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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers

    526 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  2. Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

    524 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  3. Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

    520 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  4. Times New Bastard

    519 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  5. Go with PHP

    519 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  6. Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request

    518 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  7. Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

    517 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  8. Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

    514 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  9. Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

    513 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  10. An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

    509 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  11. The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

    509 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  12. Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

    509 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  13. Smol Developer

    509 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  14. 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time

    502 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  15. Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

    498 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  16. News Minimalist – Only significant news

    498 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  17. The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]

    497 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  18. The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives

    496 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  19. How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset

    496 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  20. Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

    495 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  21. AI Canon

    493 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  22. Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)

    493 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  23. Writing Python like it's Rust

    492 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  24. What Wikipedia Did

    489 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  25. Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

    489 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  26. Beej's Guide to Network Programming

    489 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  27. Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript

    484 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  28. PrivateGPT

    484 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  29. Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

    481 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  30. The Prime Video microservices to monolith story

    480 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  31. Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

    477 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  32. Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC

    475 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  33. Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used

    474 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  34. Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla

    473 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  35. YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube

    472 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  36. Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass

    468 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  37. Learning DNS in 10 Years

    467 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  38. Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost

    465 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  39. Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

    464 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  40. Rooms.xyz

    464 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  41. OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA

    463 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  42. Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible

    462 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  43. I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

    460 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  44. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

    460 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  45. Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died

    458 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  46. Regent – Electric coastal travel

    449 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  47. Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)

    447 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  48. Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects

    447 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  49. Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training

    446 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  50. SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

    445 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  51. The money spent on lotteries doesn’t go to the park

    443 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  52. Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

    438 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  53. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

    436 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  54. Google I/O 2023

    435 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  55. Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?

    434 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  56. Belgium legalises ethical hacking

    433 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  57. YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

    428 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  58. The Framework Laptop 13

    428 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  59. Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

    426 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  60. Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it

    426 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  61. Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts

    425 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  62. A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?

    424 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  63. Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0

    424 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  64. How to start a Go project in 2023

    423 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  65. Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

    420 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  66. Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge

    416 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  67. Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

    414 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  68. FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup

    414 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  69. Fuck being productive

    414 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  70. Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs

    413 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  71. Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

    413 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  72. Bun 0.6

    406 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  73. Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber

    402 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  74. There oughta be a bullet time video booth

    400 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  75. The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit

    399 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  76. The Open Buddhist University

    399 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  77. Public Money, Public Code

    398 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  78. Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser

    397 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  79. Ancient Earth Globe

    396 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  80. Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing

    395 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  81. Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

    395 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  82. Numbers every LLM developer should know

    395 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  83. Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health

    393 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  84. Lua: The Little Language That Could

    393 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  85. James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail

    391 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  86. When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”

    390 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  87. What is a Vector Database? (2021)

    387 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  88. random(random(random(random())))

    385 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  89. My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)

    384 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  90. 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

    383 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  91. Open source Background Remover: Remove Background from images and video using AI

    383 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  92. Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job

    382 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  93. htmx

    381 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  94. Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

    380 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  95. The networkQuality tool on macOS

    379 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  96. People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living

    378 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  97. PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]

    377 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  98. I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)

    377 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  99. The seven programming ur-languages (2021)

    375 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  100. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    375 points • comment • may 02, 2023