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Hacker News (Jan 2023)

  1. Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original

    501 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  2. Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden

    499 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  3. A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)

    498 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  4. Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?

    497 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  5. Pandoc 3.0

    495 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  6. Hermes: An open-source document management system

    495 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  7. Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned

    494 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  8. OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic

    486 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  9. Amazon Closing AmazonSmile

    484 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  10. For your next side project, make a browser extension

    482 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  11. Twitterrific has been discontinued

    479 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  12. Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready

    477 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  13. An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down

    475 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  14. Four thousand weeks

    475 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  15. Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation [resolved]

    471 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  16. Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?

    470 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  17. Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out

    469 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  18. Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev

    466 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  19. Just: A Command Runner

    466 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  20. US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box

    465 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  21. G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering

    464 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  22. Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports

    462 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  23. Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations

    459 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  24. FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions

    458 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  25. Twitter's API is down?

    455 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  26. I want to lose every debate

    453 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  27. The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014)

    452 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  28. Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

    451 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  29. Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text

    451 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  30. Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens

    451 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  31. Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

    448 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  32. Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes

    445 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  33. Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker

    445 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  34. U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022

    443 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  35. OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

    440 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  36. The contagious visual blandness of Netflix

    440 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  37. What happens when a CPU starts

    440 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  38. Ask HN: What's on your home server?

    439 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  39. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

    439 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  40. Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning

    438 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  41. Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?

    435 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  42. Twilio’s toll fraud problem

    435 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  43. Python 2 removed from Debian

    434 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  44. The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

    433 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  45. This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

    433 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  46. Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

    433 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  47. The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3

    432 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  48. Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)

    431 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  49. I almost bought a scanner

    431 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  50. Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking

    425 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  51. Wonders of Street View

    423 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  52. Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?

    423 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  53. SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic

    423 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  54. Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable

    423 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  55. Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos

    420 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  56. England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes

    420 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  57. The expanding dark forest and generative AI

    417 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  58. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

    414 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  59. Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets

    410 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  60. A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system

    409 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  61. FAA NOTAM System Outage

    409 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  62. Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up

    406 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  63. The strangest computer manual ever written

    405 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  64. Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%

    403 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  65. The FBI Identified a Tor User

    403 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  66. No Start Menu for You

    403 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  67. Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)

    402 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  68. U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology

    402 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  69. Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop

    401 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  70. Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile

    399 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  71. Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?

    399 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  72. Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says

    398 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  73. New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

    398 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  74. Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

    398 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  75. Epochalypse

    394 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  76. Thonny – Python IDE for beginners

    391 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  77. 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)

    390 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  78. GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing

    390 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  79. Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

    389 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  80. Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide

    387 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  81. Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering

    386 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  82. Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus

    385 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  83. The audacity of Apple Podcasts

    385 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  84. Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future

    383 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  85. Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008)

    383 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  86. Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)

    383 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  87. Lisa Source Code Release

    382 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  88. ‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)

    382 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  89. Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension

    381 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  90. Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

    380 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  91. The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them

    380 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  92. Git security vulnerabilities announced

    380 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  93. Cargo airships could be big

    379 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  94. Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

    379 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  95. Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport

    378 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  96. Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?

    376 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  97. Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

    376 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  98. Wine 8.0

    373 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  99. The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs

    372 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  100. Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens

    372 points • comment • jan 22, 2023