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Hacker News (2023)

  1. “Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means

    68 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  2. United Airlines 777 dives after departure

    68 points • comment • feb 12, 2023

  3. Netflix Ships Last DVD

    68 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  4. JEP 445: Flexible Main Methods and Anonymous Main Classes (Preview)

    68 points • comment • apr 10, 2023

  5. Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data

    68 points • comment • aug 05, 2023

  6. The Return of the X-Flares

    68 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  7. Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans

    68 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  8. Cantable Diffuguesion: Bach chorale generation and harmonization

    68 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  9. Din 1450, recommended for barrier-free reading

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  10. Netscape's Constellation (1997)

    68 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  11. Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  12. How inevitable is the concept of numbers? (2021)

    68 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  13. Boom, Bubble, Bust: The Fiber Optic Mania [pdf]

    68 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  14. Lincoln Cathedral

    68 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  15. Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  16. Making Full Use of Three Ordinary Dice

    68 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  17. Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 6: PWM backlight

    68 points • comment • aug 12, 2023

  18. Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

    68 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  19. Australia's great example of government using technology found crude and cruel

    68 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  20. Tell HN: Fired After 7 Years During Maternity Leave Paperwork Filing

    68 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  21. Microsoft employees are hooked on the company’s training videos?

    68 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  22. New malware abuses Microsoft IIS feature to establish backdoor

    68 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  23. KDE is ready to deprecate IRC, XMPP, and Telegram in favor of Matrix

    68 points • comment • may 21, 2023

  24. Ask HN: What would it take for an AI to convince us it is conscious?

    68 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  25. How to make history with LLMs and other generative models

    68 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  26. Vancouver hospital patient loses Netflix access due to password crackdown

    68 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  27. Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money

    68 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  28. Debian 12 “Bookworm” Enters Its Soft Freeze

    68 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  29. Veles – A tool for binary analysis (2018)

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  30. Irregular Expressions

    68 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  31. Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans

    68 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  32. Paul Graham AI Essay Writer

    68 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  33. Warner Discovery CEO made $498M in the last 5 years– 384x the average writer

    68 points • comment • jun 04, 2023

  34. Bifurcate the Problem Space

    68 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  35. Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2023

  36. Will we know alien life when we see it?

    68 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  37. Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without Agonizing Pain (1994) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  38. How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes

    68 points • comment • feb 22, 2023

  39. ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style

    68 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  40. Mobile home park residents form co-ops to save their homes

    68 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  41. Health industry responds to data privacy crackdown

    68 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  42. Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  43. Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly

    68 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  44. Stanford student may need to ‘acknowledge harm’ for reading ‘Mein Kampf’

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  45. Misidentifying Talent (2022)

    68 points • comment • aug 26, 2023

  46. What three new USGS maps reveal about Mars

    68 points • comment • jan 14, 2023

  47. CSS Pattern: Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  48. Trove of LA students’ mental health records posted to dark web after cyber hack

    68 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  49. Fluent – A localization system for natural-sounding translations

    68 points • comment • jun 11, 2023

  50. Making Sandspiel

    68 points • comment • jan 28, 2023

  51. Bridging the gap between neural networks and functions

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  52. The long, slow death of global development

    68 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  53. South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children

    68 points • comment • sep 30, 2023

  54. Luxo: A robotic Pixar-style lamp that jumps (2021)

    68 points • comment • mar 01, 2023

  55. Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  56. Explaining tech's notion of talent scarcity

    68 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  57. Btreefs generates executable code at runtime to unpack btree nodes

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  58. Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available

    68 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  59. Fast and Clean: Auditable high-performance assembly via constraint solving [pdf]

    68 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  60. Redox OS – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust

    68 points • comment • mar 03, 2023

  61. AWS Begins Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses

    68 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  62. JPSO used facial recognition technology to arrest a man. The tech was wrong

    68 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  63. A Linux OS that boots to LLAMA2 and has a startrek like UI

    68 points • comment • oct 03, 2023

  64. Oxidizing bmap-tools: rewriting a Python project in Rust

    68 points • comment • mar 04, 2023

  65. Cat found after Lyft fiasco dragged on for days, Lyft to pay vet bills

    68 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  66. LastPass breach could've been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update

    68 points • comment • mar 05, 2023

  67. Why everything you buy is worse now [video]

    68 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  68. Iran says suspected schoolgirl poisonings occurred in more than 50 schools

    68 points • comment • mar 05, 2023

  69. Removal of Google from W3C over the Implementation of Web Environment Integrity

    68 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  70. Oops: Learning from the incident you didn't have

    68 points • comment • jan 15, 2023

  71. Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer

    68 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  72. Did I Uncover a $100M Mistake with the Millennium Tower “Fix”?

    68 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  73. How Iceweasel Was Born (2016)

    68 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  74. The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician

    68 points • comment • mar 06, 2023

  75. Difference Between Implicit and Explicit Animations in SwiftUI

    68 points • comment • jul 09, 2023

  76. Common Crawl

    68 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  77. Practical parsing with Flex and Bison (2021)

    68 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  78. Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem part 2 – Module Resolution

    68 points • comment • jan 16, 2023

  79. The Overhang Problem (2007) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  80. The organ as a wind instrument

    68 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  81. Stanford President and Law-School Dean Apologize to Judge Duncan

    68 points • comment • mar 12, 2023

  82. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

    68 points • comment • jan 01, 2023

  83. Ask HN: Is it just me, or could file conversion websites be a honeypot?

    68 points • comment • mar 13, 2023

  84. UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Patient. He Fought Back

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  85. The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16

    68 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  86. Weber–Fechner Law

    68 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  87. Pedagogical Downsides of Haskell

    68 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  88. John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)

    68 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  89. ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories

    68 points • comment • mar 16, 2023

  90. It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business

    68 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  91. Email marketing regulations around the world

    68 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  92. The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive

    68 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  93. A toxin that helps oyster mushrooms devour worm flesh

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  94. Create an IAM group and ass a user

    68 points • comment • mar 21, 2023

  95. Steps towards prompt-based creation of virtual worlds

    68 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  96. Ask HN: At 45, I can't seem to read as well anymore

    68 points • comment • jan 10, 2023

  97. Things that don’t work well with MySQL’s FOREIGN KEY implementation

    68 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  98. More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high

    68 points • comment • apr 30, 2023

  99. Twitter.com Login Is Broken

    68 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  100. Smart App Banners can be used to reveal Apple ID region

    68 points • comment • apr 11, 2023