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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. Google says it'll scrape everything online for AI

    46 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  2. Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system

    46 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  3. The history of spaghetti squash in America

    46 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  4. AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop

    46 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  5. Hydraulic Steering – Principles of Operation (1956) [video]

    46 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  6. Sugary drinks tax could prevent decay and increase health equity: study

    46 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  7. Car rental throwing away money?

    46 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  8. Firefox Profiler

    45 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  9. Ask HN: Laid off –> solo founder. Do I look like I'm trying to hide something?

    45 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  10. X.org

    45 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  11. Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s

    45 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  12. White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools

    45 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  13. Show HN: LLMFlows – LangChain alternative for explicit and transparent apps

    45 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  14. VPN use is at an all-time high – but are people safe?

    45 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  15. New study sheds light on the origin of animals

    45 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  16. Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study

    45 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  17. Pressure-driven distillation for fast and selective water purification

    45 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  18. ‘The Man Who Organized Nature’: Linnaeus

    45 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  19. XFS online filesystem check and repair

    45 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  20. Public libraries are awesome and here are things you might not know about them

    45 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  21. GPT Might Be an Information Virus

    45 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  22. FTC Sends Civil Investigation Demand to OpenAI [pdf]

    45 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  23. Installing Debian bookworm without systemd

    45 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  24. Canonical and IBM Are Turning Ubuntu and Fedora into Microsoft Windows

    45 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  25. The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)

    45 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  26. Ways to print hello world in assembler on a Raspberry Pi

    45 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  27. Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam

    45 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  28. I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2022)

    45 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  29. The Heresy of Decline

    45 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  30. A fun new feature we are working on in systemd: userspace-only reboot

    45 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  31. What Is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Doing?

    45 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  32. Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough

    45 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  33. Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  34. Linoleic acid–good or bad for the brain? (2020)

    44 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  35. Scope-based resource management for the Linux kernel

    44 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  36. Esther Crawford: “Now is a good time to open up a bit”

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  37. Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing temperatures of 40C or more

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  38. Focusing is about saying no (1997) [video]

    44 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  39. Construction Time Again: The quality crisis in American building

    44 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  40. The mystery of the blend file format (2009)

    44 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  41. A Compressive Light Field Projection System (2014)

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  42. Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

    44 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  43. Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript

    44 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  44. You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  45. Shining a light on the traffic signals of Sydney

    44 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  46. SF Declared Dead, Full of Drugs and Homeless, Multiple Times in Last 50 Years

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  47. Tinygrad and rusticl and aco: why not?

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  48. Live: UFO/UAP Congressional Hearings

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  49. Refurb weekend(s): Commodore/MOS KIM-1

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  50. NASA enters ‘home stretch’ to reach golden asteroid

    44 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  51. An interactive SDXL settings guide

    44 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  52. Meta Threads engagement has dropped off since red-hot debut, tracking firms say

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  53. Two-Faced Star Exposed

    44 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  54. Germany is no longer exceptional, and joining the European mainstream

    44 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  55. Office 365 Copilot Pricing: $30/month per user

    44 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  56. Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken

    44 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  57. Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years

    44 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  58. Authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  59. Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

    44 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  60. GitHub Introduces Passkey Support

    44 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  61. Ball Lightning Caught on Video

    44 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  62. Mastodon-powered Blog Comments for static Jekyll sites

    44 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  63. Spotify reportedly makes users' private playlists public

    43 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  64. Client-side proxies – a better way to individualise the Internet? (2000)

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  65. Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise–and US doctors are in the dark

    43 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  66. Why Rust is a great fit for embedded software – 2023 update

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  67. The New York Times to disband its sports department

    43 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  68. Most of the 100M people who signed up for Threads stopped using it

    43 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  69. Adaptive rate limiting is a game-changer

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  70. Before the Internet, there was The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought

    43 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  71. Child pornography on sale from hacked Hikvision cameras using Hik-Connect app

    43 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  72. Spawn() of Satan (2018)

    43 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  73. ChatGPT: The end of new programming languages?

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  74. Guide to QucsStudio: Circuit Simulator with C++/Octave Support

    43 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  75. Faster Whisper Transcription with CTranslate2

    43 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  76. Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized after other rich countries stopped

    43 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  77. Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  78. Charger outages leave northern Ontario EV drivers stranded

    43 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  79. Ask HN: How can I get better at writing production-level Python?

    43 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  80. America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  81. Celsius Was Lying

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  82. Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)

    43 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  83. EchOh-No: a Vulnerability and PoC Demo in a Popular Minecraft Anticheat Tool

    43 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  84. Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline

    43 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  85. Outliers can trick the optimizer into the wrong plan

    43 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  86. Satellite guided to assisted crash in Atlantic in world first

    43 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  87. Codex Gigas: the largest manuscript of the middle ages

    43 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  88. Pulled from a Field in Albania, a 2,500-Year-Old Statuette Comes to Getty

    43 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  89. Voice recognition

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  90. A user-friendly platform for virtual exploration of chemical reactions

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  91. Researchers Say They Found IP Addresses for ‘Anonymous’ Econ Forum Posts

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  92. C++ is everywhere, but no one talks about it

    43 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  93. Ask HN: Glassdoor is unbelievably bad, why no one disrupting it?

    43 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  94. Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app

    43 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  95. After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why

    43 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  96. Big Tech's Takeover and Destruction of Open Protocols and Networks

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  97. Is the era of VC-fueled complexity ending?

    43 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  98. The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

    43 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  99. IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work

    43 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  100. A researcher who publishes a study every two days

    43 points • comment • jul 03, 2023