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Hacker News (Oct 2023)

  1. The Cloud Computer

    1855 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  2. German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

    1188 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  3. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

    1188 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  4. Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

    1150 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  5. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student

    1111 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  6. Making Hard Things Easy

    1104 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  7. Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

    1025 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  8. Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world

    981 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  9. What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

    967 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  10. I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

    966 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  11. Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

    936 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  12. Scrollbars are becoming a problem

    936 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  13. An interactive intro to CRDTs

    909 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  14. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

    900 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  15. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

    891 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  16. Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

    870 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  17. Where does my computer get the time from?

    846 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  18. Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

    842 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  19. Write more "useless" software

    827 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  20. ChatGPT’s system prompts

    811 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  21. Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

    806 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  22. Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

    803 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  23. We have used too many levels of abstractions

    785 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  24. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

    752 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  25. Introduction to Modern Statistics

    731 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  26. The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

    730 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  27. The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop

    730 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  28. Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service

    716 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  29. YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

    714 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  30. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

    709 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  31. Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7

    700 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  32. Animated AI

    698 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  33. Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

    690 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  34. Starlink Direct to Cell

    686 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  35. Nomnoml

    671 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  36. macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

    660 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  37. Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics

    653 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  38. Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date

    649 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  39. Embeddings: What they are and why they matter

    647 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  40. Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

    641 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  41. Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI

    637 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  42. Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

    635 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  43. About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

    625 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  44. Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

    619 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  45. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

    619 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  46. Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance

    612 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  47. Python 3.12

    607 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  48. Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system

    607 points • comment • oct 07, 2023

  49. iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

    603 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  50. Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition

    594 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  51. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

    590 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  52. Firefox got faster for real users in 2023

    585 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  53. Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders

    583 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  54. Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

    580 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  55. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

    578 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  56. SumatraPDF Reader

    577 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  57. Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts

    575 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  58. Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator

    571 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  59. I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map

    568 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  60. Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering

    567 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  61. ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades

    562 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  62. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

    559 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  63. Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative

    554 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  64. Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding

    554 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  65. My personal C coding style as of late 2023

    545 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  66. Exploiting the iPhone 4

    544 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  67. AMD may get across the CUDA moat

    541 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  68. Interactive intro to shaders

    540 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  69. What is the Demoscene? An interview

    538 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  70. NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt

    537 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  71. Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

    535 points • comment • oct 28, 2023

  72. NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away

    535 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  73. Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

    534 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  74. Psytrance Guide

    533 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  75. Frasier Fantasy

    530 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  76. Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art

    530 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  77. Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

    528 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  78. What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker

    519 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  79. How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)

    507 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  80. Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM

    506 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  81. Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

    501 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  82. Every app that adds AI looks like this

    500 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  83. Organization probably doesn't want to improve things

    498 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  84. Blackmagic Camera for iPhone

    492 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  85. 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó

    490 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  86. Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search

    489 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  87. Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper

    487 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  88. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

    484 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  89. Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story

    483 points • comment • oct 07, 2023

  90. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

    482 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  91. Pixel 8 Pro

    477 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  92. Software disenchantment

    477 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  93. Halfsies

    476 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  94. Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)

    468 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  95. How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?

    467 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  96. Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum

    466 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  97. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

    464 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  98. Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

    464 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  99. The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

    463 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  100. I face investigation for terrorism

    462 points • comment • oct 24, 2023