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Hacker News (Feb 2023)

  1. HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]

    372 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  2. Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)

    370 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  3. Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

    370 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  4. Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data

    369 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  5. AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack

    368 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  6. FOSDEM 2023 is live now

    368 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  7. All programming philosophies are about state

    367 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  8. Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun

    366 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  9. Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

    366 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  10. The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

    366 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  11. Van Life in Japan

    361 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  12. IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system

    361 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  13. Google stopping coding competitions

    360 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  14. Jupyterlab Desktop

    360 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  15. Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs

    360 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  16. Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files

    359 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  17. I changed my mind about nuclear waste

    359 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  18. ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time

    358 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  19. Show HN: Scribble Diffusion – Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI

    358 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  20. Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill

    356 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  21. Open Airport Map

    356 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  22. My network home setup – v4.0

    354 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  23. Creation happens in silence

    354 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  24. Introduction to Datalog

    354 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  25. Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

    353 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  26. U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

    352 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  27. Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing

    352 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  28. Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480

    352 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  29. Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week

    351 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  30. Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps

    351 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  31. Mermaid Cheat Sheet

    351 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  32. LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022

    349 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  33. Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?

    348 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  34. Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project

    348 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  35. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

    347 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  36. SICP: the end of an era (2021) [video]

    347 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  37. Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

    346 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  38. Fundamental Math for Game Developers

    346 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  39. Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii

    346 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  40. Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather

    345 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  41. MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia

    342 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  42. Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

    341 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  43. Internal review finds falsified data in Stanford President’s Alzheimer research

    340 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  44. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

    338 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  45. Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide

    337 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  46. Awesome Docker Compose Examples

    336 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  47. Poline – esoteric color palette generator

    336 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  48. John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died

    336 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  49. Abraham Lempel has died (the L in LZW compression)

    334 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  50. Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs

    333 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  51. From Go on EC2 to Fly.io

    333 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  52. Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch

    332 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  53. Analysis finds Australia’s inflation being driven by company profits, not wages

    332 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  54. CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d

    332 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  55. Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials

    332 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  56. The <Dialog> Element

    331 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  57. Transmission v4.0

    330 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  58. Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

    330 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  59. GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text

    330 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  60. Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process

    329 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  61. Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?

    329 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  62. Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute

    328 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  63. Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees

    328 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  64. We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption

    328 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  65. Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

    328 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  66. John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence

    327 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  67. Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

    326 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  68. The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (2014)

    326 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  69. Do we live in a society without a counterculture?

    324 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  70. Squares in Squares

    323 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  71. Meta was scraping sites for years while fighting the practice

    322 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  72. Maybe people do care about performance and reliability

    322 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  73. I use C when I believe in memory safety

    321 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  74. Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people

    320 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  75. Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style

    320 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  76. Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers

    319 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  77. Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

    319 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  78. Burgr – Books in Your Terminal

    319 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  79. I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent

    318 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  80. Electric Clojure – A signals DSL for full-stack web UI

    317 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  81. AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB

    316 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  82. Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution

    316 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  83. DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20B Figma Deal

    315 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  84. SymPy makes math fun again

    315 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  85. FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms

    315 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  86. Human urine sensing and deep learning-assisted cancer screening

    314 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  87. Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

    314 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  88. Childhoods of Exceptional People

    314 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  89. Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

    312 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  90. Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

    312 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  91. Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records

    312 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  92. Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants

    311 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  93. Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?

    311 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  94. Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook parody

    310 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  95. A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

    310 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  96. tcpdump is amazing (2016)

    308 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  97. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain’s reward circuits

    308 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  98. Bizarre and unusual uses of DNS

    307 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  99. Go 1.20 released

    307 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  100. I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me

    306 points • comment • feb 03, 2023