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The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2023

We track 1,548 stories from January 2023, averaging 245 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 103 stories. Together they drew 249,767 comments.

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My Youtube earnings brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com · tpmx · 2 Jan 2023
2k pts 403 comments
2
A cab ride I'll never forget (1999) kentnerburn.com · fileeditview · 16 Jan 2023
1.7k pts 168 comments
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NanoGPT github.com · trekhleb · 11 Jan 2023
1.5k pts 320 comments
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Google to reduce workforce by 12k blog.google · colesantiago · 20 Jan 2023
1.5k pts 1.5k comments
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal fathy.fr · fathyb · 27 Jan 2023
1.2k pts 122 comments
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Pirate Weather: A free, open, and documented forecast API pirateweather.net · calebegg · 10 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 195 comments
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Taking over a Dead IoT Company blog.kchung.co · pulisse · 10 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 191 comments
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Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] youtube.com · georgehill · 17 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 104 comments
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Chronophoto chronophoto.app · jmduke · 28 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 153 comments
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Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions github.com · bryced · 22 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 227 comments
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Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing bloomberg.com · mfiguiere · 4 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 897 comments
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Modules, not microservices blogs.newardassociates.com · PretzelFisch · 3 Jan 2023
1.1k pts 660 comments
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Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only nojvek · 24 Jan 2023
1k pts 199 comments
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Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate galaxus.ch · faebi · 26 Jan 2023
1k pts 272 comments
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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way maia.crimew.gay · half-kh-hacker · 19 Jan 2023
1k pts 619 comments
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The window trick of Las Vegas hotels schedium.net · edent · 29 Jan 2023
994 pts 344 comments
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How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (2014) mathematica.stackexchange.com · _Microft · 5 Jan 2023
992 pts 187 comments
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell code_Whisperer · 27 Jan 2023
934 pts 1k comments
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Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com · jaden · 20 Jan 2023
930 pts 194 comments
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Gail.com FAQ gail.com · weatherlight · 9 Jan 2023
926 pts 209 comments
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CDC File Transfer github.com · cglong · 8 Jan 2023
917 pts 219 comments
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Realistic computer-generated handwriting calligrapher.ai · carl_dr · 26 Jan 2023
896 pts 238 comments
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Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater smithsonianmag.com · subharmonicon · 19 Jan 2023
890 pts 195 comments
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Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you mcsweeneys.net · rkachowski · 25 Jan 2023
888 pts 401 comments
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Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow darrellowens.substack.com · yboris · 31 Jan 2023
886 pts 1.2k comments
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Wobbly clock somethingorotherwhatever.com · ColinWright · 16 Jan 2023
882 pts 198 comments
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MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max apple.com · ValentineC · 17 Jan 2023
871 pts 1k comments
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U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts nytimes.com · yoelo · 5 Jan 2023
868 pts 494 comments
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What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) milk.com · blegh · 19 Jan 2023
864 pts 545 comments
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Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years mattmazur.com · matt1 · 4 Jan 2023
842 pts 225 comments
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Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address home.omg.lol · cdme · 6 Jan 2023
834 pts 342 comments
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Why Not Mars idlewords.com · maxerickson · 2 Jan 2023
815 pts 1.1k comments
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine findthatmeme.com · whoisburbansky · 9 Jan 2023
785 pts 151 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? cauliflower99 · 31 Jan 2023
777 pts 271 comments
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Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast thume.ca · trishume · 7 Jan 2023
776 pts 477 comments
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Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts patterns.app · kvh · 25 Jan 2023
772 pts 300 comments
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The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies skyandtelescope.org · cainxinth · 12 Jan 2023
764 pts 526 comments
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Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming? throwwwwaway · 13 Jan 2023
760 pts 702 comments
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Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you leave Goleniewski · 20 Jan 2023
756 pts 214 comments
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Airbnb removed my negative review luminaobscura · 2 Jan 2023
752 pts 456 comments
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Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 tapbots.com · davidbarker · 20 Jan 2023
727 pts 400 comments
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The Shit Show furbo.org · chazeon · 15 Jan 2023
723 pts 320 comments
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Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021) admiralcloudberg.medium.com · pantalaimon · 24 Jan 2023
719 pts 431 comments
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Automerge 2.0 automerge.org · llimllib · 30 Jan 2023
717 pts 89 comments
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Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth skyfi.com · for_i_in_range · 21 Jan 2023
713 pts 337 comments
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Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes apnews.com · subliminalpanda · 23 Jan 2023
693 pts 1.2k comments
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Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong? coreyhn · 30 Jan 2023
691 pts 1.8k comments
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Conversation skills essentials tynan.com · lylejantzi3rd · 1 Jan 2023
685 pts 288 comments
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‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers nature.com · pseudolus · 4 Jan 2023
671 pts 1.3k comments
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NYC Slice elkue.com · mbil · 11 Jan 2023
670 pts 509 comments
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Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel querystorm.com · anakic · 25 Jan 2023
670 pts 179 comments
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Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022) zephray.me · _Microft · 12 Jan 2023
670 pts 92 comments
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Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety lungy.app · lukko · 26 Jan 2023
666 pts 215 comments
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Ask HN: How do you test SQL? pcarolan · 31 Jan 2023
663 pts 315 comments
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Microsoft to lay off 11k employees reuters.com · georgehill · 17 Jan 2023
659 pts 453 comments
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Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes gravitronic · 19 Jan 2023
657 pts 337 comments
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My bad habit of hoarding information andreisurugiu.com · techn00 · 6 Jan 2023
656 pts 323 comments
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Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies bay12forums.com · gabythenerd · 6 Jan 2023
654 pts 241 comments
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How to store your app's entire state in the url scottantipa.com · escot · 9 Jan 2023
640 pts 395 comments
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Scientists have discovered the first virovore – an organism that eats viruses news.unl.edu · xiaodai · 3 Jan 2023
640 pts 111 comments

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