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Hacker News (2023)

  1. ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers

    642 points • comment • jan 04, 2023

  2. Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

    641 points • comment • oct 19, 2023

  3. A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers

    641 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  4. A decade of Have I Been Pwned

    640 points • comment • dec 04, 2023

  5. Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL

    640 points • comment • apr 03, 2023

  6. Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning

    639 points • comment • mar 02, 2023

  7. Why is desalination so difficult?

    639 points • comment • jul 05, 2023

  8. Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

    639 points • comment • jun 25, 2023

  9. Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.

    638 points • comment • may 22, 2023

  10. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty

    638 points • comment • nov 21, 2023

  11. Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies

    637 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  12. Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?

    637 points • comment • jun 22, 2023

  13. GPT-4 details leaked?

    637 points • comment • jul 11, 2023

  14. Transformers from Scratch (2021)

    637 points • comment • apr 25, 2023

  15. Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases

    637 points • comment • may 26, 2023

  16. JSONB has landed

    637 points • comment • dec 06, 2023

  17. CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]

    637 points • comment • mar 27, 2023

  18. Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI

    637 points • comment • oct 31, 2023

  19. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

    636 points • comment • sep 26, 2023

  20. Have attention spans been declining?

    635 points • comment • jul 24, 2023

  21. Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

    635 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  22. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

    635 points • comment • jul 18, 2023

  23. I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer

    634 points • comment • feb 02, 2023

  24. Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)

    634 points • comment • apr 14, 2023

  25. Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

    634 points • comment • apr 07, 2023

  26. LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

    633 points • comment • aug 02, 2023

  27. Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

    632 points • comment • sep 22, 2023

  28. ChatGPT app for iOS

    632 points • comment • may 18, 2023

  29. Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore

    632 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  30. Don’t mess with a genius (2010)

    631 points • comment • sep 13, 2023

  31. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

    631 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  32. Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical

    631 points • comment • feb 23, 2023

  33. Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses

    630 points • comment • jan 03, 2023

  34. Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)

    630 points • comment • mar 16, 2023

  35. OpenLLM

    629 points • comment • jun 19, 2023

  36. Password protect a static HTML page

    629 points • comment • feb 18, 2023

  37. I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog

    629 points • comment • apr 16, 2023

  38. If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython

    628 points • comment • jul 08, 2023

  39. Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

    627 points • comment • feb 17, 2023

  40. BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

    627 points • comment • jun 13, 2023

  41. Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

    627 points • comment • jun 05, 2023

  42. The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation

    626 points • comment • nov 25, 2023

  43. In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)

    626 points • comment • nov 02, 2023

  44. Sinead O’Connor has died

    626 points • comment • jul 26, 2023

  45. Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking

    626 points • comment • dec 08, 2023

  46. The Sad Bastard Cookbook

    626 points • comment • aug 06, 2023

  47. Kagi Small Web

    625 points • comment • sep 07, 2023

  48. About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

    625 points • comment • oct 16, 2023

  49. Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

    625 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  50. Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

    625 points • comment • may 01, 2023

  51. GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting

    625 points • comment • nov 14, 2023

  52. Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen

    624 points • comment • apr 28, 2023

  53. Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2020)

    624 points • comment • jun 01, 2023

  54. How to store your app's entire state in the url

    623 points • comment • jan 09, 2023

  55. Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

    623 points • comment • jul 27, 2023

  56. Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

    623 points • comment • may 30, 2023

  57. Debugging tricks in the browser

    623 points • comment • nov 11, 2023

  58. Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

    623 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  59. The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished

    622 points • comment • apr 22, 2023

  60. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    622 points • comment • jul 28, 2023

  61. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

    622 points • comment • apr 15, 2023

  62. Absurd Success

    622 points • comment • aug 31, 2023

  63. Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find

    621 points • comment • dec 14, 2023

  64. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine

    621 points • comment • may 19, 2023

  65. Postgres as a graph database

    621 points • comment • mar 31, 2023

  66. Companies must stop using Google Analytics

    620 points • comment • jul 04, 2023

  67. Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes

    620 points • comment • jan 23, 2023

  68. HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals

    620 points • comment • may 13, 2023

  69. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

    619 points • comment • oct 17, 2023

  70. Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

    619 points • comment • oct 08, 2023

  71. DALL·E 3

    619 points • comment • sep 20, 2023

  72. Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads

    619 points • comment • nov 19, 2023

  73. A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors

    618 points • comment • dec 26, 2023

  74. Firefox on the brink?

    618 points • comment • dec 05, 2023

  75. Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

    618 points • comment • jun 15, 2023

  76. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

    617 points • comment • may 12, 2023

  77. Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites

    617 points • comment • sep 16, 2023

  78. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage

    617 points • comment • apr 05, 2023

  79. StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

    617 points • comment • aug 17, 2023

  80. Ted Kaczynski has died

    615 points • comment • jun 10, 2023

  81. The OpenTF Manifesto

    615 points • comment • aug 15, 2023

  82. The Last Egg

    615 points • comment • jun 08, 2023

  83. SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue

    615 points • comment • apr 11, 2023

  84. Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records

    614 points • comment • jan 18, 2023

  85. Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

    614 points • comment • nov 09, 2023

  86. Scalability is overrated

    614 points • comment • feb 04, 2023

  87. “How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

    614 points • comment • feb 08, 2023

  88. UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users

    614 points • comment • sep 21, 2023

  89. Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection

    613 points • comment • nov 18, 2023

  90. Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage

    613 points • comment • mar 13, 2023

  91. YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

    613 points • comment • may 10, 2023

  92. My bad habit of hoarding information

    613 points • comment • jan 06, 2023

  93. Zoom lays off 15% of employees

    612 points • comment • feb 07, 2023

  94. OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source

    612 points • comment • jan 25, 2023

  95. Mixtral of experts

    612 points • comment • dec 11, 2023

  96. Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features

    612 points • comment • may 16, 2023

  97. UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal

    612 points • comment • apr 26, 2023

  98. Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance

    612 points • comment • oct 14, 2023

  99. Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11

    612 points • comment • mar 12, 2023

  100. Generative AI for Beginners

    612 points • comment • nov 24, 2023