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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Analysis of Obfuscation Techniques Found in Apple FairPlay

    188 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  2. Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek

    188 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  3. Selling open-source software

    188 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  4. Career advice for young system programmers

    188 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  5. Lithium morphology discovery could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries

    188 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  6. My favorite prime number generator

    188 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  7. Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models

    187 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  8. Study: Inflammation drives social media use

    187 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  9. Ego Death

    187 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  10. AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080

    187 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  11. North Korean science fiction

    187 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  12. Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno

    186 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  13. The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent

    186 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  14. UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water

    186 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  15. How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

    186 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  16. Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)

    186 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  17. Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills

    185 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  18. For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

    185 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  19. Fantastic Learning Resources

    185 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  20. Pure Bash Bible (2018)

    185 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  21. WebLLM: Llama2 in the Browser

    185 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  22. Clean mount lists in Linux

    185 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  23. Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres

    185 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  24. Polars: Company Formation Announcement

    184 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  25. E-bike industry blames consumers for fires to undermine right to repair laws

    184 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  26. WTF is going on with R7RS Large?

    184 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  27. Render nuked my entire account with no notice

    184 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  28. Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner

    183 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  29. If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?

    183 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  30. New motherboard improves old CRT television

    183 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  31. Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?

    183 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  32. Evergrande shares plunge as much as 87% as trading resumes after 17 months

    183 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  33. LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN

    182 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  34. Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar

    182 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  35. Was Y Combinator worth it?

    182 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  36. Let maintainers be maintainers

    182 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  37. Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers

    182 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  38. MilkyTracker 1.04

    182 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  39. Our fight is far from over

    182 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  40. Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix

    182 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  41. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

    182 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  42. Developers are building communities that act as their own miniature power grids

    181 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  43. Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

    181 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  44. City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians

    181 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  45. SQLite Functions for Working with JSON

    180 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  46. Perhaps it’s time to sideline the internet when evaluating collective reality

    180 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  47. Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters

    180 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  48. Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)

    180 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  49. Fooocus: OSS for image generation by ControlNet author

    179 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  50. ZFSBootMenu

    179 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  51. AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users

    179 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  52. Llama 2 on ONNX runs locally

    179 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  53. PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management

    179 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  54. Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics

    179 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  55. Show HN: Get notified when sites update their terms of service

    179 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  56. Supabase Local Dev: migrations, branching, and observability

    179 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  57. Reading Ancient Scrolls

    178 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  58. HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies

    178 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  59. Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

    178 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  60. Cognitive AI for ADHD

    178 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  61. Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s

    178 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  62. Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch after paralysis

    177 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  63. Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough

    177 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  64. Rewriting wipEout

    177 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  65. Some remarks on possible superconductivity of composition Pb9CuP6O25

    177 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  66. X wants permission to start collecting your bio data and employment history

    177 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  67. Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in country's constitution

    177 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  68. As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future

    176 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  69. Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

    176 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  70. Bad Apple Font

    176 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  71. Briefcase: Convert a Python project into a standalone native application

    175 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  72. Logic Lab

    175 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  73. Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results

    175 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  74. I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it

    175 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  75. Universal Paperclips

    175 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  76. Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company

    174 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  77. The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)

    174 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  78. Beginner's Guide to Llama Models

    173 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  79. A study on robustness and reliability of large language model code generation

    173 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  80. Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates

    173 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  81. Kullback–Leibler divergence

    173 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  82. WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts

    173 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  83. Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses

    173 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  84. The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained

    173 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  85. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

    172 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  86. Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster

    172 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  87. Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey

    171 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  88. Show HN: Llama2 Embeddings FastAPI Server

    171 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  89. Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla

    170 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  90. We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels

    170 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  91. Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat

    170 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  92. The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

    170 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  93. Maccarone: AI-managed code blocks in Python

    170 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  94. Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

    170 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  95. Catching up on the weird world of LLMs

    170 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  96. Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK

    170 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  97. Mathematical proof is a social compact

    170 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  98. Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics with LLMs

    169 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  99. ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console

    169 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  100. Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed

    168 points • comment • aug 18, 2023