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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. The HTTP QUERY Method specification

    155 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  2. I've mostly stopped reading technical mailing lists

    155 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  3. Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?

    155 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  4. Microsoft Small Basic

    155 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  5. Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person

    154 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  6. Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases?

    154 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  7. FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine

    154 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  8. Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura

    154 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  9. Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel

    154 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  10. Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?

    153 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  11. The core problem with hamburger menus

    153 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  12. US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories

    153 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  13. Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

    153 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  14. The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point

    153 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  15. Show HN: Blotter – An interactive, never ending music video

    153 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  16. New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI

    153 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  17. Vore: A new RSS feed reader

    153 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  18. Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans

    152 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  19. You can serve static data over HTTP

    152 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  20. Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen

    152 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  21. Bayes is guaranteed to overfit

    152 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  22. Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta

    152 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  23. Vint Cerf on mistakes he made in TCP/IP

    151 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  24. GitHub switches to Rust based Blackbird code search

    151 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  25. MIT Course: Generative AI for Constructive Communication

    151 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  26. Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites

    151 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  27. LangChain: The Missing Manual

    151 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  28. Westinghouse announces a new small modular nuclear reactor

    151 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  29. The time I accidentally spent a year combatting fraud

    151 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  30. Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors

    151 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  31. Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch

    151 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  32. Constitutional AI: RLHF on Steroids

    150 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  33. Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

    150 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  34. Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode

    150 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  35. New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

    150 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  36. Kchat: Persistent group chat in <50 lines using kdb+/k/q web sockets, JavaScript

    150 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  37. A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT

    150 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  38. The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

    149 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  39. Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark

    149 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  40. Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water

    149 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  41. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    149 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  42. Chatbots are not the future

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  43. ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase

    149 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  44. Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates

    149 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  45. Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I)

    148 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  46. Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers

    148 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  47. SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss

    148 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  48. Why I Use Elm in 2023

    148 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  49. Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data

    148 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  50. World of Goo Remastered

    148 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  51. Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture

    148 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  52. Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?

    148 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  53. Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for another decade

    148 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  54. OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps

    148 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  55. Basic SAT model of x86 instructions using Z3, autogenerated from Intel docs

    148 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  56. Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos

    148 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  57. State of Private Markets: Q1 2023

    148 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  58. Functional Programming in Lean

    147 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  59. Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search

    147 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  60. Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20M per Year Under New API Pricing

    147 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  61. A Little Calculus

    147 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  62. Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts

    147 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  63. Google makes its text-to-music AI public

    146 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  64. Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip

    146 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  65. The kingdom of Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin for years

    146 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  66. PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1

    146 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  67. Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups

    146 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  68. Temporal .NET – Deterministic Workflow Authoring in .NET

    146 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  69. Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video]

    146 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  70. A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015)

    146 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  71. Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension

    146 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  72. The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio [video]

    146 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  73. How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer

    146 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  74. The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (2006)

    146 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  75. 50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS

    145 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  76. The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030

    145 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  77. D1: Improvements to performance and scalability

    144 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  78. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (2005)

    144 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  79. Study finds 90% of Australian teachers can't afford to live where they teach

    144 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  80. The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever

    144 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  81. The simple joys of scaling up

    144 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  82. James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around alien planet

    144 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  83. 1000W 12V –> 220V Inverter

    144 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  84. Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame

    144 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  85. Unlighthouse: Like Lighthouse, but it scans every single page

    144 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  86. A collection of lock-free data structures written in standard C++11

    144 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  87. Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages

    144 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  88. SFPD obtained live access to business camera network in anticipation of protest

    143 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  89. New Taschen book on the history of the computer

    143 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  90. Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training

    143 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  91. A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation

    143 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  92. AI is just someone else's intelligence

    143 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  93. Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife

    143 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  94. Sigils are underappreciated (2022)

    143 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  95. Building a Compiler with Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) (2020) [pdf]

    143 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  96. Google Cloud Storage FUSE

    143 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  97. Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo

    143 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  98. GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

    142 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  99. RedisRaft

    142 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  100. Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf]

    142 points • comment • may 04, 2023