top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-05-13

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hp-printers-computers-ink-cartridges-rivals/

2 years ago

662 upvotes – 446 comments

TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-lawsuit-alleges-tiktok-owner-let-ccp-access-user-data-2023-5

2 years ago

569 upvotes – 397 comments

Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explained/

2 years ago

508 upvotes – 175 comments

Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 85 comments

How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-hack-hacker-news-and-consistently-hit-the-front-page-56b4a04e12

2 years ago

414 upvotes – 126 comments

Monte Carlo methods

https://easylang.dev/apps/tutorial_mcarlo.html

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 48 comments

Intel One Mono Typeface

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

2 years ago

295 upvotes – 220 comments

RNA repair mechanism discovered in humans

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-hidden-rna-mechanism-humans.html

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 78 comments

Asus UK PR believes it is ‘legal to buy positive reviews’

https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/asus-uk-pr-believes-it-is-legal-to-buy-positive-reviews/

2 years ago

255 upvotes – 133 comments

GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/12/github-copilot-chat-leaked-prompt/

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 4 comments

Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)

https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fonts-hell-no.html

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 191 comments

Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929112

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 169 comments

Rails Cheat Sheet

https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/welcome-to-rails-cheat-sheet/

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 133 comments

MGL: Common Lisp machine learning library

https://github.com/melisgl/mgl

2 years ago

216 upvotes – 6 comments

Idle DR-DOS

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/idle-dr-dos/

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 29 comments

How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows

https://mihai.fm/how-to-lose-your-work-using-undo-copy-in-windows/

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 105 comments

First Rust code in the Windows 11 kernel

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/282995/first-rust-code-shows-up-in-the-windows-11-kernel

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 165 comments

This time, it feels different

https://nadh.in/blog/this-time-it-feels-different/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 229 comments

IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/13/kyndryl_ibm_sued_discrimination/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 148 comments

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 109 comments
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