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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

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

    305 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  2. Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

    304 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  3. The EU's war on behavioral advertising

    304 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  4. Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation

    304 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  5. Color-Diffusion: using diffusion models to colorize black and white images

    303 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  6. Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI

    303 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  7. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

    303 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  8. Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts

    303 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  9. Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect

    302 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  10. iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine

    301 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  11. How NAT traversal works (2020)

    301 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  12. Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design

    301 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  13. Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups

    301 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  14. Go 1.21 Released

    301 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  15. A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops

    299 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  16. Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do

    298 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  17. Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

    298 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  18. Stable Diffusion in C/C++

    297 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  19. A New Mode of Cancer Treatment

    296 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  20. Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models

    295 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  21. Thoughts about what worked in math circles

    295 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  22. Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)

    295 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  23. IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face

    294 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  24. B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want

    294 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  25. The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm

    294 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  26. Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'

    293 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  27. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

    293 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  28. CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide

    292 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  29. USENET rises again?

    292 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  30. Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use

    290 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  31. TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers

    289 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  32. Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue

    289 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  33. An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021)

    288 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  34. Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'

    288 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  35. Fear of AI just killed a useful tool

    287 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  36. Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python

    287 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  37. Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python

    287 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  38. StableCode

    287 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  39. GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn

    286 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  40. Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go

    284 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  41. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

    284 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  42. High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

    283 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  43. RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

    282 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  44. 5 years ago Valve released Proton

    282 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  45. Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor

    282 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  46. The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity

    282 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  47. The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated

    282 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  48. In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black

    281 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  49. Throw away your first draft of your code

    281 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  50. Grave flaws in BGP Error handling

    281 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  51. Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim

    280 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  52. Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

    280 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  53. SUSE to go private

    280 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  54. MK-1

    279 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  55. Emacs is my new window manager

    278 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  56. Fortran

    278 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  57. FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl

    277 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  58. Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022)

    277 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  59. Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

    277 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  60. Executive Function Theft

    275 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  61. Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models

    275 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  62. Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

    275 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  63. Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands

    275 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  64. The ideal viewport doesn't exist

    275 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  65. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

    275 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  66. Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

    274 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  67. Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals

    273 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  68. Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C

    273 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  69. Infisical – open-source HashiCorp Vault alternative

    273 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  70. NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN

    273 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  71. AWS Icon Quiz

    273 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  72. Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction

    273 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  73. Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

    272 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  74. IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face

    272 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  75. AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

    271 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  76. JSON Schema Store

    271 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  77. Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security

    271 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  78. A beginner's guide to Git version control

    270 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  79. Structured logging with slog

    269 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  80. How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

    266 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  81. Not Using Zoom

    266 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  82. Architecture diagrams enable better conversations

    266 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  83. A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet

    266 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  84. Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies

    265 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  85. Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around

    265 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  86. Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI

    264 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  87. Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions

    263 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  88. Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation

    263 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  89. Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)

    263 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  90. Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader

    263 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  91. Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language

    262 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  92. An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco

    261 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  93. Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware

    261 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  94. Jupyter AI

    261 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  95. New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

    261 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  96. Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

    261 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  97. Run Firefox on ChromeOS

    258 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  98. Experian fined $650K by the FTC and DOJ for spam emails with no opt out

    258 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  99. Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

    258 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  100. North American English Dialects

    257 points • comment • aug 04, 2023