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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

    3675 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  2. Llama 2

    2252 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  3. The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

    1621 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  4. Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

    1500 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  5. Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption

    1388 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  6. Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

    1349 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  7. Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

    1333 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  8. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

    1296 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  9. Zenbleed

    1262 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  10. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

    1212 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  11. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

    1211 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  12. FedNow Is Live

    1158 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  13. Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

    1031 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  14. Attention Is Off By One

    1031 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  15. Threads, an Instagram app

    1025 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  16. When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

    1002 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  17. Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow

    976 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  18. Firefox address bar

    971 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  19. How to Do Great Work

    970 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  20. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

    967 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  21. No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

    967 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  22. First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan

    967 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  23. Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

    947 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  24. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

    915 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  25. Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

    876 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  26. Fast

    864 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  27. Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

    856 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  28. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

    843 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  29. I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach

    842 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  30. Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API

    826 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  31. Displayport: A Better Video Interface

    792 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  32. PhD Simulator

    790 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  33. 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

    788 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  34. Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

    787 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  35. Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

    784 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  36. Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

    779 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  37. Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

    772 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  38. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

    745 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  39. Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

    739 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  40. Advanced Python Mastery

    726 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  41. GPT-4 API General Availability

    726 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  42. Cap'n Proto 1.0

    718 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  43. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

    713 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  44. I have written a JVM in Rust

    711 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  45. Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

    710 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  46. Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

    704 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  47. Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C

    700 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  48. Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

    696 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  49. All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free

    694 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  50. Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)

    685 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  51. Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983

    681 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  52. Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

    677 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  53. A Firefox-only minimap (2021)

    673 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  54. Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

    673 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  55. BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system

    672 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  56. Passkeys will come at a cost

    654 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  57. Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative

    653 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  58. Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

    651 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  59. Guide to running Llama 2 locally

    650 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  60. Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

    648 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  61. The Fall of Stack Overflow

    647 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  62. Why is desalination so difficult?

    639 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  63. GPT-4 details leaked?

    637 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  64. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

    635 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  65. Have attention spans been declining?

    635 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  66. If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython

    628 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  67. Sinead O’Connor has died

    626 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  68. Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

    623 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  69. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    622 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  70. Companies must stop using Google Analytics

    620 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  71. More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

    610 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  72. Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

    607 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  73. LazyVim

    594 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  74. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

    585 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  75. Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt

    581 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  76. Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)

    578 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  77. JavaScript Gom Jabbar

    576 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  78. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

    569 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  79. If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity

    565 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  80. Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules

    563 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  81. Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing

    563 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  82. Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices

    559 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  83. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

    557 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  84. At this company, we are family

    556 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  85. LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor

    556 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  86. Tarsnap outage postmortem

    550 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  87. Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock

    548 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  88. Thunderbird 115

    545 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  89. Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it

    545 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  90. TypeChat

    544 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  91. Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won

    544 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  92. ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

    543 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  93. Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

    539 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  94. Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?

    539 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  95. Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

    535 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  96. Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust

    532 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  97. Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2

    531 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  98. Discord is not documentation

    530 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  99. A third of North America’s birds have vanished

    528 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  100. Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild

    525 points • comment • jul 03, 2023