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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

    2414 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  2. Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

    1874 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  3. Rarbg Is No More

    1332 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  4. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

    1320 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  5. Memory Allocation

    1311 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  6. Slide to Unlock

    1164 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  7. Get started making music

    1152 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  8. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

    1144 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  9. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

    1132 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  10. Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant

    1023 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  11. JMAP – a modern email open standard

    1018 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  12. Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

    998 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  13. It's A(door)able

    993 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  14. MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

    972 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  15. Let us serve you, but don't bring us down

    937 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  16. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

    923 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  17. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

    914 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  18. 100K Context Windows

    907 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  19. Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

    906 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  20. Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

    902 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  21. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    895 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  22. I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me

    875 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  23. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

    870 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  24. GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt

    868 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  25. Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week

    856 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  26. Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

    854 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  27. Why I Left Rust

    822 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  28. Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

    810 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  29. Bank Failures Visualized

    802 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  30. Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

    795 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  31. India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

    793 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  32. Htmx Is the Future

    792 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  33. Eye Candy

    792 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  34. IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants

    782 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  35. Orb Farm

    775 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  36. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

    767 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  37. macOS Internals

    755 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  38. What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

    726 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  39. Tarkovsky's films online for free

    724 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  40. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

    714 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  41. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

    702 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  42. JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents

    701 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  43. Paper Airplane Designs

    697 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  44. Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

    690 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  45. Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?

    683 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  46. Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)

    681 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  47. Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical

    679 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  48. Language models can explain neurons in language models

    676 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  49. Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)

    676 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  50. Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

    670 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  51. HBO Max new Captcha system

    669 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  52. Pixpaint

    667 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  53. Why is my dryer radioactive?

    660 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  54. Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages

    659 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  55. Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?

    644 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  56. I want to talk about WebGPU

    643 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  57. Implement DNS in a Weekend

    643 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  58. Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

    642 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  59. Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.

    638 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  60. Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases

    637 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  61. ChatGPT app for iOS

    632 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  62. Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

    625 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  63. Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

    623 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  64. Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

    623 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  65. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine

    621 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  66. HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals

    620 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  67. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

    617 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  68. YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

    613 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  69. Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features

    612 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  70. Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines

    609 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  71. 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years

    608 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  72. Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card

    607 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  73. Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA

    602 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  74. The brand new Thunderbird logo

    593 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  75. The tiny corp raised $5.1M

    587 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  76. Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?

    582 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  77. Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide

    579 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  78. Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

    577 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  79. The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself

    577 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  80. Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

    567 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  81. Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years

    567 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  82. So this guy is now S3. All of S3

    567 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  83. My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated

    565 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  84. Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

    564 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  85. FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year

    562 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  86. The .zip TLD sucks

    558 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  87. Story: Redis and its creator antirez

    557 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  88. Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)

    551 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  89. Rekt.network

    551 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  90. TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges

    549 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  91. Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled

    549 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  92. Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN

    545 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  93. Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database

    545 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  94. A guidance language for controlling LLMs

    542 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  95. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

    539 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  96. Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG

    538 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  97. Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System

    534 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  98. Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password

    533 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  99. Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

    530 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  100. The Sourdough Framework

    527 points • comment • may 16, 2023