top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-08-01

A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments

a year ago

1215 upvotes – 774 comments

Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

a year ago

673 upvotes – 261 comments

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/08/pixar-adobe-apple-autodesk-and-nvidia-form-alliance-for-openusd/

a year ago

665 upvotes – 257 comments

Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16802

a year ago

613 upvotes – 255 comments

Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686286684424691712

a year ago

593 upvotes – 285 comments

Nim 2.0

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2023/08/01/nim-v20-released.html

a year ago

504 upvotes – 205 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956867

a year ago

479 upvotes – 533 comments

Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037

a year ago

476 upvotes – 290 comments

Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-drug-decriminalization-results-overdoses/674733/

a year ago

476 upvotes – 1183 comments

Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC

https://www.inferse.com/660551/hardware-hacker-mods-an-m1-mac-mini-to-receive-power-over-ethernet-instead-of-the-ac-input/

a year ago

436 upvotes – 163 comments

Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892

a year ago

397 upvotes – 203 comments

The worst API ever made (2014)

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025

a year ago

357 upvotes – 217 comments

Splitting the Web

https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

a year ago

332 upvotes – 195 comments

Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/randsom-signup

a year ago

326 upvotes – 208 comments

Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02444-5

a year ago

320 upvotes – 274 comments

Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1686498517227814912

a year ago

307 upvotes – 173 comments

Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)

https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2320

a year ago

305 upvotes – 283 comments

Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-votes-to-let-people-whove-used-marijuana-work-at-intelligence-agencies-like-cia-and-nsa-as-part-of-defense-bill/

a year ago

295 upvotes – 250 comments

Emacs is my new window manager

https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html

a year ago

284 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations

https://magicloops.dev

a year ago

248 upvotes – 49 comments
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