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Hacker News (May 2023)

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

    142 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  2. Baseline: a unified view of stable web features

    141 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  3. Anonymous Tor Phone

    141 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  4. My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919)

    141 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  5. New Arm cores deliver up to 40% better performance

    141 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  6. Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?

    141 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  7. Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds

    140 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  8. The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam

    140 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  9. AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable

    140 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  10. A relay that changed the power industry

    139 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  11. Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

    139 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  12. Typescale: A tool for easy CSS typography

    139 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  13. Devil Mode for Emacs

    139 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  14. Show HN: DB-GPT, an LLM tool for database

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  15. How to make smaller C and C++ binaries

    139 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  16. Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration

    139 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  17. Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy

    139 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  18. I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

    139 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  19. A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert

    139 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  20. DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet

    138 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  21. US Supreme Court leaves protections for internet companies unscathed

    138 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  22. Nostr – Decentralized social network

    138 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  23. A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (2017)

    138 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  24. Progress on running Haiku OS on VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board

    138 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  25. Google banned me – open sourcing all my apps

    138 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  26. Why champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated drinks do not

    138 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  27. In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  28. The Rails Doctrine

    138 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  29. Carbon-negative concrete

    138 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  30. Life After Language

    137 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  31. Squad Solar City Car

    137 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  32. Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview

    137 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  33. Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease

    137 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  34. Jails on FreeBSD

    137 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  35. An Internet Canvas

    137 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  36. Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision

    137 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  37. Google Bard blocks all European Union countries

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  38. A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency (2022) [pdf]

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  39. What happened after I left my software engineering career (2022)

    137 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  40. Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights

    137 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  41. Salt Lake 2002 – not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error

    137 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  42. At Musk’s brain-chip startup, animal-testing panel is rife with conflicts

    137 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  43. Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (2019)

    136 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  44. Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill

    136 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  45. Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot

    136 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  46. Open-Llama: Complete training pipeline for building large language models

    136 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  47. EU Artificial Intelligence Act

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  48. Random bit-flip invalidates certificate transparency log – again?

    136 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  49. Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021)

    136 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  50. Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications

    136 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  51. Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language

    136 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  52. Deseret Alphabet

    136 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  53. XFS Metadata Corruption on Linux 6.3 Tracked Down to One Missing One-Line Patch

    135 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  54. Show HN: Postgres query lock explainer

    135 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  55. Photomator for Mac

    135 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  56. Logic Pro for iPad

    135 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  57. 12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed

    135 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  58. Hands-Free Coding (2020)

    135 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  59. John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)

    135 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  60. State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California

    135 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  61. The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon

    135 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  62. The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos

    135 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  63. The Xerox PARC Archive

    134 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  64. DIY Book Binding

    134 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  65. Germany Falls into Recession

    134 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  66. Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)

    133 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  67. I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent

    133 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  68. Nirvana fallacy

    133 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  69. Show HN: Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App

    133 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  70. Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say

    133 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  71. Deadlines as Technology

    133 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  72. Stories We’ve Seen Too Often

    133 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  73. Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates

    133 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  74. Vulkan Video Decoding

    133 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  75. A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe

    132 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  76. The UX Research Reckoning is Here

    132 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  77. Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run

    132 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  78. Minix development has been abandoned?

    132 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  79. Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform

    132 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  80. Using Bun.js as a Bundler

    132 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  81. Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux

    131 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  82. React Aria Components

    131 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  83. If a PR Says “Artificial Intelligence,” There’s a Good Chance It’s Meaningless

    131 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  84. Building a Signal Analyzer with Modern Web Tech

    131 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  85. Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?

    131 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  86. An experimental editor for WebGPU compute shaders

    131 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  87. The Hammerhead Worm

    131 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  88. The SGI XFS Filesystem

    130 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  89. Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

    130 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  90. Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  91. How I developed a faster Ruby interpreter (2022)

    130 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  92. Logitech Partners with iFixit for Self-Repairs

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  93. Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON

    130 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  94. Nintendo sued for “immoral” Mario Kart lootboxes

    130 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  95. 85% of jobs are filled via networking

    130 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  96. Ggwave: Message people over sound

    130 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  97. Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced

    130 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  98. EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill

    130 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  99. Effect of LSD on reinforcement learning in humans (2022)

    130 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  100. Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

    130 points • comment • may 18, 2023