The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2023

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Kevin Mitnick has died dignitymemorial.com · thirtyseven · 19 Jul 2023

3.7k pts 613 comments

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Llama 2 ai.meta.com · friggeri · 18 Jul 2023

2.3k pts 820 comments

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The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? arxiv.org · Akronymus · 25 Jul 2023

1.7k pts 877 comments

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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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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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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself sfba.social · ZacnyLos · 1 Jul 2023

1.4k pts 1.2k comments

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Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium github.com · topshelf · 26 Jul 2023

1.4k pts 839 comments

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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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Zenbleed lock.cmpxchg8b.com · loeg · 24 Jul 2023

1.3k pts 361 comments

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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer treeherder.mozilla.org · akyuu · 18 Jul 2023

1.3k pts 544 comments

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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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FedNow Is Live federalreserve.gov · lavp · 20 Jul 2023

1.2k pts 1k comments

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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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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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Threads, an Instagram app apps.apple.com · Xeophon · 3 Jul 2023

1k pts 1.3k comments

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Attention Is Off By One evanmiller.org · elbasti · 24 Jul 2023

1k pts 331 comments

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Firefox address bar wiki.tilde.institute · todsacerdoti · 10 Jul 2023

1k pts 317 comments

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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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How to Do Great Work paulgraham.com · razin · 1 Jul 2023

1k pts 432 comments

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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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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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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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First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan mainichi.jp · elorant · 2 Jul 2023

970 pts 299 comments

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Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll dm.hn · deathbypenguin · 5 Jul 2023

937 pts 184 comments

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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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Fast patrickcollison.com · valtism · 5 Jul 2023

905 pts 298 comments

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Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API github.com · danShumway · 25 Jul 2023

885 pts 323 comments

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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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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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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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Displayport: A Better Video Interface hackaday.com · zdw · 11 Jul 2023

828 pts 411 comments

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PhD Simulator research.wmz.ninja · Smith42 · 5 Jul 2023

828 pts 273 comments

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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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Excellence is a habit, but so is failure awesomekling.github.io · dvrp · 7 Jul 2023

810 pts 255 comments

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Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 allthingsdistributed.com · werner · 27 Jul 2023

804 pts 160 comments

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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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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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Advanced Python Mastery github.com · a_bonobo · 19 Jul 2023

779 pts 155 comments

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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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GPT-4 API General Availability openai.com · mfiguiere · 6 Jul 2023

763 pts 546 comments

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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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Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification vivaldi.com · dagurp · 26 Jul 2023

756 pts 433 comments

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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ techcrunch.com · pallas_athena · 24 Jul 2023

740 pts 1.8k comments

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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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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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Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 statecraft.beehiiv.com · armanhq · 10 Jul 2023

720 pts 744 comments

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Cap'n Proto 1.0 capnproto.org · kentonv · 28 Jul 2023

720 pts 218 comments

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I have written a JVM in Rust andreabergia.com · lukastyrychtr · 21 Jul 2023

718 pts 181 comments

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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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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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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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A Firefox-only minimap (2021) stefanjudis.com · sph · 17 Jul 2023

699 pts 113 comments

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BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system bloomberg.github.io · carride · 27 Jul 2023

695 pts 259 comments

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The Fall of Stack Overflow observablehq.com · ayhanfuat · 24 Jul 2023

689 pts 787 comments

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Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) amusingplanet.com · pmoriarty · 4 Jul 2023

688 pts 413 comments

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Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity noahpinion.blog · bankershill · 18 Jul 2023

684 pts 750 comments

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Guide to running Llama 2 locally replicate.com · bfirsh · 25 Jul 2023

683 pts 170 comments

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Passkeys will come at a cost fy.blackhats.net.au · xena · 13 Jul 2023

682 pts 434 comments

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Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative github.com · thunderbong · 20 Jul 2023

671 pts 196 comments

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Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request newpipe.net · the-scrabi · 11 Jul 2023

667 pts 339 comments