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Hacker News (Jan 2023)

  1. Stripe issues

    91 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  2. Smart ovens shouting out to servers in Russia and China

    91 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  3. Myths and legends in high-performance computing

    91 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  4. Wikipedia's new skin is a sad opportunity to reminisce what we could've had

    91 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  5. We asked ChatGPT to write a Sherlock Holmes mystery

    91 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  6. Adventures in Mastoland

    91 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  7. Debugging Lisp: trace options, break on conditions

    91 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  8. Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (2018)

    91 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  9. What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords

    90 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  10. Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 1 – Fast, efficient, and fun

    90 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  11. What Are 'Dark Factories,' and Do They Exist?

    90 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  12. Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs

    90 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  13. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

    90 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  14. Low-level is easy (2008)

    90 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  15. Learning Verilog and FPGA

    90 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  16. We could stumble into AI catastrophe

    90 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  17. A New Formula for the Determinant

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  18. $6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022

    90 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  19. Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(), ASK_OpenAI()

    90 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  20. Mumbai embraces its booming flamingo population

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  21. An IP attorney’s reading of the Stable Diffusion class action lawsuit

    90 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  22. My “favorite” magtape story

    89 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  23. Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32

    89 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  24. Acting out dreams predicts Parkinson’s and other brain diseases

    89 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  25. Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults

    89 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  26. GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say

    89 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  27. Responses to “I Almost Bought a Scanner”

    89 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  28. Rational Trigonometry

    89 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  29. Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between

    89 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  30. Secondments at Zapier

    89 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  31. Getting started with property-based testing in Python with hypothesis and Pytest

    89 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  32. Langoguessr

    89 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  33. Why developers never use state machines (2011)

    89 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  34. Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

    89 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  35. A Welsh firm breeding maggots to heal wounds

    89 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  36. Blaze: A high-performance C++ math library

    89 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  37. WhatsApp fined 5.5M euro by lead EU privacy regulator

    89 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  38. U.S. judge rules Apple Watch infringed Masimo's pulse oximeter patent

    89 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  39. Blogging is not dying anytime soon

    89 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  40. In-person schooling and youth suicide: Evidence from calendars, school closures

    89 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  41. Show HN: Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download

    89 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  42. PDP-11/Hack (2014)

    88 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  43. Show HN: I built Haystack – your own google for scattered workplace knowledge

    88 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  44. Tech companies are quietly defunding diversity pledges

    88 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  45. Museums with CC0 Collections

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  46. Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends

    88 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  47. A skeptical take on ChatGPT: Ezra Klein interviews Gary Marcus

    88 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  48. Binance Is Bleeding Assets, $12B Gone in Less Than 60 Days

    88 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  49. The Next Button

    88 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  50. Fun with macOS's Sip

    87 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  51. Origami is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and medicine

    87 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  52. Mathematicians roll dice and get rock-paper-scissors

    87 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  53. Rumors of GTA online exploits allowing remote code execution on gamer PCs

    87 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  54. What should I know about garbage collection as a Java developer?

    87 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  55. Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3

    87 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  56. Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  57. Programming interviews turn normal people into a-holes

    87 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  58. Show HN: List of Stripe Alternatives

    87 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  59. GPT Takes the Bar Exam

    87 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  60. ASCII table and history – Or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?

    87 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  61. Explaining the global chip shortage

    87 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  62. Training Stable Diffusion from Scratch Costs <$160k

    87 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  63. 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  64. Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

    86 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  65. The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)

    86 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  66. The CPSC is on a mission that has nothing to do with safety

    86 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  67. A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  68. Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients

    86 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  69. How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes

    86 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  70. Show HN: 1Kb Webspace

    86 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  71. Dweb: Offline Internet Archive

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  72. Lawyers barred by Madison Square Garden found a way back in

    86 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  73. Genesis Filed for Bankruptcy

    86 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  74. Show HN: Music Audio Search Engine Using OpenAI's Embeddings on GPT Descriptions

    85 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  75. US Halts Flights Nationwide After Key FAA System Goes Down

    85 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  76. Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3

    85 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  77. Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton by Metaphysic

    85 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  78. Supporting half-precision floats is really annoying (2021)

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  79. Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?

    85 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  80. How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2M a Year

    85 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  81. What time is it on the moon?

    85 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  82. An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  83. Batch Box Rocket Stove: Ergonomic, Efficient Wood Combustion

    85 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  84. 30k lines of SwiftUI in production later

    85 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  85. Large language models as simulated economic agents (2022) [pdf]

    85 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  86. I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months in Manhattan

    85 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  87. The concept of class invariant in object-oriented programming

    85 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  88. How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant

    85 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  89. Running Advent of Code on a $2 microcontroller

    84 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  90. Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often

    84 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  91. Airbyte makes 100 alpha / beta connectors free

    84 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  92. In honor of Weizenbaum's Centenary, I asked ChatGPT to program ELIZA

    84 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  93. DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection

    84 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  94. Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)

    84 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  95. Show HN: Codeium: Free Copilot Alternative for Vim / Neovim

    84 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  96. Why the infosec community is ahead of the curve and rationalists and nihilists

    84 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  97. Automatic1111 is back on GitHub after removing Embedding Links

    84 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  98. Why does private equity get to play make-believe with prices?

    84 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  99. Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?

    83 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  100. Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Timing (2013)

    83 points • comment • jan 18, 2023