woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jul 2023)

  1. A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

    238 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  2. Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions

    238 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  3. 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

    238 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  4. Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?

    238 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  5. DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller

    237 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  6. CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago

    237 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  7. Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette

    237 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  8. Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope

    237 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  9. An Introduction to APIs

    236 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  10. Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

    235 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  11. Diablo

    235 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  12. 2048 Bit RSA and the Year 2030

    235 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  13. Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)

    234 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  14. How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide

    234 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  15. Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

    234 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  16. The Screwed-O-Meter (2013)

    234 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  17. Elixir is still safe

    233 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  18. AI weights are not open “source”

    233 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  19. Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets

    233 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  20. Data brokers selling license plate location and analytics data

    233 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  21. The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews

    232 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  22. Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between

    232 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  23. TODO apps are meant for robots

    232 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  24. What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?

    232 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  25. A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery

    232 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  26. Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback

    231 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  27. Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed

    231 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  28. Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)

    231 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  29. Penrose 3.0

    231 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  30. LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups

    231 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  31. Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (2010)

    230 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  32. Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark)

    229 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  33. Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey

    229 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  34. Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student

    229 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  35. A petabyte of health insurance prices per month

    228 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  36. Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web

    228 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  37. Multi-Layered Calendars

    228 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  38. Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing

    228 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  39. US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it

    228 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  40. A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp

    228 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  41. Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

    228 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  42. MDN Playground

    228 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  43. Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands

    228 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  44. No CSS Club

    228 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  45. Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens

    228 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  46. Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release

    227 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  47. Python: Overlooked core functionalities

    227 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  48. TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would

    226 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  49. Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World

    226 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  50. New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages

    226 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  51. Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases

    225 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  52. Is the aircraft in this image real?

    225 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  53. Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy

    225 points • comment • jul 17, 2023

  54. Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law

    225 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  55. Mark Watson's Lisp books

    224 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  56. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

    224 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  57. We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it

    224 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  58. Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

    224 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  59. The U.S. Copyright Office requires libraries to lie about fair use rights

    224 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  60. Matrix multiplication using only addition

    224 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  61. Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers

    223 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  62. Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

    223 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  63. Engineers should focus on writing

    223 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  64. Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie

    223 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  65. Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud

    222 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  66. IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

    222 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  67. Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid

    222 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  68. 'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds

    222 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  69. Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

    221 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  70. COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros

    221 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  71. Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor

    221 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  72. US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone

    220 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  73. Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism

    220 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  74. When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?

    220 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  75. The Animated Elliptic Curve

    220 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  76. Entropy: A little understood concept in physics [video]

    219 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  77. Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes

    219 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  78. PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator

    219 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  79. Every person on the planet should have their own website

    218 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  80. Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

    218 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  81. Electric bike, stupid love of my life

    218 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  82. Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions

    218 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  83. Sierra Creative Interpreter – Scripts

    217 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  84. The 90s Developer Starter Pack

    217 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  85. Ask HN: How to do market research for product?

    217 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  86. Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings

    216 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  87. Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface

    216 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  88. C++23: The Next C++ Standard

    216 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  89. Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies

    216 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  90. Jupyter Notebook 7

    216 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  91. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

    216 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  92. Cython 3.0 Released

    216 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  93. Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

    215 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  94. Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST

    215 points • comment • jul 14, 2023

  95. Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity

    215 points • comment • jul 31, 2023

  96. Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow

    215 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  97. Red Programming Language

    215 points • comment • jul 16, 2023

  98. The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)

    215 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  99. Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself

    215 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  100. Notes on Puzzles

    215 points • comment • jul 17, 2023