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Hacker News (2023)

  1. Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts

    790 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  2. PhD Simulator

    790 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  3. 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight

    788 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  4. Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience

    788 points • comment • mar 30, 2023

  5. Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

    787 points • comment • jul 23, 2023

  6. We have used too many levels of abstractions

    785 points • comment • oct 21, 2023

  7. Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

    784 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  8. Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

    784 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  9. IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants

    782 points • comment • may 15, 2023

  10. Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

    781 points • comment • aug 11, 2023

  11. The pro-Israel information war

    781 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  12. My solopreneur story

    781 points • comment • sep 23, 2023

  13. Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible

    780 points • comment • feb 21, 2023

  14. New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes

    780 points • comment • jun 14, 2023

  15. Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

    779 points • comment • jul 20, 2023

  16. Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O

    778 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  17. Orb Farm

    775 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  18. The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

    775 points • comment • nov 29, 2023

  19. The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies

    774 points • comment • mar 27, 2023

  20. Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

    774 points • comment • nov 16, 2023

  21. Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

    773 points • comment • aug 03, 2023

  22. Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL

    772 points • comment • jun 07, 2023

  23. Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

    772 points • comment • jul 07, 2023

  24. Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos

    771 points • comment • mar 24, 2023

  25. Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

    771 points • comment • apr 21, 2023

  26. Deck.of.cards

    770 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  27. First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy

    769 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  28. Little Snitch Mini

    769 points • comment • mar 22, 2023

  29. Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

    768 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  30. CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

    768 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  31. Credit card debt collection

    768 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  32. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

    767 points • comment • may 14, 2023

  33. Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts

    767 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  34. Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

    767 points • comment • aug 09, 2023

  35. The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

    767 points • comment • apr 09, 2023

  36. The Camera-Shy Hoodie

    766 points • comment • feb 27, 2023

  37. Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario

    766 points • comment • nov 02, 2023

  38. Ansel

    766 points • comment • nov 23, 2023

  39. I think I need to go lie down

    766 points • comment • nov 16, 2023

  40. NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

    765 points • comment • nov 04, 2023

  41. Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.

    765 points • comment • feb 16, 2023

  42. Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time

    764 points • comment • dec 19, 2023

  43. Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab

    763 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  44. Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast

    762 points • comment • jan 07, 2023

  45. A coder considers the waning days of the craft

    759 points • comment • nov 14, 2023

  46. The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies

    756 points • comment • jan 12, 2023

  47. Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

    755 points • comment • dec 09, 2023

  48. macOS Internals

    755 points • comment • may 07, 2023

  49. ThumbHash: A better compact image placeholder hash

    754 points • comment • mar 22, 2023

  50. Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs

    754 points • comment • dec 21, 2023

  51. DreamWorks releases OpenMoonRay source code

    753 points • comment • mar 15, 2023

  52. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

    752 points • comment • oct 02, 2023

  53. ARM64 Linux Workstation

    749 points • comment • mar 03, 2023

  54. So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

    747 points • comment • feb 13, 2023

  55. Cursorless is alien magic from the future

    747 points • comment • nov 10, 2023

  56. Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

    746 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  57. How big is YouTube?

    745 points • comment • dec 22, 2023

  58. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

    745 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  59. Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet

    743 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  60. Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years

    743 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  61. Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised

    743 points • comment • apr 20, 2023

  62. 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

    743 points • comment • nov 17, 2023

  63. Daniel Ellsberg has died

    742 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  64. Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job

    742 points • comment • nov 08, 2023

  65. 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing

    741 points • comment • dec 12, 2023

  66. Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

    741 points • comment • feb 03, 2023

  67. Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

    739 points • comment • jul 10, 2023

  68. Stable Attribution

    738 points • comment • feb 05, 2023

  69. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

    738 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  70. Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres

    738 points • comment • apr 24, 2023

  71. Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

    737 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  72. Substack Notes Launched

    737 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  73. Introducing react.dev

    737 points • comment • mar 16, 2023

  74. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

    737 points • comment • sep 29, 2023

  75. Choose Postgres queue technology

    736 points • comment • sep 24, 2023

  76. Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

    736 points • comment • feb 01, 2023

  77. Terrible real estate agent photographs

    736 points • comment • jun 30, 2023

  78. The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

    736 points • comment • feb 06, 2023

  79. UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

    735 points • comment • mar 24, 2023

  80. AI real-time human full-body photo generator

    735 points • comment • aug 23, 2023

  81. Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?

    734 points • comment • dec 25, 2023

  82. MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers

    734 points • comment • nov 28, 2023

  83. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

    733 points • comment • sep 12, 2023

  84. User: Junnn11

    732 points • comment • apr 19, 2023

  85. Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions

    731 points • comment • sep 09, 2023

  86. Introduction to Modern Statistics

    731 points • comment • oct 12, 2023

  87. The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

    730 points • comment • oct 10, 2023

  88. UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging

    730 points • comment • sep 06, 2023

  89. The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop

    730 points • comment • oct 26, 2023

  90. Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?

    729 points • comment • jan 13, 2023

  91. I would rather see my books get pirated than this

    728 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  92. Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

    728 points • comment • sep 11, 2023

  93. GPT-4 API General Availability

    726 points • comment • jul 06, 2023

  94. What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

    726 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  95. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

    726 points • comment • sep 15, 2023

  96. Advanced Python Mastery

    726 points • comment • jul 19, 2023

  97. Google Maps has become an eyesore

    725 points • comment • aug 07, 2023

  98. Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

    724 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  99. Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

    724 points • comment • jun 16, 2023

  100. Tarkovsky's films online for free

    724 points • comment • may 27, 2023