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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
130 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Improving sleep
130 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites
130 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available
130 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop
130 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Writing Linux Modules in Ada (2016)
130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Emulating x86 on X64 on Aarch64
130 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost
130 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022)
129 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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IRS launches paperless processing initiative
129 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Eventual Business Consistency
129 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Market Map
129 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis
129 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs
129 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure
129 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Oscilloscope Music
129 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown
129 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]
129 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
128 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
128 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics
128 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
128 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments
128 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Meaningful exits for founders (2016)
128 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]
128 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Announcing the Pollen API
128 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop
128 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU
128 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA
128 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
128 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)
127 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study
127 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store
127 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia
127 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Baby's first WASM compiler
127 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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A search for technosignatures around nearby stars
127 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil
127 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Slime Molds [video]
127 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Against Automaticity
127 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake
127 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
127 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster
127 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer
127 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Unicorn – A full-stack web framework for Django
127 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Reasons to replace advanced search with filters
127 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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None of us are truly living off the grid
126 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Another Joke Fine Shows US Authorities Do Not Take Illegal Telemarketing Serious
126 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963)
126 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web
126 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground
126 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
126 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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The rise of pity marketing
126 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data
126 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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85-Byte Snake Game
126 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps
126 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images
126 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
125 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’
125 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow
125 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
125 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains
125 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
125 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists
125 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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MIT Press: Open Access Materials
125 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia
125 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Help I accidently enabled HSTS on localhost
125 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Enu – 3D live coding, implemented in Nim
124 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Show HN: liteLLM Proxy Server: 50+ LLM Models, Error Handling, Caching
124 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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The low, low cost of committing cybercrime
124 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver
124 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (2009)
124 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes
124 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Tijuana's illegal sewer hookups linked to cross-border pollution
123 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time
123 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed
123 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer
123 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Apple reports third quarter results
123 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Ask HN: Undiscovered electronics/maker YouTube channels
123 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product
122 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
122 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation
122 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties
122 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?
122 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)
122 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America
122 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Permission.site (2016)
122 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Unix is both a technology and an idea
122 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar
122 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels
122 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
122 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)
121 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Seven Sins of Writing
121 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
121 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Milk Sad Disclosure
121 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard
121 points • comment • aug 27, 2023