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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)

    130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  2. Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted

    130 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  3. Improving sleep

    130 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  4. Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites

    130 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  5. Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available

    130 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  6. How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop

    130 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  7. Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality

    130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  8. Writing Linux Modules in Ada (2016)

    130 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  9. Emulating x86 on X64 on Aarch64

    130 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  10. Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost

    130 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  11. Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022)

    129 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  12. IRS launches paperless processing initiative

    129 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  13. Eventual Business Consistency

    129 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  14. Market Map

    129 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  15. AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis

    129 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  16. Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs

    129 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  17. Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure

    129 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  18. Oscilloscope Music

    129 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  19. Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown

    129 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  20. Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]

    129 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  21. 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity

    128 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  22. Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange

    128 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  23. Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics

    128 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  24. Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?

    128 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  25. Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments

    128 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  26. Meaningful exits for founders (2016)

    128 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  27. A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]

    128 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  28. Announcing the Pollen API

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  29. Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop

    128 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  30. 16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU

    128 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  31. eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA

    128 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  32. Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512

    128 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  33. Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)

    127 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  34. Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study

    127 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  35. A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  36. Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store

    127 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  37. Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia

    127 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  38. Baby's first WASM compiler

    127 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  39. A search for technosignatures around nearby stars

    127 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  40. Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil

    127 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  41. Slime Molds [video]

    127 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  42. Against Automaticity

    127 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  43. We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake

    127 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  44. Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

    127 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  45. When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  46. Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer

    127 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  47. Unicorn – A full-stack web framework for Django

    127 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  48. Reasons to replace advanced search with filters

    127 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  49. None of us are truly living off the grid

    126 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  50. Another Joke Fine Shows US Authorities Do Not Take Illegal Telemarketing Serious

    126 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  51. Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963)

    126 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  52. Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web

    126 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  53. Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground

    126 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

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

    126 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  55. The rise of pity marketing

    126 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  56. Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data

    126 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  57. 85-Byte Snake Game

    126 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  58. Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps

    126 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  59. File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images

    126 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  60. The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

    125 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  61. Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’

    125 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  62. Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow

    125 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  63. This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times

    125 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  64. Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains

    125 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  65. Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode

    125 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  66. Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists

    125 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  67. MIT Press: Open Access Materials

    125 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  68. Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia

    125 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  69. Help I accidently enabled HSTS on localhost

    125 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  70. Enu – 3D live coding, implemented in Nim

    124 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  71. Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  72. Show HN: liteLLM Proxy Server: 50+ LLM Models, Error Handling, Caching

    124 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  73. The low, low cost of committing cybercrime

    124 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  74. NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  75. FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

    124 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  76. What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (2009)

    124 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  77. Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes

    124 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  78. Tijuana's illegal sewer hookups linked to cross-border pollution

    123 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  79. Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time

    123 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  80. At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed

    123 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  81. Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer

    123 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  82. Apple reports third quarter results

    123 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  83. Ask HN: Undiscovered electronics/maker YouTube channels

    123 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  84. OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product

    122 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  85. An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

    122 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  86. Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation

    122 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  87. Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties

    122 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  88. In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?

    122 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  89. Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)

    122 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  90. Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America

    122 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  91. Permission.site (2016)

    122 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  92. Unix is both a technology and an idea

    122 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  93. Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar

    122 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  94. Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels

    122 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  95. GitHub Actions and vanity metrics

    122 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  96. Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)

    121 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  97. Seven Sins of Writing

    121 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  98. I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)

    121 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  99. Milk Sad Disclosure

    121 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  100. Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard

    121 points • comment • aug 27, 2023