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Hacker News (Apr 2023)

  1. Some mistakes I made as a new manager

    381 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  2. U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables

    379 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  3. Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff

    378 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  4. Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video

    378 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  5. The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition

    377 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  6. Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

    377 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  7. Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’

    376 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  8. Beautiful branchless binary search

    375 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  9. Buck2: Our open source build system

    375 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  10. Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died

    374 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  11. Simply explained: How does GPT work?

    374 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  12. Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

    371 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  13. Alibaba breaks itself up in six

    370 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  14. Managers, stop distracting employees

    369 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  15. Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)

    367 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  16. Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness

    367 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  17. iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone

    366 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  18. Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration

    363 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  19. 60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically

    363 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  20. Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes

    357 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  21. Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days

    356 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  22. Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI

    354 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  23. Conway's Game of Life digital clock

    352 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  24. Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

    351 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  25. Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

    347 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  26. Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

    346 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  27. LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns

    346 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  28. How To Get Started In Soldering

    346 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  29. Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

    346 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  30. MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention [video]

    345 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  31. Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

    345 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  32. New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings

    345 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  33. Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions

    344 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  34. Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

    343 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  35. Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

    342 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  36. Can water solve a maze? [video]

    341 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  37. The dark side of the Mac App Store

    341 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  38. Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study

    340 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  39. Using io_uring for network I/O

    339 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  40. Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

    339 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  41. Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

    338 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  42. Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France

    338 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  43. Internet in a Box

    338 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  44. Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting

    337 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  45. Databricks Releases 15K Record Training Corpus for Instruction Tuning LLMs

    337 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  46. The case for banning children from social media

    337 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  47. Sunset at the South Pole

    336 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  48. 40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi

    334 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  49. People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

    334 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  50. What it feels like to work in AI right now

    333 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  51. FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying

    332 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  52. Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users

    332 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  53. Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

    331 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  54. OpenAI Tokenizer

    331 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  55. How does database sharding work?

    330 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  56. Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave

    330 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  57. Htmx 1.9.0 has been released

    330 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  58. Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)

    329 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  59. Satellite takes image of another satellite

    327 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  60. I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)

    325 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  61. Four-Byte Burger [video]

    325 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  62. Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world

    325 points • comment • apr 27, 2023

  63. SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy

    324 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  64. No Source Code == No Patent

    324 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  65. Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app

    324 points • comment • apr 29, 2023

  66. 'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco

    323 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  67. Perspective: Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI

    323 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  68. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

    322 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  69. 1Password to Add Telemetry

    322 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  70. China plans to ban exports of rare earth magnet tech

    321 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  71. Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer

    321 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  72. The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale

    320 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  73. Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

    319 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  74. Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco

    317 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  75. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history

    316 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  76. Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty

    315 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  77. Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars

    315 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  78. Temporal quality degradation in AI models

    315 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  79. Pandas 2.0

    314 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  80. Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

    313 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  81. There is no A.I.

    312 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  82. Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available

    312 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  83. Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

    312 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  84. Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei

    311 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  85. The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat

    309 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  86. ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    309 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  87. Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web

    309 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  88. UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption

    309 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  89. Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'Monster'

    308 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  90. An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings

    308 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  91. Safari releases are development hell

    307 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  92. How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery

    306 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  93. End-of-Life Dreams

    305 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  94. A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting

    305 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  95. NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security

    305 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  96. Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?

    305 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  97. Own your work

    304 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  98. ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’

    303 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  99. For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US

    303 points • comment • apr 02, 2023

  100. On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch

    302 points • comment • apr 27, 2023