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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
364 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python
364 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
364 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Don't fire your illustrator
362 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Amazon acquires Fig
360 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
359 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Every phone should be able to run personal websites
358 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis
358 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee
358 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe
357 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Tailscale vs. Narrowlink
357 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
356 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
356 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
350 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
350 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals
349 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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How do we pay for parking?
349 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
347 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Shit Life Syndrome
347 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
346 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
345 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
345 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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The worst API ever made (2014)
345 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Bun v0.8
343 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?
343 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust
343 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
342 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
341 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)
340 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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How should I read type system notation?
340 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
339 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video
338 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
336 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
336 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs
335 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom
335 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702
335 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
334 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Saving Lives (2004)
333 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
333 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Stopping at 90%
332 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
332 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
332 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
331 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples
330 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
330 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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How to drill your own water well
329 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Fastest branchless binary search
328 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short
327 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit
327 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Clone-a-Lisa
327 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel
326 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
325 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
324 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Railway Oriented Programming
324 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Software Engineering at Google (2020)
324 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
323 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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OpenTelemetry in 2023
322 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
322 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music
322 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
322 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say
321 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Overthewire.org
321 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust
320 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp
320 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit
319 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Debian celebrates 30 years
319 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
319 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
318 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly
318 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
318 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
316 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’
316 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
316 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Leaving Haskell behind
314 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan
314 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one
314 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
313 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation
313 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
313 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
313 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Modern CSV version 2
312 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Splitting the Web
311 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls
311 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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A Blog Post with Every HTML Element
310 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate
310 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features
310 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)
309 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free
309 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Terraform best practices for reliability at any scale
308 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards
307 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret
307 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Why do old books smell so good?
307 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Mullvad Browser
307 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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The Alexander Piano
306 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
306 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
305 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
305 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)
305 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September
305 points • comment • aug 06, 2023