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Hacker News (2023)

  1. Steam on Linux Usage Spikes to Nearly 2% in July, More Than Apple macOS

    81 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  2. CSS is hard no matter how good you are at it

    81 points • comment • mar 29, 2023

  3. Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015)

    81 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  4. Lisa Emulator Project

    81 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  5. Rob Pike explains why every programmer should know about the array languages

    81 points • comment • aug 19, 2023

  6. NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer

    81 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  7. Make microservices look like monoliths

    81 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  8. An antiquated law rules mining in the West

    81 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  9. UFOs exist in the low information zone

    81 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  10. I hereby pardon all junior engineers

    81 points • comment • nov 27, 2023

  11. The Birth of the Self

    81 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  12. How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them

    81 points • comment • nov 02, 2023

  13. Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria

    81 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  14. Accounting prof testifies about FTX's misuse of customers' money

    81 points • comment • oct 20, 2023

  15. Show HN: Retake – Open-Source Hybrid Search for Postgres

    81 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  16. M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark Results

    81 points • comment • nov 02, 2023

  17. Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process

    81 points • comment • aug 10, 2023

  18. Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome

    81 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  19. A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic

    81 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  20. OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters

    81 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  21. Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for first time ever

    81 points • comment • jun 13, 2023

  22. Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs as US demand shrinks, growth uncertain

    81 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  23. How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered

    81 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  24. California's third largest city is mostly empty roads

    81 points • comment • nov 12, 2023

  25. Names should be as short as possible while still being clear

    81 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  26. An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.

    81 points • comment • nov 28, 2023

  27. Science and Statistics (1976) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  28. SEC's new data breach disclosure rules take effect, here's what you need to know

    81 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  29. Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation

    81 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  30. Web Scraping: Data for Everyone

    81 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  31. Show HN: The Uncolouring Book

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  32. Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol (2007) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  33. Why are blocks on Bluesky public?

    81 points • comment • jun 11, 2023

  34. M/o/Vfuscator: A single instruction C compiler

    81 points • comment • nov 05, 2023

  35. Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms

    81 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  36. Prices aren't just about supply and demand, but control over supply and demand

    81 points • comment • nov 14, 2023

  37. New study measures grammatical complexity of languages

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  38. Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says

    81 points • comment • nov 15, 2023

  39. Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man

    81 points • comment • aug 16, 2023

  40. The science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life

    81 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  41. Fusion reactor is held together with tape

    81 points • comment • jul 15, 2023

  42. Cyberattack – November 2023

    81 points • comment • nov 29, 2023

  43. A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis (2002) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  44. Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children

    81 points • comment • nov 06, 2023

  45. Flameshow: A terminal flamegraph viewer

    81 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  46. The world of Japan's PC-98 computer

    81 points • comment • nov 24, 2023

  47. Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI

    81 points • comment • aug 21, 2023

  48. Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure

    81 points • comment • nov 23, 2023

  49. New finding might explain why quasars flare and fade so quickly

    81 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  50. Bread, How Did They Make It? (2020)

    81 points • comment • dec 27, 2023

  51. Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban

    81 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  52. PowerInfer: Fast Large Language Model Serving with a Consumer-Grade GPU [pdf]

    81 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  53. Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)

    81 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  54. Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets

    81 points • comment • dec 18, 2023

  55. Product Strategy in the Age of AI

    81 points • comment • oct 05, 2023

  56. Goodsteins theorem

    81 points • comment • dec 23, 2023

  57. Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

    81 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  58. The Heart of a Language Server

    81 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  59. Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016)

    81 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  60. OpenBSD PF-based firewalls suffer differently from denial of service attacks

    81 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  61. Google's 25th Birthday

    81 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  62. Dive into Deep Learning: Interactive deep learning book with codes and maths

    81 points • comment • nov 27, 2023

  63. FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 Now Available

    81 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  64. Technological innovations that produced the shale revolution

    81 points • comment • dec 28, 2023

  65. Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?

    81 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  66. Cloudflare incident on October 30, 2023

    81 points • comment • nov 01, 2023

  67. Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr

    81 points • comment • nov 07, 2023

  68. Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?

    81 points • comment • nov 22, 2023

  69. 3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing

    80 points • comment • sep 14, 2023

  70. U.S. states sue Instagram owner for making social media addictive to kids

    80 points • comment • nov 16, 2023

  71. Frackers use dangerous chemicals without disclosure due to Halliburton loophole

    80 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  72. Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December

    80 points • comment • nov 08, 2023

  73. As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher

    80 points • comment • jul 21, 2023

  74. The depths of the input element

    80 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  75. The top-selling game on Steam is a new 254-player FPS made by 4 people

    80 points • comment • jun 18, 2023

  76. Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults

    80 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  77. Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2023

  78. NRF retracts its assertion that organized retail crime led to 50% of losses

    80 points • comment • dec 20, 2023

  79. Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2023

  80. The value of canonicity (2020)

    80 points • comment • dec 30, 2023

  81. Apple should re-release Safari for Windows

    80 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  82. Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII

    80 points • comment • dec 24, 2023

  83. Detailed Image of the Human Retina

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2023

  84. Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise

    80 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  85. U.S. focuses on invigorating ‘chiplets’ to stay cutting-edge in tech

    80 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  86. King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause

    80 points • comment • oct 27, 2023

  87. Deceptive example for malicious usage of .zip domain

    80 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  88. Fitbit fined $11M for misleading consumers about their rights under consumer law

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  89. ChatGPT: A Mental Model

    80 points • comment • may 28, 2023

  90. GitHub Engineering: When mTLS Is Done Wrong

    80 points • comment • nov 02, 2023

  91. Threads.net

    80 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  92. DreamCoder: Growing Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge

    80 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  93. Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT

    80 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  94. Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2023

  95. An interpreter for a programming language based on Spotify playlists

    80 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  96. Many popular houses in 1920s L.A. were part of a scam

    80 points • comment • nov 14, 2023

  97. Ask HN: I am interested in reading about techniques HFT firms use

    80 points • comment • jul 12, 2023

  98. Ayllu: Hackable Code Forge Built on Open Standards

    80 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  99. A Codebase That Makes Codebases

    80 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  100. World's deepest, largest underground lab operational

    80 points • comment • dec 08, 2023