The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2023
We track 1,416 stories from February 2023, averaging 255 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 86 stories. Together they drew 230,196 comments, 163 per story on average.
1
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
simonwillison.net · simonw · 15 Feb 2023
3.4k pts
1.7k comments
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2
Visual design rules you can safely follow
anthonyhobday.com · tontonius · 6 Feb 2023
2k pts
317 comments
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3
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
theguardian.com · mmastrac · 25 Feb 2023
1.8k pts
1k comments
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4
A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
jaykmody.com · squidhunter · 9 Feb 2023
1.6k pts
146 comments
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5
Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
flightradar24.com · eatmyshardz · 1 Feb 2023
1.5k pts
397 comments
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6
Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
mullvad.net · Frisiavones · 2 Feb 2023
1.5k pts
511 comments
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7
My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
jeffgeerling.com · cuechan · 25 Feb 2023
1.3k pts
476 comments
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8
Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
play-cs.com · philosopher1234 · 2 Feb 2023
1.3k pts
500 comments
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9
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
rrishi · 3 Feb 2023
1.3k pts
598 comments
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11
Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
jonathanhaidt.substack.com · anigbrowl · 22 Feb 2023
1.1k pts
640 comments
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12
Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks
jailbreakchat.com · rafiste · 28 Feb 2023
1.1k pts
528 comments
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13
Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company
qzx_pierri · 6 Feb 2023
1.1k pts
832 comments
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14
What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
writings.stephenwolfram.com · washedup · 14 Feb 2023
1.1k pts
496 comments
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16
Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
gkbrk.com · nop_slide · 23 Feb 2023
1k pts
179 comments
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17
TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
omar.website · pps · 18 Feb 2023
1k pts
193 comments
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18
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
missing.csail.mit.edu · saikatsg · 25 Feb 2023
1k pts
336 comments
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19
Bard and new AI features in Search
blog.google · jmsflknr · 6 Feb 2023
988 pts
954 comments
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20
Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
wsj.com · cainxinth · 26 Feb 2023
983 pts
980 comments
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22
AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch
twitch.tv · bruhreally · 2 Feb 2023
908 pts
248 comments
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23
So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)
github.com · nailer · 13 Feb 2023
889 pts
322 comments
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25
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
webkit.org · tech234a · 16 Feb 2023
866 pts
378 comments
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26
GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
twitter.com · pbnjay · 9 Feb 2023
854 pts
855 comments
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27
Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible
mattfrisbie.substack.com · exadeci · 21 Feb 2023
849 pts
270 comments
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28
Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts
reason.com · jseliger · 2 Feb 2023
819 pts
800 comments
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29
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
twitter.com · davidbarker · 2 Feb 2023
805 pts
460 comments
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30
Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit
theregister.com · Liriel · 7 Feb 2023
791 pts
742 comments
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31
First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy
livescience.com · ryzvonusef · 17 Feb 2023
791 pts
187 comments
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32
Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.
github.com · kruuuder · 16 Feb 2023
787 pts
124 comments
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33
The Camera-Shy Hoodie
macpierce.com · alwaysbeconsing · 27 Feb 2023
780 pts
291 comments
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34
Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
theverge.com · anitakirkovska · 7 Feb 2023
772 pts
766 comments
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35
Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
atomicsemi.com · rightenant · 23 Feb 2023
769 pts
230 comments
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36
Keep your AI claims in check
ftc.gov · deepwaters · 27 Feb 2023
760 pts
282 comments
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37
Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
maroofy.com · subtech · 3 Feb 2023
753 pts
427 comments
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38
The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
github.blog · joshbetz · 6 Feb 2023
750 pts
181 comments
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39
Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills
letgrow.org · jseliger · 23 Feb 2023
747 pts
509 comments
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40
Stable Attribution
stableattribution.com · mkeeter · 5 Feb 2023
747 pts
349 comments
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41
Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
trigger.dev · eallam · 1 Feb 2023
745 pts
190 comments
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42
Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
bay12forums.com · sph · 2 Feb 2023
744 pts
298 comments
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43
Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
netblocks.org · flixing · 8 Feb 2023
741 pts
545 comments
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44
“Clean” code, horrible performance
computerenhance.com · eapriv · 28 Feb 2023
739 pts
907 comments
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45
The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
standard.co.uk · taubek · 23 Feb 2023
734 pts
430 comments
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46
Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
tardis_thad · 3 Feb 2023
730 pts
316 comments
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47
Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
cnbc.com · jeffpalmer · 16 Feb 2023
727 pts
814 comments
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48
Email: Explained from first principles
explained-from-first-principles.com · surprisetalk · 18 Feb 2023
726 pts
63 comments
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49
Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
support.mozilla.org · 2Gkashmiri · 17 Feb 2023
714 pts
286 comments
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50
Open Assistant – project meant to give everyone access to a great chat based LLM
github.com · pps · 4 Feb 2023
713 pts
2 comments
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51
Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis
github.com · AwsmDef · 20 Feb 2023
712 pts
61 comments
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52
“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
worldsensorium.com · dnetesn · 10 Feb 2023
708 pts
352 comments
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53
Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles
blog.littlepolygon.com · ibobev · 2 Feb 2023
705 pts
126 comments
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54
Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
about.gitlab.com · pyrodactyl · 9 Feb 2023
703 pts
595 comments
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55
Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
ciguy · 23 Feb 2023
703 pts
295 comments
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56
Multi-Account Containers
support.mozilla.org · throw0101c · 12 Feb 2023
703 pts
248 comments
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57
A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
textual.textualize.io · willm · 11 Feb 2023
696 pts
232 comments
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58
Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science
github.com · netfortius · 6 Feb 2023
691 pts
199 comments
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59
“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”
seymourhersh.substack.com · hunglee2 · 8 Feb 2023
688 pts
1.1k comments
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60
Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
bennettnotes.com · _davebennett · 15 Feb 2023
687 pts
522 comments
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