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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes

    80 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

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

    80 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  3. Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered

    79 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  4. Fitch Downgrades the US Rating to 'AA+'

    79 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  5. Old software keeping space missions alive

    79 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  6. The Windows desktop is dying

    79 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  7. Detective Who Arrested Man for Satirical Facebook Post Denied Immunity by 5th C

    79 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  8. Lichess will no longer cooperate with the USCF and the Saint Louis Chess Club

    79 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  9. The Real Question Behind 'What Do You Want?'

    79 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  10. Resistor–transistor logic

    79 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  11. An automatic shiny hunter for any Pokémon game

    79 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  12. FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

    79 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  13. Homer and His Iliad

    79 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  14. A new futex API

    79 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  15. The Fill and Flush deplaning method

    79 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  16. The Arab Dagger

    79 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  17. Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS

    79 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  18. Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development

    79 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  19. The Colonel’s Bequest – Case Cracked (2020)

    79 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  20. Leave It to the Beavers

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  21. Record Labels File $412M Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive

    79 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  22. Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter

    78 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  23. How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (2014)

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  24. The Earthsea Trilogy (2003)

    78 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  25. Apple bleee. Everyone knows what’s on your iPhone (2020)

    78 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  26. Codelite

    78 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  27. SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken

    78 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  28. Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start printing on their own

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  29. Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with your cloud costs

    78 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  30. Can you simply brainwash an LLM?

    78 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  31. Show HN: Saf – simple, reliable, rsync-based, battle tested, rounded backup

    78 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  32. Abbrev: A hidden Ruby gem

    78 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  33. China Stops Publishing Youth Unemployment Numbers Amid Faltering Economy

    78 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  34. Large Language Models As General Pattern Machines

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  35. Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace

    78 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  36. Apple Vision Pro: Why Monitor Replacement Is Ridiculous

    78 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  37. Spanish astronomer discovers new active galaxy

    78 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  38. Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out

    78 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  39. Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access

    78 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  40. Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for southern California

    78 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  41. Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF

    78 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  42. Show HN: Run globally distributed full-stack apps on high-performance MicroVMs

    78 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  43. SanDisk Portable SSDs Are Failing So Frequently, We Can No Longer Recommend Them

    77 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  44. Drumscript: A simple MIDI drum machine scripting language

    77 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  45. Nginx Development Guide

    77 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  46. On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise (1996) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  47. The worlds largest Online Toaster Exhibition

    77 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  48. Silicon Valley Bank vice president sentenced to 15 months in prison

    77 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  49. Lyrebird the Linux voice changer now supports PipeWire

    77 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  50. On the link between Lyme disease and bioweapons (2019)

    77 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  51. ThirdAI Uses Ray for Parallel Training of Billion-Parameter NN on Commodity CPUs

    77 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  52. Falsehoods Programmers Believe In

    77 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  53. Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?

    77 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  54. BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework

    77 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  55. Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees

    76 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  56. Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction

    76 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  57. Policy Engines: Open Policy Agent vs. AWS Cedar vs. Google Zanzibar

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  58. Tell HN: Edge has added rounded corners to all web pages

    76 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  59. Effect of Breakfast Skipping and Late Night Eating on BMI with Type 2 Diabetes

    76 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  60. Lines of code that changed everything (2019)

    76 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  61. Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

    76 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  62. Amazon to Impose 2% Fee on Third-Party Sellers Who Ship Products Themselves

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  63. Most of my Instagram ads are for drugs, stolen credit cards, hacked accounts

    76 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  64. Malicious Android Apps Slip into Disguise

    76 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  65. ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private?

    76 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  66. Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)

    76 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  67. Algebraic data types in Lua (almost)

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  68. Why do cats love tuna so much?

    76 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  69. A Nordic revolt against 'ugly' modern architecture

    76 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  70. Llama2.c L2E LLM – Multi OS Binary and Unikernel Release

    75 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  71. DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs

    75 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  72. Programming Language choices: Pascal, LOGO, Forth, Prolog, C (1986) [video]

    75 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  73. The physics of hand clapping

    75 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  74. 1Password Open Sources Rust Passkey Library

    75 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  75. Alfred-40B, an OSS RLHF version of Falcon40B

    75 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  76. Lego Ideas: Insect Collection – Botanicals meets animals

    75 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  77. Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (1999)

    75 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  78. Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  79. How might life migrate through the universe?

    75 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  80. Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster

    75 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  81. Fixing the TPM: Hardware Security Modules Done Right

    75 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  82. Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank

    75 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  83. Towards HTTPS by Default

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  84. Implementing Interactive Languages

    75 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  85. Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla

    75 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  86. Move Back to Datacenters

    75 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  87. My Lifetime Reading Plan

    75 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  88. RISC-V Origins and Architecture, Part 1

    75 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  89. The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag

    75 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  90. The missing C++ smart pointer

    75 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  91. Bioregions 2023

    75 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  92. Oldest Known Animation, a 5200 Year-Old Iranian Ceramic Vessel

    75 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  93. Linux 6.5

    74 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  94. Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

    74 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  95. Embracing sabbaticals, sunsetting retirement age

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  96. Tell HN: ai.com used to redirect to chat.openai.com, now it redirects to x.ai

    74 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  97. Migrating Netflix to GraphQL

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  98. All that glitters is not gold – emulating luxury in the ancient Greek world

    74 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  99. The World's Oldest Photograph (2022)

    74 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  100. The Case for Nushell

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2023