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Hacker News (May 2023)

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

    226 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  2. Health advisory on social media use in adolescence

    225 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  3. The “baseline” scene in bladerunner 2049 was written by Ryan Gosling (2022)

    225 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  4. Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments

    225 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  5. 47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022?

    224 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  6. Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers

    224 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  7. Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil

    224 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  8. High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)

    223 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  9. Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)

    223 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  10. Dutch town installs bat-friendly red LED street lights (2018)

    223 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  11. Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts

    222 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  12. Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation

    222 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  13. Some personal news

    222 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  14. Tina Turner has died

    222 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  15. Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

    221 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  16. What do historians lose with the decline of local news?

    221 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  17. Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System

    221 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  18. Hard stuff when building products with LLMs

    221 points • comment • may 27, 2023

  19. ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel

    221 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  20. I Block Ads

    221 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  21. Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness

    221 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  22. Updating our inactive account policies

    221 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  23. The IRS is building its own online tax filing system

    221 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  24. StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio

    221 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  25. Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”

    220 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  26. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)

    220 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  27. Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing

    220 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  28. The DRAKON Language

    220 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  29. Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990)

    220 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  30. That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something

    220 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  31. Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  32. GPU vendor-agnostic fluid dynamics solver in Julia

    219 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  33. OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time

    219 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  34. The Mysterious 50 Ohm Impedance: Where It Came from and Why We Use It (2021)

    219 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  35. SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story

    219 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  36. Nvidia's Crazy New Neural Engine Is Redefining Realism in Graphics

    219 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  37. A terminal case of Linux

    218 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  38. The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

    218 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  39. The FBI as advanced persistent threat

    218 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  40. The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)

    218 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  41. Breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up

    217 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  42. NeXT Computers

    217 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  43. Who owns this camera, Nikon? Me or you? [video]

    217 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  44. Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)

    217 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  45. Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

    217 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  46. Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023

    216 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  47. The last days of a 350-year-old family farm

    216 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  48. What is permaculture? (2015)

    216 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  49. Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen

    216 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  50. Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records

    216 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  51. Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say

    216 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  52. Some models of Gigabyte motherboards download firmware updates insecurely

    215 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  53. Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io

    215 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  54. Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2

    215 points • comment • may 24, 2023

  55. OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal

    215 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  56. C++17’s useful features for embedded systems

    215 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  57. ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021)

    215 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  58. Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP

    215 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  59. GPT makes learning fun again

    214 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  60. Yurt Calculator

    214 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  61. Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor

    214 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  62. NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed

    214 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  63. ‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints

    214 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  64. Black holes might be defects in spacetime

    214 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  65. Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users

    213 points • comment • may 08, 2023

  66. Ask HN: Is anyone hosting their own Jitsi server?

    213 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  67. Show HN: Moderator Mayhem, a game about the difficulties of content moderation

    213 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  68. Five Books: The best books on everything

    212 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  69. MGL: Common Lisp machine learning library

    212 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  70. The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”

    212 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  71. Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages

    211 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  72. Ask HN: Resources for older developers?

    211 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  73. Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

    211 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  74. Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

    211 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  75. My first superoptimizer

    211 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  76. Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results

    211 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  77. Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (2010)

    210 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  78. The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death

    210 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  79. Modern CPUs have a backstage cast

    209 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  80. Idle DR-DOS

    209 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  81. OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it

    209 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  82. AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts

    209 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  83. Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)

    208 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  84. Software bugs that cause real-world harm

    208 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  85. TV series about startup failures

    208 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  86. Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams

    208 points • comment • may 17, 2023

  87. DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter

    208 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  88. Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church

    207 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  89. Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article

    207 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  90. Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

    207 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  91. Language Learning with Netflix

    207 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  92. Discord’s username change is causing discord

    207 points • comment • may 06, 2023

  93. Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

    207 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  94. Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

    206 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  95. Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage

    206 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  96. Feynman’s Maze-Running Story

    206 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  97. Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job

    206 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  98. Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed

    206 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  99. SparseGPT: Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot

    205 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  100. Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients

    205 points • comment • may 02, 2023