The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2023

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My Youtube earnings brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com · tpmx · 2 Jan 2023

2k pts 403 comments

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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