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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Keep your files inside your VM

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  2. Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4th Gen of Programming Languages? [pdf]

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  3. Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)

    74 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  4. Embracing sabbaticals, sunsetting retirement age

    74 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  5. 'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries

    74 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  6. Migrating Netflix to GraphQL

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  7. Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy

    74 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  8. The Case for Nushell

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  9. Why Kundera never went home

    74 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

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

    74 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  11. The World's Oldest Photograph (2022)

    74 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  12. America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

    73 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  13. How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

    73 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  14. The V Programming Language 0.4

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  15. T-Mobile US to Lay Off 5k Employees

    73 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  16. Educational Codebases

    73 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  17. Google moderates Google Collections items

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  18. Mitmproxy 10: First Bits of HTTP/3

    73 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  19. “Ansible for DevOps” eBook by Jeff Geerling Is Now Free

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  20. Show HN: Travel site made with Midjourney, GPT4 and Svelte

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  21. Philosophy of Science 101: What is the problem of induction?

    73 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  22. Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data

    73 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  23. Labor unions are pushing hard for better pay and hours – and winning

    73 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  24. If you make less than $55K, the Labor Department wants you to get overtime pay

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  25. Terminal Support for Emoji

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  26. Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

    73 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  27. Italy is betting big on train travel

    73 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  28. The Canopener Bridge

    73 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  29. The Open Sanctuary Project

    72 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  30. Who Was Duns Scotus?

    72 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  31. Transactions in a Microservice World

    72 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  32. Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to improved technology

    72 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  33. Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  34. UK defends plan to demand access to encrypted messages to protect children

    72 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  35. Show HN: Graphweaver – Instant GraphQL API on Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and More

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  36. People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often

    72 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  37. The TextFX Project

    72 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  38. Duo Outage

    72 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  39. How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013)

    72 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  40. How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac

    72 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  41. IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  42. Life Has Several Exits

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  43. The Albanian town that TikTok emptied

    72 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  44. New ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins

    72 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  45. Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution

    71 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  46. The complex simplicity of my static websites

    71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  47. The Cost of Good Movies

    71 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  48. The sticky history of baklava

    71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  49. Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize

    71 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  50. The tech job recession is over

    71 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  51. FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer

    71 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  52. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin listed as passenger on plane which crashed

    71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  53. Template for Impactful Ideas

    71 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  54. Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users

    71 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  55. PreTeXt: Write Once Read Anywhere Authoring and Publishing System

    71 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  56. Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020)

    71 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  57. The AST Typing Problem

    71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  58. People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up

    71 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  59. "About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret

    71 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  60. DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers

    71 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  61. The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance

    71 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  62. Rust vs. Go in 2023

    71 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  63. Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will drop significantly

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  64. Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  65. 32by32 – Macintosh History from the 1980s

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  66. Entropy in Engineering Processes

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  67. The evolution of Steve Albini

    70 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  68. Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  69. Classical music is for everyone

    70 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  70. Soundproofing my studio

    70 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  71. Grumpy Website

    70 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  72. Darling Progress Report Q2 2023

    70 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  73. Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study

    70 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  74. Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail

    70 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  75. Navy in Middle-Earth

    70 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  76. Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?

    70 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  77. How Hinge's algorithm decides who you date

    70 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  78. Semantic Code Reviews – Simple and direct comments without drama

    70 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  79. How Tycho Brahe really died (2001)

    70 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  80. How the Army tried and failed to build a bicycle corps (2020)

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  81. What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data

    69 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  82. Designing deep networks to process other deep networks

    69 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  83. Show HN: SpacetimeDB – A database that replaces your server

    69 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  84. Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.”

    69 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  85. Ohio LinuxFest 2023 Conference Speakers

    69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  86. MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e)

    69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  87. Instacart S-1

    69 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  88. Grayscale was unreasonably denied its Bitcoin ETF, court rules

    69 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  89. Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear

    69 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  90. Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges

    69 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  91. How trees guard their seeds with mast seeding

    69 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  92. Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

    69 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  93. From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud

    69 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  94. The WordPress 100 Year Plan

    69 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  95. AI demand is already shrinking

    69 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  96. Semiconductor Supply Chain Explorer (2022)

    69 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  97. A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (1992)

    69 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  98. Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  99. CSS Pattern: Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  100. Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2023