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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here – it costs $7.99 per month (USA)

    34 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  2. Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  3. TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  4. Whichlang – Fast, OSS for Language Detection in Rust

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  5. A Short History of DragThing – Ten Years of Tidying Up Your Desktop (2005)

    34 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  6. Value Oriented Programming Needs Implicits?

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  7. What if we covered every warehouse in the mountain West with solar panels?

    34 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  8. Shopify facing severance suit over layoffs

    34 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  9. Building Customer-Facing Real-Time Dashboards with Postgres

    34 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  10. When 75 is time to die: the film imagining state-run euthanasia in Japan

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  11. How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?

    33 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  12. 'We're all worse off': Britain is now paying the price to leave the EU

    33 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  13. The Atomic Energy Lab Kit for Kids That Came with Actual Radioactive Materials

    33 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  14. Being a Good Unix Neighbour

    33 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  15. Number of displaced people hits record due to war, climate change

    33 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  16. Zone of Death (Yellowstone)

    33 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  17. Microsoft to Add Bing Search to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Battle with Google

    33 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  18. Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML

    33 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  19. Cops Raid Swedish VPN Provider Only to Find Out There’s No ‘There’ There

    33 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  20. California Insists on Wasting Its Scarce Water Supply

    33 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  21. US iPhone market share up, in declining market, as people switch from Android

    33 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  22. Systemshock: Shockolate – A minimalist and cross platform System Shock source p

    33 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  23. Custom OIDC is generally available on Tailscale

    33 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  24. EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C recommendation

    33 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  25. To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades

    33 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  26. We're Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

    33 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  27. Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says

    33 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  28. USS Hornet Apollo 11 Cruise Report (1969) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  29. North Korea to Launch Military Spy Satellite for Monitoring U.S. Drills

    33 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  30. MTV News shut down as Paramount Global cuts 25% of its staff

    33 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  31. Fruits Are Now So Sweet That Zoos Had to Stop Feeding Them to Animals

    33 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  32. NLRB rules non-compete agreements are illegal

    33 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  33. Social Media and Youth Mental Health

    33 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  34. Defenestrations of Prague

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  35. Building Cloud Dev Assistants with Pinecone and GPT-4 on Gitpod

    33 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  36. The World’s Greatest Freediver (2021)

    33 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  37. Humans have known the earth is round for thousands of years (2018)

    33 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  38. Get paid for open source contribution with Rust

    33 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  39. It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track

    33 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  40. Cloudflare is slow and Cloudflare can’t do much about it

    33 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  41. Garry Tan on leaving Palantir: ‘I was working like a dog for Peter Thiel’

    33 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  42. PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek

    32 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  43. Palmer Luckey: “The Apple headset is so good.”

    32 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  44. Last update of Safari has problems displaying JPEGs

    32 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  45. Show HN: Ethereum address reviews, similar to Yelp

    32 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  46. Amnesty International uncovers spyware campaign targeting Android

    32 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  47. Prehistoric pendant’s DNA reveals the person who held it

    32 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  48. The day you became a better writer (2007)

    32 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  49. Spain breaks record temperature of 38.8C (101.84F) in April

    32 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  50. Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (2021)

    32 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  51. Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

    32 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  52. Across America, some places still outlaw living with people who aren’t relatives

    32 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  53. Austin accelerator, known for charging founders up to $20k, files for bankruptcy

    32 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  54. Google, Meta executives push back against Canada online news bill

    32 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  55. Datadog’s $5M Outage

    32 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  56. Elm/compiler: Matching on negative literals results in a parser error

    32 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  57. Mini.WebVM: Your own Linux box from Dockerfile, virtualized in-browser via WASM

    32 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  58. Matter 1.1 release – Enhancements for developers and devices

    32 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  59. Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter (2022)

    32 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  60. Nintendo has just issued multiple DMCA takedown requests to GitHub

    32 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  61. What Colour Are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship

    32 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  62. Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

    32 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  63. Discord is changing their username system and ditching discriminators

    32 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  64. US debt ceiling: Democrats and Republicans agree deal in principle

    32 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  65. ‘Everything is gone’: entire Indian villages burned in ethnic violence

    32 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  66. I tested services to extract colors from image

    32 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  67. An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

    32 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  68. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2023)

    32 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  69. Linux HDR hackfest wrap-up

    32 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  70. How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity

    32 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  71. Power series, power serious: Talk by Doug McIlroy (2007) [video]

    32 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  72. Show HN: xmorphic – physics-based realistic CSS generator

    32 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  73. Activists face felonies for distributing flyers on “Cop City” protester killing

    32 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  74. Ryujinx Progress Report April 2023 (Nintendo Switch Emulator)

    32 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  75. Say a Final Goodbye to Sprint – T-Mobile Is Reportedly Shutting It Down

    32 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  76. Dev Drive on Windows 11

    32 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  77. The brief Age of the Worker is over – employers have the upper hand again

    31 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  78. DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk’s SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’

    31 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  79. Ask HN: What is the best product documentation you’ve ever seen?

    31 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  80. Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress

    31 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  81. The New New Reading Environment

    31 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  82. How Does a TLS Handshake Work?

    31 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  83. Fundraising Stages

    31 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  84. Companies cynically used global crises for profits – and brought inflation

    31 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  85. Commuter Cars Tango

    31 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  86. How to become a debt buyer

    31 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  87. Pynchon in Public Day (2017)

    31 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  88. Easier data debugging with Zed’s first-class errors

    31 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  89. Court Protects Redditors’ Right to Anonymous Speech in Piracy Case

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  90. Ask HN: What is the best media for long term archival storage?

    31 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  91. Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, the Internet pushes back

    31 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  92. Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute

    31 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  93. American Hippopotamus

    31 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  94. Implementing remote procedure calls – Birrel and Nelson (1981) [pdf]

    31 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  95. Ask HN: What is your proudest little invention or discovery?

    31 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  96. Senior Developer Koans

    31 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  97. I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food

    31 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  98. Pain points of teaching computer science

    31 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  99. Software Design Review (2009)

    31 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  100. Real Property Disposition: Historic lighthouses

    31 points • comment • may 26, 2023