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Hacker News (Feb 2023)

  1. UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

    203 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  2. TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months

    203 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  3. ‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’

    203 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  4. Very Long-Term Backup (2008)

    203 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  5. Shells are two things

    202 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  6. I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it

    202 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  7. Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work

    202 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  8. Show HN: Graph-based AI for longform writing

    202 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  9. Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

    201 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  10. Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

    201 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  11. Optical Transformers

    201 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  12. GOTOphobia considered harmful in C

    201 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  13. GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

    200 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  14. Showering at the South Pole

    200 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  15. New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm

    200 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  16. Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool

    200 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  17. Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications

    200 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  18. Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?

    200 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  19. You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)

    200 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  20. Wine Wayland Driver

    199 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  21. Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

    199 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  22. School dental program prevents 80% of cavities with non-invasive treatment

    199 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  23. Please help improve Magit

    199 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  24. Anki and GPT-3

    199 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  25. OpenAI-to-SQLite

    198 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  26. Another UFO shot down over Canada by US

    198 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  27. Civilization 7 Is in Development

    198 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  28. Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system

    197 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  29. How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it

    197 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  30. 2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication

    197 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  31. The Philosophy of Computer Science

    197 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  32. A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes

    196 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  33. Show HN: Open-source OAuth service for 40+ APIs

    196 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  34. Browsers are essential and how operating systems are holding them back (2022) [pdf] (2022)

    196 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  35. OWASP Needs to Evolve

    196 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  36. Open source cloud file system. Posix, HDFS and S3 compatible

    195 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  37. Valent Is a KDE Connect Client for GTK-Based Desktops

    195 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  38. Ohio catastrophe is ‘wake-up call’ to dangers of deadly train derailments

    195 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  39. Is artificial light poisoning the planet?

    195 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  40. Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)

    195 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  41. Cashless society in Switzerland? People to vote on keeping cash forever

    195 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  42. Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’

    194 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  43. WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

    194 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  44. Stripe increases price for business in the European Economic Area

    194 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  45. Pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

    194 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  46. Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)

    194 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  47. Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack

    194 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  48. The fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI (2021)

    194 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  49. Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta

    194 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  50. Bing ChatGTP demands an apology from user for claiming it's 2023

    194 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  51. Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022)

    194 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  52. Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites

    194 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  53. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

    193 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  54. Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust

    192 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  55. The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer

    191 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  56. X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)

    191 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  57. A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout

    191 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  58. Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

    191 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  59. Turkey earthquake: please keep 28.540 clear for communications

    191 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  60. The Lone Developer Problem

    191 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  61. Show HN: SQRL – Anti-spam rules language Twitter acquired in 2018, open-sourced

    191 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  62. They say that stocks go down during the day and up at night

    191 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  63. Where do stolen bikes go?

    191 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  64. Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism

    191 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  65. Every Graphics at Once: Nintendo's Popeye

    191 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  66. RustDesk – Remote desktop software, written in Rust

    191 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  67. Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground

    190 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  68. Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models

    190 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  69. The golden era of being an open startup is gone

    190 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  70. Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease

    190 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  71. WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)

    190 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  72. A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

    189 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  73. Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing?

    189 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  74. Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you

    189 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  75. TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)

    189 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  76. We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%

    188 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  77. Don’t teach during code reviews

    188 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  78. Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know (2022)

    188 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  79. Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green

    188 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  80. Dusting off Dreamcast Linux

    187 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  81. Show HN: StackOverflow.gg – AI-generated answers to every coding question

    187 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  82. Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

    187 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  83. South Pole Topography

    187 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  84. A complete guide to Linux process scheduling (2015) [pdf]

    187 points • comment • feb 20, 2023

  85. Tell HN: Salesforce is mandating RTO 3 days/wk for all employee

    187 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  86. WW2 Bomb Explodes in England

    187 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  87. SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

    186 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  88. Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++

    186 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  89. Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low

    185 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  90. Sam Bankman-Fried accused of possible witness tampering [pdf]

    185 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  91. Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System

    184 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  92. LOL Verifier

    184 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  93. Wonderful Progress Against Severe Lupus

    184 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  94. Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

    184 points • comment • feb 28, 2023

  95. The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago

    184 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  96. The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners

    184 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  97. Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship

    184 points • comment • feb 11, 2023

  98. ChatGPT is a bullshit generator but it can still be amazingly useful

    183 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  99. Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center

    183 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  100. An overview of modern Japanese wood construction (2004) [pdf]

    183 points • comment • feb 24, 2023