Hacker News on Monday, 31 July 2023

Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock(news.ku.dk)

520 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 298 comments

University of Copenhagen news article reporting that the EGRIP ice core drilling project in East Greenland has reached bedrock.

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?

448 points by mattip 3 years ago | 137 comments

Ask HN post by PyPy's release manager asking whether anyone uses PyPy in production or research, to guide future development efforts.

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2(theregister.com)

425 points by belter 3 years ago | 397 comments

The Register article reporting that NASA accidentally pointed Voyager 2's antenna two degrees away from Earth, cutting off communication with the probe.

The BBC on Mastodon(bbc.co.uk)

377 points by _han 3 years ago | 142 comments

BBC Research & Development blog post describing its experimental Mastodon server at social.bbc and its exploration of the Fediverse.

How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?(genai.stackexchange.com)

371 points by Grimburger 3 years ago | 212 comments

A GenAI Stack Exchange question asking how to stop ChatGPT from excessively apologizing when challenged, even when its reply was correct.

Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism(washingtonpost.com)

353 points by andrewl 3 years ago | 654 comments

Washington Post health article from July 2023 about marijuana addiction and the skepticism faced by people struggling with it amid legal recreational sales.

Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics(blogs.loc.gov)

336 points by aaronbrethorst 3 years ago | 170 comments

Library of Congress law blog post inviting the public to help create video games that improve knowledge of civics.

Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines(app.markwhen.com)

274 points by koch 3 years ago | 52 comments

Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)(blog.apnic.net)

274 points by broken_codez 3 years ago | 124 comments

Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager(linkwarden.app)

244 points by DaniDaniel5005 3 years ago | 80 comments

So, you want to deploy on the edge?(zknill.io)

234 points by zknill 3 years ago | 125 comments

Shamir Secret Sharing(max.levch.in)

226 points by bschne 3 years ago | 44 comments

Fantasy meets reality(cabel.com)

222 points by dmazin 3 years ago | 66 comments

“BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages(github.com)

217 points by martincmartin 3 years ago | 79 comments

A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now(mstdn.social)

215 points by zhte415 3 years ago | 299 comments

First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia(apnews.com)

214 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 195 comments

Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie

187 points by figassis 3 years ago | 95 comments

USearch: Smaller and faster single-file vector search engine(unum-cloud.github.io)

185 points by 0xedb 3 years ago | 44 comments

Meta Forced to Reveal Anonymous Facebook User's Identity(stackdiary.com)

184 points by skilled 3 years ago | 189 comments

Paperlike Color: Color E-Ink Monitor(indiegogo.com)

173 points by jahfer 3 years ago | 164 comments

The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away(phoronix.com)

172 points by pantalaimon 3 years ago | 66 comments

Free and open source software projects are in transition(baldurbjarnason.com)

170 points by chriskrycho 3 years ago | 103 comments

Epicycle Clock(sophiehoulden.com)

168 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 23 comments

SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says(ft.com)

166 points by jlevett 3 years ago | 149 comments

Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue(streamtvinsider.com)

164 points by Mikho 3 years ago | 158 comments

Investors are happy to pay premium for tech, but not for AI(bloomberg.com)

163 points by alex1212 3 years ago | 161 comments

Digging into the odd history of Blade Runner’s title (2017)(vulture.com)

159 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 36 comments

Chunking 2M files a day for code search using syntax trees(docs.sweep.dev)

153 points by kevinlu1248 3 years ago | 57 comments

Building Nikola Tesla's Bladeless Turbine [video](youtube.com)

151 points by xbmcuser 3 years ago | 38 comments

Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)(varun.ch)

147 points by miki123211 3 years ago | 49 comments

Predictive Debugging: A Game-Changing Look into the Future(blog.jetbrains.com)

146 points by redbell 3 years ago | 68 comments

SEC Charges Hex Founder Richard Heart with Misappropriating Millions of Dollars(sec.gov)

145 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 77 comments

An open-source, free circuit simulator(hackaday.com)

140 points by jerryjerryjerry 3 years ago | 33 comments

My journey away from the JAMstack(spicyweb.dev)

137 points by brycewray 3 years ago | 110 comments

Happy 30th FreeBSD: Why FreeBSD open source project has endured(aster.cloud)

135 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 62 comments

AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay(theregister.com)

126 points by penda 3 years ago | 125 comments

Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor(learnlingo.dev)

124 points by ct271 3 years ago | 88 comments

Cards as Weapons (1977)(archive.org)

119 points by jansan 3 years ago | 41 comments

Comparison of vector databases(navidre.medium.com)

114 points by navidres 3 years ago | 79 comments

Compilation of Known LK-99 Replication Attempt Claims(forums.spacebattles.com)

104 points by mhb 3 years ago | 27 comments

The fall of Stack Overflow, explained?(newsletter.devmoh.co)

101 points by cryptoz 3 years ago | 109 comments

Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?(matklad.github.io)

98 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 84 comments

Curl Command Line Variables(daniel.haxx.se)

96 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 16 comments

OpenTTD 13.4 Released(openttd.org)

96 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 18 comments

Pee-wee Herman has died(variety.com)

93 points by ericzawo 3 years ago | 18 comments

Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)(sive.rs)

93 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 57 comments

The Fibonacci Matrix(ianthehenry.com)

93 points by ianthehenry 3 years ago | 15 comments

Space junk: India says object found in Australia is theirs(bbc.com)

91 points by vinni2 3 years ago | 55 comments

Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem(aaronhertzmann.com)

91 points by luu 3 years ago | 13 comments

Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?

89 points by wh33zle 3 years ago | 39 comments

Add PayPal to your Stripe integration(hyperswitch.io)

88 points by SMohata 3 years ago | 52 comments

99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work(cnn.com)

85 points by DamnInteresting 3 years ago | 80 comments

Two supermoons in August(phys.org)

85 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 16 comments

Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by undersupply of seedlings(uvm.edu)

84 points by geox 3 years ago | 71 comments

BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel(thedriven.io)

83 points by _aavaa_ 3 years ago | 103 comments

The Cables That Run the Internet(cnet.com)

81 points by redbell 3 years ago | 26 comments

x86 is dead, long live x86(engineering.mercari.com)

80 points by harpratap 3 years ago | 120 comments

Airlines are a lot like central banks (2020)(abroaden.substack.com)

72 points by flygurl 3 years ago | 55 comments

Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition(e360.yale.edu)

67 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 14 comments