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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Discourse on Winning and Losing (1989) [pdf]

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  2. Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  3. Interview with unjustly overlooked SF author Misha Burnett

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  4. If you donate to Wikipedia, they will suppress donation appeals for 1 week

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  5. WarGames (1983) – Behind the Scenes (2007) [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  6. Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  7. Windows 11 update gives some the blue-screen blues

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  8. The Russian effort to build 6k attack drones with Iran’s help

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  9. Is Britain as Poor as Mississippi?

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  10. Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down (2011)

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  11. Our Current FOSS Dystopia

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  12. Scraping Hacker News like a leet 10x haxor

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  13. Budgie 10.8 Released

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  14. Thoughts on [Turning] 29

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  15. New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  16. For womb the bell tolls

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  17. Tell HN: Oracle Cloud has Suspended our paid account

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  18. How long until a robot is doing your chores?

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  19. Metro 2033 author sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's war

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  20. Ask HN: Is it still worth doing Red Hat certs?

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  21. Carbon capture and storage is a fiction

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  22. At least 3 Russian journalists and activists poisoned abroad since fall 2022

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  23. Ask HN: How do you use Obsidian.md for note taking?

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  24. In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  25. Wikipedia donations used for politics, not for running Wikipedia

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  26. CA lawmakers want to make social media safer for the people. Can they succeed?

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  27. Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  28. Hundreds of Cargo Ships Have Been Stalled at Panama Canal for Weeks and Counting

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  29. The Human Ecology of Overshoot: A Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  30. Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches for Further System Hardening

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  31. Chloropicrin

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  32. Apple Still Sucks at Right to Repair

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  33. W. Jason Morgan, scientist at forefront of plate tectonics theory, has died

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  34. Private equity firm Veritas makes a takeover offer for BlackBerry

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  35. Meta’s Threads App to Launch Web Version as Rivalry with X Enters New Stage

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  36. Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smalltalk [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  37. BSD Now – Episode 520 “4 months BSD”

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  38. UK police say 88 people who bought sodium nitrite from Canadian websites died

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  39. Dying blogger: First-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor? Get in touch

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  40. Yevgeny Prigozhin on Manifest of Plane That Crashed in Russia

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  41. What Happens If You Destroy a Black Hole? [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  42. F-16s already touched down in Ukraine – Head of Ukraine's Air Force

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  43. The Anti-California: How Montana performed a housing miracle

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  44. Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  45. Trolls Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  46. Monetizing Developer Tools

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  47. Show HN: AI to help you online date better

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  48. Mountains Are Collapsing from Permafrost Melt

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  49. Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  50. The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  51. Show HN: Customizable terminal UI for monitoring weather, app uptime, and more

    7 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  52. Musk was working on his AI company while publicly calling for a pause on AI dev

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  53. Nokolisp – Lisp interpreter and compiler from 1977-1988 for MSDOS

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  54. Utah law for porn site age verification stays in effect after lawsuit dismissed

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  55. Doors: Fast light-weight RPC for secure control transfer between processes

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  56. China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles

    7 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  57. Show HN: Minimal note-taking app

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  58. Ask HN: Who would you coldmail for freelance gigs? CTOs? recruiters? CEOs?

    7 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  59. Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  60. Northern Ireland police officers’ details exposed in ‘monumental’ breach

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  61. Vice blocked news stories that could offend Saudi Arabia, insiders say

    7 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  62. Samsung Teases 256 TB SSD: 3D QLC NAND at Its Best

    7 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  63. Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  64. Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $1.55B, the 3rd largest in lottery history

    7 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  65. Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  66. SF tech companies that limit remote work may be in for a bad time

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  67. Burning Man attendees who rent trucks may face fines, GPS tracking

    7 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  68. First United States Army Group

    7 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  69. A Jupiter-size exoplanet formed around a tiny star

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  70. Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  71. Vue 3 is currently performing better than Svelte and React

    7 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  72. Saudi Arabia Passes Law Requiring USB-C Charging on New Phones and Laptops

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  73. Supabase became this generation’s database

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  74. MaginotDNS attacks exploit weak checks for DNS cache poisoning

    7 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  75. Soldier Who Called Out Torture in Iraq Is Laid to Rest at Arlington

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  76. Room temperature superconductivity private replication - San Fran [video]

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  77. Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13M a minute, says IMF

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  78. Decline in Insect Populations

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  79. Show HN: A simple wireless power demonstration circuit

    7 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  80. My Solution to the Dev Skills Crisis: Much Smaller Teams

    7 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  81. Chugwater's Igloo House Is Earthquake, Fire, and Tornado Proof

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  82. Russian officials say Prigozhin was on passenger list of jet that crashed

    7 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  83. Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  84. Blaise Pascal: The Infinite Spaces, Alienation, and the Wager

    7 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  85. 0.3% of American taxes supported Ukraine last year

    7 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  86. One China real-estate empire just weeks from $199B collapse dwarfing Evergrande

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  87. Russian central bank to meet on Tuesday as ruble tanks

    7 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  88. Home sales drop again in July, as supply drops to near quarter-century low

    7 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  89. Manga Piracy Apps Stay Up on Google and Apple, Publisher Moves to Unmask Devs

    7 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  90. Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection

    7 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  91. How the Offspring’s Lead Singer Went from Punk to PhD (2022)

    7 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  92. As water reuse expands, proponents battle the 'yuck' factor

    7 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  93. Yes, AI Models Can Get Worse over Time

    7 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  94. What should you know about Svalbard? (2020)

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  95. British Library's Public Domain Images

    7 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  96. Tampa-area schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Fla. rules

    7 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  97. Men tend to regulate their emotions through actions rather than words

    7 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  98. JavaScript In-Browser Implementation of Tor

    7 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  99. The Next Generation of Web Layouts

    7 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  100. Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants

    7 points • comment • aug 06, 2023