1310
598
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640350
3 years ago
753
427
Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
https://maroofy.com/?hn=v3
730
316
Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
487
234
Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2023/02/02/update-on-samsung-ssd-reliability/
484
225
Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
https://eta.st/2023/01/31/rail-tickets.html
477
164
Universal Summarizer
https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum
470
314
Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery
https://sive.rs/anon
429
263
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
https://www.0x58ed.com/blog/amtrak-southwest-chief
396
131
Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641359
389
70
Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data
https://github.com/orlp/glidesort
378
492
John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
424
ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/introducing-the-slickest-con-artist
367
101
Show HN: DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps
https://driftdb.com/
361
197
MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia
https://www.wired.com/story/australia-psilocybin-mdma-approval/
352
123
Blink virtual machine now supports running GUI programs
https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/1621415193296388096
329
237
Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/
315
I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/carbon-dioxide-monitor-indoor-air-pollution-gas-stoves/672923/
312
336
The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
https://deno.com/blog/the-future-and-past-is-server-side-rendering
293
195
Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salary-manager-jobs-fake-titles-save-4-billion-overtime-nber/
285
Is this poison ivy?
https://www.birdandmoon.com/poisonivy/
271
166
The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30826
266
569
The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/finance/why-is-there-a-drought-in-the-talent-pool-for-c-developers
256
98
Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries
https://github.com/arc53/docsgpt
242
392
Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say
https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/
241
187
Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/remy-rakic-compile-times/
240
113
Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
https://www.devever.net/~hl/logindenial
233
87
How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-to-paint-like-hayao-miyazaki
218
72
Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator
https://www.timdbg.com/posts/useless-x86-trivia/
215
235
Flutter desktop isn’t there yet
https://plei.one/blog/flutter-desktop-not-there-yet/
212
Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
https://matduggan.com/us-layoffs-are-unspeakably-cruel/
211
48
Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)
https://sadh.life/post/cursed-for/
107
The golden era of being an open startup is gone
https://testimonial.to/resources/the-golden-era-of-being-an-open-startup-is-gone
173
55
The paper that made ChatGPT possible
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
161
122
The KLF: Chaos, magic and the band who burned £1M
https://johnhiggs.com/books/the-klf/
152
273
U.S. credit card debt jumps 18.5% and hits a record $930.6B
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/us-credit-card-debt-jumps-18point5percent-and-hits-a-record-930point6-billion-.html
140
259
The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023
https://modernfarmer.com/2022/12/the-fertilizer-shortage-will-persist-in-2023/
137
A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
https://jam.dev/blog/famous-bugs-rocket-launch/
135
31
Hand-Tracking with Three.js
https://rdtr01.xl.digital/
134
104
Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582772/chatgpt-ai-get-rich-quick-schemes-hustlers-web
133
189
Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153562994/amazon-reports-its-first-unprofitable-year-since-2014
132
63
Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/did-billy-mitchell-use-this-illicit-joystick-to-set-a-donkey-kong-high-score/
130
Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/technology/alphabet-earnings.html
124
12
Google Manipulated Digital Ad Prices and Hurt Publishers, per DOJ
https://techpolicy.press/how-google-manipulated-digital-ad-prices-and-hurt-publishers-per-doj/
52
Haskell is not category theory
https://pema.dev/2023/02/01/haskell-not-ct/
120
43
Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting
https://webapp.io/hosting
119
A 50-year quest: My personal journey with the second law of thermodynamics
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/a-50-year-quest-my-personal-journey-with-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/
116
80
Wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app
https://wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app/
109
33
Scryer Prolog
https://www.scryer.pl
17
The new jailbreak is so fun
https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_/status/1621465137025613825
108
42
How to talk to GPT-3 through Siri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34646178
102
24
Shipping Graphing Calculator
https://corecursive.com/shipping-graphing-calculator/
100
126
Why Is Everyone So Boring?
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is-everyone-so-boring.html
97
219
Critique of the mind/body problem
https://www.jsanilac.com/mind/
190
Astonishingly strong US jobs report sends stocks wavering
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/stock-market-news-today-jobs-2323/index.html
96
Microbes are 'active engineers' in Earth's rock-to-life cycle
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-microbes-earth-rock-to-life.html
93
51
A Maine community comes together to save a candlepin bowling tradition
https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/01/30/maine-community-comes-together-save-candlepin-bowling-tradition
91
41
Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm
90
Google Fires Employee of over 16 Years with Automated Email
https://medium.com/developer-purpose/after-16-years-at-google-justin-moore-was-fired-with-an-automated-email-f715ab307871
25
A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee (1792)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/moseley-coffee
85
64
ESA – Space Suit Design Competition
https://ideas.esa.int/servlet/hype/IMT?documentTableId=45087148846182772&userAction=Browse&templateName=&documentId=3187b4b0a219dbb07731d5f690776a8b
84
45
Polish communist era 8 bit computer used in banks, MK-45 (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRAMxtS21A
81
3
How the ARPANET Protocols Worked (2021)
https://twobithistory.org/2021/03/08/arpanet-protocols.html
110
Some Were Meant for C – The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language (2017) [pdf]
https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Patient. He Fought Back
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
78
103
Ask HN: What is your replacement for Google search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34643512