The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2023

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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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Visual design rules you can safely follow anthonyhobday.com · tontonius · 6 Feb 2023

2k pts 317 comments

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Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone theguardian.com · mmastrac · 25 Feb 2023

1.8k pts 1k comments

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A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy jaykmody.com · squidhunter · 9 Feb 2023

1.6k pts 146 comments

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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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Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU mullvad.net · Frisiavones · 2 Feb 2023

1.5k pts 511 comments

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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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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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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now rrishi · 3 Feb 2023

1.3k pts 598 comments

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ChatGPT Plus openai.com · davidbarker · 1 Feb 2023

1.2k pts 972 comments

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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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Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks jailbreakchat.com · rafiste · 28 Feb 2023

1.1k pts 528 comments

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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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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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Bing AI can't be trusted dkb.blog · dbrereton · 13 Feb 2023

1.1k pts 601 comments

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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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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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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) missing.csail.mit.edu · saikatsg · 25 Feb 2023

1k pts 336 comments

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Bard and new AI features in Search blog.google · jmsflknr · 6 Feb 2023

988 pts 954 comments

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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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Last Flight Out brr.fyi · bo0tzz · 15 Feb 2023

980 pts 312 comments

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AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch twitch.tv · bruhreally · 2 Feb 2023

908 pts 248 comments

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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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Big data is dead motherduck.com · davidgomes · 7 Feb 2023

879 pts 433 comments

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Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS webkit.org · tech234a · 16 Feb 2023

866 pts 378 comments

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GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices twitter.com · pbnjay · 9 Feb 2023

854 pts 855 comments

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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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Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts reason.com · jseliger · 2 Feb 2023

819 pts 800 comments

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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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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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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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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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The Camera-Shy Hoodie macpierce.com · alwaysbeconsing · 27 Feb 2023

780 pts 291 comments

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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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Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab atomicsemi.com · rightenant · 23 Feb 2023

769 pts 230 comments

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Keep your AI claims in check ftc.gov · deepwaters · 27 Feb 2023

760 pts 282 comments

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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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The technology behind GitHub’s new code search github.blog · joshbetz · 6 Feb 2023

750 pts 181 comments

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Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills letgrow.org · jseliger · 23 Feb 2023

747 pts 509 comments

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Stable Attribution stableattribution.com · mkeeter · 5 Feb 2023

747 pts 349 comments

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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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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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Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake netblocks.org · flixing · 8 Feb 2023

741 pts 545 comments

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“Clean” code, horrible performance computerenhance.com · eapriv · 28 Feb 2023

739 pts 907 comments

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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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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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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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Email: Explained from first principles explained-from-first-principles.com · surprisetalk · 18 Feb 2023

726 pts 63 comments

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Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey support.mozilla.org · 2Gkashmiri · 17 Feb 2023

714 pts 286 comments

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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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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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“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers worldsensorium.com · dnetesn · 10 Feb 2023

708 pts 352 comments

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Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles blog.littlepolygon.com · ibobev · 2 Feb 2023

705 pts 126 comments

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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff about.gitlab.com · pyrodactyl · 9 Feb 2023

703 pts 595 comments

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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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Multi-Account Containers support.mozilla.org · throw0101c · 12 Feb 2023

703 pts 248 comments

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A Heisenbug lurking in async Python textual.textualize.io · willm · 11 Feb 2023

696 pts 232 comments

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Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science github.com · netfortius · 6 Feb 2023

691 pts 199 comments

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“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline” seymourhersh.substack.com · hunglee2 · 8 Feb 2023

688 pts 1.1k comments

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Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps bennettnotes.com · _davebennett · 15 Feb 2023

687 pts 522 comments