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Hacker News (2023)

Optical effect advances quantum computing with atomic qubits to a new dimension
51 points • comment • dec 02, 2023
Mom and pop shops are cutting software spending, creating jitters on Wall Street
51 points • comment • nov 16, 2023
Why does so much government tech investment deliver so little?
51 points • comment • nov 10, 2023
The power of bidiagonal matrices
51 points • comment • nov 23, 2023
Adblock Plus and (a little) more
51 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians
51 points • comment • nov 15, 2023
Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
51 points • comment • nov 13, 2023
Brain-Inspired Efficient Pruning: Criticality in Spiking Neural Networks
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll Is Found at Sam Phillips's Sun Records (2016)
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
Hubble sights a galaxy with 'forbidden' light
51 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
Wise is deactivating Business cards in the US on Oct. 31st
51 points • comment • oct 28, 2023
The Chevy Blazer EV Launch Has Gone from Rough to Worse as GM Issues Stop-Sale
51 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth?
51 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
W3C Community Group Draft Report – WebGPU Explainer
51 points • comment • nov 05, 2023
For Altman to come back, board must issue statement absolving him of wrongdoing
51 points • comment • nov 20, 2023
The Wait Equation and AI Investment
51 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe
51 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
Growing AI presence is re-energizing parts of San Francisco
51 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
New legislation proposes to take Wall Street out of the housing market
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
The Great AI Weirding
51 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
51 points • comment • nov 11, 2023
MOVEit Hack at AutoZone
51 points • comment • nov 22, 2023
319 Leona
51 points • comment • nov 14, 2023
Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise
51 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
A Tesla owner says he got a $14,000 repair bill one day after buying a Model Y
51 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
Tell HN: Even after layoffs, Flexport continues posting weekly Hiring threads
51 points • comment • oct 30, 2023
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
51 points • comment • dec 04, 2023
Garn, a TypeScript-based Nix front end
51 points • comment • nov 02, 2023
Dependencies Belong in Version Control
51 points • comment • nov 26, 2023
Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make
51 points • comment • nov 06, 2023
Show HN: SQL Polyglot
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech
50 points • comment • may 25, 2023
'Sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us
50 points • comment • nov 24, 2023
U.S. to give away free lighthouses as GPS makes them unnecessary
50 points • comment • may 26, 2023
Why Mushroom Suits Won't Work and How to Apply Cemetery Studies
50 points • comment • nov 15, 2023
Time lapse of this week's large sunspot
50 points • comment • jun 30, 2023
How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console
50 points • comment • oct 28, 2023
Boxed types in OCaml, and other thoughts
50 points • comment • jun 30, 2023
Quantum batteries break causality
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
A universal EDR bypass built in Windows 10
50 points • comment • oct 10, 2023
Exploring Quantum Computing with JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide
50 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
There's a new online marketplace for open-hardware creators
50 points • comment • jul 05, 2023
Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
50 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)
50 points • comment • may 11, 2023
Applesauce pouches may have been contaminated on purpose, FDA foods chief says
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
A New GraalVM Release and New Free License
50 points • comment • jun 13, 2023
"Nightmare Tenant" Story Amplified by Seattle Times Crumbles Under Scrutiny
50 points • comment • dec 22, 2023
Macron floats social media cuts during riots
50 points • comment • jul 05, 2023
Apple agrees to $25M settlement with US over hiring of immigrants
50 points • comment • nov 11, 2023
Moving AI governance forward – openai.com
50 points • comment • jul 21, 2023
The case of the missing Vega AVUM propellant tanks
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving
50 points • comment • sep 24, 2023
Commuting time of more than 30 min one way linked to higher chance of depression
50 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
Ditch That Else
50 points • comment • sep 23, 2023
Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes
50 points • comment • nov 27, 2023
The Standard Model
50 points • comment • jul 21, 2023
DoorDash manages high-availability CockroachDB clusters at scale
50 points • comment • nov 02, 2023
Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral?
50 points • comment • may 15, 2023
Tesla Network Traffic [video]
50 points • comment • nov 05, 2023
‘There Were Fists Everywhere.’ Violence Against Teachers Is on the Rise
50 points • comment • jun 04, 2023
I turned Hacker News top stories into AI art on your wall
50 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
HTTP Cats
50 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully
50 points • comment • dec 03, 2023
Tricking Monty Hall
50 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
Former Google CEO Launched a Company with His Girlfriend. It's Not Going Well
50 points • comment • oct 23, 2023
How to Cite ChatGPT
50 points • comment • jun 11, 2023
Show HN: Cap – open-source alternative to Loom
50 points • comment • nov 28, 2023
The Romantic Sufi: The Divan of Kamal Khujandi Copied by Jaʿfar Tabrizi
50 points • comment • sep 22, 2023
Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
50 points • comment • dec 06, 2023
Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene
50 points • comment • oct 15, 2023
Unaligned accesses in C/C++: what, why and solutions to do it properly
50 points • comment • nov 30, 2023
The deadly “dancing plague” of 1518
50 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
How America moves homeless people around the country
50 points • comment • nov 01, 2023
What if Archive.today published torrents of its datasets?
50 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
50 points • comment • nov 11, 2023
An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
50 points • comment • sep 30, 2023
Neolithic high mountain settlers were doing complex livestock/farming activities
50 points • comment • dec 27, 2023
Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
50 points • comment • sep 05, 2023
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean AI's not after you
50 points • comment • nov 14, 2023
Product quantization for vector search
50 points • comment • may 19, 2023
Fireworks: Function Calling Model and API
50 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
DeepSID: Online Commodore 64 SID Player
50 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
How museum items go missing
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
JDK 21 Security Enhancements
50 points • comment • sep 25, 2023
Magic means large search spaces (2005)
50 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
BotOrNot (2021)
50 points • comment • sep 15, 2023
"Useless Ruby sugar": Pattern matching (Pt. 2)
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2023
Crypto has ‘amplified financial risks’ in emerging markets, central banks warn
50 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins
50 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
Python in Excel: Combining the Power of Python and the Flexibility of Excel
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
Operating systems, transit and cultural influences
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
Missing girl found using fingerprints on ransom note
50 points • comment • oct 03, 2023
FXYT: A tiny, stack-based, postfix canvas colouring language with 36 commands
50 points • comment • dec 21, 2023
Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
The average store size in the US is the smallest it's been in at least 17 years
50 points • comment • dec 14, 2023
Phoenix has set another heat record by hitting 110 degrees on 54 days this year
50 points • comment • sep 10, 2023
A Beautiful library of SVG logos
50 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
Free database of 4,000+ AI tools
50 points • comment • jul 30, 2023
Crashes in HTTP server used in routers found with simple fuzzing
50 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
New x86 8U servers with 32TB RAM, 480 physical cores, 15 PCIe x16 slots, 400GbE
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2023