top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-06-07

Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English

https://twitter.com/JymFox/status/1665799627377975300

3 years ago

827 upvotes – 469 comments

Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9

3 years ago

783 upvotes – 318 comments

uBlock Origin 1.50.0

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.50.0

3 years ago

561 upvotes – 262 comments

Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind

https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13zr8h2/reddits_recently_announced_api_changes_and_the/

3 years ago

551 upvotes – 295 comments

Tell HN: "I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/reviews/?score=1&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser

3 years ago

463 upvotes – 246 comments

Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success

https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/06/06/royal-navy-says-quantum-navigation-test-a-success/

3 years ago

430 upvotes – 267 comments

Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-06-07/SEC-granted-emergency-restraining-order-to-freeze-repatriate-Binance-US-assets.html

3 years ago

403 upvotes – 554 comments

Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy

https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/expensive-air-quality-monitors-not-more-accurate/

3 years ago

369 upvotes – 213 comments

Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP

https://twitter.com/isaacmarovitz/status/1666209780031971341

3 years ago

354 upvotes – 368 comments

Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/how-to-install-ios-17-and-macos-14-developer-betas-now-that-anyone-can-do-it/

3 years ago

327 upvotes – 168 comments

DirectX 12 Support on macOS

https://twitter.com/andytizer/status/1666131239575728130

3 years ago

300 upvotes – 147 comments

Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 303 comments

Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook

https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 89 comments

10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/10_years_after_snowden/

3 years ago

277 upvotes – 462 comments

Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225520

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 112 comments

Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G16&sector=ne

3 years ago

261 upvotes – 315 comments

Microsoft has no shame: Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search with a fake AI answer

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23736289/microsoft-bing-chrome-search-fake-ai-chatbot

3 years ago

252 upvotes – 152 comments

A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS

3 years ago

246 upvotes – 30 comments

The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)

https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html

3 years ago

244 upvotes – 138 comments

“Fractureiser” malware in popular Minecraft mods and modpacks

https://prismlauncher.org/news/cf-compromised-alert/

3 years ago

237 upvotes – 100 comments
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