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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Keep your files inside your VM
74 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4th Gen of Programming Languages? [pdf]
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)
74 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Embracing sabbaticals, sunsetting retirement age
74 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries
74 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL
74 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy
74 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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The Case for Nushell
74 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Why Kundera never went home
74 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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All that glitters is not gold – emulating luxury in the ancient Greek world
74 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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The World's Oldest Photograph (2022)
74 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
73 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb
73 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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The V Programming Language 0.4
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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T-Mobile US to Lay Off 5k Employees
73 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Educational Codebases
73 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Google moderates Google Collections items
73 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Mitmproxy 10: First Bits of HTTP/3
73 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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“Ansible for DevOps” eBook by Jeff Geerling Is Now Free
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Show HN: Travel site made with Midjourney, GPT4 and Svelte
73 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Philosophy of Science 101: What is the problem of induction?
73 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data
73 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Labor unions are pushing hard for better pay and hours – and winning
73 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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If you make less than $55K, the Labor Department wants you to get overtime pay
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Terminal Support for Emoji
73 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar
73 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Italy is betting big on train travel
73 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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The Canopener Bridge
73 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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The Open Sanctuary Project
72 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Who Was Duns Scotus?
72 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Transactions in a Microservice World
72 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to improved technology
72 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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UK defends plan to demand access to encrypted messages to protect children
72 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Show HN: Graphweaver – Instant GraphQL API on Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and More
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often
72 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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The TextFX Project
72 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Duo Outage
72 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013)
72 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac
72 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Life Has Several Exits
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
72 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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New ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins
72 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution
71 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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The complex simplicity of my static websites
71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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The Cost of Good Movies
71 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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The sticky history of baklava
71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize
71 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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The tech job recession is over
71 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin listed as passenger on plane which crashed
71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Template for Impactful Ideas
71 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users
71 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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PreTeXt: Write Once Read Anywhere Authoring and Publishing System
71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020)
71 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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The AST Typing Problem
71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up
71 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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"About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret
71 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance
71 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Rust vs. Go in 2023
71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will drop significantly
70 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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32by32 – Macintosh History from the 1980s
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Entropy in Engineering Processes
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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The evolution of Steve Albini
70 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Classical music is for everyone
70 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Soundproofing my studio
70 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Grumpy Website
70 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Darling Progress Report Q2 2023
70 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study
70 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail
70 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Navy in Middle-Earth
70 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
70 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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How Hinge's algorithm decides who you date
70 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Semantic Code Reviews – Simple and direct comments without drama
70 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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How Tycho Brahe really died (2001)
70 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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How the Army tried and failed to build a bicycle corps (2020)
70 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data
69 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Designing deep networks to process other deep networks
69 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Show HN: SpacetimeDB – A database that replaces your server
69 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.”
69 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Ohio LinuxFest 2023 Conference Speakers
69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e)
69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Instacart S-1
69 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Grayscale was unreasonably denied its Bitcoin ETF, court rules
69 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear
69 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges
69 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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How trees guard their seeds with mast seeding
69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
69 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud
69 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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The WordPress 100 Year Plan
69 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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AI demand is already shrinking
69 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Semiconductor Supply Chain Explorer (2022)
69 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (1992)
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint
68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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CSS Pattern: Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients
68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2023