Archive
Jan 2024
- Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
- I don't want anything your AI generates
- Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims
- I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
- Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
- Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
- Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
- Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports
- Infinite Craft
- Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
- The Far Side – By Gary Larson
- Macaroons Escalated Quickly
- Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?
- Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD
- There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless
- Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
- Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?
- 23andMe's Fall
- Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
- In Praise of Buttons
- Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint
- Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
- Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
- Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
- Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
- Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds
- Google search drops cache link from search results
- 165 m private submersible superyacht
- Intel's Humbling
- USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program
- The business of check cashing
- Elon Musk's $55B Tesla Pay Package Voided by Judge
- Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]
- .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
- Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
- What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
- Why flying insects gather at artificial light
- A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide
- Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
- CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management
- Birth rates are falling in the Nordics. Are natalist policies no longer enough?
- The C bounded model checker: criminally underused
- Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online
- Safetyism killed playtime
- John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
- Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
- How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
- Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not
- Apple Vision Pro review
- Crime rings trafficking sand
- Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing
- I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
- Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
- Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
- Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
- JetBrains CEO Transition
- Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
- Raspberry Pi Picks Banks for IPO, Choosing London over New York
- A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code
- Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident
- Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
- There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
- Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
- Everyone hates the electronic medical record
- Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
- Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming
- How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
- The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday
- Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
- A Tour of the Lisps
- A confusing probability question: Red and green balls in an urn
- There's No Good Reason to Buy a Carbon Bike
- Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games
- Ask HN: What are some homeless shelter innovations?
- Car ownership in the US is becoming more expensive
- An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it
- Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
- Prediction markets have an elections problem
- Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack
- Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police
- Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
- How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
- The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps
- Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures
- Python types have an expectations problem
- Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
- Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition
- There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
- Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16
- --libcurl
- Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming
- Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission
- Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- Why you've never been in a plane crash
- New Renderers for GTK
- Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated
- Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
- A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
- Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
- General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker
- Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
- German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator
- New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'
- The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence
- When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)
- X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral
- I looked through attacks in my access logs
- Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks
- Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
- A company that sells lost airplane luggage
- A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding
- The Plot Against Einstein
- Pandoc
- Curl HTTP/3 Performance
- Ruby's exceptional creatures
- I hacked a train toilet
- Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences
- Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
- Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon SF politicians
- U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
- Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell"
- In loving memory of square checkbox
- "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
- Show HN: Pong Wars
- Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
- The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)
- Solar is a market for (financial) lemons
- Sane C++ Libraries
- Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs
- Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
- Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
- I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
- Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
- Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'
- Disney unveils the HoloTile floor
- Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending
- Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)
- Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)
- Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
- Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones
- Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
- The FCC Is Taking Steps to Wind Down the Affordable Connectivity Program
- Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
- Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
- Fossil is quitting smartwatches
- Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use
- Mozilla says Apple's new browser rules are 'as painful as possible' for Firefox
- iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more
- Google TPU v5p beats Nvidia H100
- Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
- PinePhone review after a month of daily driving
- As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California
- US agencies warn companies: Don’t delete Slack or Signal chats
- Phones track everything but their role in car wrecks
- The rise of batteries in six charts
- Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
- Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
- How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
- WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
- ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
- Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
- An ideological divide is emerging between young men and women around the world
- How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
- CNC lasers for cutting and engraving
- Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today
- ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
- Tailwind Isn't for Me
- BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation
- Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development
- How French was medieval England?
- The things nobody wants to pay for
- Portable EPUBs
- I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
- Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
- Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours
- Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
- Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
- HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated <14
- Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
- CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
- Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing
- Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
- Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)
- Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism
- Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative
- Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down
- I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
- Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
- How AI is changing gymnastics judging
- Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
- Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
- Which shows got their finale right, and which didn't?
- Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
- CA bill to require all new cars to prevent them from going 10mph over speedlimit
- Kagi search reached 20k paying members
- Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
- Lightweight JavaScript Framework Review (For Django Developers)
- Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
- A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
- OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public
- We made an animated movie in 8kB
- Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think
- Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)
- Show HN: Startup funding simulator
- Why are so many EV charging stations broken in California?
- Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
- IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season
- Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request doorbell video from users
- Are we at peak vector database?
- Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
- AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video
- Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)
- Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world
- How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
- Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224
- Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes
- Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
- Dutch Police regularly force people to give up footage from doorbell cameras
- You (probably) don't need to learn C
- 23andMe is reportedly turning the blame back on its customers
- eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce
- All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
- Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes
- Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
- AI 'hallucinated' fake legal cases filed to B.C. court in Canadian first
- Lumiere: A space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation
- The juror who found herself guilty
- Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
- Making Rust binaries smaller by default
- Netflix is turning into cable TV
- Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment
- Waterway Map
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
- Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
- Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers
- 2023 Letter
- The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd
- Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028
- Brex Layoffs
- Chrome experimental AI features
- From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
- Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
- What if serverless meant no backend servers?
- United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
- Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
- The NSA Furby Documents
- Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes
- Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches
- Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
- Framework Laptop 16 Review
- Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
- Responses to unicycling
- Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building
- Ask HN: What happened to normal-sized smartphones?
- Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
- Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
- Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
- Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
- Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
- The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
- Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right
- Oh My Zsh
- The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands
- Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
- Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
- Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory
- Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
- Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands
- FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
- Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
- Riot Games laying off 11%
- Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
- The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
- Trello Allegedly Breached
- Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
- Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
- British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
- My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
- Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
- NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing
- Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
- New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
- Too much serendipity
- Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]
- Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
- Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs
- Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts
- Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend
- When America first dropped acid
- WiFi 7 is officially here, but routers are pricey. Do you need it yet
- Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors hasn't kept pace
- CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]
- What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
- Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
- Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children's Futures? [video]
- The Downward Spiral of Technology
- Should I open source my company? (2022)
- Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
- Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
- Forging signed commits on GitHub
- Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
- GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
- U.S. National Park Service API
- Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?
- US home sales see worst year since 1995
- Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
- Self-driving as a case study for AGI
- Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
- How far could the sun possibly be?
- Apple to Developers: Heads I win, tails you lose (part 2)
- Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
- Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
- C23: A Slightly Better C
- Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
- The man who coined the word "robot" defends himself
- The Case for Rust in the base system
- American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
- The question of poverty vs. instability
- Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
- NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
- Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up
- Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
- Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age
- Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
- Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
- Why is everything so ugly?
- Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector
- I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist
- Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command
- The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
- Vistex CEO Sanjay Shah dies on stage after freak accident
- Houthi anti-ship missile systems: getting better all the time
- Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
- How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
- What Happened to David Graeber?
- So you think you know C? (2016)
- The Bun Shell
- 1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets
- Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
- NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter
- The Orange Pi 5 Plus
- Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
- Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators
- Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought
- Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
- Lee Kuan Yew on Malta
- Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
- Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
- Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
- Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
- Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization
- Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing
- Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook
- Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]
- Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
- Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
- Lowercase letters save data
- What's that touchscreen in my room?
- The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
- Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
- Platform Tilt
- HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
- US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar
- Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
- Memory leak proof every C program
- Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
- Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels
- Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"
- Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
- Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
- New $3k Couch Might Be Garbage in Three Years
- Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
- Surf the web like it's 1999
- Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
- Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
- Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
- Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip
- SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
- Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles
- French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
- 400 license plate cameras coming to San Francisco
- Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order
- Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
- Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support
- Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers
- Culture Change at Google
- Mourning Google
- One-Pedal Driving Explained
- A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
- Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
- AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics
- YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix
- My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
- We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
- Relearning math as an adult
- Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
- Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State
- German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app
- I made a website to share rejection letters
- Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
- Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
- New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
- Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
- What happened to the US machine tool industry?
- The case for single-stair multifamily
- The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
- Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
- IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
- Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation
- Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
- Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News
- Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun
- Queues don't fix overload (2014)
- Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat
- Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year
- Serious incident to the 777-300ER on 5 April 2022 at CDG [pdf]
- 'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More
- Flattr is closing down (2023)
- EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
- DJGPP
- Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds
- Ask HN: What's the best car without undesirable features?
- Losing my son
- WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
- Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)
- Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
- A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal
- Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
- Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
- Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases
- Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
- The Hacker News Top books of 2023
- FAQ on Leaving Google
- Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
- How Monopolists drive the power and wealth divide
- OpenAI is working with the US military now
- We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)
- Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs
- How to Design an ISA
- What do premarital experiences have to do with marital quality? (2014)
- If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source
- Notion Calendar
- Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
- AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
- Quake on an FPGA (MRISC32 CPU) [video]
- Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association
- Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
- What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
- The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List
- Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
- Why I Like Obsidian
- The Rust project has a burnout problem
- Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
- Willow Protocol
- My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage
- Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
- The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research
- I regret selling my startup
- Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
- Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
- Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over?
- JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.unsafe for removal
- OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
- "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
- US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
- Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
- Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
- Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
- Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission
- Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
- 6174
- Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
- On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
- MBAs who can't find jobs
- "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
- A Theory of Grift
- US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
- Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
- Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
- Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
- Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
- Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
- Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming Performance
- Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))
- The failure of self-checkout technology
- A link between low interest rates and low crime (2016)
- How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives
- Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
- Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues
- Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
- Modeless Vim
- Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
- We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
- Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
- Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
- Immediate Mode GUI Programming
- Americans are fake and the Dutch are rude (2022)
- Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
- Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network
- A woman bought a vintage dress. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note
- Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple
- Spotted water hemlock: the most toxic plant in North America (2017)
- High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98
- App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
- Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
- Htmx changes license to Zero-Clause BSD
- Harnessing heat from wastewater
- Scrum Sucks
- FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
- YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
- 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
- Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
- YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
- Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk
- Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
- Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
- Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]
- Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again
- Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
- ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
- The M2 is more advanced than it seemed
- Do venture capitalists want forever war?
- AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says
- Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week
- FedEx launches new e-commerce platform
- Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)
- Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?
- Kind of annoyed at React
- Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track
- When Random Isn't
- Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
- Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes
- Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal
- Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]
- Cars suck, man
- Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed
- Dynamic programming is not black magic
- ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails
- The hovercraft's time might have arrived
- Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
- What Happened to GE? (2021)
- Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
- Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run
- OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
- Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
- A math professor who objects to diversity statements
- Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
- LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
- AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
- Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
- Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
- Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service
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