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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. Electric Vehicles are better than gas-powered cars in winter–here's why

    9 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  2. Introduction to free software and the liberation of cyberspace (2014)

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  3. Sacred Stones Worshipped for Generations in India Turn Out to Be Dinosaur Eggs

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  4. AI cannot be named as patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules

    9 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  5. Remote Work Burnout Is Real

    9 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  6. Apple makes it easier for app makers to compete for your dollars

    9 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  7. GPT 4.5 Turbo has been stealth released

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  8. Claudine Gay accused of botching study that landed her major tenure at Stanford

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  9. Elon Musk Says He May Bring Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X

    9 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  10. Elon Musk (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) [video]

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  11. Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear in Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence

    9 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  12. The houses built to survive floods

    9 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  13. Trippy: A Network Diagnostic Tool

    9 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  14. Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot app arrives on iOS

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  15. The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

    9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  16. ChatGPT powered CS chat by Chevrolet of Watsonville answers coding questions

    9 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  17. Why do we have weird LLM sizes like 3B, 7B, 13B, 33B, 70B? Who invented those?

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  18. Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble

    9 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  19. SEC – simple event correlator

    9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  20. Nomogram

    9 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  21. Kia's scheme to deliberately withhold deliveries

    9 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  22. Qwik v1.3.0

    9 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  23. Iran, Russia to trade in local currencies instead of US dollar

    9 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  24. Whirlygig Volumetric Display LPC1768 Demo (2014) [video]

    9 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  25. Eiffel Tower closes as staff strikes, union says landmark "headed for disaster"

    9 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  26. Invariance, Covariance, and Contravariance in .NET C#

    9 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  27. Keynote – LockPickingLawyer (2021) [video]

    9 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  28. Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X with Andrew Tate repost

    9 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  29. Nvidia to work with SoftBank, other Japan firms to push AI research

    9 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  30. Google Stadia: Leaded Documents Explain Its Failure (Porting to Linux a Factor)

    9 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  31. On the terrible civilian toll of modern warfare on civilian populations

    9 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  32. Why do poor people commit more crime?

    9 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  33. A new 66M-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today

    9 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  34. A browser extension that changes the word "billionaire" to "oligarch"

    9 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  35. Wireshark for Network Forensics:An Essential Guide for IT and Cloud Professional

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  36. U.S. Intel officials: Chinese spy balloon used a US internet provider for comms

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  37. Empires of Light

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  38. As We May Toast

    8 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  39. GitHub Actions Feels Bad [video]

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  40. Tubestats

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  41. Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  42. Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch?

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  43. OpenAI is paying out $51M to a chip startup that Sam Altman invested in

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

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

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  45. Amazon Sellers Say Misleading AI Product Reviews Threaten Sales

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  46. Why American MDs are unionizing

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  47. Seximal is objectively the best way to represent numbers

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  48. Intel shows Gaudi3 AI accelerator, promising quadruple BF16 performance in 2024

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  49. Farewell to Charlie Munger

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  50. Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza a 'macabre game of Battleships'

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  51. Elon Musk's luck has finally run out

    8 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  52. Smart TV Knows What You're Watching

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  53. Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  54. Tigger: A database proxy that bounces with user-bypass [pdf]

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  55. AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  56. Don't call me "old": Avoiding ageism when writing about aging

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  57. PyPI new user registration temporarily suspended

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  58. Pizza box form factor

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  59. Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

    8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  60. Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

    8 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  61. Senator wants Marines to explain why wounded troops weren't told the truth

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  62. Banish state-mutating methods from data classes

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  63. Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  64. 'Long flu' has emerged as a consequence similar to long Covid

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  65. Automating Continual Learning

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  66. GPT-4 outperforms Med-PaLM 2 with powerful prompting strategies

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  67. Silicon Valley Has a Muslim Problem – By M. Mehdi Ali – Dec, 2023

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  68. Are you smarter than an LLM?

    8 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  69. Transactional Email Delivery Made Easy

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  70. Europe's geography 'kind of reshaped' as Paris-Berlin night train returns

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  71. De4py: Toolkit for Python Reverse Engineering

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  72. Silicon Valley Is a Hellhole, Unless You're Gilded

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  73. Next UK election is set to be most unequal for over 60 years, finds IPPR

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  74. Delicious Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes – The Fiery Vegetarian

    8 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  75. Inflation Is Your Fault

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  76. Why Iceland's latest eruption may be the most dangerous in recent history

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  77. Why the Fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  78. Record U.S. oil output challenges Saudi mastery

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  79. Brussels launches legal action against X over illegal content, disinformation

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  80. Show HN: Round-Trip Encrypted HTTPS Exfiltration Tool

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  81. Backblaze Hard Drive Lifetime Annualized 2013-2023

    8 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  82. Microsoft deprecates Legacy console mode in Windows 11 and future releases

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  83. Young Americans Turn Against Boomers over Social Security

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  84. Artists turn AI against itself with tools designed to protect their work

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  85. What Econ Says in the Shadows

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  86. The Death of Caspar Hauser

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  87. Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  88. China starts up first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  89. A CCPA Request to OpenAI Took 101 Days and Raises More Questions Than Answers

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  90. Code of silence: How one techie unmasked Silicon Valley's hypocrisy on Gaza

    8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  91. A Change in the Weather (1985) [video]

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  92. The moral injury of having your work enshittified

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  93. Harvard president to remain after anger over testimony on antisemitism

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  94. Don't write web apps in anything other than TypeScript

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  95. React Aria: Craft world-class accessible components with custom styles

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  96. Is GitHub Gone Mad?

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  97. The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  98. Twitter XSS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  99. Moore Threads S4000 AI GPU

    8 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  100. Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near a Power Plant: 'Worst-Case Scenario'

    8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023