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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates

    3361 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  2. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    1726 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  3. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    1702 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  4. Raspberry Pi 5

    1660 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  5. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    1655 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  6. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    1548 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  7. The worst programmer I know

    1484 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  8. NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

    1420 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  9. Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?

    1389 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  10. Organic Maps

    1372 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  11. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

    1298 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  12. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

    1261 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  13. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

    1200 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  14. Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

    1155 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  15. FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power

    1127 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  16. We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

    1115 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  17. Bun v1.0.0

    1021 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  18. Draggable objects

    1019 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  19. The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

    1000 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  20. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy

    987 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  21. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working

    986 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  22. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

    978 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  23. Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4

    940 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  24. Cisco Acquires Splunk

    919 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  25. UK air traffic control meltdown

    903 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  26. The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

    885 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  27. Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community

    882 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  28. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

    878 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  29. Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

    872 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  30. Mistral 7B

    835 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  31. Touch Pianist

    823 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  32. A hacker's guide to language models [video]

    807 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  33. Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web

    800 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  34. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

    796 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  35. My solopreneur story

    781 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  36. Credit card debt collection

    768 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  37. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

    737 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  38. Choose Postgres queue technology

    736 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  39. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

    733 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  40. Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions

    731 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  41. UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

    730 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  42. Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

    728 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  43. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

    726 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  44. Willingham sends Fables into the public domain

    717 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  45. Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

    705 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  46. Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

    701 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  47. Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

    695 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  48. Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates

    689 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  49. Animated Knots

    687 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  50. Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software

    676 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  51. Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source

    675 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  52. Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned

    669 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  53. Nginx Unit – Universal web app server

    664 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  54. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    653 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  55. Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes

    650 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  56. Unity's oldest community announces dissolution

    645 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  57. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

    636 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  58. Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

    632 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  59. Don’t mess with a genius (2010)

    631 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  60. Kagi Small Web

    625 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  61. DALL·E 3

    619 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  62. Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites

    617 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  63. UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users

    614 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  64. RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models

    611 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  65. I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

    610 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  66. Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

    601 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  67. FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker

    598 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  68. Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix

    589 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  69. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

    587 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  70. North Korean campaign targeting security researchers

    582 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  71. Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

    582 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  72. Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla

    572 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  73. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    570 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  74. Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

    569 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  75. I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency

    561 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  76. Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

    551 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  77. Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web

    548 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  78. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    545 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  79. PostgreSQL 16

    543 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  80. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

    539 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  81. Doug Lenat has died

    537 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  82. Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus

    536 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  83. LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua

    535 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  84. Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes

    528 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  85. Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity

    527 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  86. EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

    527 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  87. I digitalized Berlin's registration form

    522 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  88. Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online

    519 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  89. 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt

    518 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  90. Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

    511 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  91. We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score

    511 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  92. FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones

    507 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  93. Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

    507 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  94. Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

    493 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  95. macOS Containers v0.0.1

    492 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  96. Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

    490 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  97. Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later

    490 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  98. Ian's Shoelace Site

    489 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  99. Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)

    488 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  100. Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

    487 points • comment • sep 13, 2023