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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses

    244 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  2. A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion

    243 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  3. A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven

    242 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  4. Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

    242 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  5. Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times

    242 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  6. "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel

    242 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  7. The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year

    242 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  8. Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode

    242 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  9. Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason

    242 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  10. Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup

    241 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  11. Gron: Make JSON greppable

    241 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  12. Ledger's NPM account has been hacked

    240 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  13. America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"

    240 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  14. Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation

    240 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  15. My failed attempt at using a closet as an office

    239 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  16. Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs

    239 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  17. How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

    239 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  18. LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory

    239 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  19. Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch's CPU

    239 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  20. Google Imagen 2

    239 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  21. Will scaling work?

    238 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  22. Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

    238 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  23. FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope

    238 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  24. The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier

    237 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  25. Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night

    236 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  26. Grindavik [video]

    236 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  27. In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users

    234 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  28. Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data

    234 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  29. U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's

    234 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  30. CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG

    234 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  31. iMessage Key Verification

    233 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  32. Making my own bed sensor

    233 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  33. Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors

    233 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  34. Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people

    233 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  35. How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should

    232 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  36. Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)

    232 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  37. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

    232 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  38. GQL – Git Query Language

    231 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  39. Police get medical records without a warrant

    231 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  40. “Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs

    231 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  41. Build a search engine, not a vector DB

    230 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  42. Eclipse: The Demo that Sold 3D to Nintendo

    229 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  43. New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids

    229 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  44. Lobsters

    229 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  45. Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate

    229 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  46. Moving from relational data to events

    229 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  47. Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it

    228 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  48. Causal Trees

    228 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  49. Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights smoother

    228 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  50. Ratatui

    227 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  51. Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

    227 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  52. Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law

    227 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  53. Long context prompting for Claude 2.1

    226 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  54. PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements

    226 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  55. Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds

    226 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  56. Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day

    226 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  57. Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

    225 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  58. Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized

    225 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  59. Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised

    224 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  60. Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection

    224 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  61. RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD

    224 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  62. Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts

    224 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  63. What is a zero refractive index material?

    223 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  64. MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon

    223 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  65. DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC

    222 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  66. Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go

    222 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  67. Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

    221 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  68. Hidden gems of moreutils

    221 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  69. The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s

    221 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  70. 2nd City Zoning

    221 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  71. The life and death of open source companies

    221 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  72. The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI

    221 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  73. My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

    220 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  74. 2023: Focusing on a single product pays off

    220 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  75. Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language

    220 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  76. Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

    220 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  77. Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink

    220 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  78. Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)

    220 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  79. Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review

    219 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  80. Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for

    219 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  81. OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

    219 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  82. Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service

    219 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  83. Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years

    219 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  84. Getting things done in small increments (2022)

    219 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  85. Hexcodle

    218 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  86. Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)

    218 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  87. Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner

    218 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  88. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study

    218 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  89. GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code

    218 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  90. Flatpack field hospitals that can be airdropped to disaster zones

    218 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  91. Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them

    217 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  92. Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

    217 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  93. First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot

    217 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  94. Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools

    216 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  95. Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

    216 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  96. Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024

    215 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  97. Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb

    215 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  98. Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B

    215 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  99. New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers

    215 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  100. Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra

    215 points • comment • dec 26, 2023