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Hacker News (2023)

  1. Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor

    996 points • comment • nov 22, 2023

  2. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

    995 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  3. Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London

    994 points • comment • mar 20, 2023

  4. How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

    994 points • comment • jan 19, 2023

  5. My $500M Mars rover mistake

    993 points • comment • nov 28, 2023

  6. It's A(door)able

    993 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  7. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels

    990 points • comment • jan 29, 2023

  8. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy

    987 points • comment • sep 25, 2023

  9. Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

    987 points • comment • dec 07, 2023

  10. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working

    986 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  11. Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

    985 points • comment • mar 11, 2023

  12. Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support

    981 points • comment • mar 10, 2023

  13. Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world

    981 points • comment • oct 23, 2023

  14. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

    978 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  15. Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow

    976 points • comment • jul 25, 2023

  16. Bard and new AI features in Search

    976 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  17. Uninstall the NightOwl app

    972 points • comment • aug 08, 2023

  18. MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

    972 points • comment • may 03, 2023

  19. Firefox address bar

    971 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  20. How to Do Great Work

    970 points • comment • jul 01, 2023

  21. First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan

    967 points • comment • jul 02, 2023

  22. No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

    967 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  23. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

    967 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  24. What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

    967 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  25. I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

    966 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  26. Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

    965 points • comment • aug 04, 2023

  27. Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

    963 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  28. Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

    960 points • comment • mar 28, 2023

  29. De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)

    958 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  30. My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

    957 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  31. The age of average

    957 points • comment • mar 29, 2023

  32. OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

    957 points • comment • nov 22, 2023

  33. Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

    953 points • comment • aug 24, 2023

  34. Last Flight Out

    953 points • comment • feb 15, 2023

  35. Mechanical Watch (2022)

    951 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  36. Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

    948 points • comment • mar 30, 2023

  37. Postgres Language Server

    948 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  38. Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

    947 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  39. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

    947 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  40. Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

    946 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  41. I'm betting on HTML

    945 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  42. Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says

    943 points • comment • feb 26, 2023

  43. SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

    941 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  44. Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

    940 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  45. Banning words won’t make the world more just

    940 points • comment • mar 02, 2023

  46. Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4

    940 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  47. Let us serve you, but don't bring us down

    937 points • comment • may 29, 2023

  48. Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

    936 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  49. How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014)

    936 points • comment • jan 05, 2023

  50. Scrollbars are becoming a problem

    936 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  51. MiniGPT-4

    934 points • comment • apr 17, 2023

  52. Imaginary problems are the root of bad software

    934 points • comment • jun 18, 2023

  53. New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

    930 points • comment • apr 08, 2023

  54. Chrome ships WebGPU

    930 points • comment • apr 06, 2023

  55. Spinning Diagrams with CSS

    929 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  56. Steam Deck OLED

    929 points • comment • nov 09, 2023

  57. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

    925 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  58. Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions

    924 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  59. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

    923 points • comment • may 25, 2023

  60. Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

    922 points • comment • mar 23, 2023

  61. Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners

    921 points • comment • mar 13, 2023

  62. Cisco Acquires Splunk

    919 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  63. Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

    919 points • comment • dec 31, 2023

  64. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

    915 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  65. Full Time

    915 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  66. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

    914 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  67. Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

    911 points • comment • nov 27, 2023

  68. Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival

    910 points • comment • apr 18, 2023

  69. Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

    909 points • comment • jun 26, 2023

  70. Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating

    909 points • comment • nov 27, 2023

  71. An interactive intro to CRDTs

    909 points • comment • oct 04, 2023

  72. Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

    907 points • comment • mar 06, 2023

  73. Animated Drawings

    907 points • comment • apr 13, 2023

  74. French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists

    907 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  75. 100K Context Windows

    907 points • comment • may 11, 2023

  76. CDC File Transfer

    907 points • comment • jan 08, 2023

  77. Ask vs. Guess Culture

    906 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  78. Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

    906 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  79. Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

    906 points • comment • jan 20, 2023

  80. Gail.com FAQ

    905 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  81. YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

    904 points • comment • jun 29, 2023

  82. UK air traffic control meltdown

    903 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  83. Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

    902 points • comment • may 04, 2023

  84. LLM Visualization

    902 points • comment • dec 03, 2023

  85. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

    900 points • comment • oct 22, 2023

  86. Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator

    897 points • comment • mar 21, 2023

  87. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    895 points • comment • may 20, 2023

  88. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

    891 points • comment • oct 09, 2023

  89. How I got here

    890 points • comment • nov 11, 2023

  90. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

    889 points • comment • aug 13, 2023

  91. Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine

    889 points • comment • mar 19, 2023

  92. Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only

    888 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  93. The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions

    887 points • comment • mar 23, 2023

  94. Realistic computer-generated handwriting

    885 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  95. Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

    885 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  96. The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

    885 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  97. GGML – AI at the Edge

    884 points • comment • jun 06, 2023

  98. A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview

    882 points • comment • mar 02, 2023

  99. Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community

    882 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  100. Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely

    880 points • comment • apr 30, 2023