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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
542 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions
538 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99
524 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
520 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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We are all animals at night
520 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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My Caste
520 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
519 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
510 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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So you want to learn physics (2021)
510 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
510 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
506 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
505 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
497 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
496 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words
493 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
492 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Llama from scratch, or how to implement a paper without crying
491 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
490 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
489 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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The underground world of credit card network exploitation
488 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
483 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
479 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Nim 2.0
479 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2
474 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
474 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
472 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
472 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
472 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
470 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
466 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars
466 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion
465 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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LCD, Please
463 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule
461 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care
454 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000)
454 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP
454 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
452 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
452 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2
451 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
449 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
448 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
443 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
438 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Teaching with AI
437 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
437 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
436 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
435 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Hacker News Guidelines
432 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
431 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC
430 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
430 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names
427 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
426 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript
424 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products
417 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)
414 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
414 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
414 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
413 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990
411 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
409 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS
408 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
405 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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CLI text processing with GNU awk
402 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Prisoners of Google Android development
402 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap
402 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells
401 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Meta blocking news links in Canada
395 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Netscape Meteors
393 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media
392 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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I walked across Luxembourg
392 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
390 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
390 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
389 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
389 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
388 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
387 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99
386 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
385 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
385 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Raku: A language for gremlins
384 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas
384 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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What do I think about Community Notes?
384 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
380 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust
380 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
379 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
377 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models
377 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
376 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Overworked and underpaid, VFX workers vote to unionize at Marvel
375 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
373 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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We need scientific dissidents
373 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server
370 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Windy.com: global weather website with live filters
369 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
367 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
367 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
366 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
366 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
366 points • comment • aug 25, 2023