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Hacker News (2023)

  1. Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license

    106 points • comment • feb 19, 2023

  2. Interpretation and analysis of songs written or performed by Pet Shop Boys

    106 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  3. Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection

    106 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  4. Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time

    106 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  5. How to use a Python multiprocessing module

    106 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  6. Black holes as the source of dark energy

    106 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  7. Using Emacs as $EDITOR

    106 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  8. Water heavily polluted with PFAS in 15 km radius around Dordrecht chemical plant

    106 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  9. E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  10. Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA

    106 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  11. Verilog to Routing

    106 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

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

    106 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  13. Walter Cunningham, who helped pave the way to the moon, dies at 90

    106 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  14. Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

    106 points • comment • jul 29, 2023

  15. NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company

    106 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  16. 66% of renters say homeownership is ‘hopeless’

    106 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  17. Mastering curl: interactive text guide

    106 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  18. BASIC is anything but dead

    106 points • comment • mar 28, 2023

  19. All About USB-C: Example Circuits

    106 points • comment • sep 05, 2023

  20. Parallels in the ways that humans and ML models acquire language skills

    106 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  21. Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT

    106 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  22. Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults

    106 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  23. GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct

    106 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  24. GitHub is down

    105 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  25. Yunohost

    105 points • comment • jun 24, 2023

  26. Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man's basement

    105 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  27. Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?

    105 points • comment • dec 29, 2023

  28. A/UX

    105 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  29. A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)

    105 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  30. Pentium floating-point division bug (1994)

    105 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  31. The remarkable emptiness of existence

    105 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  32. Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]

    105 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  33. The Heart of W. Edwards Deming

    105 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • jun 04, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  36. Why Learn Compilers (2021)

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  37. Volcanic eruption started just north of the town of Grindavik, Iceland

    105 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  38. Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator

    105 points • comment • nov 16, 2023

  39. George Orwell's 6 rules for writing (2018; originally published in 1946)

    105 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  40. TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector

    105 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  41. Tag Systems

    105 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  42. Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide

    105 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  43. Intel Meteor Lake Architecture

    105 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  44. The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection

    105 points • comment • mar 23, 2023

  45. Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel

    105 points • comment • mar 23, 2023

  46. Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears

    105 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  47. Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years

    105 points • comment • mar 22, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • jun 28, 2023

  49. How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed

    105 points • comment • mar 22, 2023

  50. Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs

    105 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  51. Notes on making a multiplayer "doing nothing app"

    105 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  53. Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose

    105 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  54. UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse in Swiss-assisted bid to calm markets

    105 points • comment • mar 19, 2023

  55. Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties

    105 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  57. Rosalynn Carter has died

    105 points • comment • nov 19, 2023

  58. Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?

    105 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  59. What motorcycles teach about maintenance

    105 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  60. Inside a Fujitsu Ethernet chip from 1984

    105 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  62. Continue with LocalAI: An alternative to GitHub's Copilot that runs locally

    105 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  63. Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction

    105 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  64. Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust

    105 points • comment • mar 17, 2023

  65. Hacking my filter coffee machine

    105 points • comment • nov 28, 2023

  66. The cost of cheap TVs

    105 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  67. LVFS – Linux Vendor Firmware Service

    105 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  68. Ruby's private keyword is weird

    105 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  69. An Uber-like CDN

    105 points • comment • mar 15, 2023

  70. The last day of Constantinople

    105 points • comment • jun 26, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  72. The OpenAI Keynote

    105 points • comment • nov 07, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  74. BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit

    105 points • comment • nov 05, 2023

  75. Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager

    105 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  76. SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions

    105 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  77. Scryer Prolog

    105 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  78. A rare occultation of Betelgeuse

    105 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  79. Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

    105 points • comment • nov 21, 2023

  80. The Federated App Problem

    105 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • may 19, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  85. City council passes bill enabling tenants to report vacant apartments

    105 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • may 15, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • apr 23, 2023

  88. A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration

    105 points • comment • dec 17, 2023

  89. 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)

    105 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  91. Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed

    105 points • comment • nov 24, 2023

  92. Generative AI is killing our sense of awe

    105 points • comment • dec 02, 2023

  93. Initial support for guided disk encryption in OpenBSD installer

    105 points • comment • mar 08, 2023

  94. The downfall of National Geographic

    105 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  95. Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

    105 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

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

    105 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  97. Building a programming language in twenty-four hours

    105 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  98. The incompatibility of open core and profit

    105 points • comment • mar 05, 2023

  99. 20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia

    105 points • comment • mar 03, 2023

  100. Bit Hacking (with Go code)

    105 points • comment • jun 19, 2023