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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. The Unix V6 shell and how control flow worked in it

    49 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  2. We can finally end warrantless surveillance in the US

    49 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  3. Lithium-ion battery pack prices hit record low

    49 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  4. Untyped Python: The Python That Was

    49 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  5. "Heaving oscillators" use wave power to extend shipping range

    49 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  6. Warn if (Windows ISO) media will no longer be bootable after Q1 2024 (Rufus)

    49 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  7. The limitations of deep learning (2017)

    49 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  8. Ask HN: How to admit that you don't want to be on the manager track anymore?

    49 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  9. The Languages of Media – Advertising Techniques

    49 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  10. Where do non-primitive recursive functions come up naturally?

    49 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  11. Plans for Nuclear-Powered 24,000 TEU Containership Unveiled in China

    49 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  12. Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory

    49 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  13. New tax rule is terrible for software industry

    49 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  14. Landlords Are 'Handing Back the Keys' with Offices 23% Empty

    48 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  15. Philosophy of Biff

    48 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  16. Autorize – Authorization enforcement detection extension for Burp Suite

    48 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  17. HuggingChat – ChatGPT alternative with open source models

    48 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  18. Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (2009)

    48 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  19. Quicktake for Apple II

    48 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  20. Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

    48 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  21. Chemicals of "Concern" Found in Philips Breathing Machines

    48 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  22. Hylomorphism

    48 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  23. Company refused to hire 49-year-old due to his age, feds say. Now he's owed $90k

    48 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  24. Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Taking over Jsweet.org?

    48 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  25. Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study

    48 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  26. Getting Started with Axum – Rust's Most Popular Web Framework

    48 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  27. Tim Sweeney on why Epic did better against Google than Apple in court

    48 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  28. Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries

    48 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  29. Is Software Getting Worse?

    48 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  30. NLP Course – For You

    48 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  31. Pricing Americans with finite-difference

    48 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  32. Large amounts of benzene detected in Texas.The residents werent told for decades

    48 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  33. Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)

    48 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  34. Dissolves: The out-of-fashion film trick that makes 'The Holdovers' so affecting

    48 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  35. Integrity-178B: Safety Critical Real-Time OS

    48 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  36. Filmolino SlideScanner

    48 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  37. Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before"

    48 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  38. Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address

    47 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  39. Gold prices are hitting records

    47 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  40. Show HN: Quack Companion – VSCode extension for OSS contribution assistance

    47 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  41. The Year of Ozempic

    47 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  42. Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users

    47 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  43. Paul Graham's Twitter account targeted by IDF

    47 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  44. Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person

    47 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  45. Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientist declare the first marine fish extinction

    47 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  46. Software architecture pitfalls and how to avoid them

    47 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  47. Tools and Apps for Technical Theater

    47 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  48. BYD Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular EV Maker

    47 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  49. The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2

    47 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  50. Show HN: Australian Acoustic Observatory Search

    47 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  51. Why I created Banner Blog

    47 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  52. The King of Silent Animation

    47 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  53. The end of retirement

    47 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  54. Medieval Icelandic Feasts

    47 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  55. OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants

    47 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  56. How to run a DOS-based web server

    47 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  57. It's time to put REST to rest

    47 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  58. Beeper's esoteric fix for iMessage access suggests why it's pushing politically

    47 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  59. Bird, once valued at $2.5B, just filed for bankruptcy

    47 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  60. Tired of Tip Requests, Consumers Are Getting Stingy

    47 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  61. Three things that LLMs have made us rethink

    46 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  62. Quantum Computer Music

    46 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  63. Eleanor Cross

    46 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  64. GraphWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus

    46 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  65. Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents

    46 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  66. Show HN: SuperDuperDB – Open-source framework for integrating AI with databases

    46 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  67. Sam Bankman-Fried: Convicted 'Crypto King' will not face second trial

    46 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  68. IBM Diversity Efforts Targeted by Stephen Miller's Legal Group

    46 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  69. My reference was dropped, why is the compiler complaining about multiple borrow

    46 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  70. This guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild

    46 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  71. Sireum Logika

    46 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  72. Typical CS dude checking his Georgia Tech admission 3 hours early

    46 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  73. Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds

    46 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  74. Supreme Court hears a case that experts say could wreak havoc on the tax code

    46 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  75. ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity

    46 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  76. Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015)

    46 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  77. Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements

    46 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  78. Unsupervised speech-to-speech translation from monolingual data

    46 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  79. Autonomous subs use AI to wayfind without GPS

    46 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  80. Show HN: A Google Maps Scraper

    46 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  81. NY Times is asking that *ALL* LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed

    46 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  82. New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

    46 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  83. The first electro-mechanical desktop synthesizer

    46 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  84. People aren't posting on social media as much

    46 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  85. Show HN: Made a forum for depressed founders to confide

    46 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  86. Ghostlike dusty galaxy reappears in James Webb Space Telescope image

    45 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  87. Dutch astronomers prove last piece of gas feedback-feeding loop of black hole

    45 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  88. Welcome to the Chata Programming Language

    45 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  89. New bill to bar wealthy colleges in the US from accepting federal student loans

    45 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  90. All our patent are belong to you (2014)

    45 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  91. EU opens formal DSA investigation into X

    45 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  92. Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong

    45 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  93. Project Valhalla: A look inside Java's epic refactor

    45 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  94. Almost 100k Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20

    45 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  95. Moore vs. United States: Tax Unrealized Income Case

    45 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  96. Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones

    45 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  97. The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

    45 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  98. Alpine Linux 3.19.0 Released

    45 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  99. How a script doctor found his own voice

    45 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  100. Peer-Reviewed Studies That Link Glyphosate to the Destruction of the Microbiome

    45 points • comment • dec 13, 2023