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Hacker News (Jan 2023)
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Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original
501 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
499 points • comment • jan 12, 2023
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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)
498 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?
497 points • comment • jan 15, 2023
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Pandoc 3.0
495 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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Hermes: An open-source document management system
495 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned
494 points • comment • jan 04, 2023
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OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic
486 points • comment • jan 18, 2023
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Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
484 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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For your next side project, make a browser extension
482 points • comment • jan 15, 2023
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Twitterrific has been discontinued
479 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
477 points • comment • jan 17, 2023
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An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down
475 points • comment • jan 26, 2023
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Four thousand weeks
475 points • comment • jan 15, 2023
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Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation [resolved]
471 points • comment • jan 03, 2023
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Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
470 points • comment • jan 12, 2023
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Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out
469 points • comment • jan 11, 2023
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Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev
466 points • comment • jan 18, 2023
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Just: A Command Runner
466 points • comment • jan 09, 2023
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US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box
465 points • comment • jan 25, 2023
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G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering
464 points • comment • jan 04, 2023
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Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports
462 points • comment • jan 09, 2023
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Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations
459 points • comment • jan 24, 2023
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FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions
458 points • comment • jan 05, 2023
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Twitter's API is down?
455 points • comment • jan 13, 2023
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I want to lose every debate
453 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014)
452 points • comment • jan 15, 2023
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Stock market charts you never saw (2021)
451 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
451 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens
451 points • comment • jan 07, 2023
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Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
448 points • comment • jan 06, 2023
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Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes
445 points • comment • jan 02, 2023
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Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker
445 points • comment • jan 13, 2023
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U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
443 points • comment • jan 06, 2023
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OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
440 points • comment • jan 23, 2023
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The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
440 points • comment • jan 22, 2023
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What happens when a CPU starts
440 points • comment • jan 11, 2023
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Ask HN: What's on your home server?
439 points • comment • jan 06, 2023
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
439 points • comment • jan 02, 2023
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Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning
438 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
435 points • comment • jan 10, 2023
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Twilio’s toll fraud problem
435 points • comment • jan 05, 2023
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Python 2 removed from Debian
434 points • comment • jan 03, 2023
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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
433 points • comment • jan 12, 2023
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This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
433 points • comment • jan 12, 2023
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Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?
433 points • comment • jan 17, 2023
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The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
432 points • comment • jan 07, 2023
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Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022)
431 points • comment • jan 11, 2023
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I almost bought a scanner
431 points • comment • jan 25, 2023
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Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking
425 points • comment • jan 13, 2023
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Wonders of Street View
423 points • comment • jan 23, 2023
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Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
423 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
423 points • comment • jan 30, 2023
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Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable
423 points • comment • jan 05, 2023
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Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
420 points • comment • jan 22, 2023
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England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
420 points • comment • jan 09, 2023
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The expanding dark forest and generative AI
417 points • comment • jan 04, 2023
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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
414 points • comment • jan 14, 2023
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Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets
410 points • comment • jan 03, 2023
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A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
409 points • comment • jan 12, 2023
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FAA NOTAM System Outage
409 points • comment • jan 11, 2023
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Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up
406 points • comment • jan 30, 2023
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The strangest computer manual ever written
405 points • comment • jan 02, 2023
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Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%
403 points • comment • jan 10, 2023
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The FBI Identified a Tor User
403 points • comment • jan 17, 2023
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No Start Menu for You
403 points • comment • jan 18, 2023
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Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)
402 points • comment • jan 07, 2023
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U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology
402 points • comment • jan 24, 2023
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Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop
401 points • comment • jan 01, 2023
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Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
399 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
399 points • comment • jan 17, 2023
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Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
398 points • comment • jan 30, 2023
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New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
398 points • comment • jan 31, 2023
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Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
398 points • comment • jan 26, 2023
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Epochalypse
394 points • comment • jan 07, 2023
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Thonny – Python IDE for beginners
391 points • comment • jan 18, 2023
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1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
390 points • comment • jan 16, 2023
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GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
390 points • comment • jan 06, 2023
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Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
389 points • comment • jan 25, 2023
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Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide
387 points • comment • jan 27, 2023
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Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
386 points • comment • jan 06, 2023
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Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus
385 points • comment • jan 20, 2023
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The audacity of Apple Podcasts
385 points • comment • jan 25, 2023
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Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
383 points • comment • jan 16, 2023
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Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008)
383 points • comment • jan 18, 2023
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Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)
383 points • comment • jan 05, 2023
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Lisa Source Code Release
382 points • comment • jan 19, 2023
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‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)
382 points • comment • jan 09, 2023
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Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
381 points • comment • jan 04, 2023
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Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
380 points • comment • jan 29, 2023
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The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
380 points • comment • jan 16, 2023
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Git security vulnerabilities announced
380 points • comment • jan 17, 2023
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Cargo airships could be big
379 points • comment • jan 30, 2023
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Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
379 points • comment • jan 03, 2023
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Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport
378 points • comment • jan 15, 2023
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Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?
376 points • comment • jan 05, 2023
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Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
376 points • comment • jan 11, 2023
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Wine 8.0
373 points • comment • jan 24, 2023
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The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
372 points • comment • jan 30, 2023
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Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens
372 points • comment • jan 22, 2023