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Hacker News (Sep 2023)

  1. The Ashley Book of Knots (1944)

    174 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  2. Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server

    174 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  3. Problems with homemade billing systems

    174 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  4. Show HN: Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools

    173 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  5. The vital art of talking to strangers (2021)

    173 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  6. The thinking path

    173 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  7. How Container Networking Works: Practical Explanation

    173 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  8. The New Godot Development Fund

    173 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  9. A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications

    173 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  10. Some notes on local-first development

    173 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  11. USPS In-Person Identity Proofing

    172 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  12. Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more

    172 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  13. Thousands of octopuses gather off California to brood eggs at a warm spot

    172 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  14. Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?

    172 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  15. Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]

    172 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  16. CFPB kicks off rulemaking to remove medical bills from credit reports

    172 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  17. Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998

    171 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  18. School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads

    171 points • comment • sep 10, 2023

  19. Most UI applications are broken real-time applications

    171 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  20. Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent

    171 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  21. Newly discovered deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic

    170 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  22. My Node.js is a bit Rusty

    169 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  23. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

    168 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  24. MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

    168 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  25. Don't be afraid to be wrong

    168 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  26. Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration

    168 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  27. Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster

    167 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  28. Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates

    167 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  29. NASA’s Osiris-Rex capsule lands in Utah with Bennu asteroid sample

    167 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  30. Profile of Sabine Hossenfelder

    167 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  31. Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families

    167 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  32. Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

    167 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  33. DuckDB 0.9

    166 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  34. Against LLM Maximalism

    166 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  35. India fails to re-establish communication with its Moon probe

    166 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  36. The meeting of the minds that launched AI

    166 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  37. How HTTPS Works (2018)

    166 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  38. Beyond OpenAPI

    166 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  39. Show HN: I built a Python web framework

    166 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  40. How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)

    166 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  41. Interactive GCC (igcc) is a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for C/C++

    166 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  42. JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension

    165 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  43. A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

    165 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  44. Index of Aesthetics

    165 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  45. OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life

    165 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  46. Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour

    165 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  47. Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates

    165 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  48. Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn

    165 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  49. Persimmon-8B

    164 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  50. Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem

    164 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  51. Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits

    164 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  52. Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began

    164 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  53. ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen

    164 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  54. WASI Support in Go

    164 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  55. Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021)

    164 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  56. Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist

    164 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  57. TCP's congestion control saved the internet

    164 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  58. Can we talk to whales?

    163 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  59. 54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy

    163 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  60. X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions

    163 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  61. AOL pretends to be the internet

    163 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  62. FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation

    163 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  63. Birb: Programming with bird emojis

    163 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  64. Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report

    163 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  65. The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines

    163 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  66. PAROL6 Desktop Robot Arm

    163 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  67. Simulating History with ChatGPT

    163 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  68. Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512

    163 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  69. Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily

    163 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  70. SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas

    163 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  71. Philosophy of Coroutines

    162 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  72. Chinchilla’s death

    162 points • comment • sep 04, 2023

  73. NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats

    162 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  74. CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)

    162 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  75. Publishing my first game using PICO-8

    162 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  76. A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (2012)

    162 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  77. ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake

    162 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  78. Ways YC has changed in the last year

    162 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  79. Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE

    162 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  80. $5k Google Jamboard dies in 2024–cloud-based apps will stop working, too

    161 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  81. Show HN: Minum – A minimal Java web framework

    161 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  82. Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died

    161 points • comment • sep 08, 2023

  83. Headsets Delayed into 2024

    161 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  84. The saga of the Closure compiler, and why TypeScript won

    161 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  85. Warren Spector – 40 years and I'm still here

    160 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  86. deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android

    160 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  87. The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

    160 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  88. A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm

    160 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  89. 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time

    160 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  90. Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (2019)

    160 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  91. No way in or out of Burning Man after storm

    159 points • comment • sep 02, 2023

  92. The SEC cracks down on greenwashing

    159 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  93. Layoffs.fyi

    159 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  94. NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable

    159 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  95. Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance

    159 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  96. Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all

    159 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  97. A small community of unofficial Apple technicians in Cuba

    159 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  98. George Orwell Complete Works

    159 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  99. When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better

    159 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  100. Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory

    159 points • comment • sep 03, 2023