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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. MLS cyberattack halts US real estate markets

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  2. The Last of the Fungus

    55 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  3. Unicode 88 (1988) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  4. Five Years of LLM Progress

    54 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  5. Is Saturn a failed gas giant?

    54 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  6. Show HN: Open Interpreter – CodeLlama in your terminal, executing code

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  7. The year of Linux On Desktop^WMobile [video]

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  8. Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  9. Internet Standard #80: ASCII Format for Network Interchange (1969)

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  10. Virtual IBM Punch Card Data Processing (2018)

    54 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  11. The Psychology of Cults

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  12. Doctoral student completes a PhD in Chemistry entirely in Welsh

    54 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  13. Microsoft accidently leaks internal tool; can enable hidden Windows 11 features

    54 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  14. How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  15. Australia eyes UK online bill in fight with tech companies

    54 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  16. India's Chandrayaan-3 rover mission reaches moon

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  17. Living Wage Calculator

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  18. San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis

    54 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  19. SymmetricDS: Open-Source, cross platform database replication software

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  20. Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks a Pay to Play Strategy Exposed

    54 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  21. David G. Conroy: FPGA Retrocomputing

    54 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  22. Cloudflare Registrar now supports .dev domains

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  23. Ask HN: Best books to learn web development?

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  24. How to Make Viking Funerary Flatbread

    54 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  25. Water repellent clothing and PFAS – are they a danger?

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  26. Fewer university students are studying Mandarin

    54 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  27. Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App Store downloads

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  28. What happens when you die: Unlike most people, I know. And I have video

    54 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  29. FDA schedules meeting to establish regulatory rules for artificial womb trials

    54 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  30. Permutation iteration and random access

    54 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  31. Degraded performance on ChatGPT

    53 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  32. Testing your animation refresh rate with CSS

    53 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  33. Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship

    53 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  34. Never-Ending Learning of User Interfaces

    53 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  35. Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  36. Amazon's overcomplicated new product star ratings are no bright idea

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  37. Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution

    53 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  38. Adults Only: European Airline Introduces Child-Free Areas on Long-Haul Flights

    53 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  39. Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI

    53 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  40. Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse

    53 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  41. Ask HN: Share a shell script you like

    53 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  42. Probing the limits of nuclear existence (2022)

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  43. A single weekly bout of exercise may reduce cardiovascular mortality (2006)

    53 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  44. My experience contributing to HashiCorp open-source projects

    53 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  45. Treating ADHD as executive function disorder

    53 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  46. Consumers complaining on X targeted by scammers after verification changes

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  47. Disney’s Taylor Swift Era

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  48. HMRC (UK Tax Authority) Persuing Uber for £386M (~$487M) Vat

    53 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  49. Simple browser boat game using Three.js

    53 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  50. Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support

    53 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  51. Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  52. Tech jobs market normalizing as July unemployment dips

    53 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  53. Tetris Randomizers (2018)

    53 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  54. An ancient solar flare illuminated the start of the Viking Age

    53 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  55. Comlink Makes WebWorkers Enjoyable

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  56. Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis

    53 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  57. Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data

    52 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  58. The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanishing without a trace

    52 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  59. BurgerKing gave candy to worker who never took sick day. The internet gave $400k

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  60. The Early History of Counting

    52 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  61. California PG&E Joins Proposal to Set Utility Rates Based on Income

    52 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  62. The Interim Computer Museum

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  63. “Not This Stuff Again” (SARS-CoV-2 Update)

    52 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  64. A tale about how Ben Franklin invented the US

    52 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  65. Sipeed unveils RISC-V tablet, portable Linux console, and cluster

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  66. Clever coating turns lampshades into indoor air purifiers

    52 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  67. Washington, DC, avoided the worst price rises that have plagued American cities

    52 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  68. Phrack Magazine

    52 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  69. Ask HN: Are “theoretical” concepts being lost by new engineers?

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  70. Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost

    52 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  71. Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

    52 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  72. Is there a fifth fundamental force of nature?

    52 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  73. South Korea's biggest telco says 5G has failed to deliver

    52 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  74. When Trucks Fly

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  75. An Algorithm for Structuring Flowgraphs (1977) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  76. Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  77. Most cancer screenings don’t extend life, study finds

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  78. A brief glimpse at recent events in Egypt

    52 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  79. Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  80. Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

    52 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  81. Threat Actors Abuse Cloudflare Tunnel for Persistent Access, Data Theft

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  82. Manipulating Terraform states for fun, profit, and reusability

    51 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  83. Hollywood’s Cold War Dissidents in Ireland

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  84. PicoLisp Explored: On Coroutines

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  85. Bath-obsessed ancients (2016)

    51 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  86. X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes'

    51 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  87. How Japan is tackling a syndrome that creates recluses

    51 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  88. Ask HN: How did Paul Allen write an 8080 emulator in 1974?

    51 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  89. Owner of hydrogen-powered Hyundai quoted $175,000 to replace fuel cell

    51 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  90. The Namco ND-1: Taking 2D for Granted

    51 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  91. Rhyme Theory (2022)

    51 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  92. The Decreationist: Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self

    51 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  93. Grokking AVL and RAVL Trees

    51 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  94. Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019)

    51 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  95. Solar cycle is more powerful and surprising than predicted

    51 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  96. Navigating the timezone nightmare in product development

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  97. Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made – Can Cool Surfaces

    51 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  98. The Fandomization of News

    50 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  99. Onsen: A Peek into Japan’s Hot Springs

    50 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  100. Manuals Showcase

    50 points • comment • aug 25, 2023