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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)

    496 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  2. I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate

    495 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

    488 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  4. Making noisy SVGs

    488 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  5. Things software developers should learn about learning

    487 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  6. Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

    487 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  7. Firefox Sync actually works

    482 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  8. Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access

    479 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  9. Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?

    478 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  10. Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

    478 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  11. A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography

    476 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  12. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

    472 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  13. Beeper – Moving Forward

    469 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  14. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

    468 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  15. Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

    468 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  16. Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook

    467 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  17. SVG Tutorial

    465 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  18. Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

    461 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  19. I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

    460 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  20. Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

    458 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  21. Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices

    454 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  22. YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash

    454 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  23. You've just been fucked by psyops [video]

    449 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  24. A lost X-Files song

    448 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  25. MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data

    445 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  26. Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer

    443 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  27. Fantasy Map Brushes

    442 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  28. Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company

    441 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  29. Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

    435 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  30. The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

    433 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  31. 0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia "Ship of Theseus" article remain

    432 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  32. 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public

    431 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  33. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)

    430 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  34. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)

    428 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  35. Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice

    427 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  36. Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

    427 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  37. Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record

    425 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  38. SSH over HTTPS

    420 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  39. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

    419 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  40. I'm skeptical of low-code

    416 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  41. Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad

    413 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  42. More product, fewer product managers

    410 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  43. Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch

    408 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  44. Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?

    408 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  45. Switch off bad TV settings

    408 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  46. High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs

    406 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  47. Mold Course

    402 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  48. I Love Ruby

    402 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  49. Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real

    401 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  50. How Lego builds a new Lego set

    400 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  51. NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus

    400 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  52. Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget

    399 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  53. Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers

    398 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  54. The Art of Electronics (2015)

    392 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  55. Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought

    392 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  56. Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

    390 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  57. "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"

    388 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  58. 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit

    388 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  59. Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

    387 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  60. Amazon's Silent Sacking

    385 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  61. Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?

    385 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  62. Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom

    382 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  63. Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

    382 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  64. Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise

    381 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  65. Things are about to get worse for generative AI

    381 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  66. Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling

    380 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  67. FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs

    379 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  68. AI and Mass Spying

    377 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  69. Goodbye, clean code (2020)

    374 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  70. Rethinking serverless with FLAME

    374 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  71. A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay

    373 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  72. Zero downtime Postgres upgrades

    373 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  73. Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker

    371 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  74. Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs

    371 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  75. Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs

    370 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  76. Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip

    369 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  77. Reclaiming the web with a personal reader

    366 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  78. Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

    366 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  79. Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330

    361 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  80. HTML hacks that shaped the Internet

    360 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  81. Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning

    359 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  82. Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle

    359 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  83. Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34

    359 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  84. An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs

    358 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  85. Particle Life

    357 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  86. Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars

    356 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  87. Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

    355 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  88. 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration

    354 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  89. Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance

    354 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  90. Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

    353 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  91. NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill

    353 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  92. Website search hurts my feelings

    353 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  93. To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use

    353 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  94. OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model

    352 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  95. Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi

    352 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  96. Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]

    352 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  97. A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks

    352 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  98. Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013

    351 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  99. No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability

    350 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  100. Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS

    348 points • comment • dec 16, 2023