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Hacker News (2023)

  1. Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

    318 points • comment • aug 27, 2023

  2. Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?

    318 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  3. Genders.wtf

    318 points • comment • jan 11, 2023

  4. Why take a compiler course? (2010)

    317 points • comment • mar 24, 2023

  5. On the slow productivity of John Wick

    317 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  6. Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck

    317 points • comment • nov 11, 2023

  7. An interactive guide to SVG paths

    317 points • comment • jul 03, 2023

  8. Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

    317 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  9. Fish – Update on the Rust port

    317 points • comment • nov 26, 2023

  10. MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?

    317 points • comment • nov 24, 2023

  11. Cosine Implementation in C

    317 points • comment • mar 31, 2023

  12. Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats

    317 points • comment • nov 21, 2023

  13. We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data

    317 points • comment • mar 14, 2023

  14. US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

    317 points • comment • dec 13, 2023

  15. Electric Clojure – A signals DSL for full-stack web UI

    317 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  16. Internet Artifact Museum

    317 points • comment • oct 25, 2023

  17. Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller models

    317 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  18. Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

    317 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  19. Cold war satellite images reveal unknown Roman forts

    317 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  20. The Rot Economy

    317 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  21. Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco

    317 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  22. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

    317 points • comment • nov 27, 2023

  23. Sync will shut down on June 30

    316 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  24. LobbyFacts – Exposing lobbying in European institutions

    316 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  25. Show HN: A device that only lets you type lol if you've truly laughed out loud

    316 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  26. NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions

    316 points • comment • jan 24, 2023

  27. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

    316 points • comment • aug 28, 2023

  28. Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

    316 points • comment • mar 07, 2023

  29. GTA 5 source code leaks online

    316 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  30. Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

    316 points • comment • mar 16, 2023

  31. Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked

    316 points • comment • jun 09, 2023

  32. Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution

    316 points • comment • feb 10, 2023

  33. Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

    316 points • comment • may 23, 2023

  34. Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans

    316 points • comment • nov 17, 2023

  35. Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design

    316 points • comment • nov 21, 2023

  36. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history

    316 points • comment • apr 12, 2023

  37. Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification

    316 points • comment • jul 13, 2023

  38. Sketch.systems

    316 points • comment • jun 18, 2023

  39. ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant

    316 points • comment • jan 22, 2023

  40. The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)

    316 points • comment • oct 13, 2023

  41. Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

    316 points • comment • aug 22, 2023

  42. AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB

    316 points • comment • feb 09, 2023

  43. Rotation with three shears

    316 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  44. Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID

    316 points • comment • aug 30, 2023

  45. French workers protest plan to increase retirement age

    316 points • comment • mar 07, 2023

  46. Tell HN: Interview take home assessments without feedback are frustrating

    316 points • comment • jun 23, 2023

  47. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

    316 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  48. Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers

    315 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  49. Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress

    315 points • comment • jun 27, 2023

  50. Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty

    315 points • comment • apr 04, 2023

  51. Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

    315 points • comment • jun 17, 2023

  52. Awesome Engineering Games

    315 points • comment • nov 19, 2023

  53. Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022

    315 points • comment • sep 19, 2023

  54. How Python virtual environments work

    315 points • comment • mar 13, 2023

  55. Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

    315 points • comment • oct 24, 2023

  56. Temporal quality degradation in AI models

    315 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  57. DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20B Figma Deal

    315 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  58. BB(3, 3) is Hard

    315 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  59. IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware

    315 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  60. Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?

    315 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  61. SymPy makes math fun again

    315 points • comment • feb 25, 2023

  62. FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms

    315 points • comment • feb 24, 2023

  63. How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

    315 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  64. Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature

    315 points • comment • may 31, 2023

  65. Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars

    315 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  66. Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

    315 points • comment • mar 07, 2023

  67. The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)

    315 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  68. How likely is losing a Google account?

    315 points • comment • jan 30, 2023

  69. Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding

    315 points • comment • oct 30, 2023

  70. LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter

    315 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  71. Why construction projects always go over budget

    315 points • comment • mar 21, 2023

  72. The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England

    314 points • comment • mar 31, 2023

  73. Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system

    314 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  74. We need better support for SSH host certificates

    314 points • comment • mar 27, 2023

  75. Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline

    314 points • comment • sep 01, 2023

  76. Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

    314 points • comment • sep 28, 2023

  77. Seaflooding

    314 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  78. Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints

    314 points • comment • sep 27, 2023

  79. GitHub issue - resolved

    314 points • comment • mar 27, 2023

  80. Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

    314 points • comment • dec 16, 2023

  81. 11 years of hosting a SaaS

    314 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  82. Ugly Gerry – Gerrymandering font

    314 points • comment • jan 26, 2023

  83. Childhoods of Exceptional People

    314 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  84. The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server

    314 points • comment • jul 30, 2023

  85. People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)

    314 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  86. Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

    314 points • comment • sep 18, 2023

  87. Human urine sensing and deep learning-assisted cancer screening

    314 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  88. Pandas 2.0

    314 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  89. Meta in Myanmar

    314 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  90. Google Pixel Fold

    314 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  91. Apple Virtualization Framework

    314 points • comment • jun 04, 2023

  92. After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

    314 points • comment • nov 08, 2023

  93. I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one

    314 points • comment • aug 14, 2023

  94. Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?

    314 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  95. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

    314 points • comment • aug 18, 2023

  96. Why Lisp Syntax Works

    314 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  97. The beauty of CGI and simple design

    314 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  98. Jsonformer: Generate structured output from LLMs

    314 points • comment • may 02, 2023

  99. The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

    314 points • comment • dec 10, 2023

  100. Leaving Haskell behind

    314 points • comment • aug 24, 2023