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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. Citizen scientists observe gamma ray glow associated with lightning flash

    110 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  2. Harry Frankfurt has died

    110 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  3. WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas

    110 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  4. How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust

    110 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  5. XAI

    110 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  6. It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing theyre still number one

    110 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  7. Laniakea Supercluster

    109 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  8. Akan Names

    109 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  9. I Hate the News (2006)

    109 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  10. Is Design Dead? (2004)

    109 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  11. At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on

    109 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  12. Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?

    109 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  13. Spying on a smartphone remotely by the authorities: feasibility and operation

    109 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  14. Elo for VC – Founder's Choice

    108 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  15. Rain Panels: Harvesting the energy of falling raindrops

    108 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  16. Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1

    108 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  17. OpenBSD: AMD processor microcode support added to -current

    108 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  18. People are paying to break printers with sledgehammers in smash rooms

    108 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  19. Designing a Language Without a Parser

    108 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  20. Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

    108 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  21. The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”

    108 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  22. Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf]

    108 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  23. Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’

    108 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  24. Social engineering campaign targeting tech employees spreads through NPM malware

    108 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  25. Show HN: AI companions stack – create and host your own AI companions

    107 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  26. Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)

    107 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  27. Show HN: Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. – open-source, self hosted, J.A.R.V.I.S.

    107 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  28. A chimpanzee brought Xerox to the masses

    107 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  29. Alto Trek

    107 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  30. Practical comparison of ARM compilers

    107 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  31. Bcachefs File-System Plans to Try Again to Land in Linux 6.6

    107 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  32. Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)

    107 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  33. The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer

    107 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  34. Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6

    106 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  35. How to use a Python multiprocessing module

    106 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  36. Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?

    106 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  37. C++ GPT-2 inference engine

    106 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  38. It's easy to underprice your product (2009)

    106 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  39. Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

    106 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  40. Lobotomizing Gnome (2018)

    106 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  41. The Perfect Laptop

    106 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  42. Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold (2001)

    106 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  43. Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot

    106 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  44. Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave

    105 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  45. TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector

    105 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  46. Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything

    105 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  47. French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  48. Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI

    105 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  49. Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

    105 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  50. Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears

    105 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  51. Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  52. ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets

    105 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  53. Threads Is Now Live

    104 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  54. Texas worker accused of being on drugs was dying of heatstroke

    104 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  55. Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

    104 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  56. Mind Grenade (2019)

    104 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  57. Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform

    104 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  58. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

    104 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  59. Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations

    104 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  60. K9s: A lazier way to manage Kubernetes Clusters

    104 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  61. A stationary jet stream is fueling intense heat worldwide

    104 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  62. Please don't say just hello in chat

    103 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  63. Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Getting a Minimum Wage

    103 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  64. Frame generation essentials: Interpolation, extrapolation, and reprojection

    103 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  65. Metaculus

    103 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  66. The many planned moon landings of 2023

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  67. People helping Uyghur children struggling to build new lives in Turkey

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  68. 'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns

    103 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  69. Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

    103 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  70. Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  71. The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (2022)

    103 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  72. What Happened to Jai Alai? (2013)

    103 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  73. Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)

    103 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  74. Fabricated data in research about honesty

    102 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  75. How to keep lambda calculus simple

    102 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  76. Against Alcohol (2022)

    102 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  77. The design thinking movement is absurd (2018)

    102 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  78. Crystal 1.9.1

    102 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  79. Why checked exceptions failed

    102 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  80. Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation

    102 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  81. Save Open Source /-/ the Impending Tragedy of the Cyber Resilience Act

    102 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  82. A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (2017)

    102 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  83. Evidence for a gravitational wave background from a galaxy-sized detector

    102 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  84. This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years

    102 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  85. Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021

    101 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  86. Kagi: Words You Cannot Use: 'Constitutional AI', 'Anthropic', 'Anthropic, PBC'

    101 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  87. Making the most of Apple Silicon power: 2 Core capabilities (2022)

    101 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  88. Speeding up the Super Game Boy

    101 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  89. On the State of the Web

    101 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  90. OpenTTD 13.4 Released

    101 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  91. Meta-Transformer: A unified framework for multimodal learning

    101 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  92. Full-text search engine with PostgreSQL (part 2): Postgres vs. Elasticsearch

    101 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  93. G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics

    101 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  94. Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017)

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  95. Space junk: India says object found in Australia is theirs

    100 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  96. Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  97. Moodle: Open-Source LMS

    100 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  98. We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitter lesson

    100 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  99. Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?

    100 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  100. Disabling Matrix Portalling

    100 points • comment • jul 03, 2023