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Hacker News (May 2023)

  1. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

    259 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  2. ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important

    258 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  3. Faster CPython at PyCon, part one

    258 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  4. Google employees complain about CEO's pay raise as cost cuts hit company

    257 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  5. Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]

    257 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  6. Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%

    256 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  7. FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund

    255 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  8. New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition

    255 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  9. Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift

    255 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  10. Show HN: A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites

    255 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  11. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks

    253 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  12. Language models cost much more in some languages than others

    253 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  13. A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress

    253 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  14. Petrucci Music Library

    252 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  15. How to quit cars

    252 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  16. Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)

    250 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  17. It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out

    250 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  18. Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas

    250 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  19. Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std

    250 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  20. Monoliths are not dinosaurs

    250 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  21. Google open-sources Rust crate audits

    249 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  22. Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

    249 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  23. Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s

    248 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  24. Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

    248 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  25. Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights

    247 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  26. VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework

    247 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  27. Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling

    246 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  28. Problems harder than NP-Complete

    246 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  29. Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’

    245 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  30. Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

    245 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  31. Using ChatGPT for home automation

    244 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  32. TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)

    244 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  33. It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)

    243 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  34. Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

    243 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  35. I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing

    243 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  36. Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future

    243 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  37. Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

    243 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  38. Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten

    242 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  39. Axle OS

    242 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  40. A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed

    242 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  41. Hacker News Highlights

    242 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  42. GitHub code search is generally available

    241 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  43. A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans

    241 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  44. Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time

    241 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  45. Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI

    240 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  46. Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances

    240 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  47. Cases where full scans are better than indexes

    240 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  48. Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python

    240 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  49. Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps

    240 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  50. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

    239 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  51. Ultimate Electronics (2021)

    239 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  52. How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

    238 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  53. LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper

    238 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  54. Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

    238 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  55. Oxidizing OCaml: Locality

    238 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  56. A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store

    238 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  57. Do the weirdest thing that feels right

    238 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  58. The Great CPU Stagnation

    238 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  59. How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter

    238 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  60. Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees

    238 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  61. Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]

    237 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  62. The Silent (R)evolution of SAT

    237 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  63. Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update

    237 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  64. Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source

    236 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  65. How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?

    235 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  66. Heathkit

    235 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  67. SQLite 3.42.0

    235 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  68. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

    235 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  69. “Tinder for Canceling Meetings”

    234 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  70. The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)

    233 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  71. Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs

    233 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  72. Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario

    233 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  73. Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter

    233 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  74. Show HN: I've built a spectrogram analyzer web app

    233 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  75. Rails Cheat Sheet

    233 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  76. Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung

    232 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  77. Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs

    232 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  78. New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut

    232 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  79. Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation

    232 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  80. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

    231 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  81. Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List

    231 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  82. Paradigms of A.I. Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (1991)

    231 points • comment • may 05, 2023

  83. Vacations in the Soviet Union

    231 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  84. Windows XP Activation: Game Over

    230 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  85. Artists must be allowed to make bad work

    230 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  86. Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science

    230 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  87. Update on Sharing

    230 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  88. Polar Night

    229 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  89. Apple’s new headset meets reality

    229 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  90. Using ChatGPT to generate a GPT project end-to-end

    228 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  91. My pay went from $240k to $0

    228 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  92. You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID

    228 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  93. Why Lisp?

    228 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  94. The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken (2022) [video]

    227 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  95. Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model Architecture

    227 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  96. Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?

    227 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  97. U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce

    227 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  98. The web’s most important decision

    226 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  99. The teens behind the Mirai botnet

    226 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  100. U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr

    226 points • comment • may 15, 2023