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Hacker News (Dec 2023)
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Switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart
20 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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AI Is Already a Commodity
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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The Religion of Techno-Optimism
20 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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'Demonic forces' stopped official investigations into UFOs in the UK
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Vendor lock-in is a good thing? HP's CFO thinks so
20 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Ask HN: What lesser-known Python libraries do you wish people knew about?
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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High Scalability is up for sale
20 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out
20 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Differences Between NT Server and Workstation Are Minimal (1996)
20 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Show HN: Turn Kafka into an MQTT Broker for IoT with Zilla
20 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Why Bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year
20 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Goes Terribly
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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His electric vehicle battery died. 1 year later still no replacement part
20 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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The Technology (2014)
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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Ask HN: Stories of political intrigue in large companies
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Asking ChatGPT to draw the most normal image possible
20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Tech Layoffs due to IRS tax code change
20 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Google admits Gemini demo was staged
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Box Breathe
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Adobe darkened pantone pallete of patterns
19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5B contract
19 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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America's Peace Wave: Violent-crime rates have suddenly–mercifully–plummeted
19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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OpenBSD/amd64 CD/.iso images are now also bootable in EFI-mode
19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Porting Fedora to Modern C
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Unveiling Vulnerabilities: A Deep Dive into WiFi Camera Security
19 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Stephen Colbert on Saying Yes (2006)
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Ask HN: Anyone using Bazel at startups? or migrated to/away from Bazel?
19 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males
19 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Due to AI, "We are about to enter the era of mass spying," says Bruce Schneier
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Club Pilates, Pure Barre owners say Xponential left them bankrupt
19 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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Tesla skips employees' yearly merit-based stock comp bonus
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Gross value added per worker by country and area in Europe
19 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Man boards international flight to US with no ticket or passport
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Adobe, Figma to terminate $20B deal over regulatory hurdles
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Swiss Privacy and Honest Competition
19 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Australian sea captain says he may have found missing Malaysian Airlines flight
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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'Fake' Seal Impression of Biblical King Jeroboam Is Authentic
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor
19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Ford cutting 2024 F-150 Lightning production plans by half
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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The rise and fall of peer review
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
19 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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A bike lane moved, and this San Francisco neighborhood erupted
19 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Facebook Open Sources StyleX
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Designing Error Types in Rust
19 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Amazon to launch Project Kuiper satellites on SpaceX Falcon 9
19 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Fun Cryptic Clues
19 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Information Security Books of 2023
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest legal consumption rooms
19 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days
19 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Tales of Topological Qubits
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars
19 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Elon Musk Drove a 9,500-Percent Surge in Pizzagate Content
19 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
19 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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On C popularity vs. Python, size of stdlib, package managers in languages
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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U.S. water utilities hacked after leaving passwords set to default '1111'
19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Aurga dongle can remote control any device, even a headless PC with no OS
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University
19 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Bill Gates 2024 Predictions
19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Interview: The Threat of Self-Censorship in Science
19 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Graphite Bomb
19 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)
19 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges $12.3M
19 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan, solidarizes with Paul Graham
19 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Lobsters – Hacker News
19 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Ask HN: Is ChatGPT making tech publishing obsolete?
19 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns (2014)
19 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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WinUAE 5.1.0
19 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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After the Plague: Health and History in Medieval England
19 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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The First Costume Book: 1562
19 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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Pro-Israel tech group's 'witch hunt' in US targets critics of Gaza war
19 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Llamafile – The easiest way to run LLMs locally on your Mac
19 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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LG launches residential air-to-water propane heat pump
18 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Ghost kitchens were supposed to revolutionize restaurants. They're crashing
18 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Ask HN: How can I keep my Engineers properly fed with quality work?
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It
18 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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Montenegro Plans to Extradite Fallen Crypto Tycoon Do Kwon to U.S.
18 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Let's Build a Webapp Without Rails: Serve Static Files and Render Dynamic Views
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Less social media makes you happier and more efficient at work, says study
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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A car dealership added an AI chatbot to its site. Then all hell broke loose
18 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Ask HN: Reddit died, nothing took its place. What will happen when HN dies?
18 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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OpenAI to pay Politico parent for using its content
18 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Show HN: I Built a Receipt-Image to JSON Converter (+ Line-Items)
18 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Shoplifting and frustrated customers plague self-checkout
18 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers
18 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Subsec fluctuations in extracellular dopamine encode prediction errors in humans
18 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Self-Supervised Behavior Cloned Transformers Are Path Crawlers for Text Games
18 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Aging societies more vulnerable to collapse
18 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI
18 points • comment • dec 10, 2023