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January 2023 Archive
151.
Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
445 points by RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm on Jan 19, 2023 | 367 comments
152.
England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes (theverge.com)
444 points by lbres on Jan 9, 2023 | 327 comments
153.
Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable (github.com)
444 points by Owez on Jan 5, 2023 | 143 comments
154.
The UK is wasting a lot of wind power (archy.deberker.com)
441 points by RobinL on Jan 12, 2023 | 390 comments
155.
I almost bought a scanner (leejo.github.io)
440 points by leejo on Jan 25, 2023 | 320 comments
156.
Wonders of Street View (neal.fun)
439 points by Amorymeltzer on Jan 23, 2023 | 93 comments
157.
The expanding dark forest and generative AI (maggieappleton.com)
438 points by colinprince on Jan 4, 2023 | 418 comments
158.
Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking (github.com)
438 points by axiomdata316 on Jan 13, 2023 | 276 comments
159.
Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
436 points by mbrain on Jan 22, 2023 | 451 comments
160.
Apple announces full Swift rewrite of the Foundation framework (2022) (infoq.com)
434 points by frizlab on Jan 11, 2023 | 367 comments
161.
SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic (robinlinacre.com)
434 points by RobinL on Jan 30, 2023 | 267 comments
162.
Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop (blog.liw.fi)
427 points by tapanjk on Jan 1, 2023 | 513 comments
163.
The FBI Identified a Tor User (vice.com)
427 points by mikece on Jan 17, 2023 | 341 comments
164.
No Start Menu for You (randomascii.wordpress.com)
427 points by jabagawee on Jan 18, 2023 | 272 comments
165.
FAA NOTAM System Outage (fly.faa.gov)
422 points by chucksmash on Jan 11, 2023 | 218 comments
166.
The strangest computer manual ever written (ironicsans.substack.com)
422 points by rkuykendall-com on Jan 2, 2023 | 109 comments
167.
A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system (cnn.com)
421 points by bluedino on Jan 12, 2023 | 388 comments
168.
Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20% (coinbase.com)
420 points by shawabawa3 on Jan 10, 2023 | 486 comments
169.
Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets (quantamagazine.org)
420 points by kentricon on Jan 3, 2023 | 107 comments
170.
Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering (vadimkravcenko.com)
419 points by mikecarlton on Jan 6, 2023 | 277 comments
171.
Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney (adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app)
417 points by danielcorin on Jan 25, 2023 | 394 comments
172.
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success (eos.org)
417 points by DocFeind on Jan 14, 2023 | 273 comments
173.
Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
416 points by jesuscript on Jan 5, 2023 | 621 comments
174.
U.S. accuses Google of abusing monopoly in ad technology (nytimes.com)
415 points by dlg on Jan 24, 2023 | 246 comments
175.
Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016) (hbr.org)
414 points by sherilm on Jan 7, 2023 | 376 comments
176.
Quitting the rat race (seanbarry.dev)
413 points by seanbarry on Jan 16, 2023 | 416 comments
177.
Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
410 points by science4sail on Jan 17, 2023 | 228 comments
178.
Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up (edita.vercel.app)
410 points by gushogg-blake on Jan 30, 2023 | 136 comments
179.
Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens (windowscentral.com)
409 points by ahiknsr on Jan 22, 2023 | 236 comments
180.
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile (techcrunch.com)
407 points by m-watson on Jan 19, 2023 | 2 comments