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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Vectorized UTF-8 Validation for Java

    42 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  2. Today I learned that random people can send you money on PayPal and disputed it

    42 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  3. Show HN: Using LLama2 to Correct OCR Errors

    42 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  4. The Evolution of Senescence (2022)

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  5. Show HN: NotYetNews – AI-Generated News from the Future

    42 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  6. TypeScript Without Transpilation (2021)

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  7. Nordstrom Closing SF Flagship Store After More Than 30 Years

    42 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  8. US lawmaker says high-tech investment 'leaving Israel' amid judicial overhaul

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  9. Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack

    42 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  10. How the rich get richer (2020)

    42 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  11. Benefits of Inconvenience (“Fuben-Eki”)

    42 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  12. Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  13. Out-of-Distribution

    42 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  14. A Green Revolution in ‘Carbon Valley’

    42 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  15. Wedding Photographer Spent a Year in Jail After Pleading the Fifth

    42 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  16. Dell fined $6.5M for cheating customers about monitor discounts

    42 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  17. Mimicking natural selection in chemical systems

    42 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  18. Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’

    42 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  19. The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California

    42 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  20. PlayHT2.0: State-of-the-Art Generative Voice AI Model for Conversational Speech

    42 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  21. Three security teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space

    41 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  22. ‘It’s Not My Responsibility’ to Save the Office Economy

    41 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  23. Tatung Electric Cooker (2022)

    41 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  24. 3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world

    41 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  25. Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer?

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  26. Pentagon Wants to Buy 1,000s of Small, Cheap, Autonomous Drones in Next 2 Years

    41 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  27. Samsung Remote Test Lab: Run Emulated Samsung Phones from the Browser

    41 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  28. 37signals Datacenter Overview

    41 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  29. Matters Computational – Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code [pdf]

    41 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  30. Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes (2011)

    41 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  31. PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin

    41 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  32. HashiCorp CEO called their community building for Terraform “Malicious” [video]

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  33. What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  34. USBGuard

    41 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  35. Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives

    41 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  36. Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  37. US Housing Affordability Hits Worst Point in Nearly Four Decades

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  38. My MNT Reform laptop almost a year on

    41 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  39. We now believe that the game is over. LK-99 is not a superconductor

    41 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  40. Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness

    41 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  41. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  42. Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  43. Videogames that teach you stuff

    41 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  44. AirPrint with Cups

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  45. Fiber-Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors

    41 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  46. Remembering the Slip: the Manhattan street that birthed a generation of artists

    41 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  47. Python proposal (inspired by Lua)

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  48. Understanding Percentiles (2021)

    41 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  49. Seasonal malaria vaccine-drug combo sees dramatic reductions at 5-year mark

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  50. The Python dictionary dispatch pattern

    41 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  51. Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa That Are So Bad, They’re Good

    41 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  52. The Oregon Resilience Plan (2013) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  53. Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition

    41 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  54. Ask HN: Is GPT 4's quality lately worst than GPT 3.5?

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  55. It’s not intelligent if it always halts: A critical perspective on AI approaches

    41 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  56. Alternative Shells

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  57. Being a short-term rental host has become much harder

    40 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  58. Dimeadozen.ai – AI-powered market research for any startup

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  59. Margaret Atwood: My Voice and Mind Are Not Replicable

    40 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  60. No Love for Negative Permissions – DAC/ACL Bypass on Linux

    40 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  61. Thinking Fast and Slopes

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  62. A most very unofficial guide to the W65C265SXB

    40 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  63. The U-bend of life: Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older

    40 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  64. UPS driver pay and benefits deal in US to be worth $170k a year, firm says

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  65. Backblaze Product and Pricing Updates

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  66. Subscriber Only: A Technical Post Mortem

    40 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  67. Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter

    40 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  68. The History of Electronic Mail

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  69. Firefox Relay – secure random email and phone number masks

    40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  70. Four billionaire techno-oligarchs–Are creating an alternate, autocratic reality

    40 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  71. Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9M Crypto Wallet

    40 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  72. Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  73. NHS world first rollout of cancer jab that cuts treatment time by up to 75%

    40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  74. Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  75. Show HN: dnum − A small TypeScript library to handle decimal numbers

    40 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  76. UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  77. Rubbing Shoulders: Class Segregation in Daily Activities [pdf]

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  78. New studies gauge impact and cause of beech leaf disease

    40 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  79. The Republic of Cows

    40 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  80. Pricing your SaaS on the demand curve using the Pareto power law

    40 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  81. How the recession doomers got the U.S. economy so wrong

    40 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  82. Interview with Shang-Yi Chiang, Former TSMC VP of Research

    40 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  83. Ask HN: Is genetic programming still actively researched?

    40 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  84. STL: The Vector

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  85. Bay Area 2023 Maker Faire

    40 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  86. Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary of employees

    40 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  87. People lining up in Argentina to have their iris scanned for Worldcoin

    40 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  88. Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value

    40 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  89. Sony and other music labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing old records

    40 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  90. Cleaning Up Dead Bodies in AWS IAM

    39 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  91. OpenWrt Security Advisories

    39 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  92. ‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless

    39 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  93. Mirantis Unveils K0smotron: An Open-Source Kubernetes Management Project

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  94. What the Heck Happened in 2012?

    39 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  95. Paper Straws Have Higher 'Forever Chemical' Concentration Than Plastic Straws

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  96. Ask HN: Transitioning from game development to cybersecurity. Tips or advice?

    39 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  97. I Made a Keyboard

    39 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  98. Why I Find Bullshit Work Intolerable

    39 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  99. Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the 2022 voting system

    39 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  100. Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

    39 points • comment • aug 29, 2023