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Hacker News (Apr 2023)

  1. Rare corn can self-fertilise [video]

    68 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  2. Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity

    68 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  3. The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16

    68 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  4. Frank Rosenblatt

    68 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  5. John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)

    68 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  6. Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries

    67 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  7. The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat

    67 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  8. The RISC Wars Part 1: The Cambrian Explosion

    67 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  9. ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to

    67 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  10. Passing the Reins on Panfrost

    67 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  11. Nvenc vs. QSV: Who Has the Best Hardware AV1 Encoder?

    67 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  12. American offices are half-empty. That could be the next big risk for banks

    67 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  13. The Data Delusion

    67 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  14. Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?

    67 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  15. The Early Days of Linux

    67 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  16. Parrondo's Paradox

    67 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  17. Alphabet’s Google Combines AI Research Units Brain and DeepMind

    67 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  18. Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues

    67 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  19. Piper: A proposal for a graphy pipe-based build system

    67 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  20. Microsoft Announces Q3 Earnings

    67 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  21. Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950 (2021)

    67 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  22. Semantic Tokenizer for Enhanced Natural Language Processing

    67 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  23. Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information

    67 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  24. Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’

    67 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  25. A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques

    66 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  26. “I'm a Barbie girl” as a three-part classical fugue [video]

    66 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  27. Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century

    66 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  28. Running Dolly 2.0 on Paperspace

    66 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  29. The Madness in our Methods: Crash of GW9525 and our broken aeromedical system

    66 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  30. The long demise of the stretch limousine

    66 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  31. NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

    66 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  32. There’s no universal cordless power tool battery – why?

    66 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  33. Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison during appeal of sentence

    66 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  34. Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI

    66 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  35. Maybe we can have a specific tab for submitted contents about GPT and AI

    66 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  36. Ask HN: AI to study my DSL and then output it?

    66 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  37. The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents

    66 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  38. Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia: destroyed $23.42M worth of equipment

    66 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  39. Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070

    65 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  40. I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week

    65 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  41. Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling

    65 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  42. When Slide Rules Ruled (2006) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  43. Singapore plans to execute man over 1kg of cannabis

    65 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  44. How Microsoft names threat actors

    65 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  45. One of the world’s largest investment banks: ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far

    65 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  46. How Paris Is Taking Back Its Streets from Cars

    65 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  47. Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion

    65 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  48. Hawthorne effect

    65 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  49. Defining interfaces in C++ with ‘concepts’ (C++20)

    65 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  50. Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?

    65 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  51. The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI

    65 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  52. I test the best smartwatches – so why am I wearing a $15 Casio?

    64 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  53. Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening

    64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  54. PostgreSQL Logical Replication Gotchas

    64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  55. Moving away from algorithmic curation

    64 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  56. Fire Sale: $300M San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty

    64 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  57. I wrote a tool in Go to write Sequence Diagrams in Go

    64 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  58. Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

    64 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  59. Alcohol recovery startups shared patients’ private data with advertisers

    64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  60. Points on Cartooning (1937)

    64 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  61. Vestas hails breakthrough for recyclable wind turbines

    64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  62. Free Speech Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical of Indian Government

    64 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  63. Xhtml Friends Network (2003)

    64 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  64. Where Do “Shenanigans” Come From? (2013)

    64 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  65. HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it (2015)

    64 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  66. NPM Provenance Public Beta

    64 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  67. Genetic circuitry boosts cell longevity

    64 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  68. Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

    64 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  69. Show HN: Shell-maker, a maker of Emacs shells

    64 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  70. Liubo: Ancient Chinese board game originally played from about 500 BCE to 500 CE

    64 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  71. Why Not document.write()?

    64 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  72. Google does not sell your data. It's worse

    64 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  73. “Luxury” construction causes high rents like umbrellas cause rain

    64 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  74. Database branching: three-way merge for schema changes

    64 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  75. Someone Added ChatGPT to a Furby

    64 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  76. The largest number representable in 64 bits

    64 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  77. Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS

    63 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  78. Podman 4.5.0

    63 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  79. Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video]

    63 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  80. TSMC’s 3-Nm Push Faces Tool Struggles

    63 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  81. Running Python micro-benchmarks using the ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha

    63 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  82. Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers

    63 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  83. Carbon nanotube recognition by human Siglec-14 provokes inflammation

    63 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  84. Mass noun

    63 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  85. I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city

    63 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  86. Medical wordlists in English, French and Ukrainian

    63 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  87. How Big Is Mexico?

    63 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  88. Real interview recordings to help job seekers

    63 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  89. A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist

    63 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  90. DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine

    63 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  91. Hetzner’s New AX102 Dedicated Server with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

    63 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  92. High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines (2022)

    63 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  93. Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana

    63 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  94. Apple store robbed of $500k in iPhones after thieves tunnel through coffee shop

    63 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  95. Sparkle

    63 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  96. When should a decision be fast, or slow?

    63 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  97. Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first

    62 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  98. Haiku Depot Server Technology Modernisation

    62 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  99. SF pays big bucks to nonprofits, fails to properly monitor them

    62 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  100. How the fuck did we get here? A small rant on the "modern" front-end

    62 points • comment • apr 07, 2023