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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. Derek Siver's shell script for tech independence

    96 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  2. Open-sourcing SQX, a way to build flexible database models in Go

    96 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  3. The physical process that powers a new type of generative AI

    96 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  4. What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings

    96 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  5. EndBASIC

    96 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  6. Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner

    96 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  7. Alleged AMD Zen 5 Specs Leak: Twice the Cores, 15% Increased IPC over Ryzen 7000

    96 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  8. GCC Preparing to Introduce “-Fhardened” Security Hardening Option

    96 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  9. Lies my calculator and computer told me (1987) [pdf]

    96 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  10. Conway Can Divide by Three, but I Can’t [pdf]

    96 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  11. Killed by Google

    96 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  12. Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called

    96 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  13. Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

    95 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  14. GitHub education pack requesting real name on public profile

    95 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  15. The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant

    95 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  16. History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (1987)

    95 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  17. Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made by monkeys: archaeologists

    95 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  18. Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)

    95 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  19. Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed image

    95 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  20. Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks

    95 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  21. Training and aligning LLMs with RLHF and RLHF alternatives

    95 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  22. Court rules in Pornhub’s favor: Age-verification law violates First Amendment

    95 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  23. Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago

    94 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  24. Always Bump Downwards (2019)

    94 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  25. TypeScript NPM Packages Done Right

    94 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  26. Designing content for people who struggle with numbers

    94 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  27. A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL

    94 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  28. Redesigned Google Fonts website

    94 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  29. Battery-electric fishing vessel marks a sea change for small commercial fishers

    94 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  30. Show HN: Abuse inflight WiFi APIs to track your flight

    94 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  31. Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring

    94 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  32. Your nines are not my nines (2019)

    94 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  33. Sesame Street Pinball Number Count [video]

    94 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  34. Introducing geometric algebra to software developers

    94 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  35. iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates

    94 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  36. Batch size one billion: SQLite insert speedups, from the useful to the absurd

    94 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  37. Show HN: Pigsty – Free RDS Alternative

    94 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  38. Generative AI's Act Two

    94 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  39. Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration

    94 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  40. Samsung Unveils Industry's First 32Gbit DDR5 Memory Die: 1TB Modules Incoming

    94 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  41. Browse websites by fonts

    94 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  42. Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)

    93 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  43. Global Google Kubernetes Engine Outage

    93 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  44. Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter

    93 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  45. Leaked Google pay data shows how much employees report making

    93 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  46. National Motorcycle Museum Closing Its Doors

    93 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  47. LLM Agent Paper List

    93 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  48. Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint

    93 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  49. Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer

    93 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  50. Unity's actions are unacceptable, I cannot keep endorsing this

    93 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  51. For the first time in years, I’m excited by my computer purchase

    93 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  52. Localtunnel – Easily share a web service on your local development machine

    93 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  53. Dara Khosrowshahi had a stint driving for Uber and delivering for Uber Eats

    93 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  54. All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped

    93 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  55. Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain

    92 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  56. What is RISC-V, and why we're unlocking its potential

    92 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  57. C++Builder 11 Community Edition

    92 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  58. Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers

    92 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  59. Q-Transformer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions

    92 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  60. Spellburst: LLM–Powered Interactive Canvas

    92 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  61. United Auto Workers launches a historic strike against all Big 3 automakers

    92 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  62. The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall

    92 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  63. Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative

    92 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  64. Recent advances in computer science since 2010?

    92 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  65. Paul Buchheit interview (2018)

    92 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  66. Bluesky Exploits

    92 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  67. My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)

    92 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  68. The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message

    92 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  69. Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers

    92 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  70. Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender

    91 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  71. Tests find many popular omega 3 supplements are rancid

    91 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  72. I open-sourced Even the Ocean

    91 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  73. LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

    91 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  74. Code-gov: A collection point for all Code.gov repositories

    91 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  75. FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Companies Will Likely Ignore

    91 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  76. Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)

    91 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  77. Gitlab Critical Security Release: 16.3.4 and 16.2.7

    91 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  78. VÉgA – Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian

    91 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  79. Large Language Models as Optimizers. +50% on Big Bench Hard

    91 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  80. Kafka as an Antipattern

    91 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  81. Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

    91 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  82. Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows

    91 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  83. The tensor product, demystified (2018)

    91 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  84. Haskell WebAssembly in the Browser

    91 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  85. One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows

    91 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  86. French regulators order Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12

    91 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  87. SIMH – Old Computer Emulator

    91 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  88. Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention

    91 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  89. Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica

    90 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  90. Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code

    90 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  91. Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?

    90 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  92. Node.js – v20.8.0

    90 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  93. Ron Cobb – Filmography

    90 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  94. The German group buying ticket dodgers out of prison

    90 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  95. Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres

    90 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  96. Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?

    90 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  97. Digression 3: Corrosion – Rust Never Sleeps

    90 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  98. Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB into a Handheld Gaming PC

    90 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  99. The Gimmicks of Food Labeling

    89 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  100. Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors Are Universal Learners

    89 points • comment • sep 23, 2023