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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose

    87 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  2. Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school

    87 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  3. Who are the worlds biggest landowners

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  4. Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  5. A supercapacitor made from cement

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  6. Building a digital music collection in 2023

    86 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  7. An unconventional LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case

    86 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  8. If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban

    86 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  9. Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  10. Latest Android Runtime (ART) update led to apps starting 30% faster

    86 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  11. My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016

    86 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  12. We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change

    85 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  13. The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)

    85 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  14. Write your passwords down (2010)

    85 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  15. Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app

    85 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  16. How Mojo gets a speedup over Python – Part 2

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  17. Microsoft to unbundle Teams software in Europe to abate EU antitrust concerns

    85 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  18. Simplifying GPU Application Development with HMM

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  19. We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”

    85 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  20. Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  21. Critique of Lazy Sequences in Clojure

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  22. Timing with Curl (2010)

    85 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  23. OSM River Basins

    85 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  24. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics [pdf]

    85 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  25. How to Design Programs (2023)

    84 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  26. Why Congress is considering a ‘right to repair' law for car owners

    84 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  27. R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (2007)

    84 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  28. Collection of stand-alone Python machine learning recipes (2021)

    84 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  29. Toward Condensers

    84 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  30. LuaJIT uses rolling releases

    84 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  31. Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory

    84 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  32. Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6

    84 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  33. New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online

    84 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  34. Ask HN: How to monetize a website that is making views?

    84 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  35. Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post

    84 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  36. Can you use a class in C?

    84 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  37. Huawei reportedly building 'secret' semiconductor fabs

    84 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  38. Demystifying ESIM Technology [video]

    84 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  39. Median Center of Population for the United States: 1880 to 2020 (2021)

    84 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  40. Researchers have come up with a new way to store electricity in cement

    84 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  41. The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games

    84 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  42. China Is Building an Open National Chip Plan Around RISC-V

    84 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  43. AlloyDB AI: Generative AI applications with PostgreSQL

    84 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  44. Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io

    84 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  45. What learning APL taught me about Python

    84 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  46. Longest-lasting incandescent light bulbs

    83 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  47. Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (2012)

    83 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  48. Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law

    83 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  49. Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time

    83 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  50. Rising ill-health and economic inactivity from long-term sickness: 2019 to 2023

    83 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  51. Interactive Hiragana chart with audio

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  52. Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education [video]

    83 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  53. Taos Operating System (1995)

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  54. RIP Bram Moolenaar (by me, vi/Vim user for decades)

    83 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  55. A blood factor can rejuvenate the aging brain

    82 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  56. Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires

    82 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  57. Nvidia Launches a 100kb text-to-image model called Perfusion

    82 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  58. The Virtual Blender Camera

    82 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  59. Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe

    82 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  60. A man who can talk backwards (2017)

    82 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  61. Demodulation of the 5G NR Downlink

    82 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  62. BioWare is laying off 50 employees

    82 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  63. Institutionalized Belief in the Greater Fool

    82 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  64. Mozilla to reintroduce full Browser Extension support for Firefox Android app

    82 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  65. The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model

    82 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  66. The Myth of AI Omniscience: AI's Epistemological Limits

    82 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  67. Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees

    82 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  68. What do I think about Community Notes?

    82 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  69. OpenSAFELY is a secure, open-source platform for analysis of health records data

    82 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  70. Theft of the Mona Lisa (2000)

    81 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  71. The Cost of Convenience

    81 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  72. Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam

    81 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  73. New study measures grammatical complexity of languages

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  74. Show HN: The Uncolouring Book

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  75. Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation

    81 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  76. Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process

    81 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  77. Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors. Giddy up

    81 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  78. Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer

    81 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  79. Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man

    81 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  80. Steam on Linux Usage Spikes to Nearly 2% in July, More Than Apple macOS

    81 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  81. Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015)

    81 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  82. Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds

    81 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  83. Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  84. How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered

    81 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  85. Show HN: Retake – Open-Source Hybrid Search for Postgres

    81 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  86. Rob Pike explains why every programmer should know about the array languages

    81 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  87. Home – Database of Databases

    81 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  88. A Single-Cycle 64-Bit RISC-V Register File

    80 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  89. AirGradient Air Quality Monitor Pro Kit Review

    80 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  90. Beavers are helping restore wetlands and create buffers against wildfires

    80 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  91. Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  92. Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  93. Deno 1.36

    80 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  94. Frackers use dangerous chemicals without disclosure due to Halliburton loophole

    80 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  95. Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  96. DC Grids

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  97. The Bitter Lesson (2019) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  98. ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)

    80 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  99. Inside the AI porn marketplace

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  100. My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

    80 points • comment • aug 06, 2023