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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Gamma ray detection marks highest energy light from the Sun

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  2. Tell HN: Microsoft Defender webfilter now blocking entire brave.com domain

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  3. Airline Passengers Will Be Forced to Pay for $5T Carbon Cleanup

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  4. Guide on fine-tuning your own Vicuna on Llama-2

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  5. Ask HN: What are the capabilities of consumer grade hardware to work with LLMs?

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  6. Ukrainian fighters take to electric bikes in the war against Russia

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  7. Bridge Comparisons [pdf]

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  8. Show HN: Playwright in Docker with hot reloading – Simple testautomation

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  9. IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  10. Commander X16

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  11. Ask HN: How much can reflection of sunlight help with climate change?

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  12. Moskowitz: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  13. Blended Wing Body Demonstrator Jet Contract Awarded by Air Force

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  14. HashiCorp Licensing FAQ

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  15. Twenty Years of Marginal Revolution

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  16. Smoke Point of Cooking Oils

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  17. LibreOffice 7.6, what comes next, and what the end of the 7.x releases means

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  18. Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  19. Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  20. Porting Rust to GNU Hurd

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  21. Fidelity Mafia Behind Big Crypto

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  22. Butterflies (1948)

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  23. Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  24. The Age of the Museum Is Over

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  25. Mars’ Olympus Mons, Largest Volcano in Solar System May Have Once Been an Island

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  26. Ozempic Settles the Obesity Debate: It’s Biology over Willpower

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  27. Engineering Lessons from Early Stage Startups

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  28. YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  29. The Mother of All Demos, Presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  30. The Aristocratic Takeover of “Transparency”

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  31. Coin Boys

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  32. Court sides with Grayscale in closely-watched Bitcoin ETF case

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  33. Walgreens has started playing classical music to keep away loiterers

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  34. Modern OSX contains traces of Aqua (10.1) and the like!

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  35. St. Petersburg Paradox

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  36. How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  37. When We Cease to Understand the World

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  38. Show HN: Automatically convert your GPT-3.5 prompt to Llama 2

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  39. Gorilla: LLMs Connected to APIs Explained

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  40. Pentagon bets on quick production of autonomous systems to counter China

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  41. What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  42. Ask HN: Platform to Find Early Adopters?

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  43. Chicago TV Crew Reporting on Robberies Is Robbed at Gunpoint

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  44. Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  45. Solar Battery Statistics – Day One

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  46. Uber has built up $31.5B in operating losses since 2014

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  47. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Binary Encoding (SBE)

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  48. Cleaning water with 'smart rust' and magnets

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  49. Government surveillance has gone too far: reject remoteID [video][18 mins]

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  50. X (erstwhile Twitter) introduces Studio

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  51. A Real-Estate Haven Turns Perilous with Roughly $1T Coming Due

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  52. Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form across space and time

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  53. Bash-Hackers.org Is Gone

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  54. Campaigns want TSMC visas blocked in Arizona plant row

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  55. Transpiler, a Meaningless Word

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  56. Kenya suspends crypto project Worldcoin over safety concerns

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  57. Show HN: FalkorDB fork from RedisGraph bringing it back to life

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  58. Online Ratings Are Broken

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  59. A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  60. Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon in failed mission

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  61. Measures for more energy-efficient air conditioning in Saudi Arabia

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  62. Show HN: Vector Embedding Server in under 100 lines of code

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  63. Lisp Revelation in SICP Course: Metacircular Evaluator [video]

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  64. Russia’s Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes into Moon

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  65. The DEA Accidentally Sent $50k of Seized Cryptocurrency to a Scammer

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  66. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  67. PEP 725 – Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  68. Supabase Studio 3.0: AI SQL Editor, Schema Diagrams, and New Wrappers

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  69. Unreal Engine MetaHuman Realistic Person Creator

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  70. HTTP/3 and QUIC: The Connection ID

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  71. A valence switch in the brain that makes mammals eat more in cold

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  72. Fritz Lang's classic sci-fi film Metropolis gets a new electronic soundtrack

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  73. Ediacaran Biota

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  74. T1 internet provider bans entire /32 IP assignment for the first time in history

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  75. 2022 Annual Rust Survey Results

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  76. Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  77. OpenAI Passes $1B Revenue Pace

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  78. Call of Duty: The Board Game Brings FPS Excitement to Gen Con

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  79. Life on the International Space Station at a time of war

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  80. Simulation of Kubernetes networking using mininet for learning and prototyping

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  81. ReactPy: It's React, but in Python

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  82. Show HN: Matrix. A Sci-Fi Comic

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  83. To Be Happy, Marriage Matters More Than Career

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  84. Graphene Surprise Could Help Generate Hydrogen Cheaply and Sustainably

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  85. Cancelling our comedy show proves the point

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  86. Wagner chief among passengers on crashed plane – officials [RT]

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  87. Who cleans the toilets on the Death Star?

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  88. The evolution of complex grammars: Study measures complexity of 1,314 languages

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  89. When did people stop being drunk all the time?

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  90. ‘Miami is dead. Austin is dead. [SAN FRAN] is back Can AI save this city?

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  91. Peter Thiel: The Diversity Myth, a Retrospective

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  92. Upholding Free Speech Amidst the EU’s DSA Law

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  93. BRICS invites Saudi, Iran and others to join developing world bloc

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  94. Study warns 'long Covid' may lead to widespread suffering without treatments

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  95. Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  96. 2k Bottles of Wine Illegally Aged at the Bottom of the Ocean

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  97. The mining world turns to Saudi cash for critical metal supply

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  98. A 'Jupiter' hotter than the sun

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  99. The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  100. Canada’s Student Visa Strategy Takes Off, Nearly 1 in 48 People on Study Permit

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2023