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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  2. Blink WEI “will not ship in current form”

    34 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  3. Is Slack Down?

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  4. Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter (2022)

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  5. Conclusive Evidence for Modified Gravity

    34 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  6. Cow Tools

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  7. Google just killed the Firebase stripe extension – zero warning

    34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  8. Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  9. More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  10. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Launch AI-Science Moonshot

    34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  11. Internet Explorer is EVIL! (2002)

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  12. Striking the Right Balance: Over-Engineering vs. Under-Engineering Software

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  13. Tesla Could Be Fined Daily over Autopilot’s Nag-Free ‘Elon Mode’

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  14. What's your go to Nix/NixOS pitch?

    34 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  15. Lightweight Virtualization: Libkrun, Vsock, Metallize

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  16. An early look at HNSW performance with pgvector

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  17. More Than Half of Earth's Species Live Underground

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  18. Thomas Sowell's greatest insight – Konstantin Kisin [video]

    34 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  19. Googlecloud dropped our 1M req/day quota causing our site to alarm and error out

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  20. Bringing Safety check to the Chrome://extensions page

    34 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  21. Building the Future of X

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  22. Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  23. ACM Skills Bundle Add-On

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  24. Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  25. Google Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  26. Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  27. Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

    34 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  28. The Wizard of Oz Approach (2016)

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  29. Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  30. In addition to the iPhone 15, Apple may add USB-C to iPhones from last year

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  31. I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  32. ‘San Francisco changed dramatically’ – Nordstrom is bailing on a flagship store

    34 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  33. Lahaina residents worry a rebuilt Maui could slip to the hands of rich outsiders

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  34. ''Vinegar Syndrome'' Decaying Archives of Cellulose Acetate Microfilm Stock

    34 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  35. Microplastics found in human heart tissues

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  36. Superconductor showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  37. Comparing PostgreSQL-Compatible Databases: From Amazon RDS to YugabyteDB

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

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

    34 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  39. Silicon Valley “Pronatalists” Oppose Remote Work Despite Boosted Fertility Rates

    34 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  40. Arizona driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died

    34 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  41. Academy Software Foundation Announces OpenPBR, a New Subproject of MaterialX

    33 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  42. Covid is back on the rise across America

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  43. Marijuana, hallucinogen use, binge drinking at historic highs in U.S. 35-50Y

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  44. “Once” one-time concurrent initialization with an integer

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  45. Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  46. Moonbit: The fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly

    33 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  47. Russian ruble now worth less than a penny, infuriating Vladimir Putin’s circle

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  48. Chrome Sync privacy is still bad

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  49. Landlords Are Pushing the Supreme Court to End Rent Control

    33 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  50. Apple to pay up to $500M to iPhone users

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  51. Poor Clares Convent Cemetery

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  52. Detroit woman falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition tech

    33 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  53. New York Times: The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  54. Is ChatGPT a Bit Unsporting?

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  55. Making Large Language Models work for you

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  56. A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver pleaded guilty

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  57. Show HN: I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  58. More than 50,000 startups in the U.S. are at risk of high capital shortage

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  59. Long Covid in a highly vaccinated population – Australia, 2022

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  60. The Fundamental Theorem of Engineering: Everything's a Tradeoff

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  61. Efficient keyboard layout for English and Spanish

    33 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  62. It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to Photosynthesize, Scientists Warn

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  63. Texas couple dies in home after air conditioning failure

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  64. The pork industry’s forced cannibalism

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  65. Investors brace for turbulence as Fed balance sheet shrinks by $1T

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  66. Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  67. Build a Business, Not an Audience

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  68. Learning via Negativa

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  69. What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore?

    33 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  70. There are too many honeybees

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  71. Ask HN: Nicknames for Computer Science Books?

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  72. Scientists reveal how sensory protein changes shape with nanometer resolution

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  73. What can I do as an amateur hacker to get the best programming job next year?

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  74. Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise

    33 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  75. More than 500 daily high temperature records were set across the U.S. this week

    33 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  76. Chris Lattner on Julia programming language [video]

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  77. Python 3.11.5 (2023)

    33 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  78. Japanese houses have limited lifespans (2018)

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  79. 99% of top Python packages are now wheels

    33 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  80. Automated assembly – molecular mechanisms from text mining and curated databases

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  81. ‘Flat’ company structures rarely work, but some firms aim for middle ground

    33 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  82. The Age of the Clever Fool

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  83. The Rise and Fall of Qualcomm Mirasol E-Readers (2018)

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  84. An End, and a Beginning

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  85. AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54%

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  86. Phone.wtf

    33 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  87. Show HN: Wildcams from every region in the world to spot your favorite animals

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  88. Texas could get a bullet train between Houston and Dallas

    32 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  89. AnkiDroid 2.16.2 released (first update in 3 years)

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  90. Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls

    32 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  91. California court dismisses lawsuit over nuclear power plant

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  92. Uber CEO stunned by $52 fare for 3-mile ride

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  93. Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi?

    32 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  94. Bordeaux should be a climate change red flag for the wine industry

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  95. Why SMTP still matters today

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  96. Direct speech reconstruction from sensorimotor activity and deep learning models

    32 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  97. NYC Will Spend $38,000 per Pupil. What Does That Buy?

    32 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  98. AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns

    32 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  99. How to Write Software with Zero bugs – 25 years after qmail 1.0 – D. Bernstein [pdf]

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  100. Firefox 116 Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities

    32 points • comment • aug 02, 2023