The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2023

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Bram Moolenaar has died groups.google.com · wufocaculura · 5 Aug 2023

4.3k pts 428 comments

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Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 arxiv.org · spekcular · 4 Aug 2023

2.4k pts 1.2k comments

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LK-99 isn’t a superconductor nature.com · Brajeshwar · 16 Aug 2023

2.1k pts 698 comments

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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video] isro.gov.in · osivertsson · 23 Aug 2023

1.9k pts 491 comments

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OpenTF announces fork of Terraform opentf.org · cube2222 · 25 Aug 2023

1.7k pts 486 comments

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Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out explore.zoom.us · isodev · 6 Aug 2023

1.6k pts 511 comments

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The first conformant M1 GPU driver rosenzweig.io · todsacerdoti · 22 Aug 2023

1.6k pts 657 comments

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ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is eff.org · mantiq · 29 Aug 2023

1.5k pts 1.3k comments

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Factorio: Space Age factorio.com · haunter · 25 Aug 2023

1.4k pts 354 comments

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I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs github.com · archmaster · 9 Aug 2023

1.3k pts 307 comments

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Downfall Attacks downfall.page · WalterSobchak · 8 Aug 2023

1.3k pts 336 comments

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Vim Boss neovim.io · bpierre · 10 Aug 2023

1.3k pts 121 comments

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Water oimo.io · thunderbong · 6 Aug 2023

1.2k pts 133 comments

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A room-temperature superconductor? New developments science.org · nneonneo · 1 Aug 2023

1.2k pts 774 comments

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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf ericdraken.com · rolph · 27 Aug 2023

1.2k pts 626 comments

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Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021) github.com · hk__2 · 9 Aug 2023

1.1k pts 360 comments

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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator htmx.org · jjdeveloper · 16 Aug 2023

1.1k pts 487 comments

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A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team mastodon.social · luu · 3 Aug 2023

1.1k pts 585 comments

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Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For techdirt.com · g0xA52A2A · 3 Aug 2023

1.1k pts 416 comments

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(next Rich) clojure.org · poidos · 4 Aug 2023

1.1k pts 150 comments

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Uninstall the NightOwl app robins.one · txr · 8 Aug 2023

1k pts 219 comments

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Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users kagi.com · tech234a · 4 Aug 2023

986 pts 484 comments

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Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding ai.meta.com · marcopicentini · 24 Aug 2023

970 pts 501 comments

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I'm betting on HTML catskull.net · catskull · 2 Aug 2023

968 pts 446 comments

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Postgres Language Server github.com · kiwicopple · 6 Aug 2023

963 pts 119 comments

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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x blog.redplanetlabs.com · tekacs · 15 Aug 2023

954 pts 355 comments

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Ask vs. Guess Culture jeanhsu.substack.com · kiyanwang · 18 Aug 2023

946 pts 479 comments

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We’re all just temporarily abled blog.jim-nielsen.com · _xivi · 21 Aug 2023

919 pts 513 comments

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Open-sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio ai.meta.com · iyaja · 2 Aug 2023

906 pts 319 comments

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Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use github.com · taubek · 13 Aug 2023

891 pts 333 comments

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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase taylor.town · surprisetalk · 3 Aug 2023

866 pts 570 comments

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Kris Nóva has died nivenly.org · chrkl · 20 Aug 2023

865 pts 130 comments

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I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997) rd.com · mgh2 · 6 Aug 2023

863 pts 559 comments

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ChatGPT Enterprise openai.com · davidbarker · 28 Aug 2023

860 pts 510 comments

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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel theverge.com · Xeophon · 22 Aug 2023

858 pts 445 comments

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Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release blog.mozilla.org · rc00 · 11 Aug 2023

857 pts 460 comments

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TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe pr.tsmc.com · king_phil · 8 Aug 2023

855 pts 500 comments

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Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time github.com · remilouf · 14 Aug 2023

854 pts 303 comments

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Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider phoronix.com · marcodiego · 15 Aug 2023

850 pts 387 comments

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E-ink is so Retropunk rmkit.dev · raisjn · 26 Aug 2023

832 pts 371 comments

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Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network techdirt.com · rntn · 4 Aug 2023

827 pts 281 comments

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Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office washingtonpost.com · fortran77 · 9 Aug 2023

825 pts 811 comments

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Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features electrek.co · 1970-01-01 · 3 Aug 2023

820 pts 741 comments

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Show HN: I automated half of my typing github.com · eschluntz · 30 Aug 2023

815 pts 313 comments

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Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B phind.com · rushingcreek · 25 Aug 2023

813 pts 284 comments

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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking theverge.com · mikece · 9 Aug 2023

801 pts 574 comments

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I would rather see my books get pirated than this janefriedman.com · ilamont · 7 Aug 2023

787 pts 486 comments

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Google Maps has become an eyesore fastcompany.com · nkurz · 7 Aug 2023

782 pts 680 comments

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Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O arxiv.org · segfaultbuserr · 3 Aug 2023

779 pts 372 comments

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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains xslowzone · 15 Aug 2023

749 pts 421 comments

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AI real-time human full-body photo generator generated.photos · bookofjoe · 23 Aug 2023

747 pts 358 comments

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CT scans of coffee-making equipment scanofthemonth.com · eucalyptuseye · 31 Aug 2023

725 pts 167 comments

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80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans cnbc.com · pg_1234 · 11 Aug 2023

724 pts 601 comments

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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally ollama.ai · jmorgan · 2 Aug 2023

722 pts 212 comments

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What happened in this GPT-3 conversation? chat.openai.com · hersko · 8 Aug 2023

710 pts 287 comments

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Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better addyosmani.com · twapi · 14 Aug 2023

707 pts 158 comments

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Short session expiration does not help security sjoerdlangkemper.nl · ColinWright · 18 Aug 2023

696 pts 419 comments

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Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio mastodon.social · luu · 13 Aug 2023

694 pts 247 comments

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Your computer should say what you tell it to say eff.org · skilled · 8 Aug 2023

689 pts 254 comments

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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have blog.danslimmon.com · sbmsr · 11 Aug 2023

687 pts 373 comments