The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2023

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The Cloud Computer oxide.computer · CathalMullan · 26 Oct 2023

1.9k pts 956 comments

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German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals stackdiary.com · isodev · 31 Oct 2023

1.2k pts 575 comments

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California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment reuters.com · ra7 · 24 Oct 2023

1.2k pts 1.2k comments

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Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro prolost.com · robenkleene · 11 Oct 2023

1.2k pts 409 comments

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Making Hard Things Easy jvns.ca · hasheddan · 6 Oct 2023

1.1k pts 197 comments

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First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student scrollprize.org · razin · 12 Oct 2023

1.1k pts 207 comments

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I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars ludic.mataroa.blog · softskunk · 30 Oct 2023

1.1k pts 458 comments

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Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max apple.com · ehPReth · 31 Oct 2023

1k pts 1.1k comments

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Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world protomaps.com · rcarmo · 23 Oct 2023

1k pts 163 comments

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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 tonsky.me · mrzool · 2 Oct 2023

989 pts 555 comments

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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years bugzilla.mozilla.org · MallocVoidstar · 10 Oct 2023

966 pts 337 comments

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Scrollbars are becoming a problem artemis.sh · dredmorbius · 13 Oct 2023

953 pts 919 comments

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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It soatok.blog · Kye · 2 Oct 2023

926 pts 885 comments

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John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity venturebeat.com · AndrewKemendo · 9 Oct 2023

926 pts 435 comments

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An interactive intro to CRDTs jakelazaroff.com · jakelazaroff · 4 Oct 2023

922 pts 130 comments

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A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl · GuardianCaveman · 22 Oct 2023

919 pts 100 comments

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Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states irs.gov · dwynings · 17 Oct 2023

906 pts 329 comments

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Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context phind.com · rushingcreek · 31 Oct 2023

891 pts 347 comments

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Where does my computer get the time from? dotat.at · fanf2 · 5 Oct 2023

851 pts 250 comments

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Write more "useless" software ntietz.com · greenSunglass · 17 Oct 2023

846 pts 254 comments

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Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009) link.springer.com · samaysharma · 5 Oct 2023

836 pts 236 comments

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We have used too many levels of abstractions unixsheikh.com · riidom · 21 Oct 2023

834 pts 530 comments

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ChatGPT’s system prompts github.com · spdustin · 14 Oct 2023

827 pts 389 comments

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Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec github.com · mrmagoo2 · 25 Oct 2023

811 pts 102 comments

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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date grumpy.website · microflash · 14 Oct 2023

798 pts 358 comments

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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin andadinosaur.com · mrzool · 29 Oct 2023

781 pts 760 comments

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The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop nngroup.com · skadamat · 26 Oct 2023

770 pts 484 comments

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The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps cloud.google.com · tomzur · 10 Oct 2023

751 pts 468 comments

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Introduction to Modern Statistics openintro-ims2.netlify.app · noelwelsh · 12 Oct 2023

740 pts 132 comments

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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax” thebignewsletter.com · PaulHoule · 4 Oct 2023

737 pts 627 comments

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Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service notes.valdikss.org.ru · f311a · 20 Oct 2023

731 pts 306 comments

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Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 buildkite.com · juanfatas · 2 Oct 2023

726 pts 363 comments

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Commercially available chairs in Star Trek ex-astris-scientia.org · zichy · 18 Oct 2023

725 pts 210 comments

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Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas lerner.co.il · reuven · 19 Oct 2023

716 pts 493 comments

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Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics thedrive.com · geox · 1 Oct 2023

709 pts 615 comments

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Starlink Direct to Cell direct.starlink.com · pr337h4m · 11 Oct 2023

706 pts 536 comments

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Animated AI animatedai.github.io · qwertyforce · 24 Oct 2023

706 pts 63 comments

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Nomnoml nomnoml.com · mono-bob · 2 Oct 2023

682 pts 161 comments

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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft joshcsimmons.com · joshcsimmons · 17 Oct 2023

680 pts 433 comments

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Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance dannymekic.com · veeti · 14 Oct 2023

680 pts 364 comments

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Embeddings: What they are and why they matter simonwillison.net · simonw · 23 Oct 2023

668 pts 131 comments

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macOS Sonoma Boot Failures github.com · _susn · 31 Oct 2023

667 pts 282 comments

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Python 3.12 python.org · qsort · 2 Oct 2023

652 pts 328 comments

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Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI twitter.com · hackerbeat · 31 Oct 2023

651 pts 309 comments

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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off theverge.com · donohoe · 16 Oct 2023

640 pts 609 comments

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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 hacks.mozilla.org · kevincox · 31 Oct 2023

640 pts 283 comments

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Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder eieio.games · eieio · 8 Oct 2023

639 pts 57 comments

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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data eff.org · gslin · 15 Oct 2023

636 pts 246 comments

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HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly blog.apnic.net · skilled · 5 Oct 2023

632 pts 482 comments

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Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator newsletter.smallbets.co · georgehill · 13 Oct 2023

632 pts 320 comments

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Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security minnesotareformer.com · danso · 17 Oct 2023

631 pts 580 comments

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Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition linear.axler.net · __rito__ · 29 Oct 2023

631 pts 294 comments

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Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system nerdyarticles.com · thunderbong · 7 Oct 2023

627 pts 182 comments

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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices ileakage.com · aw1621107 · 25 Oct 2023

611 pts 225 comments

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ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades news.cornell.edu · JohnHammersley · 19 Oct 2023

592 pts 159 comments

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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman nobelprize.org · OskarS · 2 Oct 2023

590 pts 351 comments

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering sre.google · maheshrijal · 27 Oct 2023

590 pts 124 comments

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Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders blog.google · ilamont · 30 Oct 2023

588 pts 411 comments

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SumatraPDF Reader github.com · quyleanh · 24 Oct 2023

586 pts 272 comments

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Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts nota-lang.org · napsternxg · 20 Oct 2023

583 pts 214 comments