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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. Switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart

    20 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  2. AI Is Already a Commodity

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  3. Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  4. The Religion of Techno-Optimism

    20 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  5. 'Demonic forces' stopped official investigations into UFOs in the UK

    20 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  6. Vendor lock-in is a good thing? HP's CFO thinks so

    20 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  7. Ask HN: What lesser-known Python libraries do you wish people knew about?

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  8. High Scalability is up for sale

    20 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  9. Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?

    20 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  10. Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles

    20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  11. Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  12. Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out

    20 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  13. Differences Between NT Server and Workstation Are Minimal (1996)

    20 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  14. Show HN: Turn Kafka into an MQTT Broker for IoT with Zilla

    20 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  15. Why Bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year

    20 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  16. Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Goes Terribly

    20 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  17. His electric vehicle battery died. 1 year later still no replacement part

    20 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  18. The Technology (2014)

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  19. SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?

    20 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  20. Ask HN: Stories of political intrigue in large companies

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  21. Asking ChatGPT to draw the most normal image possible

    20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  22. Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  23. Tech Layoffs due to IRS tax code change

    20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  24. Google admits Gemini demo was staged

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  25. Box Breathe

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  26. Adobe darkened pantone pallete of patterns

    19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  27. Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5B contract

    19 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  28. America's Peace Wave: Violent-crime rates have suddenly–mercifully–plummeted

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  29. OpenBSD/amd64 CD/.iso images are now also bootable in EFI-mode

    19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  30. Porting Fedora to Modern C

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  31. Unveiling Vulnerabilities: A Deep Dive into WiFi Camera Security

    19 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  32. Stephen Colbert on Saying Yes (2006)

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  33. Ask HN: Anyone using Bazel at startups? or migrated to/away from Bazel?

    19 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  34. A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males

    19 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  35. Due to AI, "We are about to enter the era of mass spying," says Bruce Schneier

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  36. Club Pilates, Pure Barre owners say Xponential left them bankrupt

    19 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  37. Tesla skips employees' yearly merit-based stock comp bonus

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  38. Gross value added per worker by country and area in Europe

    19 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  39. Man boards international flight to US with no ticket or passport

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  40. Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  41. Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin

    19 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  42. Adobe, Figma to terminate $20B deal over regulatory hurdles

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  43. Swiss Privacy and Honest Competition

    19 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  44. Australian sea captain says he may have found missing Malaysian Airlines flight

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  45. 'Fake' Seal Impression of Biblical King Jeroboam Is Authentic

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  46. Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  47. Ford cutting 2024 F-150 Lightning production plans by half

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  48. The rise and fall of peer review

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  49. Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  50. Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features

    19 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  51. A bike lane moved, and this San Francisco neighborhood erupted

    19 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  52. Facebook Open Sources StyleX

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  53. Designing Error Types in Rust

    19 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  54. Amazon to launch Project Kuiper satellites on SpaceX Falcon 9

    19 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  55. Fun Cryptic Clues

    19 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  56. Information Security Books of 2023

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  57. Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  58. HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  59. 'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest legal consumption rooms

    19 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  60. Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

    19 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  61. Tales of Topological Qubits

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  62. Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars

    19 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  63. Elon Musk Drove a 9,500-Percent Surge in Pizzagate Content

    19 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  64. 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  65. On C popularity vs. Python, size of stdlib, package managers in languages

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  66. U.S. water utilities hacked after leaving passwords set to default '1111'

    19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  67. Aurga dongle can remote control any device, even a headless PC with no OS

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  68. What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University

    19 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  69. Bill Gates 2024 Predictions

    19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  70. The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  71. Interview: The Threat of Self-Censorship in Science

    19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  72. Graphite Bomb

    19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  73. Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)

    19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  74. Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges $12.3M

    19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  75. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan, solidarizes with Paul Graham

    19 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  76. Lobsters – Hacker News

    19 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  77. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT making tech publishing obsolete?

    19 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  78. I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns (2014)

    19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  79. WinUAE 5.1.0

    19 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  80. After the Plague: Health and History in Medieval England

    19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  81. The First Costume Book: 1562

    19 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  82. Pro-Israel tech group's 'witch hunt' in US targets critics of Gaza war

    19 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  83. Llamafile – The easiest way to run LLMs locally on your Mac

    19 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  84. LG launches residential air-to-water propane heat pump

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  85. Ghost kitchens were supposed to revolutionize restaurants. They're crashing

    18 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  86. Ask HN: How can I keep my Engineers properly fed with quality work?

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  87. Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It

    18 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  88. Montenegro Plans to Extradite Fallen Crypto Tycoon Do Kwon to U.S.

    18 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  89. Let's Build a Webapp Without Rails: Serve Static Files and Render Dynamic Views

    18 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  90. Less social media makes you happier and more efficient at work, says study

    18 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  91. A car dealership added an AI chatbot to its site. Then all hell broke loose

    18 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  92. Ask HN: Reddit died, nothing took its place. What will happen when HN dies?

    18 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  93. OpenAI to pay Politico parent for using its content

    18 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  94. Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items)

    18 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  95. Shoplifting and frustrated customers plague self-checkout

    18 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  96. She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers

    18 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  97. Subsec fluctuations in extracellular dopamine encode prediction errors in humans

    18 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  98. Self-Supervised Behavior Cloned Transformers Are Path Crawlers for Text Games

    18 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  99. Aging societies more vulnerable to collapse

    18 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  100. A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI

    18 points • comment • dec 10, 2023