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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Buy an enamel mug next time you visit China

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  2. Plunder and Urbit

    37 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  3. Social media does not cause depression in children

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  4. What happens when you COPY in Postgres?

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  5. The New Swiss Passport

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  6. The $2.98 Computer Library (1977)

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  7. Businesses are pressuring Target to force its employees to return to the office

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  8. 5% Electronic Fee: Millions Netted by Middlemen from Patients Payment to Doctors

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  9. Show HN: Chat with GPT about medical issues, get answers from medical literature

    37 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  10. New York, California Lose Firms Managing an Estimated $2T in Assets

    37 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  11. Cracking DesignWare's the Grammar Examiner on the C64

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  12. Two Erlang patterns I love

    37 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  13. DMV tells Cruise to reduce its driverless vehicle fleet in SF by 50%

    37 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  14. StarCraft was never meant to be played the way Koreans played [video]

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  15. Scientists Reconstructed a Pink Floyd Song from Brain Activity

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  16. The Floppy Disk (2011)

    36 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  17. Useful San Francisco and Bay Area History Resources

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  18. Moq – Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  19. Slack: A redesigned Slack, built for focus

    36 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  20. FDA approving drugs after fewer trials, providing less information to public

    36 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  21. VDI Based on Linux Containers

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  22. EasyDropzoneJS – open-source JavaScript library for drag&drop files

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  23. China’s defeated youth: Young Chinese have little hope for the future

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  24. Tesla ordered by auto regulators to provide data on ‘Elon mode’ configuration

    36 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  25. Zoom ToS now allow AI training on user content without optout

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  26. Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  27. We can save what matters about writing

    36 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  28. Common Lisp: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Legacy, the Ambivalent

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  29. Windows Repair Toolbox

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  30. 2023 State of Web Components

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  31. Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  32. AMB: The Ancient Machine Book Format

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  33. Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace

    36 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  34. Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour

    36 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  35. Effects of natural and artificial light on man and other living things (1973)

    36 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  36. Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus

    36 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  37. Inception: Leaking the root hash from /etc./shadow on AMD Zen 4 [video]

    36 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  38. For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic

    36 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  39. New web framework for Python in development

    36 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  40. Trumpkin’s Notes on Building a Sauna

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  41. Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  42. Can focusing on class instead of race solve our country’s equity issues?

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  43. A Fistful of Tropes

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  44. California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  45. Videos from Python Web Conf 2023 Available on YouTube

    36 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  46. FEC moves towards potentially regulating AI deepfakes in campaign ads

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  47. At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  48. CA Supreme Court Concludes No Reason to Generate Precedent on Geofence Warrants

    36 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  49. Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring wi-fi scanning to enable navigation

    36 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  50. FBI Shuts Down 13 Domains Providing DDoS-for-Hire Services

    36 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  51. Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

    36 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  52. On the Digestion of Great Books

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  53. The Economics of Organized Play

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  54. High-altitude heist – 500 dollars stolen

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  55. Russian Wagner chief Prigozhin listed on board plane that crashed in Moscow

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  56. Faculty Are Godzillas

    36 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  57. The Character Generator ROM

    36 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  58. I'm sending a weekly PHP community newsletter

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  59. Should we stop writing functions? (C++)

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  60. Abacuysnth – A synthesizer inspired by an abacus (2022) [video]

    36 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  61. Driving across America again for a DMS-10 [video]

    36 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  62. The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  63. AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds

    35 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  64. Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  65. The Great Libraries of Rome

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  66. NC files charges against Nissan dealership employees

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  67. How I Hacked Microsoft Teams and Got $150k in Pwn2Own

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  68. Benevolent hackers clear stalking spyware from 75,000 phones

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  69. Dev / Stage / Prod is the wrong pattern for data pipelines

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  70. Why We Choose Liars as Leaders

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  71. Does history have a replication crisis?

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  72. Samsung 256TB E3.L NVMe SSD at FMS 2023

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  73. Building muscle in the lab

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  74. Unit Test LlamaIndex with DeepEval

    35 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  75. Why Rivian Tires Sometimes Last as Little as 6k Miles

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  76. US universities need to stop elitist discrimination that Europe abandoned

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  77. YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  78. Tech's broken promises: Streaming = confusing Ubers as much as taxis Cloud costs

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  79. The Cost of Living/Housing Crisis

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  80. Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2k Years

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  81. Google’s AI-powered note-taking app is the messy beginning of something great

    35 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  82. Charging capacitors from thermal fluctuations using diodes

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  83. Meta starts process to end news access in Canada over law on paying publishers

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  84. Fancy Parking

    35 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  85. Let's Talk About Open Source

    35 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  86. Show HN: Hacker News home page spoof

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  87. Even Synthetic Life Forms with a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  88. The Dutch 'letter' IJ (2001)

    35 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  89. Preventing software piracy with crypto-microprocessors (1980) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  90. A Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions in China

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  91. Worldcoin Banned in Kenya

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  92. GCP offering 200Gb free egress on their Standard Tier

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  93. America’s Obsession with Weight-Loss Drugs Is Affecting the Economy of Denmark

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  94. A compilation of outstanding testing articles (with JavaScript)

    35 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  95. Why Python Is Terrible

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  96. In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  97. How I make annotated presentations

    34 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  98. Busting a myth: “only writers subscribe to genre magazines”

    34 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  99. Microplastics found in human heart tissues

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  100. Internet Explorer is EVIL! (2002)

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2023