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Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. Japanese words of Portuguese origin

    267 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  2. Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk

    267 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  3. Radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected

    266 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  4. Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta

    266 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  5. Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs

    266 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  6. Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta

    265 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  7. Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang

    263 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  8. The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements

    263 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  9. FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive

    263 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  10. Rust 1.71.0

    262 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  11. Stop trying to make social networks succeed

    262 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  12. Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor

    262 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  13. Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

    262 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  14. How to check if two SQL tables are the same

    261 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  15. A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized

    261 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  16. The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod

    261 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  17. Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

    261 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  18. Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac

    260 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  19. How the new Threads app is made

    259 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  20. Superrational

    259 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  21. India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole

    259 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  22. Why even let users set their own passwords?

    259 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  23. Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland

    258 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  24. It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

    258 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  25. Easy HTTPS for your private networks

    258 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  26. Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres

    258 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  27. Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts

    257 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  28. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted

    257 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  29. Steel Bank Common Lisp

    257 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  30. Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

    256 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  31. Red flags in the Threads privacy policy

    255 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  32. iVentoy

    255 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  33. How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

    255 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  34. Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated by Modeling a Film Camera in Blender [video]

    255 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  35. Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

    255 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  36. The Uxn Ecosystem

    254 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  37. Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations

    254 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  38. Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia

    253 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  39. LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler

    252 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  40. Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent

    252 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  41. Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal

    252 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  42. Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

    251 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  43. From Python to Elixir Machine Learning

    251 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  44. Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow

    251 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  45. The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality

    249 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  46. Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML

    249 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  47. Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better

    249 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  48. Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365

    249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  49. Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading

    249 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  50. Google claims to have proved its supremacy with new quantum computer

    249 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  51. Target's EasySweep – Simplifying Skimmer Detection

    249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  52. Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)

    249 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  53. Voder Speech Synthesizer

    249 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  54. Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?

    249 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  55. Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels

    249 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  56. The force that shapes everything around us: Parking

    249 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  57. NotebookLM: An AI Notebook

    248 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  58. News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)

    248 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  59. Show HN: I built a transit travel time map

    248 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  60. Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)

    247 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  61. Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

    247 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  62. Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer

    247 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  63. First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia

    247 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  64. Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

    247 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  65. Pines – Alpine and Tailwind UI Library

    247 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  66. Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results

    246 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  67. Shamir Secret Sharing

    246 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  68. Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go

    245 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  69. What we talk about when we talk about system design

    245 points • comment • jul 22, 2023

  70. MiniZinc

    245 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  71. Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]

    245 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  72. Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds

    245 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  73. Figma Is a File Editor

    245 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  74. Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease

    244 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  75. Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours

    244 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  76. “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages

    244 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  77. Rethinking Window Management

    244 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  78. Ziplm: Gzip-Backed Language Model

    244 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  79. Crockford on JSON license (2011)

    243 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  80. Payment systems while working at a pizza place

    243 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  81. 100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Light-Based Networking Standard Released

    243 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  82. Flash Museum

    243 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  83. The Development of the C Language (1993)

    243 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  84. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

    242 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  85. So, you want to deploy on the edge?

    242 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  86. Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight

    242 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  87. The Problem with LangChain

    241 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  88. Nuclear fission fuel is inexhaustible (2022)

    241 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  89. SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

    241 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  90. We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study

    240 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  91. A world where people pay for software

    239 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  92. Self hosted YouTube media server

    239 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  93. Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)

    239 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  94. Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

    239 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  95. Fantasy meets reality

    239 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  96. Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift

    239 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  97. The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

    239 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  98. A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

    238 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  99. FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

    238 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  100. Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human

    238 points • comment • jul 07, 2023