Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1158 points by nneonneo | 735 comments
Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org (Aug 2023) discussing new developments around the claimed room-temperature superconductor LK-99.
624 points by anaclet0 | 231 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA forming the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote open standards for 3D content.
576 points by spekcular | 240 comments
arXiv preprint reporting a synthesis of the LK-99 compound Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O that shows semiconducting rather than superconducting transport.
574 points by lemper | 212 comments
GitHub repository for Jujutsu (jj), a Git-compatible distributed version control system designed to be both simple and powerful.
551 points by b800h | 255 comments
A tweet by Andrew Cote reporting a claimed replication of the LK-99 superconductor by a Huazhong University team, explaining the levitation evidence and its caveats.
497 points by spekcular | 373 comments
arXiv preprint presenting DFT calculations of the electronic structure of the putative room-temperature superconductor LK-99 (Pb9Cu(PO4)6O), finding flat Cu bands at the Fermi level.
444 points by lnyan | 268 comments
arXiv preprint (v2) by Lee et al. claiming LK-99, a copper-doped lead apatite, is a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor showing levitation.
433 points by whoishiring | 366 comments
Monthly Ask HN thread for August 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, intern, and visa details.
407 points by slapshot | 943 comments
The Atlantic article by Jim Hinch examining the results of Oregon's decriminalization of hard drugs, which has not gone as planned.
401 points by nrsapt | 145 comments
Article about a hardware hacker modifying an M1 Mac mini to be powered via Power over Ethernet instead of AC; the page shows a WordPress database connection error.
395 points by kindaAnIdiot | 143 comments
Official Nim blog post announcing the release of Nim version 2.0, which makes ORC memory management the default and adds other features.
374 points by lawrenceyan | 181 comments
arXiv preprint by Sinéad Griffin using DFT to identify correlated isolated flat bands in copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite (LK-99).
281 points by bertman | 146 comments
250 points by Paul-Craft | 164 comments
175 points by whoishiring | 298 comments
164 points by boeingUH60 | 269 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/8/1/1e3041d4-3722-43a8-be5f-fe9b68cdb6b7.jpg)
162 points by zdw | 37 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How pencils are made in a Japanese factory [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/8/3/2509dc20-e3f4-46a3-bfb8-bc39143c860f.jpg)
99 points by thunderbong | 11 comments
95 points by blackle | 15 comments
81 points by luu | 14 comments
