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Hacker News (Oct 2023)

  1. Everyone Daydreams About Collapse. Few Understand It

    21 points • comment • oct 07, 2023

  2. India uses widespread internet blackouts to mask domestic turmoil

    21 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  3. How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away from a Rails Monolith

    21 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  4. How to rewrite classes using closures in JavaScript

    21 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  5. Use String instead of char or code points in Java

    21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  6. Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Results have jumped the shark

    21 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  7. CRT Shaders

    21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  8. Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods

    21 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  9. What the _% Is a Passkey?

    21 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  10. The FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, and Why You Can't Use It (2015)

    21 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  11. The Urgent-Important Matrix (2013)

    21 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  12. Hamas' social media following has skyrocketed

    20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  13. LIGO Surpasses the Quantum Limit

    20 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  14. Researchers find 23,000-year-old footprints in the United States

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  15. Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services

    20 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  16. Why do patients leave against medical advice?

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  17. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000WX at 96 Cores and Threadripper 7000 HEDT

    20 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  18. Large deposit of "white" hydrogen found underground in France

    20 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  19. McKinsey Developer Productivity Review

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  20. X plans to use payment, phone and ID verification to stop bots, $1/yr fee

    20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  21. Apple Is Approaching Social on Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along

    20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  22. "FreeBSD saved me from different problems"

    20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  23. HTTP/2 Rapid Reset and Apache

    20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  24. Apple's Scary Fast event could spell the end of its Lightning port

    20 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  25. 12ft is down, vercel banned me

    20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  26. H-1B Visa Program Changes Aimed at Stopping Applicants from Gaming Lottery

    20 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  27. Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country

    20 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  28. Okta shares fall after company says client files were accessed by hackers

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  29. YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has arrived for Firefox users

    20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  30. Nearly half of non-Tesla EV owners want to go back to ICE

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  31. Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026

    20 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  32. San Francisco is becoming a tech hub again, Y Combinator CEO says

    20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  33. 240Hz is the new 120Hz: It's time to buy a high refresh rate monitor

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  34. NY officials announce legislation aimed at protecting kids on social media

    20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  35. Ask HN: What are your 'mental hacks' to remember small tasks?

    20 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  36. Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers

    20 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  37. Incus 0.2 adds NVMe, NixOS images and more

    20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  38. Higher UV exposure associated with lower mortality: UK Biobank Cohort Study [pdf]

    20 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  39. A Former Amazon Worker Was Put a Performance Plan; Lost a Deposit on a House

    20 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  40. Unpacking Elixir: Observability

    20 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  41. 'A.I. Obama' and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  42. JVector: The most advanced embedded vector search engine

    20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  43. It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks

    20 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  44. People with CarPlay are mostly just listening to AM/FM radio

    20 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  45. Detroit: magic wand makes dirty air look clean and lets polluters off the hook

    20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  46. Man arrested after confusing Portuguese words for 'pomegranate' and 'grenade'

    20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  47. Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  48. Vision Transformers Need Registers

    20 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  49. Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know

    20 points • comment • oct 07, 2023

  50. The Case of the Poison Pen Letters

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  51. PFAS is in the groundwater west of Spokane

    20 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  52. AMD acquires Nod.ai to bolsters its AI software ecosystem

    20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  53. Big layoffs coming at Convoy, a logistics startup backed by Bezos and Gates

    20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  54. Copy webpage text, convert to Markdown

    20 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  55. China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It

    20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  56. Mastodon has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought

    20 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  57. Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method

    20 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  58. Show HN: Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics

    20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  59. Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube by helping users bypass ad-blocker-blocker

    20 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  60. Louis Rossmann – The best way to watch online video; my yearlong project is done

    20 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  61. GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

    20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  62. Elon Musk could block Twitter for users in Europe to avoid Digital Services Act

    20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  63. Let's Celebrate Relicensing from an Open Source to a Proprietary License

    20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  64. US Tests Explosive at Nuclear Site as Russia Revokes Ban on Atomic Weapons Tests

    20 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  65. Jon Stewart's show on Apple is over because of disagreements about China

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  66. The Million Dollar Homepage

    20 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  67. Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?

    20 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  68. Mentally Ill Man with AI Girlfriend Tried to Kill Queen

    20 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  69. Open Questions for AI Engineering

    20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  70. Why a bale of straw is hanging from the Millennium Bridge

    20 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  71. WebUSB Support for RP2040

    20 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  72. Ubuntu 23.10 release image withdrawn due to malicious translation incident

    20 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  73. Foldable iPad in 'Intensive Development,' Announced as Soon as Next Year

    20 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  74. Programmers Fallacies about Postcodes

    20 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  75. 53% of U.S. dog owners hesitant about the rabies vaccine

    20 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  76. Argentina's Economic Catastrophe: How Bad Policies Destroyed a Once Rich Country [video]

    20 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  77. Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender (2020)

    20 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  78. 'This will be our last post' – LBRY throws in towel against the SEC

    19 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  79. Real-Time Research: Top Reference Systems (Design Systems and UI Libs) 2023

    19 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  80. Mailchimp alternatives in 2023: 15 options, 5 with unlimited contacts

    19 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  81. Audacity runs surprisingly well in the browser

    19 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  82. CT scanned: What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable?

    19 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  83. Perilous Joy: George Eliot and the marriage question

    19 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  84. Airbnb listings down to 3,227 from 22,434 since August

    19 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  85. Raspberry Pi releases RP1 peripheral controller datasheet and block diagram

    19 points • comment • oct 07, 2023

  86. The WebP vulnerability: a tale of a CVE with much bigger impl

    19 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  87. The deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes

    19 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  88. Cataloguing the Cotton Charters

    19 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  89. Intro to Semantic Kernel – Part Two

    19 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  90. Toyota's reliance on single supplier drags out long shutdown

    19 points • comment • oct 28, 2023

  91. Oligopoly competition between satellite constellations reduce economic welfare

    19 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  92. A Pedestrian Was Hit; Cruise Car Subsequently Runs Her Over and Stops on Her

    19 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  93. MSFT Earnings Release FY24 Q1

    19 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  94. Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House

    19 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  95. Show HN: Aft, minimalistic file transferring program

    19 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  96. Facebook's AI Tom Brady is a weird creep who's obsessed with Travis Kelce

    19 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  97. Ask HN: What's Been Going on with Archive.today?

    19 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  98. Mozilla Connect Ideas – Vote on Firefox Features

    19 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  99. Honda debuts its first-ever electric autonomous zero-turn riding lawn mower

    19 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  100. Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation

    19 points • comment • oct 02, 2023