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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  2. Postgres at the Edge Cloudflare

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  3. Genetics makes some people more likely to participate in genetic studies

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  4. Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer Shutting Down? [video]

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  5. Is Twitter on web down for anybody else?

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  6. WeWork goes from $47B valuation to ‘substantial doubts’ about its future

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  7. Scientists Create New Material 5 Times Lighter and 4 Times Stronger Than Steel

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  8. Long Covid is debilitating 65M people. Where is the urgency to treat it?

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  9. Xtree Fans

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  10. Three-Month-Pangolin

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  11. Defence Intelligence – Communicating Probability

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  12. Slack Is Down

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  13. WebKit – Touch Bar Web API

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  14. Abandon the idea of ‘great green walls’

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  15. Ask HN: Why is LK-99 public?

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  16. Ask HN: Startup ideas that you'll never do?

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  17. OpenAI bought the makers of a Minecraft clone

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  18. The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  19. Japan: sales of train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  20. Malware loader lowdown: big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  21. Trying to be human, and other mistakes

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  22. GNOME's Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs to Better Visualize Output

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  23. Airbyte API & Terraform Provider – available in open source

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  24. 86Box 4.0 Released

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  25. An evaluation of risks associated with relying on Fortran

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  26. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s brutal message to remote workers

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  27. Twenty Years of Marginal Revolution

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  28. Famously overworked visual effects workers of Marvel movies vote to join a union

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  29. Open-Source Semantic Vector Search with Pgvector and Instructor

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  30. Russian and Chinese hacked UK foreign office, breach withheld from public

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  31. Stealing from the Saracens

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  32. Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  33. “Open” “AI” Isn't

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  34. Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  35. Ancient Popcorn (2012)

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  36. ‘What have I seen?’: Joel Meyerowitz’s life in photography – in pictures

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  37. Effective Haskell is a practical hands-on introduction for working developers

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  38. Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  39. The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  40. Elite Crackdown on Free Speech Worldwide Intensifies

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  41. X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  42. RTO orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  43. Scrum Is a Cancer

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  44. NASA Reestablishes Contact with Voyager 2

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  45. Plausible theoretical foundation for LK99 RTAPS calculated via supercomputer

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  46. Nvidia reports 88% jump in revenue and tops estimates

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  47. Hello from Ares

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  48. Doctors ghost patients, charge for surgeries left to residents

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  49. How iceberg won the lettuce wars

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  50. Young people took on fossil fuels and won. What’s next?

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  51. Colleen Hoover’s tales of love and trauma

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  52. China thwarts Intel’s $5.4B Israeli chipmaker purchase

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  53. BlueJeans Folds

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  54. Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  55. AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  56. Anger found to be the primary driver of climate activism

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  57. Cmd-stream-go – a high-performance remote command execution library for Golang

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  58. 2024 Defense Bill Threatens Future of 3D-Printed Firearms and Basic Gun Rights

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  59. Co-owner of Kansas newspaper dies after police raid

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  60. How to find out if programming is for you

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  61. RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slave to Leader/Follower

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  62. Thread on LK-99 and atomically precise manufacturing

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  63. The Local-News Crisis Is Weirdly Easy to Solve

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  64. Another User Locked Out of Apple Account

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  65. UFC president meets Italy’s culture minister to discuss fight at Colosseum

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  66. Ask HN: Is there public tracking for the success of YC “request for startups”?

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  67. YouTuber Kai Cenat in custody after game console giveaway sparks chaos in NYC

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  68. Klaviyo S-1 Filing

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  69. Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023?

    15 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  70. Yarn: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  71. August Headline: Julia enters the Tiobe index top for the first time

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  72. For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  73. YouTube Thinks I’m a Child

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  74. Golay Code (2015)

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  75. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  76. Seafood banned after Japan starts releasing Fukushima nuclear wastewater

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  77. Set up Linux on your Chromebook

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  78. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  79. On Modularity of Lexical Analysis

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  80. A Repugnance to Autobiography

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  81. US military to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next 2 years

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  82. Do Latter-Day Saints Have an Assimilation Problem?

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  83. Georgia Grand Jury Delivers Indictment

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  84. The Legitimacy of Takeover Defense in the '90s

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  85. YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  86. Amazon warns workers to come back into the office

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  87. Owner gives up 2 big S.F. hotels expects city’s recovery to take up to 7 years

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  88. Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  89. Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  90. A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an A.I. Presentation Gone Awry

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  91. Google Street View driver crashes after 100 MPH chase, police say

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  92. Germany, Switzerland, Austria join call for return to budgetary discipline

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  93. SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  94. The Story of Carrene (1935)

    15 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  95. China's Talismanic Tigers

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  96. Heat camera captures scorching nature of record Phoenix heat wave

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  97. In the Sheriff We Trust

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  98. Evolution of the Gitea Downloads Site

    15 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  99. Phoenix’s Rapid Growth Magnified Its Vulnerability to Heat

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  100. Mortgage rates soar to their highest level in 21 years

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2023