The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2023

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Remembering Bob Lee aEJ04Izw5HYm · 5 Apr 2023

2.1k pts 217 comments

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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? l2silver · 27 Apr 2023

1.9k pts 1.8k comments

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If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed sbstatesman.com · raybb · 6 Apr 2023

1.8k pts 588 comments

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StableLM: A new open-source language model stability.ai · davidbarker · 19 Apr 2023

1.5k pts 497 comments

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Space Elevator neal.fun · nivethan · 19 Apr 2023

1.5k pts 207 comments

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Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers phind.com · rushingcreek · 12 Apr 2023

1.4k pts 414 comments

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The early days of Linux lwn.net · Paul-Craft · 13 Apr 2023

1.4k pts 224 comments

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Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard github.com · kieto · 12 Apr 2023

1.4k pts 209 comments

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Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens slate.com · NN88 · 26 Apr 2023

1.3k pts 979 comments

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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco sfgate.com · rdl · 5 Apr 2023

1.3k pts 2.8k comments

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The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos eff.org · glitcher · 21 Apr 2023

1.3k pts 463 comments

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Clock oimo.io · notmysql_ · 18 Apr 2023

1.2k pts 164 comments

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The Mullvad Browser mullvad.net · Foxboron · 3 Apr 2023

1.2k pts 419 comments

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Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% bugzilla.mozilla.org · ylere · 10 Apr 2023

1.2k pts 422 comments

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The day Windows died thomasbandt.com · alexzeitler · 2 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 893 comments

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Load Balancing samwho.dev · kiyanwang · 16 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 217 comments

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CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg thedriven.io · rippercushions · 21 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 843 comments

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Datomic is Free blog.datomic.com · xmlblog · 27 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 368 comments

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Astral astral.sh · hasheddan · 18 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 236 comments

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Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm nitrokey.com · h1x · 25 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 330 comments

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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station floor796.com · justsomehnguy · 10 Apr 2023

1.1k pts 118 comments

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Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining newZWhoDis · 5 Apr 2023

1k pts 391 comments

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De-Stressing Booking.com (2019) alexcharlton.co · robin_reala · 16 Apr 2023

965 pts 361 comments

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Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? nytimes.com · deeg · 7 Apr 2023

957 pts 992 comments

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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas apnews.com · fnordpiglet · 20 Apr 2023

955 pts 1.2k comments

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Spinning Diagrams with CSS x.st · hrldcpr · 20 Apr 2023

954 pts 42 comments

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MiniGPT-4 minigpt-4.github.io · GaggiX · 17 Apr 2023

949 pts 283 comments

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New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem keith-mcnulty.medium.com · malshe · 8 Apr 2023

949 pts 251 comments

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Animated Drawings fairanimateddrawings.com · jonbaer · 13 Apr 2023

947 pts 83 comments

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Chrome ships WebGPU developer.chrome.com · itsuka · 6 Apr 2023

936 pts 398 comments

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Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity theguardian.com · andsoitis · 27 Apr 2023

930 pts 713 comments

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Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival cnbc.com · mjwhansen · 18 Apr 2023

924 pts 981 comments

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Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely covertactionmagazine.com · onewheeltom · 30 Apr 2023

913 pts 466 comments

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Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech missionlocal.org · cemerick · 13 Apr 2023

909 pts 1.2k comments

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How to be a -10x Engineer taylor.town · surprisetalk · 4 Apr 2023

875 pts 494 comments

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RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license together.xyz · tim_sw · 17 Apr 2023

864 pts 216 comments

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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS waxy.org · waxpancake · 5 Apr 2023

844 pts 426 comments

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As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling electronics.stackexchange.com · sprawl_ · 27 Apr 2023

823 pts 239 comments

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Tell HN: Eid Mubarak asim · 21 Apr 2023

815 pts 328 comments

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The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT thesequence.substack.com · gardenfelder · 9 Apr 2023

791 pts 504 comments

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Deck.of.cards deck.of.cards · edent · 11 Apr 2023

781 pts 112 comments

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Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised mullvad.net · coldblues · 20 Apr 2023

775 pts 334 comments

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Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative linen.dev · cheeseblubber · 26 Apr 2023

753 pts 209 comments

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Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages izzy.co · izzymiller · 12 Apr 2023

751 pts 355 comments

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Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years legittorrents.info · en3r0 · 20 Apr 2023

749 pts 401 comments

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Substack Notes Launched on.substack.com · theolivenbaum · 11 Apr 2023

748 pts 745 comments

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User: Junnn11 en.wikipedia.org · oboes · 19 Apr 2023

747 pts 101 comments

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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing bloomberg.com · FabHK · 26 Apr 2023

745 pts 924 comments

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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres philbooth.me · philbo · 24 Apr 2023

743 pts 268 comments

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Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings github.com · sohkamyung · 29 Apr 2023

741 pts 284 comments

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I worked at Google for -10 days andgein.ru · vanburen · 11 Apr 2023

727 pts 444 comments

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Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image segment-anything.com · crakenzak · 5 Apr 2023

725 pts 152 comments

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Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index brave.com · twapi · 27 Apr 2023

704 pts 471 comments

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Google DeepMind deepmind.com · random_moonwalk · 20 Apr 2023

689 pts 626 comments

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Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP github.com · thunderbong · 29 Apr 2023

681 pts 143 comments

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Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen mastodon.social · ruph123 · 28 Apr 2023

673 pts 212 comments

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Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport? hellgatenyc.com · raybb · 15 Apr 2023

671 pts 611 comments

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Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way dgross.ca · danieg · 19 Apr 2023

671 pts 237 comments

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Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful tech.slashdot.org · rurban · 15 Apr 2023

669 pts 371 comments

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I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog shruggingface.com · jakedahn · 16 Apr 2023

663 pts 236 comments