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Hacker News (Jun 2023)

  1. Addressing the community about changes to our API

    271 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  2. The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

    271 points • comment • jun 11, 2023

  3. Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

    271 points • comment • jun 01, 2023

  4. First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

    270 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  5. Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC

    270 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  6. Why SQLite is so great for the edge

    269 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  7. System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake

    268 points • comment • jun 02, 2023

  8. Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?

    267 points • comment • jun 21, 2023

  9. Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (2015)

    267 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  10. LLM Powered Autonomous Agents

    267 points • comment • jun 27, 2023

  11. 3M heads to trial in ‘existential’ $143B forever-chemicals litigation

    267 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  12. It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)

    266 points • comment • jun 02, 2023

  13. Atom feed format was born 20 years ago

    266 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  14. Probability and Markets [pdf]

    266 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  15. My First Impressions of Nix

    265 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  16. Localrf – Nerf from casual shaky videos

    265 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  17. Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time

    265 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  18. The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities

    264 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  19. Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder

    264 points • comment • jun 07, 2023

  20. Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study

    264 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  21. Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support

    264 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  22. Show HN: Open-source shooter which made it to AC: Valhalla and Skydio drones

    263 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  23. Passkeys now support external providers

    262 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  24. Reddit is OpenAI’s moat

    262 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  25. Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE

    261 points • comment • jun 13, 2023

  26. 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?

    261 points • comment • jun 07, 2023

  27. The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer

    261 points • comment • jun 02, 2023

  28. I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients

    261 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  29. In praise of blowing up your life

    261 points • comment • jun 12, 2023

  30. Tailscale doesn't want your password

    261 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  31. Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya

    260 points • comment • jun 04, 2023

  32. The Pentagon’s $52k trash can

    260 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  33. Goodreads has no incentive to be good

    260 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  34. Jessica Livingston (2015)

    260 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  35. Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf]

    259 points • comment • jun 02, 2023

  36. SQL:2023 has been released

    259 points • comment • jun 01, 2023

  37. OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March

    259 points • comment • jun 01, 2023

  38. Racket: Lisp for the modern day

    259 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  39. NYC Subwaysheds

    259 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  40. Microsoft DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices

    259 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  41. Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images

    258 points • comment • jun 07, 2023

  42. Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

    257 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  43. Chat Notebooks

    257 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  44. Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

    257 points • comment • jun 20, 2023

  45. Keeping Open Source Open

    256 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  46. GCP automatically lowered our quota, caused an incident, and refused to upgrade

    256 points • comment • jun 10, 2023

  47. FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist

    256 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  48. AI browser extensions are a security nightmare

    255 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  49. Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent

    255 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  50. Video Chess disassembled and commented

    254 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  51. Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland

    254 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  52. Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?

    253 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  53. Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes

    253 points • comment • jun 03, 2023

  54. What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)

    252 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  55. CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

    252 points • comment • jun 03, 2023

  56. A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science

    251 points • comment • jun 18, 2023

  57. XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens

    251 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  58. Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

    249 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  59. Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets

    249 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  60. Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years

    248 points • comment • jun 12, 2023

  61. NJ Supreme Court says cops need a wiretap to eavesdrop on your Facebook posts

    248 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  62. Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

    248 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  63. Merging bcachefs

    247 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  64. Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

    247 points • comment • jun 26, 2023

  65. Plain text journaling in Vim

    247 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  66. Textbooks are all you need

    247 points • comment • jun 21, 2023

  67. Getting to know the right people (2022)

    246 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  68. JPEG XL against AVIF tested on ImageEngine

    246 points • comment • jun 11, 2023

  69. The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open

    246 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  70. ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance

    245 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  71. The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents

    245 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  72. What are embeddings?

    244 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  73. The US is building factories at a fast rate

    243 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  74. 21st-century editors should keep their hands off of 20th-century books

    243 points • comment • jun 12, 2023

  75. Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

    242 points • comment • jun 02, 2023

  76. Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

    242 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  77. Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1

    242 points • comment • jun 28, 2023

  78. Power companies fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility

    241 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  79. Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances

    241 points • comment • jun 26, 2023

  80. Blender 3.6 LTS Released

    241 points • comment • jun 27, 2023

  81. Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat

    240 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  82. OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request

    240 points • comment • jun 03, 2023

  83. Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)

    240 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  84. A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

    240 points • comment • jun 07, 2023

  85. My ranking of every Shakespeare play

    239 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  86. NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

    239 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  87. Industry docs reveal makers of 'forever chemicals' covered up health dangers

    239 points • comment • jun 01, 2023

  88. BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

    239 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  89. Generating Income from Open Source

    238 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  90. Emerging architectures for LLM applications

    238 points • comment • jun 20, 2023

  91. Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

    237 points • comment • jun 28, 2023

  92. DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube

    237 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  93. Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout

    236 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  94. Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)

    236 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  95. Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday

    236 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  96. FDA approves first gene therapy treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    236 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  97. Meta developer tools: Working at scale

    235 points • comment • jun 28, 2023

  98. Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs

    235 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  99. Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to

    235 points • comment • jun 20, 2023

  100. Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria

    235 points • comment • jun 28, 2023