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Top of Month - Sep 2023

1. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
   (5 Sep 2023 | 3387 points | Comments)

2. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
   (28 Sep 2023 | 1756 points | Comments)

3. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
   (21 Sep 2023 | 1748 points | Comments)

4. Raspberry Pi 5
   (28 Sep 2023 | 1674 points | Comments)

5. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
   (20 Sep 2023 | 1667 points | Comments)

6. The Tyranny of the Marginal User
   (14 Sep 2023 | 1576 points | Comments)

7. The worst programmer I know
   (2 Sep 2023 | 1545 points | Comments)

8. NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
   (7 Sep 2023 | 1446 points | Comments)

9. Organic Maps
   (1 Sep 2023 | 1401 points | Comments)

10. Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
    (6 Sep 2023 | 1392 points | Comments)

11. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
    (29 Sep 2023 | 1366 points | Comments)

12. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
    (24 Sep 2023 | 1276 points | Comments)

13. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
    (19 Sep 2023 | 1205 points | Comments)

14. Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
    (19 Sep 2023 | 1164 points | Comments)

15. We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
    (25 Sep 2023 | 1149 points | Comments)

16. FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
    (26 Sep 2023 | 1139 points | Comments)

17. Bun v1.0.0
    (8 Sep 2023 | 1089 points | Comments)

18. Draggable objects
    (29 Sep 2023 | 1059 points | Comments)

19. The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
    (2 Sep 2023 | 1028 points | Comments)

20. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
    (15 Sep 2023 | 1024 points | Comments)

21. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working
    (13 Sep 2023 | 1020 points | Comments)

22. A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
    (25 Sep 2023 | 1018 points | Comments)

23. Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
    (7 Sep 2023 | 974 points | Comments)

24. The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
    (26 Sep 2023 | 963 points | Comments)

25. Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
    (12 Sep 2023 | 955 points | Comments)

26. UK air traffic control meltdown
    (11 Sep 2023 | 932 points | Comments)

27. Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
    (22 Sep 2023 | 929 points | Comments)

28. Cisco Acquires Splunk
    (21 Sep 2023 | 923 points | Comments)

29. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
    (13 Sep 2023 | 887 points | Comments)

30. Mistral 7B
    (27 Sep 2023 | 884 points | Comments)

31. My solopreneur story
    (23 Sep 2023 | 852 points | Comments)

32. Touch Pianist
    (8 Sep 2023 | 837 points | Comments)

33. A hacker's guide to language models [video]
    (24 Sep 2023 | 821 points | Comments)

34. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
    (22 Sep 2023 | 819 points | Comments)

35. Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
    (1 Sep 2023 | 814 points | Comments)

36. Credit card debt collection
    (12 Sep 2023 | 778 points | Comments)

37. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
    (29 Sep 2023 | 772 points | Comments)

38. Choose Postgres queue technology
    (24 Sep 2023 | 762 points | Comments)

39. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
    (15 Sep 2023 | 753 points | Comments)

40. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
    (12 Sep 2023 | 749 points | Comments)

41. Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
    (11 Sep 2023 | 744 points | Comments)

42. UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
    (6 Sep 2023 | 743 points | Comments)

43. Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions
    (9 Sep 2023 | 740 points | Comments)

44. Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
    (15 Sep 2023 | 736 points | Comments)

45. Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
    (15 Sep 2023 | 733 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
    (18 Sep 2023 | 722 points | Comments)

47. Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
    (18 Sep 2023 | 721 points | Comments)

48. Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
    (9 Sep 2023 | 706 points | Comments)

49. Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
    (8 Sep 2023 | 704 points | Comments)

50. DALL·E 3
    (20 Sep 2023 | 704 points | Comments)

51. Animated Knots
    (1 Sep 2023 | 702 points | Comments)

52. I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
    (27 Sep 2023 | 702 points | Comments)

53. Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
    (14 Sep 2023 | 699 points | Comments)

54. The boiling frog of digital freedom
    (3 Sep 2023 | 686 points | Comments)

55. Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
    (15 Sep 2023 | 682 points | Comments)

56. Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
    (10 Sep 2023 | 679 points | Comments)

57. Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
    (29 Sep 2023 | 679 points | Comments)

58. UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
    (21 Sep 2023 | 672 points | Comments)

59. Kagi Small Web
    (7 Sep 2023 | 668 points | Comments)

60. Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
    (25 Sep 2023 | 666 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
    (22 Sep 2023 | 662 points | Comments)

62. Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
    (16 Sep 2023 | 660 points | Comments)

63. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
    (26 Sep 2023 | 644 points | Comments)

64. Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
    (6 Sep 2023 | 638 points | Comments)

65. Don’t mess with a genius (2010)
    (13 Sep 2023 | 633 points | Comments)

66. Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
    (9 Sep 2023 | 632 points | Comments)

67. RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models
    (29 Sep 2023 | 618 points | Comments)

68. Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps
    (20 Sep 2023 | 617 points | Comments)

69. FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
    (15 Sep 2023 | 615 points | Comments)

70. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
    (18 Sep 2023 | 610 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
    (6 Sep 2023 | 602 points | Comments)

72. Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
    (21 Sep 2023 | 599 points | Comments)

73. Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
    (19 Sep 2023 | 598 points | Comments)

74. North Korean campaign targeting security researchers
    (7 Sep 2023 | 587 points | Comments)

75. PostgreSQL 16
    (14 Sep 2023 | 586 points | Comments)

76. I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
    (3 Sep 2023 | 575 points | Comments)

77. Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
    (27 Sep 2023 | 575 points | Comments)

78. EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
    (26 Sep 2023 | 570 points | Comments)

79. Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
    (7 Sep 2023 | 567 points | Comments)

80. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV
    (21 Sep 2023 | 557 points | Comments)

81. LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
    (13 Sep 2023 | 556 points | Comments)

82. I digitalized Berlin's registration form
    (19 Sep 2023 | 555 points | Comments)

83. We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
    (19 Sep 2023 | 555 points | Comments)

84. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
    (25 Sep 2023 | 552 points | Comments)

85. Doug Lenat has died
    (1 Sep 2023 | 550 points | Comments)

86. Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea
    (14 Sep 2023 | 547 points | Comments)

87. Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot
    (7 Sep 2023 | 540 points | Comments)

88. Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
    (13 Sep 2023 | 538 points | Comments)

89. Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
    (27 Sep 2023 | 538 points | Comments)

90. Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes
    (21 Sep 2023 | 535 points | Comments)

91. 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
    (22 Sep 2023 | 534 points | Comments)

92. Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online
    (27 Sep 2023 | 529 points | Comments)

93. Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model
    (17 Sep 2023 | 527 points | Comments)

94. FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
    (20 Sep 2023 | 525 points | Comments)

95. Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
    (13 Sep 2023 | 523 points | Comments)

96. Death by a Thousand Microservices
    (12 Sep 2023 | 520 points | Comments)

97. Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)
    (24 Sep 2023 | 519 points | Comments)

98. macOS Containers v0.0.1
    (26 Sep 2023 | 518 points | Comments)

99. Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
    (5 Sep 2023 | 513 points | Comments)

100. Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
     (4 Sep 2023 | 510 points | Comments)