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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Uber CEO Stunned When He Heard Cost of 3-Mile Uber Ride

    47 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  2. “AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  3. Tunnel Vision: CloudflareD AbuseD in the Wild

    47 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  4. Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making

    47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  5. Intact Giant Panda Skeleton Discovered in Chinese Emperor’s 2k-Year-Old Tomb

    47 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  6. LK-99 crystal verified to be magnetically levitated (with video)

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  7. The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  8. SpaceX working with Cloudflare to speed up Starlink service

    47 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  9. Tim Bray: Mastodon Status Check

    47 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  10. Purism wants Louis Rossman to Delete video exposing refund scam & delay tactic

    47 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  11. When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon

    47 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  12. How Indian artists transformed the Buddha’s absence into presence

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  13. LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  14. Students foot the bill for flagship state universities

    47 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  15. Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie

    47 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  16. Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

    47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  17. Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5

    47 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  18. VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

    47 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  19. A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  20. Show HN: My husband quit his job to build a new social audio app with Flutter

    47 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  21. Illustrated JavaScript coding course for absolute beginners [pdf]

    47 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  22. Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  23. Non-Euclidean Geometry Online: A Guide to Resources (2008)

    47 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  24. New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros – Teardown and Repair Assessment [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  25. Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels

    47 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  26. Heat-assisted detection and ranging

    47 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  27. Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had “Unacceptable” Biosafety Protocols

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  28. Europe turns its new $1.5B space telescope on, and happily it works

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  29. Awesome AI-powered developer tools

    47 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  30. As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse its news ban

    46 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  31. Google Gemini Eats the World

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  32. First order transition in [LK-99] containing Cu2S

    46 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  33. Timelapse of Cigarettes Left in Soil for an Entire Year

    46 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  34. Fitch Downgrades US Debt

    46 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  35. Future Intel CPUs May Dump Hyper-Threading for Partitioned Thread Scheduling

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  36. A fungeoid is a typically multi-dimensional language similar to Befunge

    46 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  37. McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)

    46 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  38. Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

    46 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  39. The Status Quo Coalition

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  40. Researchers watched 100 hours of hackers hacking honeypot computers

    46 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  41. War Is a Racket

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  42. Decoding base16 sequences quickly

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  43. Extreme poverty: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go?

    46 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  44. Reimagining the Bioreactor

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  45. Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement

    46 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  46. Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  47. 'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a Covid-19 Joke

    46 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  48. C# Application Markup Language (Csaml): A Preview (2006)

    46 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  49. The Tera Computer System (1990)

    46 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  50. NYU Professor says he's locked out of X after declining to meet with Elon Musk

    46 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  51. Airport Pianos: Find Pianos in Airports

    46 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  52. Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze?

    46 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  53. Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends?

    46 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  54. 'Cancer-killing pill' is now being tested on humans

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  55. An Open Source Mobile Phone Based on the ESP32

    46 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  56. US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough

    46 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  57. Writing a Pathtracer in Lua, Week 1

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  58. Scientists develop pill able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research

    46 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  59. Toy Models of Superposition (2022)

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  60. The D Programming Language Conference '23

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  61. Firm regrets taking Facebook moderation work

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  62. Venus flytraps count electrical impulses to induce the digestive process (2016)

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  63. YouTube Is Still Tracking Kids Through Its Ads, Study Says

    45 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  64. The power of achieving flow state in DevEx

    45 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  65. Pornhub Sues Texas over Age Verification Law

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  66. Rail company that launched first H2 line opts for all-electric future

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  67. Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk

    45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  68. The Lack of Self-Deception

    45 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  69. Michael Burry shorts Major index in sizable bets

    45 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  70. This 8-bit computer has two CPUs and one acts as a GPU [video]

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  71. Van Rossum, Gosling, Goldberg, Hejlsberg panel and live discussion at PyData '23

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  72. Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists

    45 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  73. mDNS Primer

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  74. Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes

    45 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  75. She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead

    45 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  76. Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial

    45 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  77. Yes, a pigeon is faster for data transfer than gigabit fiber internet

    45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  78. Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing

    45 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  79. Friendly Captcha – GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection

    45 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  80. Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  81. Zoom CEO says employees can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  82. Putin’s Cinema Fund Rejects Movie Piracy, Fuming Cinema Boss Demands Barbie

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  83. The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare

    45 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  84. Ask HN: Is making a self taught transition to AI/ML related fields possible?

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  85. What comes after Zoom? (2020)

    45 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  86. Exploring the design space of binary search trees

    45 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  87. John Preskill's retrospective on the black hole information paradox

    45 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  88. Robert's Rules of Order

    45 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  89. The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf]

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  90. New Hetzner dedicated vCPU cloud servers with AMD Epyc CPUs

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

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

    45 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  92. Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups

    45 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  93. Zeitgeist 2001

    45 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  94. Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning

    45 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  95. Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers over remote work

    44 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  96. Things I Learned Living Without Technology for a Year

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  97. We Don’t Need a New Twitter

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  98. Ask HN: How to Contact Stripe Directly?

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  99. American stocks are at their most expensive in decades

    44 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  100. Show HN: Cosmic Media – Search millions of stock photos and videos

    44 points • comment • aug 22, 2023