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Hacker News (2023)

Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses (2022)
37 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
The AI explosion might never happen
37 points • comment • sep 19, 2023
What happens when your AI girlfriend dies?
37 points • comment • nov 28, 2023
Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down
37 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
A hiker is lucky to be alive after following a fake trail on Google Maps
37 points • comment • nov 09, 2023
Final National Security Guardrails for Chips for America Incentives Program
37 points • comment • sep 22, 2023
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned
37 points • comment • dec 05, 2023
The E-graph extraction problem is NP-complete
37 points • comment • jun 23, 2023
Identifying and eliminating CSAM in generative ML training data and models
37 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
What is your “Orange Juice Test” question?
37 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)
37 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
The Economic Cost of Populism
37 points • comment • sep 16, 2023
A doctor tried to renew his passport. Now he's no longer a citizen
37 points • comment • nov 26, 2023
The Performance Cost of Node.js and GraphQL
37 points • comment • oct 08, 2023
Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information
37 points • comment • dec 29, 2023
Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect
37 points • comment • sep 29, 2023
Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman – and What Happens Next in the AI World
37 points • comment • nov 18, 2023
Flow – Online ePub Reader
37 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
Tesla Whistleblower – 'Autopilot' System Not Safe Enough for Public Roads
37 points • comment • dec 07, 2023
The cfarm compile farm project
37 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
It's true – your devices are listening to you
37 points • comment • nov 17, 2023
r/borrow
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
Never Event
37 points • comment • nov 16, 2023
Software Applications Incorporated
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
French ministers to ditch WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram over security fears
37 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
Zork Zcode Interpreters Appear Out of Nowhere
37 points • comment • nov 21, 2023
Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing Coloring Problem
36 points • comment • jul 28, 2023
A man who invented fifteen hundred necktie knots
36 points • comment • nov 11, 2023
On the Digestion of Great Books
36 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
Israel's Controversial Treatment of Ethiopian Immigrants: Forced Sterilization
36 points • comment • nov 19, 2023
Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator
36 points • comment • sep 22, 2023
Half of high school seniors won't apply to colleges costing more than $40k
36 points • comment • dec 31, 2023
We Have to Talk About Flask
36 points • comment • oct 19, 2023
Most homes for sale in 2023 were not affordable for a typical U.S. household
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2023
How to scale nuclear power
36 points • comment • oct 18, 2023
Children born, raised during lockdown developing language skills at slower rate
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring wi-fi scanning to enable navigation
36 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
Companies with flexible remote work policies outperform on revenue growth
36 points • comment • nov 15, 2023
Y Combinator Podcast #4: Sam Altman Interviews Elon Musk [2016]
36 points • comment • sep 18, 2023
Loco: The one-person Rust framework for side-projects and startups
36 points • comment • dec 08, 2023
EasyDropzoneJS – open-source JavaScript library for drag&drop files
36 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount are in early discussions to merge
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2023
Buying Campaign Contributions as a Hack
36 points • comment • jul 14, 2023
Positive labor sorting has been increasing for men in the last several decades
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2023
Quill: The E-Ink UI framework
36 points • comment • may 29, 2023
Ask HN: Is AI safety simply the thought police?
36 points • comment • nov 23, 2023
Coal use hit an all-time high last year
36 points • comment • jul 27, 2023
Russia's tax database and backups destroyed
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2023
Photographer showcases the power of iPhone 15 pro max
36 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
Rolling Stone's negative obituary for Henry Kissinger
36 points • comment • nov 30, 2023
Should we stop writing functions? (C++)
36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
Show HN: Pryingdeep – The new OSINT instrument for the Deep Web
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2023
Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map
36 points • comment • jul 28, 2023
How Cars Turned Into Giant Killers
36 points • comment • dec 19, 2023
Jon Stewart Splits with Apple over After Refusing to Bend over on China
36 points • comment • oct 22, 2023
How the Bassmate Computer came to be
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2023
Codictionary: A newsletter that explain tech terms in plain, everyday language
36 points • comment • may 29, 2023
Sliding Doors: The Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan
36 points • comment • dec 10, 2023
Supplier caught distributing fake parts for world’s top-selling jet engine
36 points • comment • sep 03, 2023
Google moves to end geofence warrants
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2023
Abacuysnth – A synthesizer inspired by an abacus (2022) [video]
36 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
Who is responsible for grade inflation at Yale?
36 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
Another Text to Speech API
36 points • comment • sep 25, 2023
Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API
36 points • comment • nov 13, 2023
Windows Repair Toolbox
36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
Show HN: Multiple – Load test any API with JavaScript and NPM packages
36 points • comment • nov 28, 2023
BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year
36 points • comment • sep 26, 2023
X Corp. vs. Media Matters for America et al.
36 points • comment • nov 21, 2023
Europe: Is compulsory military service coming back?
36 points • comment • jun 11, 2023
Users Can't Speak to AI Girlfriend Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson
36 points • comment • nov 17, 2023
Zoom ToS now allow AI training on user content without optout
36 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
Google Cloud causes another outage for customer that got ratelimited erroneously
36 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
Elon Musk Calls Mark Zuckerberg a ‘Cuck’ as Threads Nears 100M Users
36 points • comment • jul 10, 2023
Cyberattack on Kansas Courts Leaves Lawyers Filing 'Everything by Fax'
36 points • comment • nov 26, 2023
Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development?
36 points • comment • sep 10, 2023
Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition
36 points • comment • dec 28, 2023
Commodore 700: “It's a picture – and it's worth a thousand words”
36 points • comment • oct 02, 2023
Show HN: Deepmark AI- LLM assessment tool for task-specific metrics on your data
36 points • comment • nov 22, 2023
Tsundoku – Phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up
36 points • comment • oct 16, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates's relentless, prolific search for a self
36 points • comment • nov 21, 2023
OSRS Map Viewer
36 points • comment • jul 29, 2023
Three years after its revamp, Firefox's Android browser adds 450 new extensions
36 points • comment • dec 15, 2023
Punjabi Mexican Americans
36 points • comment • sep 07, 2023
"Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Making Sci-Fi Real"
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2023
3D OpenStreetMap
36 points • comment • jun 11, 2023
Why Amazon Has No Profits (2014)
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2023
Why districts are slow to charge market rates for water (2009)
36 points • comment • may 20, 2023
Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper
36 points • comment • dec 01, 2023
Their Crypto Company Collapsed. They Went to Bali
36 points • comment • jun 09, 2023
Scotland's Oldest Tartan Rose
36 points • comment • nov 19, 2023
Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's network settings?
36 points • comment • oct 24, 2023
Ask HN: OAI employees who signed to follow Sam, what was your decision process?
36 points • comment • nov 23, 2023
Halftone QR Codes
36 points • comment • may 31, 2023
Why is this artist teaching Boston Dynamics dogs to paint?
36 points • comment • nov 29, 2023
The phase transition of creativity: Symmetry breaking in diffusion models
36 points • comment • jul 15, 2023
Show HN: SIPGO – A library for writing fast SIP services in Go
36 points • comment • nov 09, 2023
Rising Instability
36 points • comment • oct 13, 2023
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?
36 points • comment • nov 27, 2023
Weekly reminder that FFmpeg powers all online video
36 points • comment • oct 08, 2023
What Sam Altman Did That Was So Bad He Got Fired from OpenAI
36 points • comment • dec 11, 2023