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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof goes bankrupt, leaving riders stranded

    59 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  2. Core War, a very old game about programming

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  3. Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  4. Johnny Hardwick, Voice of Conspiracy Nut Dale ‘King of the Hill,’ Dead at 64

    59 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  5. CLAs create different issues than making (small) open source contributions

    59 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  6. Who was the Bell Witch?

    59 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  7. India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar South Pole

    59 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  8. Kagi Search Stats

    59 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  9. A close look at the 8086 processor's bus hold circuitry

    59 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  10. Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount

    59 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  11. Texas electricity prices soar 6k% as heat wave is expected to shatter records

    59 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  12. Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice

    59 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  13. Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes

    59 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  14. Probability Can Bite (2010)

    59 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  15. Reclaiming Control: The Internet Archive Empowers People. Gatekeepers Keep Suing

    59 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  16. Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for Less Range: Report

    59 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  17. Peruvian fossil challenges blue whales for size

    58 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  18. Blue-light filtering spectacles probably make no difference to sleep quality

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  19. Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers

    58 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  20. A C parser for CREATE and ALTER TABLE SQLite statements

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  21. Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  22. South Pole Electrical Infrastructure

    58 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  23. ParkyTowers: Thin Clients Laid Bare

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  24. Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050

    58 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  25. Open-Source Washing

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  26. Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  27. Interstellar puzzle based on graph theory

    58 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  28. Xitter Broke Nitter Again

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  29. Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup

    58 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  30. A Really Big Computer

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  31. Manias and Mimesis: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles (2019)

    58 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  32. HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  33. South Korea extends natural population fall as fertility rate falls to 0.7

    58 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  34. Show HN: Points and Miles Database

    58 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  35. Emulating the 6502 CPU in C++ (2021) [video]

    58 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  36. Produce HTML from S-Expressions

    58 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  37. Great Founder Theory (2020)

    57 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  38. Llama2.rs: One-file Rust implementation of Llama2

    57 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  39. HashiCorp Switches to BSL License

    57 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  40. USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15

    57 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  41. Checking in on troubles with dark matter

    57 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  42. Atlassian, Airbnb Boost Remote Work as Peers Order Office Return

    57 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  43. Making Amiga IFF Thumbnails Work in Linux

    57 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  44. Family rescued from wildfires thanks to iPhone’s Emergency SOS via Satellite

    57 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  45. Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police

    57 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  46. When the Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

    57 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  47. The GRUB MBR (2008)

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  48. Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman

    57 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  49. PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum

    57 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  50. STM32MP2: ST’s first Linux capable 64-bit MPU with NPU, GPU and TSN

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  51. Self-modifying code using GCC (2011)

    57 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  52. SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow (2022)

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  53. Google thinks opt-in is something you need to opt out of

    57 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  54. Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack

    57 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  55. Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms

    57 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  56. An open-source MySQL alternative for running database on Kubernetes

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  57. Java: New Draft JEP: “Computed Constants”

    57 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  58. Apple Sep 2023 Event: “Wonderlust”

    57 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  59. Learning Algorithms

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  60. Credit Card Debt Collection

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  61. Carbon–cement supercapacitors as a scalable bulk energy storage solution

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  62. Perils of not being attractive or athletic in middle school

    56 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  63. The average Manhattan rent just hit a new record of $5,588 a month

    56 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  64. Xiaomi CyberDog 2

    56 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  65. The Billionaire Who Controls Your Medical Records (2021)

    56 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  66. Advantages to running FreeBSD as a server operating system

    56 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  67. The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers

    56 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  68. Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI

    56 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  69. The Great 78 Project (2019)

    56 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  70. On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  71. 2,000-year-old synagogue found in southern Russia

    56 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  72. Astronomers Find Star Is a Powerful Magnet

    56 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  73. American workers are demanding almost $80k a year to take a new job

    56 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  74. We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD

    56 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  75. Telemetry on Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    56 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  76. Pines’ demon observed as a 3D acoustic plasmon in Sr2RuO4

    56 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  77. San Francisco streets clogged as line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill

    55 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  78. Show HN: Marqo – Vectorless Vector Search

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  79. Memory Order in C++ (2022)

    55 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  80. MLS cyberattack halts US real estate markets

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  81. How to emulate an Atari ST from inside

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  82. Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monument from the early 19th century

    55 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  83. Inmos and the Transputer – Parallel Ventures

    55 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  84. Private equity: A fee too far [pdf]

    55 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  85. Learn X in Y Minutes

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  86. Distributed Consensus

    55 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  87. SynJax: Jax library for efficient probabilistic modeling of structured objects

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  88. YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations

    55 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  89. Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  90. Terraform Cloud is down for nearly five hours, and counting

    55 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  91. The Simplest Walking Robot: A bipedal robot with 1 actuator and 2 rigid bodies

    55 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  92. Bare Metal Space Invaders

    55 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  93. Traceroute isn't real

    55 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  94. Grokking Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs)

    55 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  95. Adyen Plummets as Sales Miss Erases $20B of Market Value

    55 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  96. Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t want to use them

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  97. The Last of the Fungus

    55 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  98. YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  99. Show HN: Dumbar, a not so smart menubar app

    55 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  100. Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy

    55 points • comment • aug 18, 2023