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Top of Month - May 2023

1. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
   (4 May 2023 | 2455 points | Comments)

2. Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
   (31 May 2023 | 1984 points | Comments)

3. Memory Allocation
   (22 May 2023 | 1360 points | Comments)

4. Rarbg Is No More
   (31 May 2023 | 1352 points | Comments)

5. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
   (10 May 2023 | 1341 points | Comments)

6. Slide to Unlock
   (31 May 2023 | 1185 points | Comments)

7. Get started making music
   (14 May 2023 | 1176 points | Comments)

8. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
   (11 May 2023 | 1166 points | Comments)

9. PyPI Was Subpoenaed
   (24 May 2023 | 1153 points | Comments)

10. Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
    (30 May 2023 | 1050 points | Comments)

11. JMAP – a modern email open standard
    (30 May 2023 | 1030 points | Comments)

12. It's A(door)able
    (3 May 2023 | 1026 points | Comments)

13. MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
    (3 May 2023 | 1014 points | Comments)

14. Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
    (1 May 2023 | 1008 points | Comments)

15. Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
    (4 May 2023 | 989 points | Comments)

16. Let us serve you, but don't bring us down
    (29 May 2023 | 976 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
    (31 May 2023 | 947 points | Comments)

18. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think
    (11 May 2023 | 941 points | Comments)

19. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]
    (25 May 2023 | 941 points | Comments)

20. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
    (20 May 2023 | 927 points | Comments)

21. 100K Context Windows
    (11 May 2023 | 924 points | Comments)

22. I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me
    (30 May 2023 | 922 points | Comments)

23. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
    (16 May 2023 | 914 points | Comments)

24. GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt
    (12 May 2023 | 910 points | Comments)

25. Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
    (3 May 2023 | 891 points | Comments)

26. Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
    (29 May 2023 | 869 points | Comments)

27. Why I Left Rust
    (28 May 2023 | 861 points | Comments)

28. IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
    (15 May 2023 | 856 points | Comments)

29. Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
    (22 May 2023 | 842 points | Comments)

30. Htmx Is the Future
    (5 May 2023 | 836 points | Comments)

31. Eye Candy
    (2 May 2023 | 834 points | Comments)

32. India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces
    (29 May 2023 | 820 points | Comments)

33. Bank Failures Visualized
    (3 May 2023 | 819 points | Comments)

34. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
    (14 May 2023 | 812 points | Comments)

35. Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
    (30 May 2023 | 808 points | Comments)

36. Orb Farm
    (19 May 2023 | 783 points | Comments)

37. macOS Internals
    (7 May 2023 | 773 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
    (10 May 2023 | 737 points | Comments)

39. What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
    (18 May 2023 | 736 points | Comments)

40. Tarkovsky's films online for free
    (27 May 2023 | 735 points | Comments)

41. JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
    (16 May 2023 | 734 points | Comments)

42. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
    (17 May 2023 | 731 points | Comments)

43. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
    (16 May 2023 | 721 points | Comments)

44. Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
    (30 May 2023 | 711 points | Comments)

45. Paper Airplane Designs
    (26 May 2023 | 709 points | Comments)

46. Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
    (1 May 2023 | 707 points | Comments)

47. Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)
    (27 May 2023 | 706 points | Comments)

48. Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
    (22 May 2023 | 705 points | Comments)

49. HBO Max new Captcha system
    (29 May 2023 | 705 points | Comments)

50. Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
    (31 May 2023 | 694 points | Comments)

51. Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
    (9 May 2023 | 688 points | Comments)

52. Language models can explain neurons in language models
    (9 May 2023 | 688 points | Comments)

53. ChatGPT app for iOS
    (18 May 2023 | 675 points | Comments)

54. Pixpaint
    (15 May 2023 | 674 points | Comments)

55. Why is my dryer radioactive?
    (18 May 2023 | 674 points | Comments)

56. I want to talk about WebGPU
    (3 May 2023 | 672 points | Comments)

57. Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
    (24 May 2023 | 667 points | Comments)

58. Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases
    (26 May 2023 | 667 points | Comments)

59. YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
    (10 May 2023 | 666 points | Comments)

60. Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
    (22 May 2023 | 664 points | Comments)

61. HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
    (13 May 2023 | 662 points | Comments)

62. Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
    (6 May 2023 | 658 points | Comments)

63. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
    (12 May 2023 | 654 points | Comments)

64. Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
    (19 May 2023 | 648 points | Comments)

65. Implement DNS in a Weekend
    (12 May 2023 | 647 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
    (17 May 2023 | 644 points | Comments)

67. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine
    (19 May 2023 | 644 points | Comments)

68. Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
    (1 May 2023 | 643 points | Comments)

69. Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
    (2 May 2023 | 643 points | Comments)

70. Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
    (30 May 2023 | 638 points | Comments)

71. Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
    (9 May 2023 | 636 points | Comments)

72. Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
    (16 May 2023 | 636 points | Comments)

73. The tiny corp raised $5.1M
    (24 May 2023 | 629 points | Comments)

74. The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself
    (31 May 2023 | 627 points | Comments)

75. 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years
    (26 May 2023 | 619 points | Comments)

76. Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
    (14 May 2023 | 618 points | Comments)

77. Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
    (23 May 2023 | 617 points | Comments)

78. The brand new Thunderbird logo
    (24 May 2023 | 617 points | Comments)

79. The .zip TLD sucks
    (12 May 2023 | 610 points | Comments)

80. Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
    (12 May 2023 | 607 points | Comments)

81. Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
    (11 May 2023 | 600 points | Comments)

82. So this guy is now S3. All of S3
    (4 May 2023 | 595 points | Comments)

83. FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year
    (23 May 2023 | 591 points | Comments)

84. Story: Redis and its creator antirez
    (9 May 2023 | 589 points | Comments)

85. Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
    (8 May 2023 | 588 points | Comments)

86. Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site
    (25 May 2023 | 588 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
    (15 May 2023 | 581 points | Comments)

88. Tell HN: The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG
    (10 May 2023 | 579 points | Comments)

89. My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated
    (15 May 2023 | 579 points | Comments)

90. TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges
    (13 May 2023 | 569 points | Comments)

91. Rekt.network
    (17 May 2023 | 568 points | Comments)

92. Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
    (7 May 2023 | 565 points | Comments)

93. Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
    (23 May 2023 | 565 points | Comments)

94. Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”
    (10 May 2023 | 562 points | Comments)

95. News Minimalist – Only significant news
    (2 May 2023 | 556 points | Comments)

96. Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
    (3 May 2023 | 556 points | Comments)

97. Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
    (22 May 2023 | 556 points | Comments)

98. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
    (1 May 2023 | 554 points | Comments)

99. Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
    (5 May 2023 | 552 points | Comments)

100. A guidance language for controlling LLMs
     (16 May 2023 | 552 points | Comments)