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Hacker News (Dec 2023)

  1. UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts

    158 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  2. Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux

    158 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  3. Oldest Fortresses in the World Discovered

    158 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  4. Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?

    158 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  5. AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack

    157 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  6. HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons

    157 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  7. Can't sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com

    157 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  8. Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights

    156 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  9. He steals them, of course

    156 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  10. Remembering things that haven't happened yet

    156 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  11. Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web

    156 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  12. Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses

    156 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  13. Interactive Code Cells

    156 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  14. MLX: NumPy like framework for Apple Silicon by Apple

    156 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  15. Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?

    156 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  16. Intel launches Core Ultra processors

    156 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  17. FOSDEM 2024 Schedule

    156 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  18. Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous

    155 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  19. Electrocaloric material makes refrigerant-free solid-state fridge scalable

    155 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  20. NN-SVG

    155 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  21. Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)

    155 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  22. Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser

    155 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  23. Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed CompuServe

    154 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  24. A female albatross over 70 years old

    154 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  25. What are farm animals thinking?

    154 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  26. Is Ada safer than Rust?

    154 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  27. Transaction Isolation in Postgres

    153 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  28. "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

    153 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  29. CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study

    153 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  30. Sweden Solar System

    153 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  31. Cog: Use Python in your source files to generate pieces of code (2021)

    153 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  32. Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models

    152 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  33. Improving Emacs Isearch Usability with Transient

    152 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  34. Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine

    152 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  35. My doomed career as a North Korean novelist

    152 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  36. How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox

    152 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  37. Ottopot, a sophisticated DIY MIDI controller

    152 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  38. Groqchat

    152 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  39. FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services

    151 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  40. How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

    151 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  41. Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (2018)

    151 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  42. Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH

    151 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  43. Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it

    151 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  44. Show HN: WarpBuild – x86-64 and arm GitHub Action runners for 30% faster builds

    151 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  45. Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps

    151 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  46. Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction

    151 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  47. Magical Fibonacci Formulae

    151 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  48. VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript

    150 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  49. Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application

    150 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  50. Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

    149 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  51. TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the power of language models for text rendering

    149 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  52. To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)

    149 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  53. The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary

    149 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  54. Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge

    149 points • comment • dec 15, 2023

  55. The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction

    149 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  56. Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language

    149 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  57. TXR Lisp

    149 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  58. Concept sliders: LoRA adaptors for precise control in diffusion models

    149 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  59. Untrusted Device Encryption

    148 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  60. Show HN: Emu2 – A Gemini-like open-source 37B Multimodal Model

    148 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  61. Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue

    148 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  62. Reforming Unix

    148 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  63. Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously

    148 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  64. Deadweight Loss as a Service

    148 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  65. Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers

    147 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  66. Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?

    147 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  67. Infocom’s code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found

    147 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  68. NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech

    147 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  69. Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware

    147 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  70. How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?

    147 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  71. The Art and Science of PCB Design

    147 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  72. Tools for Learning LLVM TableGen

    147 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  73. There's a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay

    146 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  74. A real case of Bobby Tables?

    146 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  75. Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro

    146 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  76. Custom firmware for MI fitness band

    145 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  77. Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails

    145 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  78. Amazon Has an Honesty Issue

    145 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  79. The day I started believing in unit tests

    144 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  80. Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide

    144 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  81. BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite

    144 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  82. If only someone told me this before my first startup

    144 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  83. Evaluating new software forges

    144 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  84. First personal search engine prototype

    144 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  85. How to (and how not to) fix color banding

    144 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  86. Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

    143 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  87. Weak-to-Strong Generalization

    143 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  88. Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip

    143 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  89. Vim users are encouraged to make a donation to ICCF

    143 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  90. My insulin pump controller has a bug

    143 points • comment • dec 01, 2023

  91. Helen Toner shares her side

    142 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  92. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart (2021)

    142 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  93. All the hominins made tools

    142 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  94. RAG to Riches

    142 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  95. Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing

    142 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  96. Standard Webhooks: open-source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks

    142 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  97. EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?

    142 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  98. ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips

    142 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  99. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon

    142 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  100. Spotlight: Sentry for Development

    142 points • comment • dec 06, 2023