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  1. AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  2. Balcony Power Plant

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  3. Launch HN: Refact – Open-source AI Code assistant with fine-tuning on codebase

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  4. Insurance companies routinely deny NYC buildings with subsidized tenants

    13 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  5. Google proposal to restrict websites to “trusted” client devices

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  6. A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  7. Implementing a C-like for loop in Python

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  8. A Heap O' Livin'

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  9. AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI has or will have emotions

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  10. Gum disease linked to buildup of Alzheimer’s plaque formation

    13 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  11. Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  12. Hottest days on Earth in the last 100k years all happened last week

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  13. Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  14. The rebel group stopping self-driving cars in San Francisco – one cone at a time

    13 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  15. Pokémon Go creator Niantic accused of ‘systemic sexual bias’ in lawsuit

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  16. Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits (2019)

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  17. Ask HN: Does ChatGPT gather your stylometry or typing cadence?

    13 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  18. Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer on the spiderweb formation of the game's 17k endings

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  19. Erewhon

    13 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  20. South Africa’s blackouts are driving a solar boom

    13 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  21. MIDI-editor for tc-electronic TC1128 / 1128X

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  22. Ask HN: Who's the current “Don't Be Evil” corporation?

    13 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  23. Public web unravels in AI-driven storm

    13 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  24. Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices

    13 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  25. Samsung's 4 nm process node achieves yield rates of 75 percent

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  26. Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  27. Permacomputing, a sustainable approach to computer and network technology

    13 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  28. Demon Core: How the Third Nuclear Bomb Killed American Scientists (2018)

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  29. All 500-plus Whole Foods stores will soon let you pay with a palm scan

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  30. Insects in Flight [video]

    13 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  31. For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  32. Gerald Sussman – Artificial Intelligence: A Problem of Plumbing? [video]

    13 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  33. How Do You Learn and Retain Things in Middle Age?

    13 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  34. What are the happiest jobs? What are the unhappiest? (2011)

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  35. TPG, Francisco to take software firm New Relic private in $6.5B deal

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  36. In a first, FAA rescinds DJI drone's Remote ID compliance status

    13 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  37. Ask HN: Build Own PC in 2023?

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  38. Politicians believe voters to be more conservative than they are

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  39. The Negro Motorist Green Book

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  40. The Fediverse is a privacy nightmare

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  41. Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  42. Commonwealth Games: Australia drop out could be 'death knell'

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  43. US EV goals will require up to $127B to install 28M chargers by 2030: NREL

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  44. Threads already has over 95M posts

    13 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  45. Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang

    13 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  46. Elon Musk seizes X account from guy who owned it

    13 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  47. Tech exec who trashed his body for 23 years spends $2M/yr to reverse the damage

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  48. Decentralised AI

    13 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  49. Messaging Layer Security is now an internet standard

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  50. Nearly 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last summer

    13 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  51. Glass-coated DNA structure is strong with low density

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  52. Why They Killed Gaddafi

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  53. UFO/UAP Congressional Hearing Livestream [video]

    13 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  54. Ask HN: Which distro do you use? (2023)

    13 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  55. Where be your jibes now?

    13 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  56. Quick Tech Billionaire Grants Aim to Speed Research – Not All Scientists Approve

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  57. Things I wish databases did for developers

    13 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  58. Fairphone 3 gets Android 13, extends OS support to seven years

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  59. Show HN: Worst programming language written in less than an hour

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  60. NASA's On-Demand Streaming Service, NASA+ (Official Trailer) [video]

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  61. Lemmy front end alternatives are popping off

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  62. Now Apollo faces the cliff

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  63. Stack Overflow just announced “overflow AI” at WeAreDevelopers World Congress

    13 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  64. Cucumber: BDD Testing and Collaboration Tools

    12 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  65. Software Engineers Should Read Academic Papers to Enhance Their Knowledge/Skills

    12 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  66. Passwordless Authentication on Github.com

    12 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  67. Writing a Node Library in Rust

    12 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  68. Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that runs like it’s 1981

    12 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  69. Experimenting with Project Templates

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  70. Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  71. Machine Learning in Elixir (PragProg)

    12 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  72. Organizations rush to restrict new Slack Connect feature fearing security threat

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  73. Apple will require app devs to explain why they use certain APIs

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  74. Absolute Unit NNs: Regression-Based MLPs for Everything

    12 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  75. Muntzing

    12 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  76. Show HN: A fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model for generating Minecraft skins

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  77. To Foster Competition in Social Media, Invest in Open Source Trust, Safety Tools

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  78. The Postal Service, Circulating Portfolios: Modern Networked Identities

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  79. Falcon Heavy launches largest ever geostationary satellite

    12 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  80. Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  81. You're not a bad texter; dating apps just suck

    12 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  82. Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy's sight. Treatments could help millions

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  83. Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority?

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  84. France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Phones

    12 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  85. The Self-Driving Cars Wearing a Cone of Shame

    12 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  86. California’s War on Math

    12 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  87. Decoy Defenses: How Honeypots Sweeten Cybersecurity Strategies

    12 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  88. Ask HN: Who is the happiest person you know?

    12 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  89. Be like the Silkworm

    12 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  90. The Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey

    12 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  91. 'ChatGPT's evil twin' WormGPT is devoid of morals and just €60/month on darkweb

    12 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  92. Oxide Computer's Bryan Cantrill on the importance of toolmaking

    12 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  93. Kevin Mitnick Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits (2014)

    12 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  94. Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message

    12 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  95. Ask HN: What’s the best GUI you’ve ever used for managing/querying databases?

    12 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  96. One of Reddit’s biggest communities suggests move to Discord [Strike ongoing]

    12 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  97. You may not need jQuery

    12 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  98. Stripe's Policies Left Us High and Dry This Is Not Fair Trade

    12 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  99. People Have Begun to Love Apple’s Most Hated Product

    12 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  100. Winning a big new Blue Ocean market

    12 points • comment • jul 31, 2023