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Hacker News (Aug 2023)

  1. Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed

    168 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  2. YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]

    168 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  3. British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever

    168 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  4. You probably don’t need to fine-tune an LLM

    168 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  5. Testing on production

    167 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  6. AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says

    167 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  7. Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

    167 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  8. “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web

    167 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  9. Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

    167 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  10. How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1

    167 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  11. λ Calculus (2013) [pdf]

    166 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  12. Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework

    166 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  13. Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2

    166 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  14. Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs

    166 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  15. Lynn Conway's Story (2000)

    166 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  16. Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law

    166 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  17. VkFFT: Vulkan/CUDA/Hip/OpenCL/Level Zero/Metal Fast Fourier Transform Library

    166 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  18. Cargo Cult AI

    165 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  19. Minimum Viable Secure Product

    165 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  20. Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano

    164 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  21. I fixed a bug the other day

    164 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  22. How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]

    164 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  23. Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell

    164 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  24. Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step

    164 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  25. Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious

    164 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  26. Ham radio enthusiasts vs. High-frequency traders: A battle for the airwaves

    164 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  27. Why Open Source?

    164 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  28. Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source

    164 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  29. Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation

    163 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  30. Stolen from Apple (2004)

    163 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  31. Inside the JVM: Arrays and how they differ from other objects

    163 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  32. Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs

    163 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  33. AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion

    163 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  34. Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness

    163 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  35. A cheap radio hack disrupted Poland's railway system

    163 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  36. I don't want to host services but I do

    163 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  37. AI isn’t good enough

    163 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  38. Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler

    163 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  39. DOJ sues SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring

    162 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  40. The History of Windows 2.0

    162 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  41. Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

    162 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  42. Fred Fish

    162 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  43. Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife

    162 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  44. Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed

    162 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  45. A forum engine written in Assembly

    162 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  46. SQLite 3.43

    162 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  47. A collection of quant riddles with answers

    161 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  48. How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg

    161 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  49. A look into the finances of SpaceX

    161 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  50. My deep learning rig (2022)

    161 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  51. LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis

    161 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  52. How pencils are made in a Japanese factory [video]

    161 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  53. Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

    161 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  54. I drew these corals with mathematical equations

    161 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  55. VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting

    161 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  56. Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time

    161 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  57. Casio G-Shock time sync radio

    161 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  58. Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters

    160 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  59. Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)

    160 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  60. The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people

    160 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  61. Railway Safety Posters (2022)

    160 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  62. LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

    160 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  63. X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014

    160 points • comment • aug 20, 2023

  64. The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)

    159 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  65. SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation

    159 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  66. Scientists are only beginning to understand how PFAS impacting our health

    159 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  67. Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes

    159 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  68. Zaum

    159 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  69. Managing difficult software engineers

    159 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  70. Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI

    158 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  71. Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler

    158 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  72. Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

    158 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  73. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

    158 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  74. Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org

    158 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  75. Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

    158 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  76. Japan's abandoned villages

    158 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  77. A place where no humans will tread for 100k years

    158 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  78. Raise less, build more

    158 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  79. Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components

    158 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  80. Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset

    157 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  81. Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)

    157 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  82. Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92

    157 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  83. Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?

    157 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  84. Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins

    156 points • comment • aug 25, 2023

  85. Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server

    156 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  86. Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

    156 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  87. How to find time to learn after work (2017)

    156 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  88. What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally

    156 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  89. The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself

    156 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  90. Compuserve

    156 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  91. CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association

    156 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  92. Zero-Downtime Hetzner Deploys with Ansible

    156 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  93. Chrultrabook – Modify a Chromebook to Run Windows/Linux/macOS

    156 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  94. Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing

    155 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  95. Show HN: A simple, open-source Notion-like avatar generator

    155 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  96. Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)

    155 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  97. What happens to all the stuff we return?

    155 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  98. Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll

    155 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  99. C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)

    155 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  100. Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse

    155 points • comment • aug 18, 2023