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Top of Month - Apr 2023

1. Remembering Bob Lee
   (5 Apr 2023 | 2090 points | Comments)

2. Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
   (27 Apr 2023 | 1901 points | Comments)

3. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
   (6 Apr 2023 | 1790 points | Comments)

4. StableLM: A new open-source language model
   (19 Apr 2023 | 1502 points | Comments)

5. Space Elevator
   (19 Apr 2023 | 1456 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
   (12 Apr 2023 | 1401 points | Comments)

7. The early days of Linux
   (13 Apr 2023 | 1378 points | Comments)

8. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
   (12 Apr 2023 | 1362 points | Comments)

9. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
   (26 Apr 2023 | 1322 points | Comments)

10. Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
    (5 Apr 2023 | 1314 points | Comments)

11. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
    (21 Apr 2023 | 1264 points | Comments)

12. Clock
    (18 Apr 2023 | 1232 points | Comments)

13. The Mullvad Browser
    (3 Apr 2023 | 1182 points | Comments)

14. Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
    (10 Apr 2023 | 1163 points | Comments)

15. The day Windows died
    (2 Apr 2023 | 1146 points | Comments)

16. Load Balancing
    (16 Apr 2023 | 1143 points | Comments)

17. CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
    (21 Apr 2023 | 1099 points | Comments)

18. Datomic is Free
    (27 Apr 2023 | 1099 points | Comments)

19. Astral
    (18 Apr 2023 | 1078 points | Comments)

20. Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
    (25 Apr 2023 | 1077 points | Comments)

21. Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
    (10 Apr 2023 | 1066 points | Comments)

22. Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
    (5 Apr 2023 | 1025 points | Comments)

23. De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)
    (16 Apr 2023 | 965 points | Comments)

24. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
    (7 Apr 2023 | 957 points | Comments)

25. SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
    (20 Apr 2023 | 955 points | Comments)

26. Spinning Diagrams with CSS
    (20 Apr 2023 | 954 points | Comments)

27. New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
    (8 Apr 2023 | 949 points | Comments)

28. MiniGPT-4
    (17 Apr 2023 | 949 points | Comments)

29. Animated Drawings
    (13 Apr 2023 | 947 points | Comments)

30. Chrome ships WebGPU
    (6 Apr 2023 | 936 points | Comments)

31. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
    (27 Apr 2023 | 930 points | Comments)

32. Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
    (18 Apr 2023 | 924 points | Comments)

33. Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely
    (30 Apr 2023 | 913 points | Comments)

34. Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
    (13 Apr 2023 | 909 points | Comments)

35. How to be a -10x Engineer
    (4 Apr 2023 | 875 points | Comments)

36. RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
    (17 Apr 2023 | 864 points | Comments)

37. The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
    (5 Apr 2023 | 844 points | Comments)

38. As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
    (27 Apr 2023 | 823 points | Comments)

39. Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
    (21 Apr 2023 | 815 points | Comments)

40. The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
    (9 Apr 2023 | 791 points | Comments)

41. Deck.of.cards
    (11 Apr 2023 | 781 points | Comments)

42. Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
    (20 Apr 2023 | 775 points | Comments)

43. Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
    (26 Apr 2023 | 753 points | Comments)

44. Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
    (12 Apr 2023 | 751 points | Comments)

45. Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
    (20 Apr 2023 | 749 points | Comments)

46. Substack Notes Launched
    (11 Apr 2023 | 748 points | Comments)

47. User: Junnn11
    (19 Apr 2023 | 747 points | Comments)

48. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
    (26 Apr 2023 | 745 points | Comments)

49. Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
    (24 Apr 2023 | 743 points | Comments)

50. Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
    (29 Apr 2023 | 741 points | Comments)

51. I worked at Google for -10 days
    (11 Apr 2023 | 727 points | Comments)

52. Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image
    (5 Apr 2023 | 725 points | Comments)

53. Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
    (27 Apr 2023 | 704 points | Comments)

54. Google DeepMind
    (20 Apr 2023 | 689 points | Comments)

55. Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
    (29 Apr 2023 | 681 points | Comments)

56. Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
    (28 Apr 2023 | 673 points | Comments)

57. Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?
    (15 Apr 2023 | 671 points | Comments)

58. Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
    (19 Apr 2023 | 671 points | Comments)

59. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
    (15 Apr 2023 | 669 points | Comments)

60. I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
    (16 Apr 2023 | 663 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL
    (3 Apr 2023 | 661 points | Comments)

62. Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
    (7 Apr 2023 | 660 points | Comments)

63. Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
    (18 Apr 2023 | 659 points | Comments)

64. The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
    (22 Apr 2023 | 657 points | Comments)

65. Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)
    (14 Apr 2023 | 654 points | Comments)

66. Transformers from Scratch (2021)
    (25 Apr 2023 | 644 points | Comments)

67. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
    (5 Apr 2023 | 642 points | Comments)

68. Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
    (26 Apr 2023 | 642 points | Comments)

69. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage
    (5 Apr 2023 | 630 points | Comments)

70. SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
    (11 Apr 2023 | 628 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot
    (6 Apr 2023 | 627 points | Comments)

72. Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
    (17 Apr 2023 | 624 points | Comments)

73. UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
    (26 Apr 2023 | 624 points | Comments)

74. Grid World
    (5 Apr 2023 | 623 points | Comments)

75. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
    (27 Apr 2023 | 619 points | Comments)

76. Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
    (5 Apr 2023 | 615 points | Comments)

77. Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet
    (28 Apr 2023 | 615 points | Comments)

78. NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
    (12 Apr 2023 | 614 points | Comments)

79. CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
    (5 Apr 2023 | 610 points | Comments)

80. Lofi air traffic control – LAX
    (15 Apr 2023 | 607 points | Comments)

81. Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon
    (5 Apr 2023 | 600 points | Comments)

82. The Windows 11 Trash Party
    (17 Apr 2023 | 597 points | Comments)

83. iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
    (22 Apr 2023 | 597 points | Comments)

84. Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
    (18 Apr 2023 | 586 points | Comments)

85. GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
    (21 Apr 2023 | 586 points | Comments)

86. MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
    (24 Apr 2023 | 586 points | Comments)

87. Ryuichi Sakamoto has died
    (2 Apr 2023 | 583 points | Comments)

88. AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
    (16 Apr 2023 | 580 points | Comments)

89. The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
    (25 Apr 2023 | 580 points | Comments)

90. Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta
    (12 Apr 2023 | 579 points | Comments)

91. A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken
    (5 Apr 2023 | 572 points | Comments)

92. I wish GPT4 had never happened
    (8 Apr 2023 | 572 points | Comments)

93. Thinking hard makes the brain tired
    (2 Apr 2023 | 566 points | Comments)

94. Effective Spaced Repetition
    (10 Apr 2023 | 561 points | Comments)

95. Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
    (10 Apr 2023 | 560 points | Comments)

96. Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
    (30 Apr 2023 | 555 points | Comments)

97. Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died
    (4 Apr 2023 | 553 points | Comments)

98. Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
    (11 Apr 2023 | 551 points | Comments)

99. Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content
    (18 Apr 2023 | 550 points | Comments)

100. Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
     (20 Apr 2023 | 550 points | Comments)