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Hacker News (Dec 2023)
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
2194 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Gemini AI
2132 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Tiny volumetric display
1559 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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LLM Visualization
1556 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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4B If Statements
1506 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
1490 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
1485 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
1436 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
1361 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Happy New Year HN!
1348 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
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Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
1269 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
1265 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
1233 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
1197 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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Beeper Mini is back
1053 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
1011 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
1010 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
1008 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation
1004 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
987 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Mechanical Watch (2022)
951 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
946 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
919 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
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LLM Visualization
902 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
846 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
843 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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You don't need JavaScript for that
836 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
810 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage
806 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Code is run more than read
799 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
793 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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The pro-Israel information war
781 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
764 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
755 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
754 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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How big is YouTube?
745 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
743 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
741 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?
734 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
717 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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The Seamless Communication models
716 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
714 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Database Fundamentals
703 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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I bricked my Christmas lights
687 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy
674 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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IDEs we had 30 years ago
669 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
666 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
662 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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From Nand to Tetris (2017)
657 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
644 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Costs of running a macOS app studio business
644 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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A decade of Have I Been Pwned
640 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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JSONB has landed
637 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?
631 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
626 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
621 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
618 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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Firefox on the brink?
618 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Mixtral of experts
612 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
611 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
610 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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The art of high performance computing
607 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
603 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
600 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
599 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades
597 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
592 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
587 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Ruby 3.3
585 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
585 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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You are never taught how to build quality software
583 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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iMessage, explained
583 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
581 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
577 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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How does Shazam work? (2022)
575 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Blot turns a folder into a website
574 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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Accidental database programming
567 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
561 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Ventoy
559 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game
556 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
555 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
549 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Xmas.c (1988)
547 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Cold-blooded software
542 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
531 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
531 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
527 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
526 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Apple confirms governments using push notifications to surveil users
522 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Django 5.0
521 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
520 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
517 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
515 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
514 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
513 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]
511 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
510 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
506 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
499 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
499 points • comment • dec 24, 2023