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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Reviving a famously polluted California lake

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  2. Ukraine's Zelenskiy asks Sweden for Gripen jets in first visit since invasion

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  3. The video call revolution is dead

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  4. Thousands of hackers are throwing world's cyber arsenal at AI models at DEF CON

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  5. Ask HN: Why Linux development happens on mailing list instead of Git?

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  6. The Pitting PowerBook (2005)

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  7. Tabs are objectively better than spaces

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  8. Zoominfo sells data to Oracle (with opt-out)

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  9. Bedrock Linux

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  10. Maths palace built by calculus 'rock star' on sale for £11.4M (2015)

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  11. Ask HN: Use RPi to host my photos, simple solution like umbrel?

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  12. Show HN: Spotitube – synchronize Spotify collections from external providers

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  13. John Rawls Was Wrong to Think We Could Have a Just Capitalism

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  14. I Will Never Use the Metric System [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  15. Chandrayaan 3 Rover ramped down from the Lander to the Lunar surface [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  16. Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023)

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  17. Cloud company assisted 17 different government hacking groups, U.S.

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  18. The Cost of Context Switching

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  19. Why online communities that breed hate and violence are so hard to control

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  20. Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  21. Allie Beth Allman, the Queen of Highland Park

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  22. U.S. Announces First Drugs Picked for Medicare Price Negotiations

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  23. Scientists Create Material Five Times Lighter, Four Times Stronger Than Steel

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  24. 79

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  25. Matching Toxic Posts to IP Addresses on Economic's Forum [pdf]

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  26. Breweries, farms, spas? To fill empty offices, downtowns get creative

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  27. Sun Ray Thin Clients Pt2: Using Them [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  28. Flojoy: Open-source, Python-based alternative to LabVIEW

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  29. Ubiquitous products

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  30. More hardcoded credentials than ever, and sloppy coding is to blame

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  31. Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  32. Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  33. Trump Indicted over Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  34. Show HN: Convert Research Papers into Dynamic Mind Maps with Claude

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  35. The Danish Sugar Beats Auction pioneered privacy-first multi-party computation

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  36. “Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  37. AMD Confirms Next-Gen Instinct MI400 Series AI Accelerators Already in the Works

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  38. Tesla is paying $20k a year to be on Elon Musk’s X, and it’s not clear why

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  39. Klaus Schwab: “If you have nothing to hide you have no reason to be afraid.”

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  40. Disabling Intel E-Cores CPU Nets 50% Better Performance in Atlas Fallen

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  41. Musk's X seizes Music handle. Owner is understandably pissed

    8 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  42. Data Exfiltration Vulnerabilities in Chatbots: ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude) [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  43. Gitlab has been exploited to launch a novel proxyjacking attack

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  44. Exxon Predicts World Will Miss Climate-Change Targets

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  45. OpenTitan RoT: Ushering in a New Era for Open-Source Silicon Development

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  46. Intel 18A process wins US gov't deal, may squeeze orders for TSMC Arizona fab

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  47. FIDE bans transwomen from Women's Chess Events

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  48. Mastodon links are now more common than Twitter/X on HN

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  49. Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  50. What does it mean when an LLM “hallucinates” & why do LLMs hallucinate?

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  51. Browser from Scratch: HTML Parsing

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  52. OpenSSH 9.4p1 Release Notes

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  53. The Emperors for the Job

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  54. The Canadian fires and climate change: a conversation with a forest scientist

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  55. Shadowy Company Buys Land Near Travis AFB

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  56. Ask HN: How do I get employee opportunities as a long term contractor?

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  57. Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  58. HAKMEM: A bizarre and eclectic potpourri of technical trivia

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  59. Have You Ever Heard of the Fernet Encryption Algorithm?

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  60. Amazon Smart Oven Review: Don’t Let It Anywhere Near Your Kitchen (2020)

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  61. Texas drought unearths 110M-year-old dinosaur tracks

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  62. Cistercian Numerals

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  63. The Device That Won WW2: A History of the Cavity Magnetron

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  64. Google Maps will stop showing gas stations to EV owners

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  65. Former Fox News Reporter Ordered by Judge to Reveal Anonymous Source

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  66. iPhone sales drop more than forecast, revenue falls for third straight quarter

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  67. Show HN: Calendar Integrations API for Indie Hackers and Startups

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  68. Do Cartels Exist? A revisionist view of the drug wars

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  69. Are 99% of LLMs based on web scraping?

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  70. Creators on X (Twitter) will now get 100% of the revenue payout forever

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  71. Net Load Ramps: How Texas and California Incorporate Renewable Energy

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  72. Amazon Unveils Giant Camera That Tells Users What to Do

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  73. ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  74. Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (2018)

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  75. 90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  76. Why the best hiking boot is a sneaker

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  77. Narrative Derangement Syndrome

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  78. FBI warns of increasing cryptocurrency recovery scams

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  79. A Time Capsule Appeared to Be Full of Dirt. Then, They Looked Closer

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  80. The George Santos Syndrome

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  81. Is climate change real? Only one Republican said so

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  82. Cyberchud: Tech demo for the first TempleOS-first 3D game engine

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  83. Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  84. Population ecologist warns humanity is on verge of population correction

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  85. A vision for the AI web: the real web 3.0

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  86. Climate change death toll to reach 1B by end of century

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  87. Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to End of the World

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  88. Amazon's M7a AMD “Genoa” Instances Deliver Leading Performance in the AWS Cloud

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  89. Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.3

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  90. Stop people from progressing the conversation without addressing your arguments

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  91. Scientists Question Superconductivity Claim from Physicist Accused of Plagiarism

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  92. Azure ChatGPT is no longer available

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

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

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  94. Ask HN: Longest period with zero GPT posts on HN?

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  95. 'Go back': Indian students face anger in Ukraine as war drags on

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  96. Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash with nine others

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  97. MH370 Airliner videos part III: The rabbit hole goes deeper than we thought

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  98. AI Town: A virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  99. Baffled Scientists Detect Unexplained Radiation from the Sun – Study

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  100. Apple revenues fall for third straight quarter as company invests heavily in AI

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023