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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links

    110 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  2. Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency

    110 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  3. Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

    110 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  4. Tenable CEO says Microsoft security is blatantly negligent

    109 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  5. Hydra: Column-Oriented Postgres

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  6. Northvolt raises $1.2B convertible note from BlackRock

    109 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  7. Ubus (OpenWrt micro bus architecture)

    109 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  8. Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016)

    109 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  9. What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)

    109 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  10. Odd and unsafe baby car seats from the past

    108 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  11. If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots

    108 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  12. Why did people in the past look so much older?

    108 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  13. A simple way to test the charge level on alkaline batteries (2015) [video]

    108 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  14. Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices

    108 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  15. Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)

    108 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  16. Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest

    108 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  17. Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages

    108 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  18. Bombe: Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once

    108 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  19. Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems

    108 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  20. Twitter/X has removed all media posted before 2014

    107 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  21. NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California

    107 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  22. The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays

    107 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  23. Archive of novelty answering machine recordings

    107 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  24. Multiple Incidents: B789 deviated from localizer, descended below safe altitude

    107 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  25. How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors

    107 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  26. Virtualizing development environments in 2023

    107 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  27. Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency

    107 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  28. An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa

    107 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  29. Cloud Provider Gets $2.3B Loan Using Nvidia's H100 as Collateral

    107 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  30. The Elements of Style [pdf]

    107 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  31. Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  32. Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  33. Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B

    106 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  34. Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64

    106 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  35. Too many fonts in Windows 10 can cause slow application starts

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  36. Show HN: OpenCopilot – Build and embed open-source AI copilots into your product

    106 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  37. A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

    106 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  38. Part-DB: open-source inventory management system for your electronic components

    106 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  39. Frequent and infrequent users of social media respond differently to rewards

    106 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  40. Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency

    106 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  41. Untouchable number

    106 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  42. E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  43. HyperUI: Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components

    106 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  44. Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level

    106 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  45. Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  46. The Heart of W. Edwards Deming

    105 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  47. Continue with LocalAI: An alternative to GitHub's Copilot that runs locally

    105 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  48. First release of jq in 5 years

    105 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  49. Pentium floating-point division bug (1994)

    105 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  50. Grindr employees have 2 weeks: agree to move across the country+RTO or lose jobs

    105 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  51. Corrupted Blood incident

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  52. Exploring the design space of binary search trees

    104 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  53. The inability to simultaneously verify sentience, location, and identity

    104 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  54. What does it take to make your own integrated circuits at home?

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  55. Baldur's Gate 3 has been released

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  56. Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998)

    104 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  57. Painting the Eiffel Tower

    104 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  58. STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM32MP1

    104 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  59. Grades of quality of Panama hats

    104 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  60. The PolymurHash universal hash function

    104 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  61. Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition

    104 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  62. LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface

    104 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  63. Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution

    104 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  64. Evennia: MUD/MU* creation system

    104 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  65. First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning

    104 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  66. Open source LLM with 32k Context Length

    104 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  67. Braille Is Alive, Well, and Ever-Evolving

    104 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  68. Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you

    104 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  69. Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu

    104 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  70. Microplastics detected in the marine air from Norway to the high Arctic

    104 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  71. Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid

    103 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  72. New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension

    103 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  73. Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark

    103 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  74. Homebrew Is Awesome

    103 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  75. ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y

    103 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  76. How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s

    103 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  77. Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)

    103 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  78. Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China

    103 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  79. Ancient Earth globe

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  80. The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect

    102 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  81. Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  82. How Correlated Are You?

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  83. A 100GW phased laser array for interstellar lightsail propulsion (2021)

    102 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  84. What happened to Wirecutter?

    102 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  85. Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

    102 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  86. The way out of burnout (2016)

    102 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  87. UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)

    102 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  88. 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

    102 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  89. Metazooa

    102 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  90. Safer: A better alternative to SAFEs for startup financing?

    102 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  91. Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  92. Research group detects a quantum entanglement wave for the first time

    102 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  93. Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence

    102 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  94. Opus Databending Drumkit

    102 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  95. Unity Weta Tools

    101 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  96. Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  97. Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’

    101 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  98. Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)

    101 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  99. Designing a new concurrent data structure

    101 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  100. The Cuts at WVU

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2023