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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. “Free Speech Absolutist” Elon Musk Caves to Authoritarian Censorial Bullies

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  2. The Coggers – history and tragedy of the first US mountain railroad

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  3. Finnish newspaper hides Ukraine news reports for Russians in online game

    22 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  4. Robotic arm made out of glass

    22 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  5. Target expects organized retail crime-fueled losses to jump by $500M this year

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  6. State of GPT by Karpathy

    22 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  7. New ZIP domains spark debate among cybersecurity experts

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  8. My startup crossed $2M/yr and now co-founder is going for a power grab

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  9. AA CEO tells pilots the carrier to increase pay to up to $590k a year

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  10. Ask HN: Bypassing GPT-4 8k tokens limit

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  11. An auto CEO came close to saying the right thing about heavy EV batteries

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  12. ReLLM: Exact Structure for Large Language Model Completions

    22 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  13. Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard

    22 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  14. YouTuber admits he crashed plane in Santa Barbara, destroyed evidence

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  15. A new frontier for Hopfield networks

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  16. Primes and Primitive Sets: an Erdos Conjecture is cracked (2022) [video]

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  17. Why your team doesn't need to use pull requests

    22 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  18. Python GIL vs. nogil: Boost I/O Performance 10x With One Line Change

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  19. Sex Ed Books Don't “Groom” Kids and Teens. They Protect Them

    22 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  20. Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  21. Wendy’s debuts an A.I. chatbot for drive-thru orders

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  22. Tipping Prompts Are Suddenly Everywhere

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  23. 12 horses die from injuries over the past month at Churchill Downs

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  24. WhatsApp Caught Using Microphone During the Night

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  25. Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on Arm64 with Zig

    22 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  26. Chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (2019)

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  27. You can learn AI later

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  28. The European Commission is considering new rules on how networks interconnect

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  29. Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from AI. He Got an Invoice Instead

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  30. Engineering professor awarded defense grant for cognitive security research

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  31. Automatic Differentiation [pdf]

    22 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  32. Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

    22 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  33. Not Every Study on Teen Depression and Social Media Is Bad. Only Most of Them

    22 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  34. T-Mobile discloses its second data breach so far this year

    22 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  35. Boron-assisted abiotic polypeptide synthesis

    22 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  36. Show HN: A pixel art puzzle game for mobile using PixiJS

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  37. Happy Teacher's Appreciation Week to All the CS Teachers

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  38. The aesthetic usability effect / paradox

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  39. Read Old, Classic Books

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  40. Apple Tests New High-End Macs with M2 Max and M2 Ultra Chips Ahead of WWDC

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  41. Build a serverless Discord bot with OpenFaaS and Golang

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  42. Gustl Mollath

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  43. Truth About the War

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  44. AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  45. 1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regret it later

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  46. The Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  47. Cops, firefighters bewildered as driverless cars behave badly

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  48. Show HN: Cosmic – Headless CMS and API toolkit v2.0

    21 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  49. French resistance fighter, 98, reveals mass execution of German prisoners

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  50. IRS Weighs Creating a Government-Run Tax-Prep Option

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  51. Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  52. Do adenovirus-vector Covid-19 vaccines have beneficial non-specific effects?

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  53. EU approves controversial Dutch farm buy-out plan to meet climate goals

    21 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  54. Inflection AI First Release – Pi

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  55. Robinhood to Offer 24-Hour Trading

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  56. How some people get away with doing nothing at work

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  57. UK: No-fault evictions to be banned in reform of rental sector

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  58. CodeWeavers transitions to employee ownership trust

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  59. How AI coding companions will change the way developers work

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  60. Integrating social responsibility into core CS

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  61. Who is Rollo May?

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  62. ICANN Board Approves RDAP Amendments (To Replace WHOIS)

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  63. Global temperatures set to reach new records in next five years

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  64. Can Kolkata’s street life survive India’s record-breaking heatwaves?

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  65. Since Go 1.22, loop {for I, p:= 0, new(int); p = &I; {p = &I}} might never exit

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  66. The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  67. Ferrite Bead

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  68. Attacked from Within (2009)

    21 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  69. Has HN Changed? I assume it's just me

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  70. From Manager to Compression Innovator: Yann Collet (Inventor of LZ4 and ZSTD)

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  71. DNA traces in the water, sand and air can identify who you are

    21 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  72. First-in-Human Trial of Oral Drug to Remove Radioactive Contamination Begins

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  73. Three Governance Case Studies

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  74. A Michigan school district has banned students from carrying backpacks

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  75. Milton Larsen, co-founder of Hollywood’s Magic Castle, dead at 92

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  76. Milk-V Second RISC-V SBC – Physically Compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  77. Google will start deleting inactive accounts after two years

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  78. Ask HN: Foundational Papers in AI

    21 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  79. Google Chrome brings better AI to the browser with WebGPU

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  80. Taskflow v3.6.0: A New Dynamic Task Graph Programming Model

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  81. Florida health care can now be denied based on moral, ethical, religious beliefs

    21 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  82. The situation with malware on Android TV ROMs is ridiculous

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  83. Landmark crypto rules make exchanges liable for customer losses in EU

    21 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  84. Wardley Maps–illustrated through Gerstner

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  85. Driver’s Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  86. The New Timescale

    20 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  87. Samsung eyes chip facility in Japan amid thaw in Seoul-Tokyo relations

    20 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  88. Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  89. Hibernation artificially triggered in potential space travel breakthrough

    20 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  90. Amazon Delivery Drivers Unionized. Now They Have to Prove They Work for Amazon

    20 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  91. The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools

    20 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  92. Guide to a Foreign Past

    20 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  93. Process and Reality

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  94. Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better

    20 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  95. Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  96. IBM Chief’s Message to Remote Workers: ‘Your Career Does Suffer’

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  97. Apple, Google partner on industry specification to address Bluetooth tracking

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  98. What if nobody is bad at maths?

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  99. Core i7-1370P performance debut: Framework Laptop 13.5 13th Gen Intel review

    20 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  100. YouTube is bringing 30-second unskippable ads to its TV apps

    20 points • comment • may 18, 2023