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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010

    228 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  2. Shamir Secret Sharing

    228 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  3. Popcount CPU instruction (2019)

    228 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  4. Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)

    227 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  5. Fairphone 5

    226 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  6. Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power

    226 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  7. Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

    226 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  8. SUSE to Go Private

    226 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  9. Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work

    226 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  10. How far can you jump from a swing?

    226 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  11. WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs

    226 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  12. The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure

    225 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  13. Is this a good book for me, now?

    225 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  14. FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure

    225 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  15. On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream

    225 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  16. 3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs

    225 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  17. The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries

    224 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  18. Can a worker-owned restaurant work?

    224 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  19. Linux on a Commodore 64

    224 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  20. A Modern C Development Environment

    224 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  21. CRISPR gene-editing treatment eliminates HIV-like virus from non-human primates

    224 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  22. Rust 1.72.0

    223 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  23. Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck

    222 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  24. The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free?

    222 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  25. macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported

    222 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  26. Visualization of Common Algorithms (2011)

    222 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  27. Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries

    221 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  28. What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers

    221 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  29. Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

    221 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  30. So Long, Twitter and Reddit

    221 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  31. Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out

    220 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  32. West Point discovers time capsule from 1828

    220 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  33. FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang

    220 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  34. Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?

    220 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  35. J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64

    219 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  36. Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)

    219 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  37. Bye, Gemini

    219 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  38. Authentication on meet.jit.si

    219 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  39. Scrum is a cancer

    219 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  40. A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops

    219 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  41. Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed (2020)

    219 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  42. Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?

    219 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  43. Do something, so we can change it

    219 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  44. Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations

    219 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  45. Reaching the Unix philosophy's logical extreme with WebAssembly

    219 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  46. CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

    219 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  47. AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI

    218 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  48. Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

    218 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  49. Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21

    218 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  50. GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver

    218 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  51. QR codes appearing in Google street view?

    218 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  52. GPT-4 can't reason

    218 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  53. n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool

    217 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  54. Python: Just Write SQL

    217 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  55. Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job

    217 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  56. Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (2015)

    216 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  57. Transform your Android device into a Linux desktop

    216 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  58. Sync for Lemmy

    216 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  59. Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)

    216 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  60. Zig 0.11

    216 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  61. Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes

    216 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  62. Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019)

    216 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  63. London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Past Two Decades

    216 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  64. Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?

    215 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  65. Weight-based motor vehicle tax

    215 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  66. Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists

    215 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  67. Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine

    215 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  68. Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator

    214 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  69. All of the vehicle license plates available in America

    214 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  70. Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads

    214 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  71. SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs

    214 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  72. When did Postgres become cool?

    214 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  73. MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

    214 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  74. Symmetry in Chaos

    213 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  75. Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes government online

    213 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  76. Wii Architecture – A Practical Analysis

    213 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  77. Uber posts first quarterly net profit

    212 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  78. Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation

    212 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  79. Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil

    212 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  80. On keeping sketchbooks

    212 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  81. Why early modern books are so beautiful

    212 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  82. Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React

    211 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  83. Code Is Not Literature (2014)

    211 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  84. Learning produces a hippocampal cognitive map in the form of a state machine

    211 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  85. Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years

    210 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  86. Artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back

    210 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  87. Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)

    210 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  88. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents

    209 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  89. Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand

    209 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  90. P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications

    209 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  91. Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models

    209 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  92. Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed

    209 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  93. Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?

    208 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  94. Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability

    208 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  95. Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world

    208 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  96. Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments

    208 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  97. New York City bans TikTok for government employees

    208 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  98. AI Crap

    208 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  99. Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing

    208 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  100. GNU Units

    208 points • comment • aug 03, 2023