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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 511 by kevincox | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context 513 by rushingcreek | 225 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, We’re excited to announce that Phind now defaults to our own model that ...Read more »

The Grug Brained Developer (2022) 461 by simonsarris | 179 comments on Hacker News.

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps 399 by mindracer | 930 comments on Hacker News.

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars 542 by softskunk | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition 486 by __rito__ | 199 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin 479 by mrzool | 517 comments on Hacker News.

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt 458 by CathalMullan | 140 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign 448 by alexopensource | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript 440 by akling | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution 441 by Metacelsus | 318 comments on Hacker News.

Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper 465 by gridentio | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering 456 by maheshrjl | 105 comments on Hacker News.

'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó 440 by happy-go-lucky | 284 comments on Hacker News.

The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy 421 by czue | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Interactive intro to shaders 414 by superMayo | 58 comments on Hacker News.

How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site? 418 by mgarciaisaia | 307 comments on Hacker News.

Was Rust Worth It? 417 by todsacerdoti | 660 comments on Hacker News.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop 476 by skadamat | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding 417 by artex_xh | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source 405 by cperciva | 184 comments on Hacker News.

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices 454 by aw1621107 | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Cooler screens 362 by kevincox | 242 comments on Hacker News.

California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment 618 by ra7 | 797 comments on Hacker News.

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world 556 by rcarmo | 88 comments on Hacker News.

A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D 508 by GuardianCaveman | 69 comments on Hacker News.

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak 479 by riidom | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service 453 by f311a | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization 435 by aboodman | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas 516 by reuven | 333 comments on Hacker News.

Write more "useless" software 491 by greenSunglass | 147 comments on Hacker News.

What is the Demoscene? An interview 465 by keiferski | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek 443 by zichy | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police 400 by fortran77 | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Using Goatse to Stop App Theft 465 by joshcsimmons | 319 comments on Hacker News.

Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message 360 by the_bookmaker | 412 comments on Hacker News.

Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive 408 by miohtama | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data 402 by gslin | 151 comments on Hacker News.

TimeGPT-1 399 by PaulHoule | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook 401 by pwim | 546 comments on Hacker News.

ChatGPT’s system prompts 446 by spdustin | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance 445 by veeti | 226 comments on Hacker News.

Desmos 3D graphing calculator 361 by benpm | 79 comments on Hacker News.

The midwit home 352 by stacktrust | 248 comments on Hacker News.

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student 345 by razin | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer 329 by microflash | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Introduction to Modern Statistics 366 by noelwelsh | 71 comments on Hacker News.

US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks 376 by bookofjoe | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Starlink Direct to Cell 384 by pr337h4m | 311 comments on Hacker News.

Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification 362 by amadeuspagel | 358 comments on Hacker News.

Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves 358 by geox | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players 344 by tosh | 709 comments on Hacker News.

The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack 350 by jsnell | 102 comments on Hacker News.

Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro 383 by robenkleene | 94 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art 361 by ea016 | 145 comments on Hacker News.

Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started 350 by fbartos | 250 comments on Hacker News.

OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera 358 by danboarder | 59 comments on Hacker News.

Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps 453 by tomzur | 327 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years 379 by MallocVoidstar | 109 comments on Hacker News.

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity 480 by AndrewKemendo | 235 comments on Hacker News.

Blackmagic Camera for iPhone 432 by Lwrless | 236 comments on Hacker News.

What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker 371 by ahaucnx | 141 comments on Hacker News.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023 363 by zdw | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users 353 by devinprater | 72 comments on Hacker News.

We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms 355 by open-source-ux | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system 433 by thunderbong | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story 385 by r721 | 155 comments on Hacker News.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat 348 by danzheng | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports 355 by riffraff | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company 345 by bratao | 134 comments on Hacker News.

Making Hard Things Easy 475 by hasheddan | 94 comments on Hacker News.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) 417 by SEJeff | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search 381 by KoftaBob | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on 381 by tasn | 802 comments on Hacker News.

Where does my computer get the time from? 450 by fanf2 | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level 453 by bumbledraven | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras 591 by samaysharma | 163 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Classic Video Poker 552 by appstorelottery | 210 comments on Hacker News. I'm a Unity 3D refugee, certified expert, started in 2005 when it was a two man-band with Joachim and David. I've bee...Read more »

The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax” 515 by PaulHoule | 490 comments on Hacker News.

An interactive intro to CRDTs 500 by jakelazaroff | 81 comments on Hacker News.

Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM 463 by Robin89 | 141 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) 456 by whoishiring | 476 comments on Hacker News. Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When r...Read more »

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman 426 by OskarS | 285 comments on Hacker News.

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 412 by mrzool | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Python 3.12 421 by qsort | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Nomnoml 442 by mono-bob | 119 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 408 by juanfatas | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak 390 by tomduncalf | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency 377 by vpt | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) 377 by throwaway71271 | 46 comments on Hacker News. I made this game to teach my daughter how buffer overflows work. I want her to loo...Read more »

Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics 410 by geox | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths 383 by scrose | 403 comments on Hacker News.