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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

    364 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  2. Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python

    364 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  3. Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services

    364 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  4. Don't fire your illustrator

    362 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  5. Amazon acquires Fig

    360 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  6. Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing

    359 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  7. Every phone should be able to run personal websites

    358 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  8. Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis

    358 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  9. FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee

    358 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  10. JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe

    357 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  11. Tailscale vs. Narrowlink

    357 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  12. Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

    356 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  13. Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults

    356 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  14. Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

    350 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  15. Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

    350 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  16. Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals

    349 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  17. How do we pay for parking?

    349 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  18. GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler

    347 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  19. Shit Life Syndrome

    347 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  20. Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference

    346 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  21. Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats

    345 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  22. Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN

    345 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  23. The worst API ever made (2014)

    345 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  24. Bun v0.8

    343 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  25. Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

    343 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  26. Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust

    343 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  27. SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge

    342 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  28. Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)

    341 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  29. Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)

    340 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  30. How should I read type system notation?

    340 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  31. FreeBSD on Firecracker

    339 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  32. Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video

    338 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  33. Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

    336 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  34. Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi

    336 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  35. FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs

    335 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  36. Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

    335 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  37. The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702

    335 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  38. Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

    334 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  39. Saving Lives (2004)

    333 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  40. How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features

    333 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  41. Stopping at 90%

    332 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  42. IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

    332 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  43. Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop

    332 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  44. UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS

    331 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  45. Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples

    330 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  46. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

    330 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  47. How to drill your own water well

    329 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  48. Fastest branchless binary search

    328 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  49. LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short

    327 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  50. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    327 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  51. Clone-a-Lisa

    327 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  52. Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel

    326 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  53. GIL removal and the Faster CPython project

    325 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  54. If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch

    324 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  55. Railway Oriented Programming

    324 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  56. Software Engineering at Google (2020)

    324 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  57. Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency

    323 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  58. OpenTelemetry in 2023

    322 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  59. Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024

    322 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  60. Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music

    322 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  61. 111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude

    322 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  62. Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say

    321 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  63. Overthewire.org

    321 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  64. Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust

    320 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  65. Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp

    320 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  66. Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit

    319 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  67. Debian celebrates 30 years

    319 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  68. Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

    319 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  69. I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images

    318 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  70. Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

    318 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  71. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

    318 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  72. Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID

    316 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  73. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

    316 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  74. Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

    316 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  75. Leaving Haskell behind

    314 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  76. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

    314 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  77. I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one

    314 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  78. Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

    313 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  79. tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation

    313 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  80. Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)

    313 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  81. Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently

    313 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  82. Modern CSV version 2

    312 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  83. Splitting the Web

    311 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  84. FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls

    311 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  85. A Blog Post with Every HTML Element

    310 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  86. Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate

    310 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  87. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features

    310 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  88. ‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)

    309 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  89. Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

    309 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  90. Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale

    308 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  91. 1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards

    307 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  92. Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret

    307 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  93. Why do old books smell so good?

    307 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  94. Mullvad Browser

    307 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  95. The Alexander Piano

    306 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  96. New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting

    306 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  97. Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly

    305 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  98. Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering

    305 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  99. I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)

    305 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  100. The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September

    305 points • comment • aug 06, 2023