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Hacker News (Dec 2023)
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Electric Vehicles are better than gas-powered cars in winter–here's why
9 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Introduction to free software and the liberation of cyberspace (2014)
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Sacred Stones Worshipped for Generations in India Turn Out to Be Dinosaur Eggs
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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AI cannot be named as patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules
9 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Remote Work Burnout Is Real
9 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Apple makes it easier for app makers to compete for your dollars
9 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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GPT 4.5 Turbo has been stealth released
9 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Claudine Gay accused of botching study that landed her major tenure at Stanford
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Elon Musk Says He May Bring Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X
9 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Elon Musk (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) [video]
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear in Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence
9 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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The houses built to survive floods
9 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Trippy: A Network Diagnostic Tool
9 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot app arrives on iOS
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
9 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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ChatGPT powered CS chat by Chevrolet of Watsonville answers coding questions
9 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Why do we have weird LLM sizes like 3B, 7B, 13B, 33B, 70B? Who invented those?
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble
9 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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SEC – simple event correlator
9 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Nomogram
9 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Kia's scheme to deliberately withhold deliveries
9 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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Qwik v1.3.0
9 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Iran, Russia to trade in local currencies instead of US dollar
9 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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Whirlygig Volumetric Display LPC1768 Demo (2014) [video]
9 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Eiffel Tower closes as staff strikes, union says landmark "headed for disaster"
9 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Invariance, Covariance, and Contravariance in .NET C#
9 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Keynote – LockPickingLawyer (2021) [video]
9 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X with Andrew Tate repost
9 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Nvidia to work with SoftBank, other Japan firms to push AI research
9 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Google Stadia: Leaded Documents Explain Its Failure (Porting to Linux a Factor)
9 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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On the terrible civilian toll of modern warfare on civilian populations
9 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Why do poor people commit more crime?
9 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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A new 66M-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today
9 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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A browser extension that changes the word "billionaire" to "oligarch"
9 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Wireshark for Network Forensics:An Essential Guide for IT and Cloud Professional
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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U.S. Intel officials: Chinese spy balloon used a US internet provider for comms
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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Empires of Light
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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As We May Toast
8 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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GitHub Actions Feels Bad [video]
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Tubestats
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch?
8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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OpenAI is paying out $51M to a chip startup that Sam Altman invested in
8 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Due to AI, "We are about to enter the era of mass spying," says Bruce Schneier
8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Amazon Sellers Say Misleading AI Product Reviews Threaten Sales
8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Why American MDs are unionizing
8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Seximal is objectively the best way to represent numbers
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Intel shows Gaudi3 AI accelerator, promising quadruple BF16 performance in 2024
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Farewell to Charlie Munger
8 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza a 'macabre game of Battleships'
8 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Elon Musk's luck has finally run out
8 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Smart TV Knows What You're Watching
8 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home
8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Tigger: A database proxy that bounces with user-bypass [pdf]
8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Don't call me "old": Avoiding ageism when writing about aging
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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PyPI new user registration temporarily suspended
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Pizza box form factor
8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
8 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
8 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Senator wants Marines to explain why wounded troops weren't told the truth
8 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Banish state-mutating methods from data classes
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Ask HN: Learn Graphics Programming, Recommendations?
8 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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'Long flu' has emerged as a consequence similar to long Covid
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Automating Continual Learning
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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GPT-4 outperforms Med-PaLM 2 with powerful prompting strategies
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Silicon Valley Has a Muslim Problem – By M. Mehdi Ali – Dec, 2023
8 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Are you smarter than an LLM?
8 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Transactional Email Delivery Made Easy
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Europe's geography 'kind of reshaped' as Paris-Berlin night train returns
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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De4py: Toolkit for Python Reverse Engineering
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Silicon Valley Is a Hellhole, Unless You're Gilded
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Next UK election is set to be most unequal for over 60 years, finds IPPR
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Delicious Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes – The Fiery Vegetarian
8 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Inflation Is Your Fault
8 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Why Iceland's latest eruption may be the most dangerous in recent history
8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Why the Fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Record U.S. oil output challenges Saudi mastery
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Brussels launches legal action against X over illegal content, disinformation
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Show HN: Round-Trip Encrypted HTTPS Exfiltration Tool
8 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Backblaze Hard Drive Lifetime Annualized 2013-2023
8 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Microsoft deprecates Legacy console mode in Windows 11 and future releases
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Young Americans Turn Against Boomers over Social Security
8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Artists turn AI against itself with tools designed to protect their work
8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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What Econ Says in the Shadows
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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The Death of Caspar Hauser
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program
8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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China starts up first fourth-generation nuclear reactor
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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A CCPA Request to OpenAI Took 101 Days and Raises More Questions Than Answers
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Code of silence: How one techie unmasked Silicon Valley's hypocrisy on Gaza
8 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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A Change in the Weather (1985) [video]
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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The moral injury of having your work enshittified
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Harvard president to remain after anger over testimony on antisemitism
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Don't write web apps in anything other than TypeScript
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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React Aria: Craft world-class accessible components with custom styles
8 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Is GitHub Gone Mad?
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Twitter XSS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Moore Threads S4000 AI GPU
8 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Volcano Erupts in Iceland Near a Power Plant: 'Worst-Case Scenario'
8 points • comment • dec 19, 2023