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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  2. Practical parsing with Flex and Bison (2021)

    68 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  3. Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright

    68 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  4. Svelte 5 is going to be radical

    68 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  5. Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans

    68 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  6. Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  7. CSS Pattern: Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  8. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  9. A testimony of “guilt-by-association” harassment in astronomy

    68 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  10. Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly

    68 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  11. On to Elixir

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  12. Foxconn puts its empty buildings in Wisconsin up for sale

    68 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  13. Milk bag

    68 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  14. Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  15. Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf]

    68 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  16. Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 6: PWM backlight

    68 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  17. Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data

    68 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  18. Hogfish ‘See’ with Their Skin, Even When They’re Dead

    68 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  19. YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on

    68 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  20. Veles – A tool for binary analysis (2018)

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  21. Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles

    68 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  22. Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without Agonizing Pain (1994) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  23. Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust

    68 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  24. Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s

    67 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  25. ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May

    67 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  26. She paid husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  27. Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink

    67 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  28. Multiplix, operating system kernel for RISC-V and AArch64 SBCs

    67 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  29. Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2B sports betting deal

    67 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  30. Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  31. Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  32. Show HN: Mu – A Micro App Platform

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  33. The persistence of prog rock (2017)

    67 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  34. The Holocaust Bomb: A question of time (2007)

    67 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  35. Science of Crowd Control [video]

    67 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  36. Moderation Strike: Results of Negotiations

    67 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  37. PEP 723 – Embedding pyproject.toml in single-file scripts – peps.python.org

    67 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  38. EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators

    67 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  39. Compile-Time Checked Truth Tables

    67 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  40. ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  41. Things that didn't age well

    67 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  42. Toyota to restart Japan production on Wednesday after system failure

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  43. Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color

    67 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  44. Why We'll Stay Remote

    67 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  45. the US climate law is fueling a factory frenzy. Here’s the latest tally

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  46. Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off

    67 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  47. Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  48. Radio frequency hearing in humans and its effects (2003)

    67 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  49. Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  50. Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  51. The Santa Fe Time Series Prediction and Analysis Competition

    66 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  52. The geometry of diffusion guidance

    66 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  53. High Dynamic Time Range Images (2006)

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  54. Electric cars aren't affordable because America's workforce is underpaid

    66 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  55. Modernizing compiler design for Carbon's toolchain [video]

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  56. Is Computer Hacking a Crime? (1989) [pdf]

    66 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  57. Initial impressions of Microsoft Olive

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  58. Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  59. Barbara: Live coding languages for quilters

    66 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  60. Random Testing of WebAssembly Implementations Using Semantically Valid Programs

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  61. The Deepest Submarine Rescue (2021)

    66 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  62. Frog Galvanoscope

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  63. TermiC: Terminal C, Interactive C/C++ REPL shell created with bash

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  64. YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history

    66 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  65. The many issues plaguing Nix

    66 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  66. Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers

    66 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  67. Why doctors pay millions in fees that could be spent on care

    66 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  68. Utopia Clicker

    66 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  69. Show HN: Gentrace – evaluation and observability for generative AI

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  70. System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool

    66 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  71. Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows

    65 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  72. Souvenir Spoons Museum

    65 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  73. Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger

    65 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  74. Ask HN: SaaS operators, what is the cost:earnings ratio of your SaaS?

    65 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  75. My (Herb Sutter's) C++ Now 2023 talk is online: “A TypeScript for C++”

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  76. Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  77. Scientists trap light inside a magnet

    65 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  78. Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4

    65 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  79. 12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands

    65 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  80. New type of star gives clues to mysterious origin of magnetars

    65 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  81. Employees in Asia are spending most time looking busy at work, says Slack report

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  82. Publish Everything (Pretty Much)

    65 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  83. Show HN: Pip install inference, open source computer vision deployment

    65 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  84. German Cabinet approves liberalization of Cannabis Possession

    65 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  85. The ocean has a fever

    65 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  86. The 8088 Prefetch Algorithm

    65 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  87. 8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free

    65 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  88. English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  89. New book considers the impact of electronic logging devices on drivers

    65 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  90. Supreme Court rules against Epic, so Apple can keep its App Store payment rules

    65 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  91. Secure Boot on ESP32 Platforms

    65 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  92. Apple’s Employee No. 0 (2008)

    65 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  93. An interactive story that takes you on a journey of self-exploration

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  94. Artists have forgotten how to draw

    64 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  95. How to share a NumPy array between processes

    64 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  96. The PhD Octopus (1903)

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  97. Dark microbiome in Atacama fossil delta unveils Mars life detection limits

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  98. A Metaobject Protocol for C++ (1995) [pdf]

    64 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  99. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  100. WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2023