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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

    2194 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  2. Gemini AI

    2132 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  3. Tiny volumetric display

    1559 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  4. LLM Visualization

    1556 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  5. 4B If Statements

    1506 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  6. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

    1490 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  7. In 2024, please switch to Firefox

    1485 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  8. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

    1436 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  9. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

    1361 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  10. Happy New Year HN!

    1348 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  11. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

    1269 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  12. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

    1265 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  13. DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

    1233 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  14. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

    1197 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  15. Beeper Mini is back

    1053 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  16. Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

    1011 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  17. Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops

    1010 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  18. First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

    1008 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  19. Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

    1004 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  20. Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

    987 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  21. Mechanical Watch (2022)

    951 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  22. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

    946 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  23. Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

    919 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  24. LLM Visualization

    902 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  25. Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays

    846 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  26. 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js

    843 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  27. You don't need JavaScript for that

    836 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  28. Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

    810 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  29. Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

    806 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  30. Code is run more than read

    799 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  31. Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

    793 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  32. The pro-Israel information war

    781 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  33. Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time

    764 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  34. Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

    755 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  35. Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs

    754 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  36. How big is YouTube?

    745 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  37. Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet

    743 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  38. 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing

    741 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  39. Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?

    734 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  40. Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

    717 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  41. The Seamless Communication models

    716 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  42. Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    714 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  43. Database Fundamentals

    703 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  44. I bricked my Christmas lights

    687 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  45. Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy

    674 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  46. IDEs we had 30 years ago

    669 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  47. James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus

    666 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  48. A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

    662 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  49. From Nand to Tetris (2017)

    657 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  50. Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

    644 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  51. Costs of running a macOS app studio business

    644 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  52. A decade of Have I Been Pwned

    640 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  53. JSONB has landed

    637 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  54. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

    631 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  55. Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking

    626 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  56. Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find

    621 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  57. A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors

    618 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  58. Firefox on the brink?

    618 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  59. Mixtral of experts

    612 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  60. 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture

    611 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  61. SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields

    610 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  62. The art of high performance computing

    607 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  63. Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

    603 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  64. Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

    600 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  65. The curse of the goitre in Switzerland

    599 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  66. FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades

    597 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  67. YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

    592 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  68. Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

    587 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  69. Ruby 3.3

    585 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  70. Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

    585 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  71. You are never taught how to build quality software

    583 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  72. iMessage, explained

    583 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  73. How to learn chess as an adult (2021)

    581 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  74. Modern iOS Navigation Patterns

    577 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  75. How does Shazam work? (2022)

    575 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  76. Blot turns a folder into a website

    574 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  77. Accidental database programming

    567 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  78. Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

    561 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  79. Ventoy

    559 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  80. Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game

    556 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  81. Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies

    555 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  82. Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

    549 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  83. Xmas.c (1988)

    547 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  84. Cold-blooded software

    542 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  85. The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

    531 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  86. FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease

    531 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  87. Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)

    527 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  88. Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers

    526 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  89. Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users

    522 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  90. Django 5.0

    521 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  91. Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

    520 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  92. 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users

    517 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  93. Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one

    515 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  94. NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

    514 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  95. Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android

    513 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  96. Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]

    511 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  97. Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

    510 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  98. The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

    506 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  99. Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

    499 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  100. Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)

    499 points • comment • dec 24, 2023