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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Stefan Tilkov has died

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  2. Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  3. The Cuts at WVU

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  4. Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images

    101 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  5. Encyclopedia of Life

    101 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  6. Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)

    100 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  7. Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries

    100 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  8. Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager

    100 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  9. Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?

    100 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  10. Far Manager: files and archives in Windows

    100 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  11. Wavefont: A Typeface for Rendering Data

    100 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  12. Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  13. “The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking creativity

    100 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  14. The case for Nushell

    100 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  15. What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)

    100 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  16. 200k Compromised OpenAI Credentials Available for Purchase on the Dark Web

    100 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  17. The process of making fake food [video]

    100 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  18. Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators

    100 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  19. The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games

    100 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  20. Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards

    100 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  21. The Physics of Readability

    100 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  22. Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD

    100 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  23. Ways to teach kids to code (2016)

    99 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  24. CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret TETRA primitives [video]

    99 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  25. Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August

    99 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  26. Your brain on emoji

    99 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  27. CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan

    99 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  28. The gamification of reading is changing how we approach books

    99 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  29. Oxocards: Interactive programmable minicomputers

    99 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  30. Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next

    99 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  31. Stan Lippman has died (2022)

    99 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  32. The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance (2020)

    98 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  33. Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark

    98 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  34. NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument

    98 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  35. What Is Happening with ChatGPT?

    98 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  36. Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  37. A complete guide to building a hand-wired keyboard (2020)

    98 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  38. VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  39. Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos

    98 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  40. Universal Design Guide Playbook

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  41. The life of a lawyer in the late Roman republic

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  42. Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  43. Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code

    98 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  44. AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]

    97 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  45. Lesser Known Postgres Features (2021)

    97 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  46. Scientists are working to bring the woolly mammoth back

    97 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  47. Jim Larkin, Backpage exec, has died

    97 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  48. Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [video]

    97 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  49. Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do

    97 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  50. Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]

    97 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  51. Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem

    97 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  52. How to Read an RFC (2018)

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  53. AMD Inception Mitigations Cause 20% Performance Drop in Database Servers

    96 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  54. Iterators in Go: A proposed extension

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  55. X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads

    96 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  56. Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  57. Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?

    96 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  58. Show HN: TRS-GPT – ChatGPT client/server for the TRS-80

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  59. Support ActivityPub for merge requests

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  60. Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  61. Inactive Google Account Policy

    96 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  62. How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut

    96 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  63. Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture

    96 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  64. Who and What Is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  65. Film Review: BlackBerry

    96 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  66. “Please do not make it public” (Tencent’s Sogou Input Method)

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  67. Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?

    96 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  68. Bluegrass Archive

    96 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  69. Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers

    96 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  70. The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick

    95 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  71. Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly

    95 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  72. Show HN: Query your database using plain English on premise

    95 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  73. The Atlas of Economic Complexity

    95 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  74. Damaging results of mandated return to the office: it’s worse than we thought

    95 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  75. Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin

    95 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  76. Solving a simple puzzle using SymPy

    95 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  77. Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges

    95 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  78. The Downsides of C++ Coroutines

    95 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  79. Waku: The Minimalist React Framework with Server Components

    95 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  80. The brain connections between our hands and tongues

    95 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  81. Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video]

    95 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  82. Unit: A visual programming system [video]

    95 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  83. How to enjoy SF

    94 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  84. Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code

    94 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  85. Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers

    94 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  86. Simple Networking in Linux

    94 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  87. Flatpak is not the future (2021)

    94 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  88. My job search story

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  89. Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul

    94 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  90. StarCitizen Server Meshing Architecture

    94 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  91. Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`

    94 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  92. Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  93. DisplayPort: Taming the Altmode

    94 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  94. Weeds May Be a Better Friend to Pollinating Insects Than We Assume

    94 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  95. Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests

    94 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  96. What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]

    94 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  97. World’s Oldest Cat Door Has Let Working Cats Enter the Cathedral Since 14c

    94 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  98. A JVM in Rust part 5 – Executing instructions

    94 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  99. Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)

    94 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  100. How to Program in Your Sleep

    94 points • comment • aug 24, 2023