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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Pytudes

    257 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  2. Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres

    256 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  3. Don't be clever

    256 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  4. Abandoned and little-known airfields

    256 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  5. Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)

    255 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  6. Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”

    255 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  7. Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand

    255 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  8. Switching from Chrome to Firefox

    254 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  9. Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?

    254 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  10. Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: vpndaemon wrongly implements Polkit authentication

    254 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  11. Cloth Simulation

    253 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  12. 2009scape

    253 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  13. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

    252 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  14. Lie still in bed

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  15. Python Type Hints – *args and **kwargs (2021)

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  16. Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-source platform for enterprise web apps

    251 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  17. HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

    250 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  18. Why host your own LLM?

    250 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  19. The 2002 Überlingen midair collision

    250 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  20. A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants

    249 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  21. Deep Learning Systems

    249 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  22. Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk

    248 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  23. A Critical Problem (2017)

    247 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  24. DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes

    246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  25. I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)

    246 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  26. MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing

    246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  27. Learning async Rust with entirely too many web servers

    246 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  28. Gallery – Making Molecules

    246 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  29. DIY Espresso (2020)

    246 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  30. Ocean Heat Record Broken

    246 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  31. Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief

    246 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  32. Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

    245 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  33. Why libvirt supports only 14 PCIe hotplugged devices on x86-64

    245 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  34. An Introduction to Graph Theory

    245 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  35. Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function

    245 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  36. A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)

    245 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  37. Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free

    244 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  38. Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

    244 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  39. Why your blog still needs RSS

    244 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  40. A note to young folks: download the things you love

    244 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  41. My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation

    244 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  42. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

    244 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  43. WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

    244 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  44. Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

    243 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  45. TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken

    243 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  46. Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea

    243 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  47. Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors

    243 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  48. Apple supports right-to-repair bill

    243 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  49. Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

    242 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  50. Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover

    242 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  51. My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story

    242 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  52. The new science of meditation

    242 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  53. Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

    241 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  54. C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness

    241 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  55. I Can Eat Glass

    241 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  56. Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently

    240 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  57. Zrepl – ZFS replication

    240 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  58. Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them

    240 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  59. Modernity has made us allergic

    240 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  60. Nuked-MD-FPGA – Emulating Sega Mega Drive chipset using decapped chips photos

    240 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  61. Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing

    240 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  62. Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git

    240 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  63. IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware

    240 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  64. Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module

    239 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  65. Electricity Maps

    238 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  66. Pegasus Mail

    238 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  67. This code smells of desperation

    238 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  68. $HOME, not so sweet $HOME

    237 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  69. NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally

    237 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  70. New Map APIs from Google

    237 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  71. OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ

    237 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  72. A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME

    236 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  73. VirGL – A virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines

    236 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  74. Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption

    236 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  75. Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?

    236 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  76. The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies

    235 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  77. Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

    235 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  78. Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2

    234 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  79. Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold

    234 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  80. Fish – A friendly interactive shell

    234 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  81. Brave Search launches own image and video search

    234 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  82. 90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals

    234 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  83. Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20

    233 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  84. Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs

    233 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  85. Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses

    233 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  86. Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog, has died

    233 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  87. IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it

    232 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  88. Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros

    231 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  89. Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)

    231 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  90. SMS traffic pumping fraud

    231 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  91. Excuse me, is there a problem?

    230 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  92. Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust

    230 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  93. Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently

    230 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  94. Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding

    229 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  95. Cargo Cult Science (1974) [pdf]

    229 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  96. Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster

    229 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  97. MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac

    229 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  98. Popcount CPU instruction (2019)

    228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  99. Thermodynamic Linear Algebra

    228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  100. Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'

    228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023