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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Elephants may be domesticating themselves

    120 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  2. Play DOOM in Teletext

    119 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  3. Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?

    119 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  4. TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness

    119 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  5. Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration

    119 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  6. What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups

    119 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  7. Fluent 2 Design System

    119 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  8. r9: Plan 9 in Rust

    119 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  9. Lem v2.0.0 – Common Lisp IDE with high expansibility

    119 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  10. How to hire a pop star for your private party

    119 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  11. Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks

    119 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  12. A PhD student's perspective on research in NLP in the era of LLMs

    118 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  13. Pioneer – An Open Source space adventure game set in our galaxy

    118 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  14. Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino

    118 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  15. Tell HN: Makers beware, Etsy will ruin your small business

    118 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  16. Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison

    118 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  17. 1999 Game Developers Conference (GDC) Recordings Archive

    118 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  18. Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones

    118 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  19. Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface

    118 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  20. Cargo Cult AI

    118 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  21. The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably

    118 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  22. Apple-1 ELIZA chatbot vs. ChatGPT [video]

    118 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  23. Tech companies keep falling for the forever fallacy

    117 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  24. We Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]

    117 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  25. For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen

    117 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  26. Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals

    117 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  27. WebGPU hits 40% availability 2 weeks after Chrome releases support

    117 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  28. M.U.L.E. 40th Anniversary Special

    117 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  29. Ian Hacking has died

    117 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  30. Ask HN: What are ways to combat loneliness and build meaningful connections?

    117 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  31. Is 20M of rows still a valid soft limit of MySQL table in 2023?

    117 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  32. Show HN: Weekle – a web app to learn how to calculate the day of the week

    117 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  33. Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf]

    117 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  34. AI Generated Propaganda

    117 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  35. Singh proposes corporate tax hike tied to CEO-worker pay gap

    117 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  36. Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon

    117 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  37. A 1914 silent film considered lost was rescued from a vault

    117 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  38. Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter

    117 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  39. The damage to lunar orbiting spacecraft caused by the ejecta of lunar landers

    116 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  40. Ask HN: How to move from dev role to management/team lead role?

    116 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  41. VR optics and why IPD means too many things (2019)

    116 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  42. Are emergent abilities of large language models a mirage?

    115 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  43. On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)

    115 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  44. Sony PlayStation 2 Development Kit (2020)

    115 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  45. ChainForge: An open-source visual programming environment for testing prompts

    115 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  46. Win32 App Isolation

    115 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  47. Hammerhead sharks are first fish found to ‘hold their breath’

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  48. Martin Amis has died

    114 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  49. The XY Problem (2014)

    114 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  50. Unit Testing eBPF Programs

    114 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  51. Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

    114 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  52. PSVR2 hardware authentication has been cracked on PC

    114 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  53. Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Steve Wozniak

    114 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  54. Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now

    114 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  55. Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child

    114 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  56. Unix: An Oral History

    113 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  57. Algorithms and Data Structures (2007) [pdf]

    113 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  58. Show HN: Psychic - An open-source integration platform for unstructured data

    113 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  59. Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]

    113 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  60. The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok: Or how, platforms die

    113 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  61. Freakwan: A MicroPython driver for the SX1276 LoRa chip

    113 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  62. Historical code from reddit.com

    112 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  63. Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers

    112 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  64. Show HN: Engineering Book Club

    112 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  65. ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)

    112 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  66. Revolut CFO quits after auditor BDO warning

    112 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  67. CMU Common Lisp 21e

    112 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  68. Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database builder for communities

    112 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  69. Combinatory Logic (2020)

    112 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  70. Reddit's proposed API changes and the continued existence of RedReader

    111 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  71. Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)

    111 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  72. Plain Text Accounting

    111 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  73. Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware

    111 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  74. Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold

    111 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  75. FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)

    111 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  76. Batten Down Fix Later

    111 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  77. Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

    111 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  78. Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes

    111 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  79. One line of code that did cost $8k

    110 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  80. Implementing Value Speculation in OCaml

    110 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  81. TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript

    110 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  82. NIH restarts bat virus grant

    110 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  83. Show HN: Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code

    110 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  84. Giving GPT “Infinite” Knowledge

    110 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  85. Prince Rupert's drop

    110 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  86. A Sun-like star orbiting a boson star

    110 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  87. Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)

    110 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  88. SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0

    110 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  89. Parenting tech opens the door to state surveillance

    110 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  90. Tempus Nectit Knitting Clock

    110 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  91. Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy

    109 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  92. Build Your Own Lisp

    109 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  93. Cube.js: Headless Semantic Layer

    109 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  94. Michel de Montaigne

    109 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  95. Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds

    109 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  96. GitHub Incident

    109 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  97. Darvaza Gas Crater

    109 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  98. Chain-of-Thought Hub: Measuring LLMs' Reasoning Performance

    108 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  99. Concrete: A fully homomorphic encryption compiler

    108 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  100. Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

    108 points • comment • may 01, 2023