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Hacker News (Jan 2023)

  1. Astronautilia

    236 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  2. Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people

    236 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  3. Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area

    236 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  4. We need a lot more electricians

    235 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  5. Your tech stack is not the product

    235 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  6. U.S. moves to seize $460M Robinhood stake linked to Sam Bankman-Fried

    235 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  7. Shorting Tether

    235 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  8. Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

    235 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  9. Plover: free, open-source stenography engine

    235 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  10. Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil

    234 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  11. Features I'd Like in PostgreSQL

    234 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  12. ssh whoami.filippo.io

    234 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  13. “They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it.”

    234 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  14. GPT is all you need for the back end

    234 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  15. Show HN: A simple world flags game, my first web dev project as a beginner

    234 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  16. The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002)

    233 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  17. The 88x31 GIF Collection

    232 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  18. New make --shuffle mode

    232 points • comment • jan 17, 2023

  19. JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor

    232 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  20. Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

    232 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  21. Migrating from AWS to Fly.io

    231 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  22. Rsync.net warrant canary

    230 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  23. Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)

    230 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  24. Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion

    230 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  25. AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law

    230 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  26. J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules

    230 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  27. Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

    229 points • comment • jan 31, 2023

  28. Diff Models – A New Way to Edit Code

    229 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  29. Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?

    229 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  30. Just know stuff (or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)

    229 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  31. My best techniques for evaluating character

    229 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  32. Ask HN: Pros and cons of thinking in public vs. in private?

    229 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  33. Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation

    229 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  34. Orion Browser

    229 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  35. Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S

    229 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  36. Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?

    228 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  37. Show HN: Unblob – extraction suite for 30+ file formats

    228 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  38. The art and science of spending money

    228 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  39. How we turned the tables to catch my sister’s Bumble stalker

    227 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  40. NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (2012)

    227 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  41. I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter

    227 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  42. Private and Public Mastodon

    226 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  43. Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools?

    226 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  44. Health Services as Credence Goods: a Field Experiment (2020)

    226 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  45. Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring

    225 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  46. Guide to Software Architecture Documentation

    225 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  47. NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow

    225 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  48. The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers

    225 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  49. Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)

    224 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  50. ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

    224 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  51. MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes

    224 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  52. UK proposal to criminalize “sophisticated encrypted communication devices”

    224 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  53. “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees

    223 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  54. The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)

    223 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  55. On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages

    222 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  56. Ask HN: Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income

    222 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  57. Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

    222 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  58. Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act

    221 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  59. System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns

    221 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  60. Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230

    221 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  61. Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)

    221 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  62. Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past

    220 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  63. A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

    220 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  64. Toroidal propeller allows a drone to operate more quietly [pdf]

    220 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  65. Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

    220 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  66. Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap

    219 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  67. Show HN: Retool Mobile

    219 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  68. Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation

    219 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  69. Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse

    219 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  70. My Dream Computer

    219 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  71. Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?

    219 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  72. Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor

    219 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  73. Tech companies are irrational pop cultures

    218 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  74. Clowns Without Borders

    218 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  75. QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text

    218 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  76. Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

    218 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  77. Sh1mmer – An exploit capable of unenrolling enterprise-managed Chromebooks

    218 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  78. Self-Soldering Circuits [video]

    217 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  79. Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

    216 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  80. TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT

    216 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  81. Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

    216 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  82. Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web

    216 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  83. Mercedes is the first automaker to offer Level 3 self-driving in the US

    216 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  84. Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir

    215 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  85. Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

    215 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  86. T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

    215 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  87. Guitar Effects Guidebook, Vol. 20 [pdf]

    215 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  88. German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act

    215 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  89. Lisping at JPL Revisited

    214 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  90. 10x C++ Editor

    214 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  91. Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

    213 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  92. 9k-year-old Stonehenge-like structure found under Lake Michigan

    213 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  93. Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes

    213 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  94. Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

    213 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  95. In Lebanon, solar power is booming

    212 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  96. Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier

    212 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  97. The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)

    212 points • comment • jan 27, 2023

  98. Ask HN: Alternatives to Scratch for a blind child?

    211 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  99. Choosing a Postgres primary key

    211 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  100. Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

    211 points • comment • jan 01, 2023