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Hacker News (Oct 2023)
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The Cloud Computer
1855 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
1188 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
1188 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
1150 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
1111 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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Making Hard Things Easy
1104 points • comment • oct 06, 2023
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Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
1025 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world
981 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
967 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
966 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
936 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
936 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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An interactive intro to CRDTs
909 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
900 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
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John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
891 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
870 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Where does my computer get the time from?
846 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
842 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Write more "useless" software
827 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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ChatGPT’s system prompts
811 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)
806 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec
803 points • comment • oct 25, 2023
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We have used too many levels of abstractions
785 points • comment • oct 21, 2023
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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
752 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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Introduction to Modern Statistics
731 points • comment • oct 12, 2023
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The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
730 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
730 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
716 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
714 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
709 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
700 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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Animated AI
698 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Commercially available chairs in Star Trek
690 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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Starlink Direct to Cell
686 points • comment • oct 11, 2023
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Nomnoml
671 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
660 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
653 points • comment • oct 01, 2023
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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
649 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
647 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
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Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
641 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
637 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
635 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
625 points • comment • oct 16, 2023
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Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
619 points • comment • oct 08, 2023
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Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
619 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
612 points • comment • oct 14, 2023
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Python 3.12
607 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
607 points • comment • oct 07, 2023
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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
603 points • comment • oct 25, 2023
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Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition
594 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
590 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
585 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
583 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
580 points • comment • oct 15, 2023
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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
578 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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SumatraPDF Reader
577 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
575 points • comment • oct 20, 2023
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Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
571 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map
568 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
567 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
562 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Show HN: Classic Video Poker
559 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
554 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
554 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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My personal C coding style as of late 2023
545 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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Exploiting the iPhone 4
544 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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AMD may get across the CUDA moat
541 points • comment • oct 06, 2023
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Interactive intro to shaders
540 points • comment • oct 26, 2023
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What is the Demoscene? An interview
538 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
537 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign
535 points • comment • oct 28, 2023
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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
535 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
534 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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Psytrance Guide
533 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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Frasier Fantasy
530 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
530 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
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Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
528 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
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What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
519 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)
507 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
506 points • comment • oct 03, 2023
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Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
501 points • comment • oct 31, 2023
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Every app that adds AI looks like this
500 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
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Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
498 points • comment • oct 08, 2023
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Blackmagic Camera for iPhone
492 points • comment • oct 09, 2023
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'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
490 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search
489 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
487 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
484 points • comment • oct 17, 2023
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Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story
483 points • comment • oct 07, 2023
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Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
482 points • comment • oct 05, 2023
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Pixel 8 Pro
477 points • comment • oct 04, 2023
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Software disenchantment
477 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
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Halfsies
476 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
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Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)
468 points • comment • oct 29, 2023
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How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
467 points • comment • oct 25, 2023
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Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
466 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
464 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
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Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers
464 points • comment • oct 16, 2023
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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
463 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
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I face investigation for terrorism
462 points • comment • oct 24, 2023