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Hacker News (Jul 2023)
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Japanese words of Portuguese origin
267 points • comment • jul 18, 2023
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Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk
267 points • comment • jul 03, 2023
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Radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected
266 points • comment • jul 01, 2023
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Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta
266 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs
266 points • comment • jul 07, 2023
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Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
265 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang
263 points • comment • jul 02, 2023
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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
263 points • comment • jul 05, 2023
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FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive
263 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Rust 1.71.0
262 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Stop trying to make social networks succeed
262 points • comment • jul 06, 2023
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Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
262 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
262 points • comment • jul 02, 2023
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How to check if two SQL tables are the same
261 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
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A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized
261 points • comment • jul 10, 2023
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The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod
261 points • comment • jul 08, 2023
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Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager
261 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac
260 points • comment • jul 20, 2023
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How the new Threads app is made
259 points • comment • jul 07, 2023
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Superrational
259 points • comment • jul 08, 2023
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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole
259 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
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Why even let users set their own passwords?
259 points • comment • jul 22, 2023
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Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland
258 points • comment • jul 30, 2023
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It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
258 points • comment • jul 24, 2023
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Easy HTTPS for your private networks
258 points • comment • jul 10, 2023
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Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres
258 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
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Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
257 points • comment • jul 07, 2023
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After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
257 points • comment • jul 02, 2023
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Steel Bank Common Lisp
257 points • comment • jul 01, 2023
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Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
256 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
255 points • comment • jul 07, 2023
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iVentoy
255 points • comment • jul 08, 2023
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How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]
255 points • comment • jul 28, 2023
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Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated by Modeling a Film Camera in Blender [video]
255 points • comment • jul 02, 2023
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Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring
255 points • comment • jul 18, 2023
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The Uxn Ecosystem
254 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations
254 points • comment • jul 23, 2023
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Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia
253 points • comment • jul 04, 2023
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LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler
252 points • comment • jul 29, 2023
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Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent
252 points • comment • jul 19, 2023
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Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal
252 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
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Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
251 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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From Python to Elixir Machine Learning
251 points • comment • jul 25, 2023
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Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
251 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
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The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality
249 points • comment • jul 17, 2023
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Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
249 points • comment • jul 11, 2023
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Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better
249 points • comment • jul 05, 2023
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Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023
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Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
249 points • comment • jul 01, 2023
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Google claims to have proved its supremacy with new quantum computer
249 points • comment • jul 03, 2023
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Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection
249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023
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Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)
249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023
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Voder Speech Synthesizer
249 points • comment • jul 18, 2023
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Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?
249 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels
249 points • comment • jul 03, 2023
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The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
249 points • comment • jul 17, 2023
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NotebookLM: An AI Notebook
248 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)
248 points • comment • jul 05, 2023
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Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
248 points • comment • jul 24, 2023
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Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)
247 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
247 points • comment • jul 06, 2023
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Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer
247 points • comment • jul 25, 2023
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First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
247 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Maker Faire Bay Area Returns
247 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Pines – Alpine and Tailwind UI Library
247 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
246 points • comment • jul 29, 2023
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Shamir Secret Sharing
246 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go
245 points • comment • jul 01, 2023
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What we talk about when we talk about system design
245 points • comment • jul 22, 2023
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MiniZinc
245 points • comment • jul 21, 2023
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Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]
245 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
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Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds
245 points • comment • jul 18, 2023
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Figma Is a File Editor
245 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease
244 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
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Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
244 points • comment • jul 06, 2023
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“BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages
244 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Rethinking Window Management
244 points • comment • jul 26, 2023
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Ziplm: Gzip-Backed Language Model
244 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
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Crockford on JSON license (2011)
243 points • comment • jul 21, 2023
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Payment systems while working at a pizza place
243 points • comment • jul 18, 2023
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100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Light-Based Networking Standard Released
243 points • comment • jul 13, 2023
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Flash Museum
243 points • comment • jul 28, 2023
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The Development of the C Language (1993)
243 points • comment • jul 09, 2023
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Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way
242 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
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So, you want to deploy on the edge?
242 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight
242 points • comment • jul 26, 2023
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The Problem with LangChain
241 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
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Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)
241 points • comment • jul 16, 2023
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SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
241 points • comment • jul 12, 2023
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We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
240 points • comment • jul 03, 2023
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A world where people pay for software
239 points • comment • jul 26, 2023
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Self hosted YouTube media server
239 points • comment • jul 16, 2023
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Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)
239 points • comment • jul 26, 2023
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Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode
239 points • comment • jul 16, 2023
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Fantasy meets reality
239 points • comment • jul 31, 2023
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Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
239 points • comment • jul 08, 2023
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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
239 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
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A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
238 points • comment • jul 17, 2023
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FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
238 points • comment • jul 19, 2023
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Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
238 points • comment • jul 07, 2023