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Hacker News (Oct 2023)

  1. Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware

    179 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  2. Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS

    178 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  3. $95 AMD CPU Becomes 16GB GPU to Run AI Software

    178 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  4. Ask HN: Was any Starfighter postmortem ever published?

    178 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  5. Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator

    178 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  6. The Ideation Flywheel: A mental model for deciding which startup ideas to pursue

    178 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  7. Black 4.0

    178 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  8. Choose Boring Technology (2018)

    178 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  9. Find the date of your birthday in the number pi

    178 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  10. OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic

    178 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  11. Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business

    177 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  12. Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform

    177 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  13. Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

    177 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  14. Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

    177 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  15. Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting police tech in our communities

    177 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  16. SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site

    177 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  17. How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games

    176 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  18. Leantime: Open-Source Jira Alternative

    176 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  19. Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

    176 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  20. Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)

    176 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  21. How to Make Your Own Spooky Magic Eye Pictures (Autostereograms)

    175 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  22. Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

    175 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  23. 18-year-old built a computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes

    175 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  24. Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch

    175 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  25. PaLI-3 Vision Language Models

    175 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  26. Show HN: WebSession, a Secure Replacement for Cookies

    175 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  27. Google changed ad auctions, raising prices 15%, witness says

    175 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  28. Lumber prices down 11% YoY

    175 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  29. A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)

    175 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  30. Scammers posing as customer service agents on X as companies leave platform

    175 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  31. OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]

    175 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  32. Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions

    175 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  33. Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees

    174 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  34. AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes

    174 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  35. MMO Architecture: clients, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers

    174 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  36. Summary of “The Procrastination Equation”

    173 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  37. The Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source remake of Star Control II

    173 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  38. Ruff v0.1.0

    173 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  39. Exploratory data analysis for humanities data

    173 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  40. Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost

    173 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  41. Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?

    173 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  42. Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a Git like approach

    173 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  43. GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers

    173 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  44. An ultra-quiet electric leaf blower

    173 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  45. Fastest sailboat: Two wild designs

    173 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  46. Mitochondrial DNA damage triggers spread of Parkinson’s disease-like pathology

    172 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  47. Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

    172 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  48. Bad Emacs defaults

    172 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  49. Disappearing Polymorphs

    172 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  50. Thunderbird 115.4.0

    172 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  51. SQL reserved words – An empirical list

    172 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  52. Decline in independent activity as a cause of decline in child mental health

    172 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  53. Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit

    172 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  54. Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

    172 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  55. Stories told by Aboriginal Tasmanians could be oldest recorded

    171 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  56. Before Skynet and The Matrix, there was Colossus: The Forbin Project

    171 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  57. The Case of a Curious SQL Query

    171 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  58. Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs

    171 points • comment • oct 29, 2023

  59. 500 Lines or Less (2016)

    170 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  60. Rules of schema growth (2017)

    170 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  61. AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans

    170 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  62. AirportSim

    170 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  63. Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs

    170 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  64. V0: Generative UI

    170 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  65. Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days

    170 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  66. There's a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses

    169 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  67. Europe's largest copper producer is the victim of metal swindle worth $198M

    169 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  68. "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4

    169 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  69. Leaked Microsoft pay guidelines – salary, hiring bonus, stock awards by level

    169 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  70. HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

    169 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  71. Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

    169 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  72. Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org

    169 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  73. New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network

    169 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  74. Antibiotic Identified by AI

    169 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  75. Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard

    169 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  76. Visualizing American inflation across eight categories

    168 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  77. Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

    168 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  78. Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports

    168 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  79. Mojo is now available on Mac

    168 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  80. Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

    168 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  81. Roombas at the end of the world

    168 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  82. Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality

    168 points • comment • oct 15, 2023

  83. Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  84. Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos

    167 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  85. This is financial advice [video]

    167 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  86. You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed

    167 points • comment • oct 18, 2023

  87. Unpacking Elixir: Observability

    167 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  88. Tiny Language Models Come of Age

    167 points • comment • oct 06, 2023

  89. Yarn 4.0

    167 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  90. It’s time to allow researchers to submit manuscripts to multiple journals

    166 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  91. It's easy to screw up on breaking news but you have to admit when you do

    166 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  92. Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP

    166 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  93. 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

    166 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  94. Toxiproxy – simulate network and system conditions for chaos testing

    166 points • comment • oct 11, 2023

  95. Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field

    166 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  96. Elephants are scared around bees

    165 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  97. Passive Solar Water Desalination

    165 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  98. How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and fraud

    165 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  99. How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video]

    165 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  100. Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations

    165 points • comment • oct 05, 2023