top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-08-16

LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7

a year ago

2145 upvotes – 697 comments

Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

https://htmx.org/posts/2023-06-06-htmx-github-accelerator/

a year ago

1109 upvotes – 487 comments

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

a year ago

449 upvotes – 197 comments

Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt

a year ago

381 upvotes – 131 comments

How They Tried to Kill Me

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/

a year ago

325 upvotes – 134 comments

How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-voice/2023/02/05/growing-alfalfa-in-imperial-county-and-california-wastes-water/69860506007/

a year ago

299 upvotes – 254 comments

NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN

https://www.netmaker.io/

a year ago

292 upvotes – 164 comments

Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834125/microsoft-windows-task-manager-pause-shortcut

a year ago

286 upvotes – 143 comments

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clocks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/

a year ago

274 upvotes – 162 comments

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

https://bellard.org/ts_server/ts_zip.html

a year ago

262 upvotes – 141 comments

Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-broad-tears-of-1850730637

a year ago

253 upvotes – 204 comments

$HOME, not so sweet $HOME

https://gist.github.com/sharadhr/39b804236c1941e9c30d90af828ad41e

a year ago

251 upvotes – 259 comments

Is this a good book for me, now?

https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/is-this-a-good-book-for-me-now

a year ago

235 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2

https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt

a year ago

225 upvotes – 75 comments

New York City bans TikTok for government employees

https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html

a year ago

213 upvotes – 139 comments

Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud

https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud

a year ago

212 upvotes – 98 comments

The Mathematics of Training LLMs

https://www.latent.space/p/transformers-math#details

a year ago

199 upvotes – 66 comments

λ Calculus (2013) [pdf]

https://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/spring11/proglang/handouts/lambda-calculus-chapter.pdf

a year ago

178 upvotes – 69 comments

Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/08/putting-down-pen-reflecting-on-oryxs.html

a year ago

173 upvotes – 35 comments

Minimum Viable Secure Product

https://mvsp.dev/

a year ago

173 upvotes – 84 comments
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