The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2023

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Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” semianalysis.com · klelatti · 4 May 2023

2.5k pts 1k comments

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Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing old.reddit.com · robbiet480 · 31 May 2023

2k pts 1.3k comments

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Memory Allocation samwho.dev · thecoppinger · 22 May 2023

1.4k pts 177 comments

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Rarbg Is No More web.archive.org · 0___0 · 31 May 2023

1.4k pts 646 comments

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See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS subtls.pages.dev · gmac · 10 May 2023

1.3k pts 173 comments

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Slide to Unlock cs.uwaterloo.ca · ivank · 31 May 2023

1.2k pts 220 comments

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Get started making music learningmusic.ableton.com · prhrb · 14 May 2023

1.2k pts 243 comments

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Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news boringreport.org · aquaVitae · 11 May 2023

1.2k pts 332 comments

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PyPI Was Subpoenaed blog.pypi.org · quercusa · 24 May 2023

1.2k pts 597 comments

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Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant eff.org · panarky · 30 May 2023

1.1k pts 319 comments

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JMAP – a modern email open standard jmap.io · tambourine_man · 30 May 2023

1k pts 361 comments

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It's A(door)able ncase.me · michaelbrooks · 3 May 2023

1k pts 114 comments

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MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry theverge.com · dustedcodes · 3 May 2023

1k pts 722 comments

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Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead nytimes.com · ramraj07 · 1 May 2023

1k pts 1.2k comments

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Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs primevideotech.com · debdut · 4 May 2023

989 pts 507 comments

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Let us serve you, but don't bring us down blog.archive.org · _delirium · 29 May 2023

976 pts 243 comments

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Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? behnamoh · 31 May 2023

947 pts 756 comments

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When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think twitter.com · blueridge · 11 May 2023

941 pts 571 comments

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Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf] math.cmu.edu · ggr2342 · 25 May 2023

941 pts 147 comments

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Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT cs.stanford.edu · talonx · 20 May 2023

927 pts 622 comments

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100K Context Windows anthropic.com · samwillis · 11 May 2023

924 pts 389 comments

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I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me twitter.com · graeme · 30 May 2023

922 pts 222 comments

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Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI reuters.com · vforgione · 16 May 2023

914 pts 1.2k comments

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GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt twitter.com · marvinvonhagen · 12 May 2023

910 pts 609 comments

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Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week latent.space · swyx · 3 May 2023

891 pts 220 comments

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Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics mslivo.itch.io · Akharin · 29 May 2023

869 pts 185 comments

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Why I Left Rust jntrnr.com · SmileyKeith · 28 May 2023

861 pts 783 comments

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IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants washingtonpost.com · elicash · 15 May 2023

856 pts 567 comments

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Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple engineersneedart.com · chmaynard · 22 May 2023

842 pts 424 comments

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Htmx Is the Future quii.dev · quii · 5 May 2023

836 pts 651 comments

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Eye Candy eycndy.com · bookofjoe · 2 May 2023

834 pts 134 comments

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India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces altnews.in · throwaway384629 · 29 May 2023

820 pts 443 comments

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Bank Failures Visualized observablehq.com · A_D_E_P_T · 3 May 2023

819 pts 317 comments

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Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy ag.ny.gov · RecycledEle · 14 May 2023

812 pts 290 comments

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Hacking my “smart” toothbrush kuenzi.dev · PikelEmi · 30 May 2023

808 pts 302 comments

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Orb Farm orb.farm · thunderbong · 19 May 2023

783 pts 101 comments

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macOS Internals gist.github.com · JoelMcCracken · 7 May 2023

773 pts 141 comments

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Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days? jvanderbot · 10 May 2023

737 pts 211 comments

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What happened with ASUS routers this morning? downtowndougbrown.com · zdw · 18 May 2023

736 pts 450 comments

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Tarkovsky's films online for free kottke.org · bookofjoe · 27 May 2023

735 pts 176 comments

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JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents old.reddit.com · notRobot · 16 May 2023

734 pts 376 comments

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Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers beepberry.sqfmi.com · erohead · 17 May 2023

731 pts 227 comments

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Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease science.org · lonelyasacloud · 16 May 2023

721 pts 325 comments

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Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup github.com · koch · 30 May 2023

711 pts 73 comments

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Paper Airplane Designs foldnfly.com · thunderbong · 26 May 2023

709 pts 76 comments

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Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical prism-break.org · doener · 1 May 2023

707 pts 273 comments

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Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013) gist.github.com · ColinWright · 27 May 2023

706 pts 191 comments

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HBO Max new Captcha system twitter.com · Signez · 29 May 2023

705 pts 320 comments

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Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages github.com · crakenzak · 22 May 2023

705 pts 222 comments

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Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022) reproof.app · pps · 31 May 2023

694 pts 223 comments

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Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad apple.com · isomorph · 9 May 2023

688 pts 568 comments

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Language models can explain neurons in language models openai.com · mfiguiere · 9 May 2023

688 pts 477 comments

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ChatGPT app for iOS openai.com · rememberlenny · 18 May 2023

675 pts 404 comments

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Why is my dryer radioactive? physics.stackexchange.com · jpitz · 18 May 2023

674 pts 159 comments

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Pixpaint warms.maxbittker.repl.co · luu · 15 May 2023

674 pts 49 comments

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I want to talk about WebGPU cohost.org · pjmlp · 3 May 2023

672 pts 238 comments

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Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally? molly0 · 24 May 2023

667 pts 629 comments

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Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases twitter.com · guiambros · 26 May 2023

667 pts 273 comments

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers bleepingcomputer.com · jacooper · 10 May 2023

666 pts 1.4k comments

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Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. wsj.com · jaredwiener · 22 May 2023

664 pts 520 comments