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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office

    374 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  2. The end of the accounting search

    373 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  3. War Is a Racket (1935)

    371 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  4. Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

    370 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  5. A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB

    368 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  6. Migrating from Supabase

    368 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  7. The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review

    368 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  8. We will be shutting down neeva.com

    367 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  9. Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond

    367 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  10. Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

    366 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  11. Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support

    365 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  12. FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs

    365 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  13. Lately I've been using timers daily

    364 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  14. EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones

    364 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  15. Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card

    364 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  16. Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics

    363 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  17. Cantonese Font with Pronunciation

    361 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  18. Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed

    360 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

    359 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  20. UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill

    358 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  21. Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023

    357 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  22. Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf]

    356 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  23. Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Google

    354 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  24. Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

    353 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  25. FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says

    353 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  26. I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”

    352 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  27. Ask HN: How do you approach a problem you are not sure has a solution?

    352 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  28. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

    352 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  29. Please don’t upload my code on GitHub

    351 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  30. Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama

    351 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  31. Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere

    350 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  32. PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law

    350 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  33. Taxonomy of Procrastination

    350 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  34. Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?

    349 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  35. RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

    349 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  36. A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge

    349 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  37. Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]

    348 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  38. How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

    348 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  39. Windows 11 in Svelte

    347 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  40. Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government

    346 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  41. Uncensored Models

    346 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  42. Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles

    346 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  43. Give It the Craigslist Test

    346 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  44. Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)

    344 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  45. UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”

    343 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  46. Come back, c2.com, we still need you

    342 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  47. User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)

    339 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  48. Ableton Push 3

    339 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  49. EARN IT Act undermines the privacy, security, and safety of law-abiding users

    338 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  50. SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago

    337 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  51. Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input

    334 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  52. Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT

    334 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  53. Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers

    334 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  54. This blog is hosted on my Android phone

    333 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  55. Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface

    332 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  56. CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

    331 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  57. Statement on AI Risk

    329 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  58. GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers

    329 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  59. Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust

    328 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  60. Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades

    327 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  61. KeePassXC pull request to add basic support for WebAuthn

    327 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  62. Neanderthal Flute

    325 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  63. Micromouse: The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [video]

    325 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  64. You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

    324 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  65. Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet

    324 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  66. Venture Predation

    323 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  67. I found the best anagram in English (2017)

    323 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  68. Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage

    321 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  69. Writing a SQLite Clone from Scratch in C (2022)

    319 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  70. Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub

    318 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  71. Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

    317 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  72. Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

    316 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  73. LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions

    316 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  74. Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature

    315 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  75. How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

    315 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  76. Seaflooding

    314 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  77. Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs

    314 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  78. Google Pixel Fold

    314 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  79. Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password

    313 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  80. Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way

    313 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  81. The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again

    313 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  82. Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok

    313 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  83. Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused

    311 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  84. Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern

    311 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  85. StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length

    310 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  86. Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

    310 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  87. CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley

    308 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  88. Building a Personal VoIP System

    308 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  89. Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines

    306 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  90. Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer

    306 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  91. Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks

    305 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  92. How Does an FPGA Work?

    304 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  93. Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood

    304 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  94. Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake

    303 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  95. PyTorch for WebGPU

    303 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  96. Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45k installs

    301 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  97. Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics

    301 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  98. BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT

    300 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  99. QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

    300 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  100. My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it

    299 points • comment • may 14, 2023