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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
305 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
304 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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The EU's war on behavioral advertising
304 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
304 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Color-Diffusion: using diffusion models to colorize black and white images
303 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
303 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
303 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
303 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect
302 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
301 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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How NAT traversal works (2020)
301 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design
301 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups
301 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Go 1.21 Released
301 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops
299 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do
298 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
298 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Stable Diffusion in C/C++
297 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
296 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models
295 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Thoughts about what worked in math circles
295 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)
295 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
294 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
294 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
294 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation'
293 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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The $1M shot that changed sports contests
293 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide
292 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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USENET rises again?
292 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use
290 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
289 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue
289 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021)
288 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'
288 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
287 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python
287 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python
287 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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StableCode
287 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn
286 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go
284 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
284 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
283 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations
282 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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5 years ago Valve released Proton
282 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
282 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
282 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated
282 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black
281 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Throw away your first draft of your code
281 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
281 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim
280 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
280 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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SUSE to go private
280 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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MK-1
279 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Emacs is my new window manager
278 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Fortran
278 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl
277 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022)
277 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
277 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Executive Function Theft
275 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
275 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
275 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
275 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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The ideal viewport doesn't exist
275 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems
275 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
274 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals
273 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Barco: Linux Containers from Scratch in C
273 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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Infisical – open-source HashiCorp Vault alternative
273 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN
273 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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AWS Icon Quiz
273 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction
273 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out
272 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face
272 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
271 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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JSON Schema Store
271 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security
271 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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A beginner's guide to Git version control
270 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Structured logging with slog
269 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County
266 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Not Using Zoom
266 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Architecture diagrams enable better conversations
266 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet
266 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
265 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around
265 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
264 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions
263 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation
263 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006)
263 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
263 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
262 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco
261 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
261 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Jupyter AI
261 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
261 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
261 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Run Firefox on ChromeOS
258 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Experian fined $650K by the FTC and DOJ for spam emails with no opt out
258 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields
258 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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North American English Dialects
257 points • comment • aug 04, 2023