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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Pytudes
257 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres
256 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Don't be clever
256 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Abandoned and little-known airfields
256 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
255 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
255 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand
255 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox
254 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
254 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: vpndaemon wrongly implements Polkit authentication
254 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Cloth Simulation
253 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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2009scape
253 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says
252 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Lie still in bed
252 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Python Type Hints – *args and **kwargs (2021)
252 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-source platform for enterprise web apps
251 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
250 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Why host your own LLM?
250 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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The 2002 Überlingen midair collision
250 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants
249 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Deep Learning Systems
249 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
248 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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A Critical Problem (2017)
247 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes
246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)
246 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing
246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers
246 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Gallery – Making Molecules
246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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DIY Espresso (2020)
246 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ocean Heat Record Broken
246 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief
246 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
245 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64
245 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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An Introduction to Graph Theory
245 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function
245 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)
245 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free
244 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc
244 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Why your blog still needs RSS
244 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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A note to young folks: download the things you love
244 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
244 points • comment • aug 04, 2023
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Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
244 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
244 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp
243 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken
243 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea
243 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
243 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Apple supports right-to-repair bill
243 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot
242 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover
242 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story
242 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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The new science of meditation
242 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics
241 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
241 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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I Can Eat Glass
241 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently
240 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Zrepl – ZFS replication
240 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them
240 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Modernity has made us allergic
240 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Nuked-MD-FPGA – Emulating Sega Mega Drive chipset using decapped chips photos
240 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing
240 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
240 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware
240 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module
239 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Electricity Maps
238 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Pegasus Mail
238 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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This code smells of desperation
238 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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$HOME, not so sweet $HOME
237 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
237 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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New Map APIs from Google
237 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ
237 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME
236 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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VirGL – A virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines
236 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption
236 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?
236 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies
235 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
235 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2
234 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold
234 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Fish – A friendly interactive shell
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Brave Search launches own image and video search
234 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20
233 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
233 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses
233 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog, has died
233 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it
232 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros
231 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
231 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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SMS traffic pumping fraud
231 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
230 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
230 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently
230 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding
229 points • comment • aug 31, 2023
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Cargo Cult Science (1974) [pdf]
229 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster
229 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac
229 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Popcount CPU instruction (2019)
228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Thermodynamic Linear Algebra
228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'
228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023