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Hacker News (Jan 2023)

  1. iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync

    113 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  2. Coaching engineering managers to take on organizational problems

    113 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  3. DoD FAQ: Is Open Source Software Commercial Software? Yes.

    113 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  4. Toroidal propellers turn your drones and boats into noiseless machines

    112 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  5. IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas

    112 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  6. An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

    112 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  7. Extreme 'rogue wave' in the North Pacific confirmed as most extreme on record

    112 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  8. My encounter with Medley Interlisp

    112 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  9. The Dawn of Everything challenges a mainstream telling of prehistory

    112 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  10. Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation

    112 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  11. Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?

    112 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  12. Rapid-fire laser diverts lightning strikes

    112 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  13. How to find your blind spots

    112 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  14. The (Almost) Definitive 486DX/50 Article

    112 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  15. Underappreciated challenges with Python packaging

    112 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  16. Arizona legislature changes rules on retaining correspondence

    112 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  17. The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)

    111 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  18. Russhian Roulette: 1/6 chance of posting your SSH private key on pastebin

    111 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  19. Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops

    111 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  20. Last Sane Man on Wall Street

    111 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  21. Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground

    111 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  22. “The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”

    111 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  23. It’s not just what you eat, but the time of day you eat it

    111 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  24. A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human

    111 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  25. Show HN: URL Snake

    111 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  26. The product I worked on for the last 4 years is now open-source

    111 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  27. IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source

    111 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  28. The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck

    111 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  29. The hardest part of being a junior developer

    111 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  30. Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]

    110 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  31. UK Online Safety Bill threatens encryption, secure communication, and reporting

    110 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  32. Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter

    110 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  33. Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances

    110 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  34. I prefer semi-automation

    110 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  35. Mazda has tested a synthetic fuel in an unmodified MX5 on a 1000-mile road trip

    110 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  36. Letter to Sundar Pichai from TCI Fund Management [pdf]

    110 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  37. Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

    110 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  38. Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs

    109 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  39. 512GB 14” M2 Pro MacBook Pro has slower SSD than previous model

    109 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  40. Fentanyl vaccine tested in rats

    109 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  41. Ask HN: How can I get into cyber security research?

    109 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  42. Transcoding Unicode with AVX-512: AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Ice Lake

    109 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  43. C++ at the End of 2022

    109 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  44. Disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in power at work (2020)

    108 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  45. Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune

    108 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  46. FAA says computer failure was caused by contractors who introduced data errors

    108 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  47. Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys (2021)

    108 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  48. Amazon Smile Gets a Frown

    108 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  49. Republicans to pass bill in House to end telework for federal employees

    108 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  50. Static HTML Comments

    108 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  51. Nuclear explosion impact on humans indoors (2022)

    108 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  52. The Rise of Steel Part II

    108 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  53. Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion

    108 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  54. Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files

    108 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  55. WordPress sites under attack from newly found Linux trojan

    108 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  56. Understanding the N + 1 queries problem

    107 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  57. Tiny ion is crucial for HIV replication, say chemists

    107 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  58. Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

    107 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  59. Tweak New Twitter

    107 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  60. VSCode Swift 1.0

    107 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  61. The Rise of Steel – Part I

    107 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  62. The quest for a family-friendly password manager

    107 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  63. A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer (2016)

    107 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  64. Windows 3.x VDDVGA

    107 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  65. ZeroSSL: XSS to session hijacking, stealing a private key (and password hash)

    106 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  66. Microsoft.Recognizers.Text: numbers, units, and date/time in multiple languages

    106 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  67. Detangle: AI-generated summaries of legal docs

    106 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  68. Designing my own ASIC with tiny tapeout

    106 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  69. Walter Cunningham, who helped pave the way to the moon, dies at 90

    106 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  70. Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation

    106 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  71. ASRock Industrial NUCS Box-1360P/D4 Review: Raptor Lake-P Plus Surprise ECC

    105 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  72. Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days

    105 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  73. Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

    105 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  74. Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff

    105 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  75. Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting

    105 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  76. When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons

    105 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  77. Surviving without a superuser in Postgres 16

    105 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  78. Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models

    105 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  79. The cost of cheap TVs

    105 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  80. Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

    105 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  81. Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models

    105 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  82. The remarkable emptiness of existence

    105 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  83. Mortal Kombat 2 source code leak reveals unused animations and sprites

    105 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  84. Go FOSS: Information is power

    105 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  85. The CSS at w3.org is gone

    105 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  86. The Mystery of Richard Posner

    104 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  87. Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia

    104 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  88. Information about a recent security incident at Mailchimp

    104 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  89. Writing a Python SQL engine from scratch

    104 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  90. The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present

    104 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  91. The first new build of Circle, a new C++20 compiler, since April 2022 is online

    104 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  92. Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023

    104 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  93. Ask HN: When to make the jump to freelance/consultant?

    104 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  94. The Hostile Forces of Beijing

    104 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  95. How my brother's iCloud account was stolen

    104 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  96. AMD Alveo V70 AI inference accelerator card

    104 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  97. What to do when you 've ruined your life

    104 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  98. Bitrex – the brand name of the bitterest substance in the world

    104 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  99. Here be four bits of dragons: the Mattel D&D Computer Game and the TMS1100

    103 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  100. USB-C done cheap: when 2 ports become 1 (2020)

    103 points • comment • jan 01, 2023