The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2023

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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger figma.com · supafastcoder · 18 Dec 2023

2.2k pts 963 comments

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Gemini AI deepmind.google · dmotz · 6 Dec 2023

2.1k pts 1.6k comments

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In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com · Vinnl · 29 Dec 2023

1.8k pts 810 comments

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If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing pluralistic.net · jay_kyburz · 9 Dec 2023

1.6k pts 794 comments

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LLM Visualization bbycroft.net · plibither8 · 3 Dec 2023

1.6k pts 131 comments

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Tiny volumetric display mitxela.com · ttesmer · 2 Dec 2023

1.6k pts 174 comments

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Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android beeper.com · erohead · 5 Dec 2023

1.5k pts 874 comments

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4B If Statements andreasjhkarlsson.github.io · r4um · 28 Dec 2023

1.5k pts 469 comments

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Happy New Year HN! thunderbong · 31 Dec 2023

1.4k pts 265 comments

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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 8 Dec 2023

1.4k pts 1.2k comments

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Epic vs. Google: Google Loses theverge.com · modeless · 12 Dec 2023

1.3k pts 1.1k comments

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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth cnn.com · my12parsecs · 14 Dec 2023

1.3k pts 608 comments

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DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching github.com · rcarmo · 27 Dec 2023

1.2k pts 273 comments

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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format blog.arxiv.org · programd · 21 Dec 2023

1.2k pts 312 comments

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Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io · anticorporate · 4 Dec 2023

1.2k pts 15 comments

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Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops social.hackerspace.pl · miki123211 · 5 Dec 2023

1.1k pts 360 comments

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Beeper Mini is back blog.beeper.com · erohead · 11 Dec 2023

1.1k pts 1.2k comments

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Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers heynote.com · jonatanheyman · 22 Dec 2023

1.1k pts 303 comments

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Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice twitter.com · apsec112 · 7 Dec 2023

1k pts 658 comments

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First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation eia.gov · ano-ther · 27 Dec 2023

1k pts 1.1k comments

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Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted techdirt.com · josephcsible · 13 Dec 2023

979 pts 648 comments

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LLM Visualization bbycroft.net · jonbaer · 3 Dec 2023

972 pts 1 comments

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Mechanical Watch (2022) ciechanow.ski · Akcium · 10 Dec 2023

954 pts 163 comments

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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT danluu.com · 882542F3884314B · 31 Dec 2023

950 pts 465 comments

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Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays waynesoftware · 21 Dec 2023

916 pts 189 comments

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You don't need JavaScript for that htmhell.dev · soheilpro · 2 Dec 2023

889 pts 334 comments

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Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications reuters.com · ahiknsr · 6 Dec 2023

871 pts 614 comments

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The pro-Israel information war jackpoulson.substack.com · anigbrowl · 8 Dec 2023

860 pts 1.7k comments

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3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js satoshi7190.github.io · brw · 27 Dec 2023

847 pts 185 comments

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Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage scitechdaily.com · beefman · 2 Dec 2023

824 pts 422 comments

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Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet blakewatson.com · blakewatson · 10 Dec 2023

820 pts 360 comments

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How big is YouTube? ethanzuckerman.com · MBCook · 22 Dec 2023

814 pts 246 comments

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Code is run more than read olano.dev · signa11 · 1 Dec 2023

811 pts 310 comments

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Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023? divan · 25 Dec 2023

800 pts 237 comments

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Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time andrewkchan.dev · ibobev · 19 Dec 2023

784 pts 169 comments

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23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing engadget.com · osmanbaskaya · 12 Dec 2023

779 pts 387 comments

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Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet blog.google · tosh · 6 Dec 2023

778 pts 2 comments

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Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs wingu.se · lloyds_barclays · 21 Dec 2023

776 pts 300 comments

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Database Fundamentals tontinton.com · tontinton · 15 Dec 2023

769 pts 128 comments

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Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application github.com · lsferreira42 · 9 Dec 2023

769 pts 118 comments

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The Seamless Communication models ai.meta.com · skadamat · 1 Dec 2023

720 pts 350 comments

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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp hashicorp.com · manojlds · 14 Dec 2023

719 pts 185 comments

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'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture aljazeera.com · wahnfrieden · 12 Dec 2023

717 pts 1.3k comments

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James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus webbtelescope.org · gmays · 19 Dec 2023

695 pts 280 comments

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I bricked my Christmas lights whizzy.org · willcooke · 15 Dec 2023

692 pts 82 comments

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IDEs we had 30 years ago blogsystem5.substack.com · titaniumtown · 28 Dec 2023

683 pts 603 comments

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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking badcyber.com · GruHe · 8 Dec 2023

683 pts 293 comments

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Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy github.com · sebg · 1 Dec 2023

683 pts 95 comments

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A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 admiralcloudberg.medium.com · xenophonf · 9 Dec 2023

680 pts 297 comments

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Costs of running a macOS app studio business notes.alinpanaitiu.com · alin23 · 24 Dec 2023

677 pts 210 comments

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A decade of Have I Been Pwned troyhunt.com · c5karl · 4 Dec 2023

677 pts 174 comments

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JSONB has landed sqlite.org · nalgeon · 6 Dec 2023

669 pts 205 comments

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From Nand to Tetris (2017) nand2tetris.org · mikpanko · 22 Dec 2023

667 pts 174 comments

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Firefox on the brink? brycewray.com · alexzeitler · 5 Dec 2023

661 pts 805 comments

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Show HN: How did your computer reach my server? how-did-i-get-here.net · archmaster · 5 Dec 2023

659 pts 137 comments

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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find arstechnica.com · Stratoscope · 14 Dec 2023

655 pts 233 comments

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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading incident.io · paprikati · 28 Dec 2023

653 pts 408 comments

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A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors github.com · ssgodderidge · 26 Dec 2023

653 pts 279 comments

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Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims theguardian.com · cratermoon · 23 Dec 2023

648 pts 751 comments

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Mixtral of experts mistral.ai · georgehill · 11 Dec 2023

639 pts 300 comments