top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-08-17

StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

a year ago

629 upvotes – 332 comments

How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole

https://charity.wtf/2023/08/17/how-to-communicate-when-trust-is-low-without-digging-yourself-into-a-deeper-hole/

a year ago

629 upvotes – 281 comments

Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites/

a year ago

555 upvotes – 262 comments

Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/08/retrieving-1tb-of-data-from-faulty.html

a year ago

535 upvotes – 186 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156372

a year ago

439 upvotes – 520 comments

Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults

https://www.jobcorps.gov/

a year ago

370 upvotes – 334 comments

Debian celebrates 30 years

https://bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian-turns-30.html

a year ago

344 upvotes – 104 comments

Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2023/08/asteroid-crater-520km-in-diameter-buried-deep-in-southeast-australia-scientists-say/

a year ago

327 upvotes – 192 comments

Mullvad Browser

https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser/

a year ago

325 upvotes – 165 comments

1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23835116/have-you-seen-these-dehumidifiers-stop-using-them-or-you-might-die

a year ago

316 upvotes – 165 comments

Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-17/white-noise-podcasters-are-costing-spotify-38-million-a-year

a year ago

305 upvotes – 489 comments

Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

https://aheze.substack.com/p/getting-a-job-at-apple-without-going

a year ago

300 upvotes – 387 comments

AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350

a year ago

293 upvotes – 239 comments

SUSE to go private

https://www.suse.com/news/EQT-announces-voluntary-public-purchase-offer-and-intention-to-delist-SUSE/

a year ago

289 upvotes – 234 comments

Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

https://tokio.rs/blog/2023-01-03-announcing-turmoil

a year ago

284 upvotes – 28 comments

I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)

https://rachit.pl/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/

a year ago

262 upvotes – 91 comments

DIY Espresso (2020)

https://www.fourbardesign.com/2020/10/diy-espresso.html

a year ago

254 upvotes – 208 comments

Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/16/can-computing-clean-up-its-act

a year ago

239 upvotes – 208 comments

SUSE to Go Private

https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/suse-go-private

a year ago

236 upvotes – 2 comments

QR codes appearing in Google street view?

https://nso.group/@haifisch/110901720830132689#.

a year ago

223 upvotes – 76 comments
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