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Hacker News (Feb 2023)
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UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
203 points • comment • feb 25, 2023
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TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months
203 points • comment • feb 23, 2023
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‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
203 points • comment • feb 16, 2023
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Very Long-Term Backup (2008)
203 points • comment • feb 27, 2023
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Shells are two things
202 points • comment • feb 08, 2023
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I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it
202 points • comment • feb 11, 2023
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Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
202 points • comment • feb 03, 2023
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Show HN: Graph-based AI for longform writing
202 points • comment • feb 22, 2023
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Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
201 points • comment • feb 23, 2023
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Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves
201 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Optical Transformers
201 points • comment • feb 23, 2023
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GOTOphobia considered harmful in C
201 points • comment • feb 26, 2023
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GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available
200 points • comment • feb 13, 2023
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Showering at the South Pole
200 points • comment • feb 04, 2023
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New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm
200 points • comment • feb 08, 2023
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Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
200 points • comment • feb 10, 2023
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Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
200 points • comment • feb 12, 2023
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Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?
200 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)
200 points • comment • feb 24, 2023
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Wine Wayland Driver
199 points • comment • feb 25, 2023
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Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited
199 points • comment • feb 04, 2023
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School dental program prevents 80% of cavities with non-invasive treatment
199 points • comment • feb 12, 2023
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Please help improve Magit
199 points • comment • feb 26, 2023
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Anki and GPT-3
199 points • comment • feb 02, 2023
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OpenAI-to-SQLite
198 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Another UFO shot down over Canada by US
198 points • comment • feb 11, 2023
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Civilization 7 Is in Development
198 points • comment • feb 18, 2023
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Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system
197 points • comment • feb 21, 2023
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How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it
197 points • comment • feb 28, 2023
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2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication
197 points • comment • feb 04, 2023
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The Philosophy of Computer Science
197 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes
196 points • comment • feb 26, 2023
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Show HN: Open-source OAuth service for 40+ APIs
196 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022)
196 points • comment • feb 08, 2023
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OWASP Needs to Evolve
196 points • comment • feb 18, 2023
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Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible
195 points • comment • feb 08, 2023
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Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops
195 points • comment • feb 25, 2023
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Ohio catastrophe is ‘wake-up call’ to dangers of deadly train derailments
195 points • comment • feb 13, 2023
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Is artificial light poisoning the planet?
195 points • comment • feb 22, 2023
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Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)
195 points • comment • feb 27, 2023
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Cashless society in Switzerland? People to vote on keeping cash forever
195 points • comment • feb 18, 2023
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Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
194 points • comment • feb 15, 2023
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WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation
194 points • comment • feb 14, 2023
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Stripe increases price for business in the European Economic Area
194 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
194 points • comment • feb 28, 2023
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Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)
194 points • comment • feb 03, 2023
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Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack
194 points • comment • feb 14, 2023
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The fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI (2021)
194 points • comment • feb 06, 2023
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Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
194 points • comment • feb 15, 2023
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Bing ChatGTP demands an apology from user for claiming it's 2023
194 points • comment • feb 13, 2023
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Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022)
194 points • comment • feb 10, 2023
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Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites
194 points • comment • feb 27, 2023
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Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
193 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust
192 points • comment • feb 14, 2023
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The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
191 points • comment • feb 13, 2023
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X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)
191 points • comment • feb 28, 2023
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
191 points • comment • feb 09, 2023
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Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
191 points • comment • feb 18, 2023
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Turkey earthquake: please keep 28.540 clear for communications
191 points • comment • feb 06, 2023
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The Lone Developer Problem
191 points • comment • feb 28, 2023
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Show HN: SQRL – Anti-spam rules language Twitter acquired in 2018, open-sourced
191 points • comment • feb 06, 2023
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They say that stocks go down during the day and up at night
191 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Where do stolen bikes go?
191 points • comment • feb 16, 2023
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Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism
191 points • comment • feb 24, 2023
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Every Graphics at Once: Nintendo's Popeye
191 points • comment • feb 26, 2023
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RustDesk – Remote desktop software, written in Rust
191 points • comment • feb 09, 2023
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Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground
190 points • comment • feb 09, 2023
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Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models
190 points • comment • feb 10, 2023
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The golden era of being an open startup is gone
190 points • comment • feb 03, 2023
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Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease
190 points • comment • feb 16, 2023
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WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
190 points • comment • feb 02, 2023
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A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance
189 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing?
189 points • comment • feb 10, 2023
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Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you
189 points • comment • feb 17, 2023
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TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
189 points • comment • feb 21, 2023
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We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%
188 points • comment • feb 07, 2023
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Don’t teach during code reviews
188 points • comment • feb 05, 2023
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Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)
188 points • comment • feb 26, 2023
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Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green
188 points • comment • feb 06, 2023
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Dusting off Dreamcast Linux
187 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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Show HN: StackOverflow.gg – AI-generated answers to every coding question
187 points • comment • feb 08, 2023
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Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
187 points • comment • feb 15, 2023
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South Pole Topography
187 points • comment • feb 05, 2023
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A complete guide to Linux process scheduling (2015) [pdf]
187 points • comment • feb 20, 2023
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Tell HN: Salesforce is mandating RTO 3 days/wk for all employee
187 points • comment • feb 13, 2023
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WW2 Bomb Explodes in England
187 points • comment • feb 11, 2023
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SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
186 points • comment • feb 21, 2023
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Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
186 points • comment • feb 10, 2023
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Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low
185 points • comment • feb 05, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried accused of possible witness tampering [pdf]
185 points • comment • feb 01, 2023
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Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System
184 points • comment • feb 18, 2023
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LOL Verifier
184 points • comment • feb 19, 2023
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Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus
184 points • comment • feb 02, 2023
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Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
184 points • comment • feb 28, 2023
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The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago
184 points • comment • feb 19, 2023
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The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
184 points • comment • feb 04, 2023
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Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
184 points • comment • feb 11, 2023
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ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful
183 points • comment • feb 01, 2023
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Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center
183 points • comment • feb 25, 2023
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An overview of modern Japanese wood construction (2004) [pdf]
183 points • comment • feb 24, 2023