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Hacker News (Oct 2023)

  1. BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon

    458 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  2. Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level

    454 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  3. Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet

    451 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  4. Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value

    450 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  5. Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript

    447 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  6. Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution

    442 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  7. Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak

    440 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  8. Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty

    439 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  9. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

    438 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  10. Desmos 3D graphing calculator

    437 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  11. Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery

    436 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  12. Build your own BitTorrent

    433 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  13. Decomposing language models into understandable components

    432 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  14. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

    425 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  15. NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty

    423 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  16. Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years

    422 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  17. What every developer should know about GPU computing

    422 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  18. Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors

    422 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  19. Startup CTO's Handbook

    422 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  20. Ardour 8.0

    421 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  21. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

    418 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  22. The costs of microservices (2020)

    418 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  23. Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

    416 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  24. Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU

    410 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  25. 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

    409 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  26. Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API

    408 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  27. FPGA N64

    406 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  28. Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?

    406 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  29. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

    404 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  30. The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?

    404 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  31. The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue

    399 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  32. TimeGPT-1

    399 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  33. Ensō: write now, edit later

    398 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  34. Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook

    397 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  35. Nakatomi Space

    397 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  36. Was Rust Worth It?

    397 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  37. 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution

    396 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  38. Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation

    394 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  39. The product manager role is a mistake

    394 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  40. Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source

    394 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  41. Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police

    393 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  42. Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA

    391 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  43. I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet

    391 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  44. Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI danger

    390 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  45. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

    390 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  46. Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it

    388 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  47. World's most popular painter sent his followers after me because of my review

    388 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  48. Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft

    388 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  49. The midwit home

    388 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  50. US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks

    386 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  51. 12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed

    384 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  52. Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons

    383 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  53. Life lessons from the death bed

    383 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  54. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

    383 points • comment • oct 28, 2023

  55. Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves

    382 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  56. In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia (2022)

    380 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  57. Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

    376 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  58. VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

    376 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  59. "No, it's less effort than that"

    373 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  60. Disney packed big emotion into a little robot

    373 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  61. Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder

    370 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  62. Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt

    369 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  63. Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users

    369 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  64. OpenAI is too cheap to beat

    367 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  65. Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App

    367 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  66. Progress on No-GIL CPython

    365 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  67. Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

    364 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  68. The Twelve-Factor App (2011)

    364 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  69. Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on

    364 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  70. Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

    361 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  71. Cooler screens

    360 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  72. The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

    360 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  73. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

    357 points • comment • oct 28, 2023

  74. Learn and Test DMARC

    357 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  75. Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started

    356 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  76. First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality

    356 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  77. Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

    356 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  78. OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

    356 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  79. Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease

    355 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  80. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

    355 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  81. The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online

    354 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  82. MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context

    354 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  83. Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive

    353 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  84. Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

    353 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  85. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

    352 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  86. USB-C head-to-head comparison

    352 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  87. Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube

    351 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  88. Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)

    350 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  89. We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms

    349 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  90. Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

    347 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  91. Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

    347 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  92. How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)

    347 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  93. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

    346 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  94. Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

    345 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  95. Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator

    343 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  96. Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports

    342 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  97. Linux Performance

    340 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  98. FCC wants to bolster amateur radio

    340 points • comment • oct 28, 2023

  99. Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17

    339 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  100. How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision

    338 points • comment • oct 14, 2023