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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Wall Text Warning: It's so fucking expensive being poor

    11 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  2. Harbour – A Cross-Platform xBase

    11 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  3. The History of Windows 2.0

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  4. Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  5. The Maximum Tension Principle in General Relativity(2002)

    11 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  6. Hackers Gain Control of Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control over Games

    11 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  7. The Professor of Parody (1999)

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  8. Wikifunctions Is Starting Up

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

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

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  10. Broken by bison, aspen saplings having a tough time in northern Yellowstone

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  11. Google leaked Google’s flagship Pixel 8 Pro, again

    11 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  12. A Gen Z Google software engineer

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  13. Asianometry: ASML's High-NA and Hyper-NA EUV: An Update [video]

    11 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  14. D&D and keepsake games are set to collide in 2024, and I’m here for it

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  15. Ask HN: Why so many data centers in Northern Virginia?

    11 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  16. Show HN: OSS tool to finetune and serve LLMs on different clouds

    11 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  17. Epoch and the Cassette Vision – 1997 Developer Interview

    11 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  18. History and Development of the 567 Series GM Locomotive Engine (1951) [pdf]

    11 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  19. Randall Couch's 'Peal' and other literary bells

    11 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  20. Cloud TPU v5e and Nvidia H100 A3 GA

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  21. PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  22. Computers Are Broken

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  23. We are witnessing the first stages of civilization’s collapse

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  24. Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  25. Goldman Sachs bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  26. Bears Are Climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  27. Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  28. Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  29. Climate researcher: 'We are witnessing the sixth great extinction'

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  30. Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  31. Casio Watch Rings

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  32. The Kagi extension now require my browser history, why?

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  33. Vancouver Hospital Defends Suggesting MAID to Suicidal Patient

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  34. Prompting, realized, and unrealized bias in generative AI

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  35. Baldur's Gate 3

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  36. Best Time to Water – Morning, Noon or Evening?

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  37. ‘Here Begins the Dark Sea’ Review: A Map from the Future

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  38. Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did (2012)

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  39. Ask HN: Why can't you unsubscribe from Apple promotional emails?

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  40. Curved Coordinate Systems and Fictitious Forces

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  41. Ask HN: Gmail alternative for the lazy activist?

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  42. Microsoft Lost the API War

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  43. What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  44. QEMU 8.1 Released with New PipeWire Audio Back End, Many CPU Improvements

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  45. Paychecks, Not Portfolios: Why Income Is the Key to Financial Success

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  46. UUID Collision

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  47. Fighting API bots with Cloudflare's invisible turnstile

    10 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  48. This Whale May Be Largest Animal Ever-We Have No Idea How It Got So Big

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  49. Hackers Exploit ‘Prompt Injection’ Technique to Manipulate AI Systems

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  50. Paramount Agrees to Sell Simon and Schuster to KKR, a Private Equity Firm

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  51. The $900k AI Job Is Here

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  52. WxWidgets – open-source C++ cross platform GUI

    10 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  53. Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  54. Is Earth's Largest Heat Transfer (AMOC) Shutting Down? [video]

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  55. Regex Licensing

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  56. Hawaii governor says state is looking to 'acquire land' destroyed in fires

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  57. Tinder wants to sell a $500-a-month subscription

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  58. US study shows electric cars have more tech glitches than petrol cars

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  59. Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Economist Joseph Stiglitz

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  60. The Big Myth About “Free” Markets That Justified History’s Greatest Heist

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  61. Support Academic Freedom of Speech

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  62. Ask HN: What projects are trying to reinvent core software infrastructure?

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  63. Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  64. The Space Force Is Launching Its Own Swarm of Tiny Satellites

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  65. Ask HN: Are you don’t like AI and why?

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  66. Disney’s ‘metaverse chief’ departs shortly after division shutdown

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  67. California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars

    10 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  68. Yes, you can measure software developer productivity

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  69. The sex coach is killing intimacy: Therapists aren't relationship substitutes

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  70. CobWeb: COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  71. Show HN: Turning Websites into Animated Videos

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  72. Ask HN: We had mass layoff but companies are still complaining about shortage

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  73. Super Mario Bros 3 game manual [pdf]

    10 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  74. Lionsgate Brings Back Mask Mandates in Office

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  75. Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI

    10 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  76. AWS to Start Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  77. Data Visualization with D3.js and PicoLisp (2022)

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  78. Nintendo Game Processor – The lost Nintendo game creation PC

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  79. The Twilight of Neoliberalism

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  80. Iran forces women defying hijab laws into psychiatric treatment

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  81. Programmers flex on each other [video]

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  82. FreeCAD 0.21 Released

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  83. Google Gemini Eats the World

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  84. Walmart pulls children's toy that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  85. Ask HN: What browser extensions are you currently using?

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  86. Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  87. The Sun produces higher energy light than was thought possible

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  88. Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder? (2009)

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  89. Jimmy Carter rabbit incident

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  90. Want to cope with heatwaves? Look to Japan's creative cooling solutions

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  91. Sound Transmission Through Vacuum

    10 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  92. Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  93. Meta just released its answer to GitHub Copilot, and it’s free

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  94. ‘Bored Apes’ investors sue Sotheby’s, Paris Hilton,others as NFT prices collapse

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  95. Ask HN: Deal with feeling of not knowing anything well enough?

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  96. Ask HN: Key Man Insurance for Startups?

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  97. Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia

    10 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  98. SM Study Reveals 52 Doctors Spread Covid-19 Misinformation to Millions in US

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  99. Texas Rep Horrified by Circular Saw Barriers: 'Designed for War'

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  100. A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2023