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Hacker News (Feb 2023)

  1. Estimating square roots in your head

    305 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  2. Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

    305 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  3. Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js

    304 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  4. U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles

    304 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  5. More than five whys and “layer eight” problems

    304 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  6. Facebook Announces Meta Verified

    303 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  7. Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars

    302 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  8. Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

    302 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  9. Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9

    302 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  10. OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot

    301 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  11. Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI

    301 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  12. Prompt Engine – Microsoft's prompt engineering library

    301 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  13. Writing JavaScript without a build system

    300 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  14. Does Google need a new CEO?

    299 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  15. 80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)

    299 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  16. Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

    299 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  17. The Odin – DIY genetic engineering

    299 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  18. Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI

    299 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  19. DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero

    299 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  20. Four ways to build web apps

    299 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  21. Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day

    298 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  22. The dangers behind image resizing (2021)

    297 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  23. North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

    296 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  24. Goiânia Accident

    296 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  25. The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering

    295 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  26. Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow

    295 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  27. Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch

    295 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  28. Writing an engineering strategy

    295 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  29. The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee

    294 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  30. Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS

    294 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  31. David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set

    293 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  32. Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)

    293 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  33. Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer

    293 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  34. The Janet Language

    292 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  35. Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution

    292 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  36. Revenue is easy, profit is harder

    292 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  37. The United States Frequency Allocation Chart

    291 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  38. Making macOS Apps Uninstallable

    291 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  39. ThinkPad 701C with a Framework brain transplant

    290 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  40. Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi

    289 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  41. Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search

    289 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  42. Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges

    289 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  43. Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video

    288 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  44. 2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)

    287 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  45. An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster

    286 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  46. Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA

    285 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  47. Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x

    285 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  48. Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?

    284 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  49. Compact holographic sound fields enable rapid one-step assembly of matter in 3D

    284 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  50. Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti

    284 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  51. I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system

    281 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  52. Aurora

    281 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  53. Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles

    281 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  54. Text Is All You Need

    281 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  55. Bay Area homeowner is the face of California’s latest housing drama

    281 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  56. Trustfall: How to Query (Almost) Everything

    280 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  57. Setting up an electronics workshop

    280 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  58. Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles

    280 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  59. Modern Mono

    280 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  60. Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities

    280 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  61. Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch

    280 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  62. Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository

    280 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  63. There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

    280 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  64. Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams

    279 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  65. When Rust hurts

    279 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  66. Learn Vim (2021)

    279 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  67. Netlify acquires Gatsby

    278 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  68. Tech's Elite Hates Labor

    277 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  69. Zrok: Open-source peer to peer

    277 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  70. Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard

    277 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  71. Is this poison ivy?

    277 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  72. Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom

    277 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  73. Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow

    276 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  74. Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy

    275 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  75. Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments

    275 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  76. Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code

    275 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  77. Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately

    275 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  78. MINIX from Scratch

    274 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  79. Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”

    274 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  80. Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine

    274 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  81. Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT

    272 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  82. It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube?

    271 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  83. Elixir for Humans Who Know Python

    271 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  84. A keypad to control my desk setup

    271 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  85. A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs

    271 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  86. Building a legged robot in 80 days

    270 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  87. AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back

    270 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  88. My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)

    269 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  89. Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society

    269 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  90. Show HN: Phind.com – Generative AI search engine for developers

    269 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  91. 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Turkiye

    268 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  92. Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy

    268 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  93. OpenStreetMap is in trouble – a critical take on Bing Map Builder

    268 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  94. IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution

    267 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  95. Upwork just stole $10k from me

    267 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  96. Scientists discover receptor that blocks Covid-19 infection

    267 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  97. Purego – A library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo

    266 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  98. Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes

    266 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  99. A manifesto on shower temperature control

    265 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  100. Why is remote work seen as a gift?

    265 points • comment • feb 09, 2023