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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

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

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

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

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  3. Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?

    100 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  4. Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record

    99 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  5. Healing of acute ACL tear on MRI following non-surgical bracing protocol [pdf]

    99 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  6. A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

    99 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  7. Show HN: Using C++23 <stacktrace> to get proper crash logs in C++ programs

    99 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  8. SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos

    99 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  9. Images in the mind’s eye are quick sketches that lack simple, real-world details

    99 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  10. Resilience in Complex Systems (2021)

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  11. Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’

    99 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  12. Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem

    99 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  13. Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial

    99 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  14. ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

    99 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  15. Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat

    99 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  16. Token revocation

    99 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  17. Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid

    98 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  18. AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance for Laptops / Mobile

    98 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  19. How Lee Valley built a cult-like following

    98 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  20. Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)

    98 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  21. Vacuum airship

    98 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  22. Fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur

    98 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  23. What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)

    98 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  24. New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect

    98 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  25. Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

    98 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  26. Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones

    98 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  27. Physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs

    98 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  28. Electric Y Combinator – Electric Clojure

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  29. Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’

    97 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  30. Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy

    97 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  31. Mathematics in Movies

    97 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  32. Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library

    97 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  33. Longitudinal study on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and ADHD

    97 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  34. Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers

    97 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  35. BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel

    97 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  36. 99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work

    97 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  37. Qualcomm works with Meta to enable on-device AI applications using Llama 2

    97 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  38. Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards

    97 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  39. Minigpt4 Inference on CPU

    97 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  40. Data-Oriented Design Principles

    97 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  41. Couples with joint checking accounts are happier

    97 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  42. LK-99

    97 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  43. Using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos

    97 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  44. The Homepage of the Oldternet

    97 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  45. CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal

    97 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  46. Tuning and Testing Llama 2, Flan-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio

    97 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  47. Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (2016)

    97 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  48. Ask HN: Stripe is holding 50% for 9 month

    97 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  49. Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox

    96 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  50. Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models

    96 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  51. Shelter Protocol: End-to-end encrypted, federated, user-friendly web apps

    96 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  52. Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by undersupply of seedlings

    96 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  53. St Francis of Assisi

    96 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  54. Use multiple Git SSH identities on a single computer

    96 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  55. C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

    96 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  56. HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?

    96 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  57. Simone Weil’s Great Awakening

    96 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  58. Why doctors hate their computers (2018)

    96 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  59. Observable API Proposal

    96 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  60. Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

    96 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  61. AI That Teaches Other AI

    96 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  62. Pressure and vacuum marination does not work (2016)

    96 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  63. A Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia (2014)

    96 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  64. Social media is too much for most of us to handle

    95 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  65. Quantum physicists explained earth’s oscillating weather patterns

    95 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  66. Stable Diffusion and ControlNet: “Hidden” Text (see thumbnail vs. full image)

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  67. Databag – tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web

    95 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  68. Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?

    95 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  69. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]

    95 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  70. Spoil your secret sauce

    95 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  71. What my musical instruments have taught me

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  72. Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

    95 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  73. Add PayPal to your Stripe integration

    95 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  74. Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles

    95 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  75. Yelp rebuilds corrupted Cassandra cluster using its data streaming architecture

    95 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  76. WW2 Meteorology

    95 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  77. New analysis of tooth minerals confirms megalodon shark was warm-blooded

    95 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  78. Should you use Jest as a testing library? (2022)

    94 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  79. Nvidia DGX GH200 Whitepaper

    94 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  80. Show HN: Script – A text editor for digitally interconnected documents

    94 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  81. How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020)

    94 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  82. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon

    94 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  83. TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages

    94 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  84. RISC-V Assembly Programming

    94 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  85. Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents

    93 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  86. The magnificence of the bluefin tuna

    93 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  87. Commodore 64 VIC-II 6567/6569 Replacement Project

    93 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  88. 20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding

    93 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  89. ‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for controversial physicist

    93 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  90. Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says

    93 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  91. New emojis in 2023-2024

    93 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  92. Show HN: JobLens – AI-powered job search for 'Who Is Hiring'

    93 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  93. Visa-free travel to Europe for U.S. citizens to end in 2024,requiring ETIAS form

    93 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  94. Medieval Table Manners: The Messiest Myth?

    93 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  95. Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year

    93 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  96. Flame retardant found in US breast milk

    93 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  97. HP 45 (and 35 and 80) Calculator Emulator

    92 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  98. The Psychotherapy Myth

    92 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  99. Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island

    92 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  100. Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor Architectures

    92 points • comment • jul 18, 2023