The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2023
We track 1,494 stories from July 2023, averaging 255 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 110 stories. Together they drew 240,099 comments, 161 per story on average.
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Kevin Mitnick has died
dignitymemorial.com · thirtyseven · 19 Jul 2023
3.7k pts
613 comments
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3
The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
arxiv.org · Akronymus · 25 Jul 2023
1.7k pts
877 comments
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4
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
stanforddaily.com · dralley · 19 Jul 2023
1.5k pts
777 comments
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5
Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
9to5mac.com · samwillis · 20 Jul 2023
1.5k pts
749 comments
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7
Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
github.com · topshelf · 26 Jul 2023
1.4k pts
839 comments
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8
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
wiby.me · thunderbong · 15 Jul 2023
1.4k pts
352 comments
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10
Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
treeherder.mozilla.org · akyuu · 18 Jul 2023
1.3k pts
544 comments
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11
Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
science.org · etiam · 26 Jul 2023
1.2k pts
470 comments
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13
When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
mastodon.gamedev.place · janandonly · 8 Jul 2023
1.1k pts
395 comments
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14
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
arstechnica.com · jakobdabo · 24 Jul 2023
1.1k pts
465 comments
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15
Threads, an Instagram app
apps.apple.com · Xeophon · 3 Jul 2023
1k pts
1.3k comments
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17
Firefox address bar
wiki.tilde.institute · todsacerdoti · 10 Jul 2023
1k pts
317 comments
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18
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
baron816 · 6 Jul 2023
1k pts
614 comments
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20
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
github.com · tambourine_man · 20 Jul 2023
1k pts
257 comments
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21
Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
workout.lol · Vincenius · 10 Jul 2023
993 pts
281 comments
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22
Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
infosec.exchange · luu · 25 Jul 2023
983 pts
264 comments
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23
First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
mainichi.jp · elorant · 2 Jul 2023
970 pts
299 comments
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24
Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
dm.hn · deathbypenguin · 5 Jul 2023
937 pts
184 comments
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25
I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
jakeseliger.com · theoldlove · 22 Jul 2023
913 pts
462 comments
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27
Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
github.com · danShumway · 25 Jul 2023
885 pts
323 comments
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28
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net · Vinnl · 5 Jul 2023
872 pts
162 comments
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29
Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
blog.jgc.org · thepbone · 11 Jul 2023
869 pts
322 comments
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30
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
reuters.com · mfiguiere · 27 Jul 2023
831 pts
731 comments
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31
Displayport: A Better Video Interface
hackaday.com · zdw · 11 Jul 2023
828 pts
411 comments
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33
Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
lowendbox.com · h0ek · 23 Jul 2023
816 pts
554 comments
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34
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
awesomekling.github.io · dvrp · 7 Jul 2023
810 pts
255 comments
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35
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
allthingsdistributed.com · werner · 27 Jul 2023
804 pts
160 comments
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36
40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
damninteresting.com · bookofjoe · 24 Jul 2023
800 pts
305 comments
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37
Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
webcache.googleusercontent.com · burnerbob · 20 Jul 2023
797 pts
477 comments
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39
Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
projectionlab.com · scubakid · 24 Jul 2023
766 pts
288 comments
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40
GPT-4 API General Availability
openai.com · mfiguiere · 6 Jul 2023
763 pts
546 comments
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41
Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
github.com · barbazoo · 10 Jul 2023
757 pts
344 comments
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42
Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
vivaldi.com · dagurp · 26 Jul 2023
756 pts
433 comments
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43
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
techcrunch.com · pallas_athena · 24 Jul 2023
740 pts
1.8k comments
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44
All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
themessenger.com · pessimizer · 23 Jul 2023
737 pts
558 comments
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45
Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups
sfcompute.org · flaque · 30 Jul 2023
727 pts
176 comments
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46
Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983
statecraft.beehiiv.com · armanhq · 10 Jul 2023
720 pts
744 comments
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48
I have written a JVM in Rust
andreabergia.com · lukastyrychtr · 21 Jul 2023
718 pts
181 comments
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49
Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
imadkhan · 27 Jul 2023
711 pts
1.1k comments
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50
Llama2.c: Inference llama 2 in one file of pure C
github.com · anjneymidha · 23 Jul 2023
707 pts
165 comments
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51
Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal
businessinsider.com · isaacfrond · 13 Jul 2023
703 pts
324 comments
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52
A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
stefanjudis.com · sph · 17 Jul 2023
699 pts
113 comments
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53
BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system
bloomberg.github.io · carride · 27 Jul 2023
695 pts
259 comments
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54
The Fall of Stack Overflow
observablehq.com · ayhanfuat · 24 Jul 2023
689 pts
787 comments
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55
Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
amusingplanet.com · pmoriarty · 4 Jul 2023
688 pts
413 comments
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56
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
noahpinion.blog · bankershill · 18 Jul 2023
684 pts
750 comments
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57
Guide to running Llama 2 locally
replicate.com · bfirsh · 25 Jul 2023
683 pts
170 comments
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58
Passkeys will come at a cost
fy.blackhats.net.au · xena · 13 Jul 2023
682 pts
434 comments
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59
Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative
github.com · thunderbong · 20 Jul 2023
671 pts
196 comments
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60
Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
newpipe.net · the-scrabi · 11 Jul 2023
667 pts
339 comments
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