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Hacker News (2023)

  1. “Forbidden-word” lists are a symptom of administrative bloat

    106 points • comment • mar 08, 2023

  2. Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort

    106 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  3. In Namibia, lions are king of the beach

    106 points • comment • mar 09, 2023

  4. For police PR flacks, quack lives matter

    106 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  5. Detangle: AI-generated summaries of legal docs

    106 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  6. Mozilla/Sops: Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

    106 points • comment • mar 11, 2023

  7. Status page for SVB payment systems

    106 points • comment • mar 11, 2023

  8. Top-Down LR Parsing

    106 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  9. Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting

    106 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  10. Microsoft.Recognizers.Text: numbers, units, and date/time in multiple languages

    106 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  11. Docopt.sh – Command-Line Argument Parser for Bash 3.2, 4, and 5

    106 points • comment • mar 16, 2023

  12. DIY Nitrogen TEA Laser (2020)

    106 points • comment • mar 17, 2023

  13. ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused

    106 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  14. Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?

    106 points • comment • mar 20, 2023

  15. The grotesque side of Leonardo da Vinci

    106 points • comment • mar 22, 2023

  16. ZeroSSL: XSS to session hijacking, stealing a private key (and password hash)

    106 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  17. Internet of Skull

    106 points • comment • mar 24, 2023

  18. Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco

    106 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  19. How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  20. The Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU (2021)

    106 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  21. Clark Foam’s demise, 10 years later (2015)

    106 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  22. Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video]

    106 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  23. BASIC is anything but dead

    106 points • comment • mar 28, 2023

  24. Yunohost

    105 points • comment • jun 24, 2023

  25. APLcart – Find your way in APL

    105 points • comment • apr 01, 2023

  26. XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs

    105 points • comment • jun 04, 2023

  27. Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff

    105 points • comment • jan 21, 2023

  28. Grindr employees have 2 weeks: agree to move across the country+RTO or lose jobs

    105 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  29. Tell HN: Please let me just buy stuff without having to “Contact Sales”

    105 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  30. Bit Hacking (with Go code)

    105 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  31. TurboTLS: TLS connection establishment with 1 less round trip

    105 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  32. TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector

    105 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  33. WebContainer API

    105 points • comment • feb 14, 2023

  34. Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the end credits?

    105 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  35. When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons

    105 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  36. Why Learn Compilers (2021)

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  37. The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

    105 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  38. Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything

    105 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  39. How the Fed “Went Broke”

    105 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  40. Gambling firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games

    105 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  41. Tag Systems

    105 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  42. GitHub is down

    105 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  43. Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models

    105 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  44. Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari

    105 points • comment • jun 24, 2023

  45. Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting

    105 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  46. The Federated App Problem

    105 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  47. The CSS at w3.org is gone

    105 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  48. What motorcycles teach about maintenance

    105 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  49. Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea

    105 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  50. ScyllaDB is Moving to a New Replication Algorithm: Tablets

    105 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  51. The US Supreme Court doesn’t understand the internet

    105 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  52. Web-based cryptography is snake oil

    105 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  53. Surviving without a superuser in Postgres 16

    105 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  54. Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

    105 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  55. Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models

    105 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  56. Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)

    105 points • comment • jun 28, 2023

  57. Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

    105 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  58. Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  59. Show HN: Get advice from a GPT3-based stoic philosopher

    105 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  60. Carmakers like VW are bringing back buttons because drivers loathe touch screens

    105 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  61. Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases

    105 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  62. Tolkien, 50 Years On

    105 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  63. Super Mario Bros. theme part of the 2023 Library of Congress registry

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  64. Ireland’s DPC set to hit Meta with record privacy fine over US data transfers

    105 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  65. Mortal Kombat 2 source code leak reveals unused animations and sprites

    105 points • comment • jan 02, 2023

  66. I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)

    105 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  67. Crafting Interpreters

    105 points • comment • mar 01, 2023

  68. First release of jq in 5 years

    105 points • comment • aug 01, 2023

  69. ASRock Industrial NUCS Box-1360P/D4 Review: Raptor Lake-P Plus Surprise ECC

    105 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  70. Pentium floating-point division bug (1994)

    105 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  71. Go FOSS: Information is power

    105 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  72. Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”

    105 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  73. BetterHelp Barred by FTC from Sharing Data with Facebook

    105 points • comment • mar 02, 2023

  74. Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one

    105 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  75. Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests

    105 points • comment • mar 02, 2023

  76. The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)

    105 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  77. Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better

    105 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  78. French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  79. Sony backs Raspberry Pi with fresh funding, access to A.I. chips

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  80. Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true

    105 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  81. 20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia

    105 points • comment • mar 03, 2023

  82. Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve

    105 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  83. The incompatibility of open core and profit

    105 points • comment • mar 05, 2023

  84. Enigma Crypto Transmission from KPH at 426 KHz and Shortwave

    105 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  85. The Free Software Foundation is dying

    105 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  86. Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change?

    105 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  87. TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with efficiency gains

    105 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  88. Building a programming language in twenty-four hours

    105 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  89. Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

    105 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  90. Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties

    105 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  91. Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD installer

    105 points • comment • mar 08, 2023

  92. Corrupted Blood incident

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  93. Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days

    105 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  94. The last day of Constantinople

    105 points • comment • jun 26, 2023

  95. Scryer Prolog

    105 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  96. Around the World with SQLite3 and Rsync

    105 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  97. An experiment in elastically scaling a thread pool using a PID controller

    105 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  98. Compiling Typed Python

    105 points • comment • jun 20, 2023

  99. Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures

    105 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  100. A new, faster algorithm for the group isomorphism problem

    105 points • comment • jun 23, 2023