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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. It's okay to make something nobody wants

    481 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  2. Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies

    481 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  3. OpenTF repository is now public

    480 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  4. Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home

    478 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  5. Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments

    477 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  6. Flexbox Froggy

    475 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  7. The Frustration Loop

    474 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  8. Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style

    474 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  9. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    473 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  10. Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor

    471 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  11. VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode

    469 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  12. Memories from old LAN parties

    463 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  13. Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs

    463 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  14. B612 Font Family

    459 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  15. Death by a Thousand Microservices

    456 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  16. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

    454 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  17. How mobile apps illegally share personal data

    453 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  18. Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

    452 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  19. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

    452 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  20. Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

    450 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  21. Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam

    449 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  22. CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification

    448 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  23. Svelte 5: Runes

    447 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  24. LibrePCB

    446 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  25. Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

    446 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  26. The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression

    446 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  27. Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study

    445 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  28. Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

    445 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  29. Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

    444 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  30. Interactive Map of Linux Kernel

    443 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  31. Linux network performance parameters

    443 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  32. Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React

    441 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  33. What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)

    436 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  34. My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

    435 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  35. We built the fastest CI and it failed

    433 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  36. Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?

    433 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  37. How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?

    432 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  38. Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

    431 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  39. The WebP 0day

    430 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  40. Can LLMs learn from a single example?

    430 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  41. Live near your friends

    430 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  42. PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

    429 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  43. How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?

    428 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  44. There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org

    427 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  45. Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad

    425 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  46. Procreate Dreams

    421 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  47. NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

    418 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  48. macOS Sonoma is available today

    413 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  49. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    412 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  50. Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters

    410 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  51. I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17

    404 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  52. Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

    403 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  53. That's a Lot of YAML

    402 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  54. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

    401 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  55. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

    400 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  56. Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

    399 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  57. The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

    399 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  58. DJI Mini 4 Pro

    398 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  59. jq 1.7

    397 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  60. Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing

    396 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  61. YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform

    396 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  62. GitHub Actions could be so much better

    395 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  63. Climate Change Tracker

    395 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  64. OpenTF is now OpenTofu

    395 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  65. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

    394 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  66. The Fantilator Page

    394 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  67. Firefox 118

    393 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  68. Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts

    391 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  69. Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

    391 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  70. Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea

    390 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  71. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)

    389 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  72. Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)

    388 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  73. Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?

    387 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  74. Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors

    386 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  75. Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old

    385 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  76. ZFS for Dummies

    384 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  77. In a Git repository, where do your files live?

    384 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  78. Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition

    384 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  79. Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022)

    383 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  80. Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

    382 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  81. Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages

    382 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  82. Linear code is more readable

    381 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  83. A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions

    379 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  84. Rhythm 0

    377 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  85. Java 21 makes me like Java again

    375 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  86. iNaturalist strikes out on its own

    375 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  87. Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration

    374 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  88. First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)

    372 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  89. Tidal energy is not renewable

    371 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  90. The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars

    370 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  91. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    370 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  92. Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)

    368 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  93. TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

    367 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  94. Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency

    367 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  95. Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer

    367 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  96. Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy

    366 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  97. Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion

    366 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  98. Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20

    366 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  99. Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it

    364 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  100. Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain

    363 points • comment • sep 16, 2023