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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. Terry Tao's generals (2012)

    286 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  2. Show HN: Get your entire ChatGPT history in Markdown files

    286 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  3. Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition

    285 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  4. FTC warns pharma companies about sham patent listings designed to delay generics

    285 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  5. Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

    285 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  6. Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying

    283 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  7. The Decline of Usability (2020)

    282 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  8. Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another

    282 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  9. Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck

    282 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  10. An Internet of PHP

    282 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  11. Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond

    282 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  12. Show HN: E-Ink Day Schedule

    281 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  13. μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

    281 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  14. Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development

    280 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  15. Godot Development Fund

    280 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  16. Forty years of GNU and the free software movement

    280 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  17. ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says

    279 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  18. John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs

    279 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  19. Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring

    278 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  20. Lidl Product Recall [pdf]

    278 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  21. EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access

    278 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  22. Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot

    277 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  23. “Make” as a static site generator (2022)

    277 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  24. Learn Physics with Functional Programming

    277 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  25. Turning an old car into a powerful generator

    277 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  26. British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest

    277 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  27. The presumption that computers are working correctly

    277 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  28. How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

    276 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  29. Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

    276 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  30. New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory

    276 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  31. Gokrazy is cool

    275 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  32. Chicago’s parking meter disaster

    275 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  33. Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell

    273 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  34. Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis

    273 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  35. Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint

    273 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  36. Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food

    273 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  37. Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose

    273 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  38. Show HN: Magentic – Use LLMs as simple Python functions

    272 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  39. Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools

    272 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  40. The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.

    272 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  41. Arena allocator tips and tricks

    271 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  42. Lisp Badge LE

    271 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  43. How long it took different companies to find product-market fit

    271 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  44. Full Resolution Photo Archive

    270 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  45. Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

    270 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  46. Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says

    270 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  47. How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

    270 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  48. Exa Is Deprecated

    269 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  49. Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup

    269 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  50. Show HN: Open-source Postman alternative with type safety

    268 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  51. Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account

    268 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  52. JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU

    268 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  53. Textual Web: TUIs for the Web

    268 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  54. Do not put plastic in the microwave

    268 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  55. KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working

    267 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  56. I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (2014)

    267 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  57. Mojo is available for local download

    266 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  58. Plastic Money

    266 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  59. VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

    265 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  60. Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996)

    265 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  61. HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin

    265 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  62. The curl-wget Venn diagram

    265 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  63. OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps

    265 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  64. Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs

    264 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  65. How many medical studies are faked or flawed?

    262 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  66. Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade

    262 points • comment • sep 17, 2023

  67. ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit

    262 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  68. The Federal Helium reserve is for sale

    261 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  69. Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)

    261 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  70. Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

    261 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  71. Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

    261 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  72. New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law

    260 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  73. Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)

    259 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  74. PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma

    258 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  75. Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components

    258 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  76. Visual Node Graph with ImGui

    258 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  77. How does Linux start a process

    258 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  78. Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous

    257 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  79. On Craft

    257 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  80. So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

    257 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  81. RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)

    256 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  82. Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)

    256 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  83. Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution

    256 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  84. Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau

    255 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  85. FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation

    255 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  86. Why Socialism? (1949)

    254 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  87. Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)

    254 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  88. On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations

    254 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  89. The Bogus CVE Problem

    254 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  90. The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make

    252 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  91. Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out

    252 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  92. Tracing: Structured logging, but better

    251 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  93. Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’

    251 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  94. Some new snippets from the Snowden documents

    251 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  95. Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024

    251 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  96. Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

    251 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  97. Running a 180B parameter LLM on a single Apple M2 Ultra

    250 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  98. I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

    249 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  99. Exploring Linux command-line space time

    249 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  100. Why scalpers can get tickets

    248 points • comment • sep 23, 2023