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Hacker News (Apr 2023)

  1. Remembering Bob Lee

    2059 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  2. Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

    1847 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  3. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

    1733 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  4. StableLM: A new open-source language model

    1490 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  5. Space Elevator

    1435 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  6. The early days of Linux

    1345 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  7. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

    1341 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  8. Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers

    1319 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  9. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

    1282 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  10. Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

    1270 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  11. Clock

    1221 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  12. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

    1218 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  13. The Mullvad Browser

    1171 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  14. Load Balancing

    1118 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  15. Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%

    1118 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  16. Datomic is Free

    1087 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  17. The day Windows died

    1085 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  18. CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg

    1081 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  19. Astral

    1054 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  20. Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

    1042 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  21. Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

    1017 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  22. De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)

    958 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  23. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

    947 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  24. SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

    941 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  25. Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

    940 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  26. MiniGPT-4

    934 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  27. Chrome ships WebGPU

    930 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  28. New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

    930 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  29. Spinning Diagrams with CSS

    929 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  30. Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival

    910 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  31. Animated Drawings

    907 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  32. Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely

    880 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  33. Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech

    866 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  34. RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license

    860 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  35. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

    835 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  36. How to be a -10x Engineer

    826 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  37. The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

    800 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  38. As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

    798 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  39. Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

    771 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  40. Deck.of.cards

    770 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  41. The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

    767 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  42. Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

    746 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  43. Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised

    743 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  44. Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years

    743 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  45. Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres

    738 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  46. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

    738 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  47. Substack Notes Launched

    737 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  48. User: Junnn11

    732 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  49. Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

    722 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  50. Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image

    716 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  51. Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

    701 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  52. Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

    696 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  53. Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?

    667 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  54. Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP

    666 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  55. Google DeepMind

    659 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  56. Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way

    654 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  57. I worked at Google for -10 days

    651 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  58. Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”

    645 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  59. Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL

    640 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  60. Transformers from Scratch (2021)

    637 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  61. Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)

    634 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  62. Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

    634 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  63. I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog

    629 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  64. Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

    625 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  65. Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen

    624 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  66. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

    622 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  67. The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished

    622 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  68. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage

    617 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  69. SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue

    615 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  70. UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal

    612 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  71. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

    607 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  72. Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot

    605 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  73. Grid World

    604 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  74. Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

    603 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  75. Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine

    601 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  76. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

    597 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  77. NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

    590 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  78. Lofi air traffic control – LAX

    588 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  79. MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

    582 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  80. CAN Injection: Keyless car theft

    581 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  81. iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe

    581 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  82. AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable

    577 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  83. Ryuichi Sakamoto has died

    574 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  84. Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

    565 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  85. GitHub Copilot emits GPL code

    557 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  86. Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

    556 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  87. Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

    549 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  88. Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices

    547 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  89. The Windows 11 Trash Party

    545 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  90. A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken

    545 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  91. Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content

    545 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  92. An example of LLM prompting for programming

    540 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  93. Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

    540 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  94. Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source

    536 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  95. Effective Spaced Repetition

    535 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  96. Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)

    535 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  97. Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills

    534 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  98. Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died

    531 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  99. Thinking hard makes the brain tired

    530 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  100. Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m

    525 points • comment • apr 20, 2023