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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. Mastering Nim, 2nd edition

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  2. Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect

    117 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  3. 2023: The Year of AI

    117 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  4. Poor Man's Web

    117 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  5. Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models

    116 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  6. The first experimental support for LK99-type superconductivity

    116 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  7. How Many People? Ancient Demography

    116 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  8. What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay

    116 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  9. Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care

    116 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  10. The Long Shadow of Checks

    116 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  11. 2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome

    116 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  12. String pinsetters are upending bowling

    116 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  13. Inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield: study

    116 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  14. Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed

    115 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  15. An In-depth Look at Gemini's Language Abilities

    115 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  16. Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots

    115 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  17. A Brainfuck interpreter written in PostScript

    115 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  18. WWII heroics of 'Bazooka Charlie' doubted until daughter sets record straight

    115 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  19. Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court

    115 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  20. High blood pressure may contribute to cognitive decline

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  21. NASA’s tech demo streams first video from deep space via laser

    115 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  22. An Easy Fix

    115 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  23. Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood

    115 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  24. Factors driving a productivity explosion

    115 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  25. Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  26. Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week?

    115 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  27. Problems on the Galaxy Store

    115 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  28. The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints

    115 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  29. Endatabas: A SQLite-inspired, SQL document database with full history

    114 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  30. Double-mirror illusion

    114 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  31. Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS

    114 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  32. Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android

    114 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  33. The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)

    114 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  34. Web Development History – Internet history for the technically curious

    114 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  35. Counterfactual Regret Minimisation or How I won any money in Poker?

    114 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  36. Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic

    114 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  37. The Limits to Growth (1972)

    114 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  38. Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia

    114 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  39. Figgie: Simulate stock trading with a deck of cards

    114 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  40. Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros

    113 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  41. Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines

    113 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  42. Preparing for missions in difficult places

    113 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  43. Misra C++:2023

    113 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  44. It's not always DNS, unless it is

    113 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  45. 48x32: A 1536 LED Game Computer

    113 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  46. Laptop of the magi: an annoyed iMessage antitrust anecdote

    112 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  47. Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels

    112 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  48. Beeper Mini is now open-source

    112 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  49. Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)

    112 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  50. The Journal of Universal Rejection

    112 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  51. Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time

    112 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  52. E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance

    112 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  53. Comedian Tom Smothers has died

    112 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  54. The Sheep Incident (2008)

    112 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  55. A chess TUI implementation

    112 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  56. Indexing a billion pages

    112 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  57. Rare half female, half male bird spotted by University of Otago zoologist

    112 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  58. A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  59. 2TB microSD card is on the way early next year

    112 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  60. What is the point of a public key fingerprint?

    111 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  61. Stoßlüften: Shock Ventilation

    111 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  62. Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs

    111 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  63. Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

    111 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  64. Programs are games, programming is a game

    111 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  65. How to run a small social network (2019)

    111 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  66. Software audio routers

    111 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  67. Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors

    111 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  68. The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)

    111 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  69. Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way

    110 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  70. San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data

    110 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  71. Submarine Cable Map 2023

    110 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  72. Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disabled them

    110 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  73. Seraph Secure: anti-scam software co-founded by Kitboga

    110 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  74. Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?

    110 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  75. Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability

    110 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  76. Show HN: Winglang – A new cloud-oriented programming language

    110 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  77. Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation

    110 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  78. With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People

    110 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  79. High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can proceed

    109 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  80. Enlightenment 0.26

    109 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  81. Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the market, FDA says

    109 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  82. The 8-bit era: Eight processor designs

    109 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  83. Sid Meier's Memoir: A Life in Computer Games

    109 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  84. TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas

    109 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  85. Neumann Drive: A Pulsed Cathodic Arc Thruster for Spacecrafts

    109 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  86. 37C3 Video List

    109 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  87. VapourSynth: A video processing framework with simplicity in mind

    109 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  88. The Onyx Programming Language

    108 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  89. Meta will enforce ban on AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions

    108 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  90. Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy

    108 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  91. Translation and accelerated solving of differential equations on GPU platforms

    108 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  92. Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor

    108 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  93. Humans progressively feel agency over events triggered before their actions

    108 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  94. Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app

    108 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  95. TuneNN: A transformer-based network model for pitch detection

    108 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  96. Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them

    108 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  97. ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors

    108 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  98. Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors

    108 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  99. TU Berlin Scientists Hack Tesla Autopilot and Discover Secret Elon-Mode

    108 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  100. EmacsConf Live Now

    108 points • comment • dec 02, 2023