    148 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  69. Apple offers $970 in trade-in value for $52,199 Mac Pro

    148 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  70. Show HN: HyperLogLog in Zig

    148 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  71. Train CIFAR10 to 94% in under 10 seconds on a single A100

    148 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  72. X Window System Basics (2014)

    147 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  73. Gimp 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon (2022)

    147 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  74. Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

    147 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  75. Chaos Hypertextbook

    147 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  76. How many AMD RX 7900 XTX's are defective?

    147 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  77. ChrysaLisp

    147 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  78. France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)

    147 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  79. In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emotionally trying”

    147 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  80. A Letter from _why (2005)

    147 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  81. Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary

    147 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  82. Ripes: Visual computer architecture simulator, assembly code editor for RISC-V

    146 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  83. Worst interview questions for software developers

    146 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  84. An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries

    146 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  85. The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon

    146 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  86. Restoration of the ozone layer is back on track, scientists say

    146 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  87. The Bibites: Artificial Life Simulation

    146 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  88. 8086 Processor's microcode pipeline from die analysis

    146 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  89. Concordia students set to launch most powerful rocket developed by civilians

    146 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  90. Function keys productivity trick

    146 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  91. WTF with high school questions?

    146 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  92. Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

    145 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  93. What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’

    145 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  94. UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online

    145 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  95. I Am the Ghost Here

    145 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  96. Six doctors swallowed Lego heads (2022)

    145 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  97. Vim is touch-typing on steroids

    145 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  98. Religious and spiritual folklore surrounding programming

    145 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  99. Build security with the assumption it will be used against your friends

    145 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  100. The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician

    145 points • comment • jan 12, 2023