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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?

    542 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  2. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

    538 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  3. Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

    524 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  4. Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools

    520 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  5. We are all animals at night

    520 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  6. My Caste

    520 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  7. OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge

    519 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  8. Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels

    510 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  9. So you want to learn physics (2021)

    510 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  10. Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

    510 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  11. Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery

    506 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  12. Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01

    505 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  13. Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

    497 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  14. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

    496 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  15. Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words

    493 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  16. Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics

    492 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  17. Llama from scratch, or how to implement a paper without crying

    491 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  18. The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

    490 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  19. Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker

    489 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  20. The underground world of credit card network exploitation

    488 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  21. PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading

    483 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  22. Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites

    479 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  23. Nim 2.0

    479 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  24. Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2

    474 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  25. A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense

    474 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  26. Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?

    472 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  27. RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

    472 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  28. Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

    472 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  29. Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser

    470 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  30. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)

    466 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  31. Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars

    466 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  32. Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion

    465 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  33. LCD, Please

    463 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  34. ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule

    461 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  35. A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care

    454 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  36. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2000)

    454 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  37. Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP

    454 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  38. Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

    452 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  39. Elixir for cynical curmudgeons

    452 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  40. NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2

    451 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  41. When your classmates threaten you with felony charges

    449 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  42. Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation

    448 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  43. Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software

    443 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  44. Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)

    438 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  45. Teaching with AI

    437 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  46. New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

    437 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  47. Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

    436 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  48. eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

    435 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  49. Hacker News Guidelines

    432 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  50. Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)

    431 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  51. Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC

    430 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  52. AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

    430 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  53. MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

    427 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  54. GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

    426 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  55. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

    424 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  56. Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products

    417 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  57. An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)

    414 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  58. YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

    414 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  59. Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures

    414 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  60. Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

    413 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  61. nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990

    411 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  62. Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex

    409 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  63. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

    408 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  64. Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features

    405 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  65. CLI text processing with GNU awk

    402 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  66. Prisoners of Google Android development

    402 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  67. Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

    402 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  68. A new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells

    401 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  69. Meta blocking news links in Canada

    395 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  70. Netscape Meteors

    393 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  71. Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media

    392 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  72. I walked across Luxembourg

    392 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  73. Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration

    390 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  74. Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet

    390 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  75. PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

    389 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  76. Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE

    389 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  77. Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

    388 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  78. Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

    387 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  79. Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99

    386 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  80. Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture

    385 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  81. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

    385 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  82. Raku: A language for gremlins

    384 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  83. Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas

    384 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  84. What do I think about Community Notes?

    384 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  85. GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates

    380 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  86. Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust

    380 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  87. ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

    379 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  88. Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

    377 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  89. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

    377 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  90. Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs

    376 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  91. Overworked and underpaid, VFX workers vote to unionize at Marvel

    375 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  92. Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2

    373 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  93. We need scientific dissidents

    373 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  94. Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server

    370 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  95. Windy.com: global weather website with live filters

    369 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  96. Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules

    367 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  97. Kafka is dead, long live Kafka

    367 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  98. micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

    366 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  99. Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer

    366 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  100. Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

    366 points • comment • aug 25, 2023