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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

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

    314 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  2. StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

    313 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  3. Shelf – open-source asset management software

    313 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  4. Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common

    312 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  5. LLama.cpp now has a web interface

    312 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  6. The office is a theatre for work (2019)

    312 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  7. How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera

    311 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  8. Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables

    310 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  9. TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types

    309 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  10. The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse

    309 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  11. Debian riscv64

    308 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  12. Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked

    308 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  13. Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data

    307 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  14. How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania

    307 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  15. VUDA: A Vulkan Implementation of CUDA

    306 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  16. Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)

    304 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  17. Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]

    304 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  18. Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine

    303 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  19. LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT

    303 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  20. Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro

    303 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  21. Snowflake

    302 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  22. Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules

    302 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  23. I found an IT job thanks to this blog

    301 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  24. Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

    301 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  25. RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator

    301 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  26. Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP

    301 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  27. Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it

    301 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  28. Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony

    301 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  29. InternLM – new open source 7B LLM

    300 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  30. U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf]

    300 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  31. A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)

    300 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  32. Oxide Computer: Docs

    300 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  33. Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery

    300 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  34. Cool Retro Terminal

    299 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  35. The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

    299 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  36. “Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?”

    299 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  37. Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

    298 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  38. Welcome to Wikifunctions

    298 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  39. New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)

    298 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  40. Another World ported to FPGA

    297 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  41. Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi

    297 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  42. SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere

    296 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  43. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

    295 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  44. PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS

    295 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  45. AWS networking concepts in a diagram

    294 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  46. SlowDownAndWasteMemory()

    293 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  47. Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin

    293 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  48. Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

    292 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  49. What happened to Vivaldi Social?

    292 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  50. Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances

    291 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  51. California needs real math education, not gimmicks

    291 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  52. Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database

    290 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  53. Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)

    290 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  54. Running Stable Diffusion in 260MB of RAM

    290 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  55. Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)

    290 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  56. Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script

    289 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  57. Google search's death by a thousand cuts

    288 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  58. Important Coding Habits

    288 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  59. Why use Pascal?

    288 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  60. SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation

    288 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  61. Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better

    288 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  62. FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

    287 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  63. Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming

    287 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  64. The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app

    285 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  65. GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

    285 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  66. Custom instructions for ChatGPT

    283 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  67. Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet

    282 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  68. Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash

    281 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  69. Milan Kundera has died

    281 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  70. Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup

    281 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  71. Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought

    280 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  72. Defecting from North Korea is now harder

    280 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  73. Become Ungoogleable

    280 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  74. Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft

    280 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  75. ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged

    279 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  76. GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better

    279 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  77. Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity

    279 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  78. Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

    279 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  79. Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online

    279 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  80. How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?

    278 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  81. Type system updates: moving from research into development

    278 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  82. Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]

    277 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  83. What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works

    276 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  84. A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2

    275 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  85. The Overflowing Brain: Information overload and the limits of working memory

    274 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  86. The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment

    274 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  87. Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

    274 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  88. The theory versus the practice of “static websites”

    274 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  89. Python Cheatsheet

    274 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  90. Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures

    273 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  91. Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page

    272 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  92. Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google

    271 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  93. A curated list of uBlock origin filters

    271 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  94. On Becoming a VP of Engineering

    271 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  95. Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)

    270 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  96. Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years

    269 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  97. Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the Online Safety Bill [pdf]

    269 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  98. Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)

    269 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  99. Debate over 'fake work' and 'lazy management' in tech industry

    268 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  100. Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself

    267 points • comment • jul 06, 2023