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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. WikiReader

    78 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  2. Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023

    78 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  3. Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  4. Clash: A Functional Hardware Description Language

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  5. Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll

    78 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  6. Some Useful Bash Aliases (2022)

    78 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  7. 20 years of Mars Express

    78 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  8. Raspberry Pi releases PCIe FFC connector specifications, new HAT+ standard

    78 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  9. Show HN: Fine-grained stylistic control of LLMs using model arithmetic

    78 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  10. Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark

    78 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  11. Blindsight by Peter Watts (full novel)

    78 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  12. Mercedes adds a new car light color: Blue for self-driving

    77 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  13. Porting Hare to OpenBSD

    77 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  14. Open-source AI knowledge database with web UI and Enterprise SSO

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  15. Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X

    77 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  16. The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop

    77 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  17. XPath Scraping with FreshRSS

    77 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  18. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019)

    77 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  19. QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)

    77 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  20. Ed Roberts: The Secret Father of Modern Computing

    77 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  21. Record global temperatures and U.S. billion-dollar disasters

    77 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  22. The Stroad

    76 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  23. Secrets of the Fn Key

    76 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  24. The art of slide design: Maximise signal, minimise noise

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  25. TC39: Add Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  26. 25 hours of Xcode Cloud now included with the Apple Developer Program

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  27. Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked

    76 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  28. 'Merchants of Complexity': Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  29. January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day

    76 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  30. Jarvis: A Voice Virtual Assistant in Python (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram)

    76 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  31. New theory seeks to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics

    76 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  32. AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking

    76 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  33. Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?

    76 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  34. A future for SQL on the web (2021)

    76 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  35. Electronics Flea Market

    75 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  36. Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities

    75 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  37. Show HN: Minimalist Calendars Generator

    75 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  38. Qt Widgets Rendering Pipeline

    75 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  39. Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before Oct 7 [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  40. Elixir v1.16 Released

    75 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  41. Scratch in the Browser

    75 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  42. Designing a distributed SQL engine: Challenges and decisions

    75 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  43. Second Life UPS Mark II

    75 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  44. Nanoplastics Likely Worse Than Microplastics; We Know Almost Nothing About Them

    75 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  45. Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  46. Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar

    75 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  47. Tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  48. Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  49. OpenAI employee: GPT-4.5 rumor was a hallucination

    75 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  50. A Mathematical Perspective on Transformers

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  51. What is a parser mismatch vulnerability? (2022)

    75 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  52. 12VO power standard appears to be gaining steam, will reduce PC cabling, costs

    75 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  53. Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  54. Modern automotive electronics will lead to a mechanical revolution [video]

    75 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  55. UK court allows ANN patent saying computer programs exclusion does not apply

    75 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  56. Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  57. DeciLM-7B: The Fastest and Most Accurate 7B-Parameter LLM to Date

    75 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  58. An easy-sounding problem yields numbers too big for our universe

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  59. Let the terminal bells ring out

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  60. EVE Online – Down the Rabbit Hole [video]

    75 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  61. A curiously recurring lifetime issue

    74 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  62. The future of air defense must be smarter, more affordable, and reusable

    74 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  63. A few words about Blameless culture

    74 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  64. CloudEvents Event Specification

    74 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  65. Seven escaped chimpanzees

    74 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  66. Google Maps now looks more like Apple Maps – and a lot of people aren't happy

    74 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  67. South Korea Will Police 'Shrinkflation' at the Supermarket

    74 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  68. B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person

    74 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  69. Hubless-wheel electric penny farthing is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece

    74 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  70. Llamafile: Bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer

    74 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  71. Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal

    74 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  72. Ghidra 11.0 Released

    74 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  73. Show HN: Chrome Reaper

    74 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  74. Programming Bottom-Up (1993)

    74 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  75. A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video]

    74 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  76. A slightly longer Lean 4 proof tour

    74 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  77. NLP Research in the Era of LLMs

    74 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  78. Show HN: Lume – automate data mappings using AI

    74 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  79. Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house

    74 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  80. Lagrange points could become battlegrounds in a new space race

    74 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  81. Crafting Interpreters

    74 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  82. TLA+ in Isabelle/HOL

    74 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  83. Where do journals go to die?

    73 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  84. W4 Games announces pricing model for console ports

    73 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  85. EU Integrity Watch

    73 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  86. S2n-TLS – A C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol

    73 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  87. Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

    73 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  88. Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary

    73 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  89. I spent a year building an app and failed – The story of Taskwer

    73 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  90. Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees

    73 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  91. How big can a snowflake get?

    73 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  92. 300-year-old Tokyo comb company sells 30k-yen ($200) wooden hair combs

    73 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  93. First Impressions with Google Gemini

    73 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  94. Apple to pause selling new versions of its watch after losing patent dispute

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  95. Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity

    72 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  96. Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second [video]

    72 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  97. Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range

    72 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  98. The curious case of the aggregation query

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  99. Terminal graphics protocol

    72 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  100. Ego killed the empowered product team

    72 points • comment • dec 11, 2023