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Hacker News (Dec 2023)
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VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
244 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
243 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven
242 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
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Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect
242 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times
242 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
242 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year
242 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode
242 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason
242 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
241 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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Gron: Make JSON greppable
241 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Ledger's NPM account has been hacked
240 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"
240 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
240 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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My failed attempt at using a closet as an office
239 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs
239 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?
239 points • comment • dec 24, 2023
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LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
239 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch's CPU
239 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Google Imagen 2
239 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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Will scaling work?
238 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
238 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope
238 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
237 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
236 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Grindavik [video]
236 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users
234 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
234 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
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U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's
234 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG
234 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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iMessage Key Verification
233 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Making my own bed sensor
233 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
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Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors
233 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
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Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people
233 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
232 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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Behind the scenes of Sound ID in Merlin – Identify birds using your phone (2021)
232 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses
232 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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GQL – Git Query Language
231 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Police get medical records without a warrant
231 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
231 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Build a search engine, not a vector DB
230 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Eclipse: The Demo that Sold 3D to Nintendo
229 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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New nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroids
229 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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Lobsters
229 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
229 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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Moving from relational data to events
229 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it
228 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Causal Trees
228 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights smoother
228 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
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Ratatui
227 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in
227 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law
227 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
226 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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PostgreSQL internals: Things to know about update statements
226 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds
226 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
226 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real
225 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized
225 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Judge: Amazon "cannot claim shock" that bathroom spycams were used as advertised
224 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
224 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
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RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
224 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts
224 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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What is a zero refractive index material?
223 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
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MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon
223 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
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DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
222 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
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Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go
222 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship
221 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Hidden gems of moreutils
221 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
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The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
221 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
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2nd City Zoning
221 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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The life and death of open source companies
221 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI
221 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
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My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
220 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off
220 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
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Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
220 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
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Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break
220 points • comment • dec 26, 2023
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Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink
220 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)
220 points • comment • dec 23, 2023
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Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review
219 points • comment • dec 17, 2023
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Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
219 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman
219 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
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Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service
219 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years
219 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
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Getting things done in small increments (2022)
219 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
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Hexcodle
218 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
218 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
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Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
218 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study
218 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
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GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
218 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
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Flatpack field hospitals that can be airdropped to disaster zones
218 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them
217 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
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Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
217 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot
217 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
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Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools
216 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
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Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support
216 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
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Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024
215 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
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Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb
215 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
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Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
215 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
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New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
215 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
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Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
215 points • comment • dec 26, 2023