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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns

    142 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  2. Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage

    142 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  3. An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it

    142 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  4. Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern

    142 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  5. Anonfiles is shutting down

    142 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  6. Early Days of AI

    142 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  7. Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group

    142 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  8. Morris Chang founded TSMC, the most valuable company in Asia

    142 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  9. My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair

    141 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  10. Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?

    141 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  11. AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M

    141 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  12. Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein

    140 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  13. Lisp in Space

    140 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  14. 'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down

    140 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  15. Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

    140 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  16. Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.8 released: “a mark-region parallel GC is available”

    140 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  17. To opt out of Grammarly AI training requires business account with 500+ users

    140 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  18. WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations

    140 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  19. Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard

    140 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  20. Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl

    140 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  21. New responsibilities

    139 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  22. Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy”

    139 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  23. ImPlot: Interactive plotting library, ImGui style

    139 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  24. PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts

    139 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  25. Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative

    139 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  26. Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life

    139 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  27. i386 in Ubuntu won't die

    139 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  28. The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V

    139 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  29. Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions

    138 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  30. Japanese game publisher Digital Will has filed a lawsuit against Apple

    138 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  31. The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill

    138 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  32. Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification

    138 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  33. Show HN: Fast vector similarity using Rust and Python

    137 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  34. Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components

    137 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  35. 9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023

    137 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  36. Math Exposition on YouTube

    137 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  37. Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure

    137 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  38. Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)

    137 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  39. OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change

    137 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  40. George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells

    137 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  41. I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)

    137 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  42. Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter

    137 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  43. Peter Pan copyright

    136 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  44. Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves

    136 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  45. Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds

    136 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  46. He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

    136 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  47. Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps

    136 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  48. New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl

    136 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  49. Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with

    136 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  50. There is no hard takeoff

    136 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  51. Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)

    136 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  52. Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper

    135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  53. Be sceptical of your own work (2009)

    135 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  54. Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months

    135 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  55. I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop

    135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  56. FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization

    135 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  57. Babylon 5 Is a Perfect, Terrible Series

    135 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  58. UX design patterns for loading

    135 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  59. The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression

    135 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  60. CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs

    135 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  61. Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)

    135 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  62. MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI

    135 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  63. EXP TV – endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  64. PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP

    134 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  65. The Plumber Problem

    134 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  66. RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills

    134 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  67. NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016)

    134 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  68. High-Dimensional Probability and Applications in Data Science

    134 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  69. Qualcomm starts a RISC-V joint venture

    134 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  70. Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues

    134 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  71. Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash

    134 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  72. Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking

    134 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  73. Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon

    134 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  74. Sunak’s family firm signed deal with BP before opening new North Sea licences

    133 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  75. We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C

    133 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  76. Do we really need a specialized vector database?

    133 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  77. Wet-bulb temperature

    133 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  78. Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story

    133 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  79. Why Tailwind CSS Won

    133 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  80. Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers

    133 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  81. macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits

    133 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  82. Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol

    132 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  83. Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB

    132 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  84. Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques

    132 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  85. Autospam and Naive Bayes

    132 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  86. Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started

    132 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  87. Graceful behavior at capacity

    132 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  88. Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal

    132 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  89. South America is living one of the climate extreme events

    131 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  90. Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse

    131 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  91. Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank

    131 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  92. China's Zombie Economy

    131 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  93. How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview

    131 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  94. False canopies on fighters work, one almost killed me

    131 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  95. FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression

    131 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  96. How was the size of Earth first measured? (2015)

    131 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  97. Java 21: What’s New?

    131 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  98. America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers

    131 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  99. Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidate for better solar cell

    131 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  100. Domain Repetition

    131 points • comment • aug 24, 2023