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Hacker News (May 2023)
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I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)
84 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java
84 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Researchers have determined how an airborne molecule links to a smell receptor
84 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you”
84 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Qsort.h – Quicksort as a C macro (2019)
84 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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New Xen updates on RISC-V
84 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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A Detailed Look Into The Making of Tron Legacy VFX
84 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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A Go compiler, written in Rust (2016)
84 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Finland's average electricity price slips into negative territory
84 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally
84 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
83 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?
83 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?
83 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows
83 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app
83 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming
83 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
83 points • comment • may 28, 2023
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EdgeDB – A graph-relational database built on top of Postgres
83 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Where Do Great Ideas Come From?
83 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Forgetful Browsing
83 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison
83 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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Road to reality – executable essay
83 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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YouTube on TVs getting unskippable 30-second and pause screen ads
83 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)
83 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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Donkeycar: A Python self driving library
83 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
83 points • comment • may 21, 2023
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Understanding Passkeys
83 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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New Playground: Integer.exposed
83 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Popover API
83 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)
83 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Clever code considered harmful
83 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand
82 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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US crypto mining used more power last year than all the computers
82 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Congress wants AM radio in all new cars – trade groups say that’s a mistake
82 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Makefile Tricks for Python Projects
82 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Fast GPT-2 inference written in Fortran
82 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects
82 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping
82 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
82 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Who pays the price when cochlear implants go obsolete?
82 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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A simple and eco-friendly way to make ammonia
82 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?
82 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet
82 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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New Directions in Cloud Programming (2021) [pdf]
82 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESCO status
82 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)
81 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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New proof finds the ‘ultimate instability’ in a solar system model
81 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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Turds in AI Generated Art
81 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Waking up to Hacker News
81 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool
81 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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The tale of "-mrtd" in GCC and Clang
81 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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The Birth of the Self
81 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Bosses of failed US banks refuse to hand back millions of dollars in pay
81 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf]
81 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning
81 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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The war on Japanese knotweed
81 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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Banana Equivalent Dose
81 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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UFOs exist in the low information zone
81 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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New Philips Monitor Features an E-Paper Side Panel
81 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission in myMail
81 points • comment • may 06, 2023
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Experts weigh impact of Intel-Arm collaboration
81 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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A minimal operating system (2K LOC) on QEMU and a RISC-V board
81 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis (2002) [pdf]
81 points • comment • may 21, 2023
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Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End
81 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Detailed Image of the Human Retina
80 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT
80 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together
80 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot
80 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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Spotify-Qt
80 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Tone: Cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor
80 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks
80 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design (2020)
80 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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ChatGPT: A Mental Model
80 points • comment • may 28, 2023
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Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
80 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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JPL Horizons Sending Too Many Emails
80 points • comment • may 06, 2023
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Read Every Single Error
80 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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U.S. focuses on invigorating ‘chiplets’ to stay cutting-edge in tech
80 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed
80 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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What deserves our attention?
80 points • comment • may 28, 2023
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A Codebase That Makes Codebases
80 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation
79 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance
79 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans
79 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Show HN: Make domain verification as easy as verifying an email or phone number
79 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Arm announces the Cortex X4 for 2024, plus a 14-core M2-fighter
79 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent
79 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Show HN: Gis.chat – a Geospatial Community
79 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Ordering Photocopies from Japan's National Library
79 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year?
79 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Creating a Memory-Safe Workstation with CheriBSD [pdf]
79 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think
78 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)
78 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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“A Great Ox Stands on My Tongue”: The Pitfalls of Latin Translation
78 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (2016)
78 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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The AI PR Industrial Complex
78 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Classic fountain pens
78 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good
78 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis
78 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Hot Pixel' Attack Steals Data from Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD Chips
78 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow
78 points • comment • may 20, 2023