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The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2023

We track 1,518 stories from August 2023, averaging 253 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 103 stories. Together they drew 226,414 comments.

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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
26
We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x blog.redplanetlabs.com · tekacs · 15 Aug 2023
954 pts 355 comments
27
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

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