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Hacker News (May 2023)
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Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office
374 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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The end of the accounting search
373 points • comment • may 21, 2023
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War Is a Racket (1935)
371 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions
370 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
368 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Migrating from Supabase
368 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
368 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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We will be shutting down neeva.com
367 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond
367 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
366 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support
365 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
365 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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Lately I've been using timers daily
364 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
364 points • comment • may 07, 2023
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Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card
364 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
363 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Cantonese Font with Pronunciation
361 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
360 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
359 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
358 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023
357 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf]
356 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Google
354 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
353 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says
353 points • comment • may 20, 2023
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I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”
352 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?
352 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
352 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Please don’t upload my code on GitHub
351 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
351 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere
350 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
350 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Taxonomy of Procrastination
350 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?
349 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
349 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
349 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]
348 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page
348 points • comment • may 13, 2023
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Windows 11 in Svelte
347 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
346 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Uncensored Models
346 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
346 points • comment • may 14, 2023
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Give It the Craigslist Test
346 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)
344 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”
343 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Come back, c2.com, we still need you
342 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
339 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Ableton Push 3
339 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users
338 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago
337 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input
334 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT
334 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers
334 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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This blog is hosted on my Android phone
333 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface
332 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
331 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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Statement on AI Risk
329 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
329 points • comment • may 21, 2023
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Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
328 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades
327 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn
327 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Neanderthal Flute
325 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Micromouse: The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [video]
325 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)
324 points • comment • may 08, 2023
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Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
324 points • comment • may 25, 2023
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Venture Predation
323 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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I found the best anagram in English (2017)
323 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage
321 points • comment • may 26, 2023
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Writing a SQLite Clone from Scratch in C (2022)
319 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub
318 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
317 points • comment • may 18, 2023
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Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)
316 points • comment • may 23, 2023
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LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions
316 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature
315 points • comment • may 31, 2023
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
315 points • comment • may 30, 2023
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Seaflooding
314 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs
314 points • comment • may 02, 2023
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Google Pixel Fold
314 points • comment • may 10, 2023
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Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
313 points • comment • may 11, 2023
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Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
313 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
313 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
313 points • comment • may 05, 2023
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Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
311 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern
311 points • comment • may 01, 2023
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StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length
310 points • comment • may 15, 2023
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
310 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley
308 points • comment • may 16, 2023
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Building a Personal VoIP System
308 points • comment • may 27, 2023
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Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines
306 points • comment • may 12, 2023
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Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
306 points • comment • may 29, 2023
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Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks
305 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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How Does an FPGA Work?
304 points • comment • may 03, 2023
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Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood
304 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
303 points • comment • may 09, 2023
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PyTorch for WebGPU
303 points • comment • may 19, 2023
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Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs
301 points • comment • may 22, 2023
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Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics
301 points • comment • may 04, 2023
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BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT
300 points • comment • may 17, 2023
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QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
300 points • comment • may 24, 2023
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My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it
299 points • comment • may 14, 2023