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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. LED lights will change the world as incandescent bulbs phase out

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  2. Wagner chief Prigozhin listed as passenger on plane that crashed, no survivors

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  3. Pre-Trained Large Language Models for Industrial Control

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  4. Lawmakers propose 'speed limiters' for repeat offenders in New York

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  5. Did male and female dinosaurs differ?

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  6. Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  7. Combustion engine simulation game that generates realistic audio

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  8. YouTube is testing new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to skip

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  9. New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros – Teardown and Repair Assessment [video]

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  10. SoftBank sues social media startup it invested in, alleging it faked user number

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  11. X (ex-Twitter) commandeers Music handle

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  12. O20.Word – A Microsoft Word Clone for KDE Plasma

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  13. The Never Ending Now

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  14. Amazon’s Leader on Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans to Leave

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  15. Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  16. Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for critics

    13 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  17. There Is No Housing Crisis

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  18. Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  19. Check out the new YC Library

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  20. Ghostwriter

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  21. Automatically generate tests for your website by using LLM models

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  22. Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  23. Opt out of algorithmic feeds on Instagram and Facebook – if you’re in Europe

    13 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  24. Are Naps Good for You?

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  25. Hetzner Is Down

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  26. AMD Hip SDK: Making CUDA Applications Run Across Consumer, Pro GPUs and APUs

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  27. RV-Cure: A RISC-V Capability Architecture for Full Memory Safety

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  28. Most cars still cost more to charge than to fill up with gas

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  29. Milk-V Meles (yet another quad core C910 RISC-V SBC)

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  30. Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  31. Being the agreeable employee could be the secret to getting promoted

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  32. The AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  33. TunnelCrack flaws can expose VPN tunnel traffic

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  34. New plant-based pork ribs to feature edible vegan bones

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  35. Apple Set to Launch iPhone 15 Series Come September 13th

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  36. Heineken sells its Russian operations for 1 euro, taking a 300M-euro hit

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  37. NASA announces astronauts who will fly by the moon next year

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  38. Avoiding Pitfalls in Go

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  39. Google just enabled RCS by default for all Messages users

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  40. The World Is in a Climate Emergency

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  41. RIP Terry A Davis (1969-12-15 to 2018-08-11), gone 5 years today

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  42. I know of two serious Wikipedia scandals but I don't know which media to contact

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  43. Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  44. Being in good physical shape could reduce the risk of nine types of cancer

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  45. Nvidia Unveils GH200 'Grace Hopper' GPU with HBM3e Memory

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  46. Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  47. Privaxy: Next generation tracker and advertisement blocker

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  48. CIAM for the Single Application

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  49. SUSE to flip back into private ownership

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  50. The Superconductor Sensation Has Fizzled, and That's Fine

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  51. Toyota halts all Japan assembly plants due to glitch

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  52. Not so solitary predators? Great white shark duo seem to be travelling together

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  53. The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  54. In Tanzania, Beijing is running a training school for authoritarianism

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  55. The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac’s House

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  56. The Power of Conventions in Software Development

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  57. How England’s football league is breaking the sport [video]

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  58. Meta's AI Agents Learn to Move by Copying Toddlers

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  59. My Friends and I Bought an Island (2013)

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  60. Harvard stole farmland in Brazil for years Now they're trying to walk away(2022)

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  61. Nvidia BIOS Signature Lock Broken – What Caused Open-Source Pains for Years

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  62. The web we lost (2012)

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  63. We Don’t Need a New Twitter

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  64. Coinbase argues that cryptocurrency is like baseball cards or Beanie Babies

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  65. Snellings Museum of Sound and Vision

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  66. Loki: We Make the Games That Linux People Play (2002)

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  67. CBDCs Are the Ultimate Corruption of Money

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  68. Car-free walkable net-zero neighborhood opens in city of Tempe, AZ

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  69. The plot thickens: The battle over books comes at a cost

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  70. Europe is changing social media for the better – the US can do it, too

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  71. Breakthrough Drug Achieves 65% Reduction in Genetic ‘Bad Cholesterol’

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  72. Byju’s exposed sensitive student data, including loan details

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  73. ‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie ’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  74. A supramolecular organo-ionic electrolyte that can be liquidated for recycling

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  75. The headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  76. Google’s Surveillance: The Shocking Truth – Simplified Privacy

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  77. Evidence for Large Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past

    12 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  78. Show HN: Flintable – Fixable ESLint rules Playground

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  79. Show HN: Interesting companies that are running on-prem

    12 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  80. Linear Algebra for programmers, part 1

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  81. RFC 9457: HTTP Problem Details

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  82. Micromort

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  83. Record flooding along Alaska river near Juneau prompts evacuations

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  84. Orange Pi 5 Support Nears the Mainline Linux Kernel

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  85. Microsoft-signed “BGAUpsell.exe” pushes Bing on Windows and Chrome users

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  86. The Syntax of Vala

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  87. Researchers: Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure to toxic PFAS

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  88. Magic Mountain – What Happens at Davos?

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  89. FAA investigation into pilots hiding major health issues. Most are still flying

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  90. Show HN: Kantankanban – A CLI to track to-do's, custom lists, and more

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  91. Wagner boss Prigozhin listed as passenger in fatal plane crash

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  92. US announces $450M to increase access to rooftop solar power in Puerto Rico

    12 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  93. Apple Again Fails to Save Classical Music

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  94. Protecting Chrome Traffic with Hybrid Kyber KEM

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  95. Tell HN: Unpopular opinion: All Meta's open source front end stuff sucks

    12 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  96. UK birth slump dubbed ‘good for planet’

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  97. AB testing is mostly a waste of time

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  98. Faith Healers Are Back, and They’re Getting Rich

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  99. ‘Ghost hearts’ combine a cleaned-out pig heart with a patient's own stem cells

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  100. I Have Blocked OpenAI

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2023