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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you

    393 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  2. Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset

    389 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  3. A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

    388 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  4. “Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet

    387 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  5. Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock

    385 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  6. Data-Oriented Design (2018)

    383 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  7. Regex engine internals as a library

    383 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  8. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

    382 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  9. In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"

    381 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  10. Egregoria: 3D City Builder without a grid

    380 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  11. Simple Unix Chat

    380 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  12. PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news

    380 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  13. JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going

    380 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  14. S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’

    379 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  15. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

    378 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  16. What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated

    377 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  17. A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

    376 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  18. Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government

    375 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  19. It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027

    375 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  20. Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

    371 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  21. “It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”

    370 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  22. Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

    370 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  23. ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense

    366 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  24. It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp

    365 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  25. Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?

    363 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  26. Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate

    361 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  27. Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation

    360 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  28. Telling the Bees

    360 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  29. Emacs 29.1

    358 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  30. When did people stop being drunk all the time?

    358 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  31. Learning needs to be effortful to be effective

    356 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  32. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

    356 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  33. Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

    356 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  34. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

    354 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  35. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

    354 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  36. Free Public WiFi

    354 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  37. Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government

    354 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  38. Customers don't want chat bots

    354 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  39. A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    354 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  40. I stopped buying new laptops (2020)

    352 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  41. Software engineers hate code

    348 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  42. 3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems

    347 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  43. Driver.js: Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more

    347 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  44. Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

    346 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  45. Death Metal English (2013)

    344 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  46. Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors

    344 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  47. Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

    342 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  48. People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"

    342 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  49. Easy SVG sparklines

    342 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  50. Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

    341 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  51. What we know about LLMs

    341 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  52. “Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”

    340 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  53. Bret Victor update

    340 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  54. Putting the “You” in CPU

    339 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  55. Gping – ping, but with a graph

    339 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  56. 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)

    339 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  57. Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

    338 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  58. Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

    337 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  59. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

    337 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  60. GPT-Prompt-Engineer

    337 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  61. Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

    336 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  62. Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X

    335 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  63. A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now

    334 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  64. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    332 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  65. The Blob Toy

    331 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  66. ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

    331 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  67. No-GIL mode coming for Python

    331 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  68. Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI

    331 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  69. Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way

    330 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  70. How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)

    329 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  71. Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site

    329 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  72. The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (2011)

    328 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  73. Langchain Is Pointless

    328 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  74. Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)

    327 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  75. Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?

    327 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  76. Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom

    326 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  77. Threads users down by more than a half

    326 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  78. Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it

    326 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  79. So you want to build your own open source chatbot

    325 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  80. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

    324 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  81. Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99

    324 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  82. Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

    323 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  83. AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

    322 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  84. B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations

    322 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  85. Treemaps are awesome

    322 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  86. Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)

    322 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  87. Using Lidar to map tree shadows

    321 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  88. Coroutines for Go

    321 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  89. Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

    321 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  90. PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

    321 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  91. FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator

    320 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  92. A glitch in the SEO matrix

    320 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  93. IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)

    320 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  94. Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

    319 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  95. Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

    318 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  96. Nobody cares about your blog

    318 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  97. An interactive guide to SVG paths

    317 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  98. Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification

    316 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  99. Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?

    315 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  100. People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

    314 points • comment • jul 24, 2023