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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)

    84 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  2. Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java

    84 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  3. Researchers have determined how an airborne molecule links to a smell receptor

    84 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  4. Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you”

    84 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  5. Qsort.h – Quicksort as a C macro (2019)

    84 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  6. New Xen updates on RISC-V

    84 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  7. A Detailed Look Into The Making of Tron Legacy VFX

    84 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  8. A Go compiler, written in Rust (2016)

    84 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  9. Finland's average electricity price slips into negative territory

    84 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  10. Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally

    84 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  11. Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it

    83 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  12. What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?

    83 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  13. Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?

    83 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  14. SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows

    83 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  15. Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app

    83 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  16. Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming

    83 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  17. Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP

    83 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  18. EdgeDB – A graph-relational database built on top of Postgres

    83 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  19. Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

    83 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  20. Forgetful Browsing

    83 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  21. ChatGPT vs. Bard: A Realistic Comparison

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  22. Road to reality – executable essay

    83 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  23. YouTube on TVs getting unskippable 30-second and pause screen ads

    83 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  24. The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

    83 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  25. Donkeycar: A Python self driving library

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  26. PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless

    83 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  27. Understanding Passkeys

    83 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  28. New Playground: Integer.exposed

    83 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  29. Popover API

    83 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  30. The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (2015)

    83 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  31. Clever code considered harmful

    83 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  32. Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand

    82 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  33. US crypto mining used more power last year than all the computers

    82 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  34. Congress wants AM radio in all new cars – trade groups say that’s a mistake

    82 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  35. Makefile Tricks for Python Projects

    82 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  36. Fast GPT-2 inference written in Fortran

    82 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  37. The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects

    82 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  38. Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  39. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral

    82 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  40. Who pays the price when cochlear implants go obsolete?

    82 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  41. A simple and eco-friendly way to make ammonia

    82 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  42. Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

    82 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  43. All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet

    82 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  44. New Directions in Cloud Programming (2021) [pdf]

    82 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  45. Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESCO status

    82 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  46. The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)

    81 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  47. New proof finds the ‘ultimate instability’ in a solar system model

    81 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  48. Turds in AI Generated Art

    81 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  49. Waking up to Hacker News

    81 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  50. NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool

    81 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  51. The tale of "-mrtd" in GCC and Clang

    81 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  52. The Birth of the Self

    81 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  53. Bosses of failed US banks refuse to hand back millions of dollars in pay

    81 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  54. Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf]

    81 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  55. Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning

    81 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  56. The war on Japanese knotweed

    81 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  57. Banana Equivalent Dose

    81 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  58. UFOs exist in the low information zone

    81 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  59. New Philips Monitor Features an E-Paper Side Panel

    81 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  60. Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission in myMail

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  61. Experts weigh impact of Intel-Arm collaboration

    81 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  62. A minimal operating system (2K LOC) on QEMU and a RISC-V board

    81 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  63. A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis (2002) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  64. Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorships End

    81 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  65. Detailed Image of the Human Retina

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  66. Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT

    80 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  67. Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together

    80 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  68. Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot

    80 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  69. Spotify-Qt

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  70. Tone: Cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor

    80 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  71. Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks

    80 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  72. Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design (2020)

    80 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  73. ChatGPT: A Mental Model

    80 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  74. Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue

    80 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  75. JPL Horizons Sending Too Many Emails

    80 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  76. Read Every Single Error

    80 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  77. U.S. focuses on invigorating ‘chiplets’ to stay cutting-edge in tech

    80 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  78. ‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  79. What deserves our attention?

    80 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  80. A Codebase That Makes Codebases

    80 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  81. Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation

    79 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  82. Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance

    79 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  83. Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans

    79 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  84. Show HN: Make domain verification as easy as verifying an email or phone number

    79 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  85. Arm announces the Cortex X4 for 2024, plus a 14-core M2-fighter

    79 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  86. Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent

    79 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  87. Show HN: Gis.chat – a Geospatial Community

    79 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  88. Ordering Photocopies from Japan's National Library

    79 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  89. Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year?

    79 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  90. Creating a Memory-Safe Workstation with CheriBSD [pdf]

    79 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  91. Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  92. Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)

    78 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  93. “A Great Ox Stands on My Tongue”: The Pitfalls of Latin Translation

    78 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  94. Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (2016)

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  95. The AI PR Industrial Complex

    78 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  96. Classic fountain pens

    78 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  97. Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good

    78 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  98. Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis

    78 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  99. Hot Pixel' Attack Steals Data from Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD Chips

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  100. Show HN: My affordable solution to costly workflow automation: Embed Workflow

    78 points • comment • may 20, 2023