Archive
Oct 2024
- Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
- Our First Generalist Policy
- An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers
- Wait Until 8th
- Get me out of data hell
- Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers
- What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
- Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD-adapted body doubling
- Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes
- Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
- 1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)
- ChatGPT Search
- Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X (2023)
- Claude for Desktop
- Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
- Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
- RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent
- SSH Remoting
- I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral
- It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
- OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
- Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
- Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?
- Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
- Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
- Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]
- BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time
- The carefulness knob
- Cheap solar panels are changing the world
- Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
- Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
- M4 MacBook Pro
- Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
- LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
- Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
- Gross Apple Marketing
- EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies
- GLP-1s are among the most important drug breakthroughs
- Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint: Oxfam
- The inventor of the automatic rice cooker
- Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
- Jaywalking legalized in New York City
- NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause
- Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
- The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
- Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
- RIP botsin.space
- Hobby CAD, CNC machining, and resin casting (2015)
- Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
- GLP-1 for Everything
- PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle
- OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition
- Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
- GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
- When are two proofs essentially the same? (2007)
- New Mac Mini with M4
- Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
- Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature
- How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
- What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
- Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell
- How I write code using Cursor
- What's New in POSIX 2024
- Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
- HTML Form Validation is underused
- A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write
- Why so few Matt Levines?
- Improving Xwayland window resizing
- 200k subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
- We're forking Flutter
- Standardizing Automotive Connectivity
- So long WordPress
- NY Times gets 230 wrong again
- Buy payphones and retire
- The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
- New iMac with M4
- Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade
- Gravity is not a force
- Family medicine is in decline
- 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
- The motor turns too much
- Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
- How Gothic architecture became spooky
- Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read
- On Good Software Engineers
- The unnecessary decline of U.S. numerical weather prediction
- Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
- 418 I’m a teapot
- The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)
- Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
- Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?
- The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
- Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
- Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative
- Using SQLite as storage for web server static content
- A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
- School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
- 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)
- You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
- A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
- Crossing the USA by Train
- Writes and Write-Nots
- Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
- We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
- Character amnesia in China
- Canvas Fingerprinting
- ADHD and managing your professional reputation
- Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
- Understanding Round Robin DNS
- Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
- New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs
- All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
- Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy
- The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
- NixOS is not reproducible
- Bluesky Is Not Decentralized
- How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
- OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition
- We Can Terraform the American West
- Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
- Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
- Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
- In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
- We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
- Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
- Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
- Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
- Federal investigators probe Tether
- Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
- It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
- Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales
- Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
- Care Doesn't Scale
- Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds
- Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
- Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability
- Geoffrey Hinton said machine learning would outperform radiologists by now
- Unsafe Rust is harder than C
- Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
- The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time
- Florida Eases Licensing Requirements for Foreign Trained Doctors
- Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance
- Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
- ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST
- Why Safety Profiles Failed
- Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)
- Quit Social Media (2016)
- Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report
- Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint
- BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability
- Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule
- Security research on Private Cloud Compute
- New Architecture is here
- Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes
- All political ads running on Google in the US
- Post World War II Food
- Rider is now free for non-commercial use
- Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
- Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer
- AWS data center latencies, visualized
- Pretty.c
- TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei
- How do merging supermassive black holes pass the final parsec?
- NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch
- Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices
- Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year
- iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos
- Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings
- Toasty, an async ORM for Rust
- Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
- How to grip Bronze Age swords
- Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
- Landowner Sues After State Searches Property Without Warrant or Consent
- Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers
- GitButler now supports first class conflicts, making rebasing less annoying
- Yes, we did discover the Higgs
- Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
- The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Drug
- RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs
- Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024
- Self-Documenting Code
- Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?
- Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?
- Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change
- The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data
- Never Missing the Train Again
- Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
- Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
- Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch
- The Anvil Text Editor
- What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?
- Optimizers need a rethink
- Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
- The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers
- A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance
- Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status
- How DRAM changed the world
- Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk
- Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
- 'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
- The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
- Scientists predict and witness evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment
- Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)
- USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas
- Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game
- The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022)
- FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect
- Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
- A new JSON data type for ClickHouse
- Show HN: Rust Web Framework
- Against /tmp
- Tog's Paradox
- Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
- Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
- Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features
- Learning to Learn
- Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
- A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
- Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
- Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy
- T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
- First images from Euclid are in
- Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
- Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
- Please do not write below the line
- Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
- U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken
- Welcome to the Era of the $20k Family Car Insurance Bill
- An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker
- Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?
- Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit
- Is it better to fail spectacularly?
- AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
- OOP is not that bad
- AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office
- Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
- Scientists working to decode birdsong
- ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
- How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
- Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
- Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
- Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
- The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint
- Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
- MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)
- Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
- The AI Investment Boom
- Syncthing Android App Discontinued
- Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS
- The useful use of cat
- Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
- What docs-as-code means
- Using Euro coins as weights (2004)
- Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
- The IPv6 Transition
- Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
- Accountability sinks
- QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Blocking code is a leaky abstraction
- Autism's Four Core Subtypes
- Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
- Svelte 5 Released
- AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%
- Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
- Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
- Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13
- Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send
- 'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
- Civet: A Superset of TypeScript
- Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails
- Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack
- Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons
- Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
- The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
- Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace
- US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
- Another burnout post
- Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo
- Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
- Code that helped end Apartheid
- Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer
- Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format
- Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
- Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)
- Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
- Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court
- Life is not a story
- Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?
- What is theoretical computer science?
- One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
- Smart pointers for the kernel
- SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely
- C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
- The Fifth Generation Project in Japan (1992)
- Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
- Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
- Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results
- NASA freezes Starliner missions
- Grandmaster-level chess without search
- Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
- 555 Timer Circuits
- setBigTimeout
- Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
- JSON Patch
- Unit tests as documentation
- The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends
- Crokinole
- NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
- The science of "Zoom fatigue"
- I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
- Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
- Time is a dimension, but not like space
- Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
- What do you visualize while programming?
- Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
- Cats are (almost) liquid
- Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
- OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust
- WordPress retaliation impacts community
- Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
- AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
- Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
- We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
- Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives
- Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
- ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
- Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
- Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
- Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)
- Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres
- FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
- Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86
- One possible housing crisis solution? Public housing for all income levels
- New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
- How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
- Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
- Reflections on Palantir
- Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera
- The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)
- Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines
- Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
- Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
- The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire
- All possible plots by major authors (2020)
- Advancing Memory Safety
- Meta's open AI hardware vision
- Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA
- Sqlite3 WebAssembly
- The C23 edition of Modern C
- OpenAI Is a Bad Business
- Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
- Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
- Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
- FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers
- Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI
- A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)
- Hacker Typer
- SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
- The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
- The Retreat to Muskworld
- Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo
- World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
- Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
- Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable
- How I Experience Web Today (2021)
- Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
- Gettiers in software engineering (2019)
- Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study
- Response to DHH
- Scale Ruins Everything
- Furilabs Linux Phone
- Cargo Airships Are Happening
- Scientists successfully breed corals to improve their heat tolerance
- The Stallman Report
- Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
- Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
- Gosub – An open-source browser engine
- Embedded Rust in Production?
- Huly – Open-source project management platform
- Why pay for a search engine
- Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring
- Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time
- The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
- Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object
- Why does FM sound better than AM?
- Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
- Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
- Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor
- The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
- The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it (2018)
- CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
- Inkscape 1.4
- Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
- Restic: Backups done right
- ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
- America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs
- The quiet art of attention
- UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay
- Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
- Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
- Diffusion for World Modeling
- WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
- Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says
- FLUX is fast and it's open source
- Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk
- Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
- The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
- Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
- Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org
- Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA
- Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?
- The web I want vs. the one we have
- Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
- The phone ban has had a big impact on school work
- Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
- Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
- AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
- Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI
- An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs
- Working from home is powering productivity
- Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
- In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
- Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away
- LLMs don't do formal reasoning
- How long til we're all on Ozempic?
- Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra
- "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
- Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app
- Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
- Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
- Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo
- Tesla Robotaxi
- $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst
- WordPress Alternatives
- Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?
- The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes
- The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
- TypedDicts are better than you think
- Show HN: HTML for People
- Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
- Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see
- Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane conspiracy theories thrive
- DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
- The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking
- AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
- Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people
- Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
- End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem
- Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
- Helping wikis move away from Fandom
- Scrum's “Product Owner” Problem
- Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks
- WASM Is the New CGI
- Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86
- Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server
- How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal
- You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth
- Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
- Turkish language has a gossip tense
- Internet Archive: Security breach alert
- Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US
- My negative views on Rust (2023)
- Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
- Dookie Demastered
- Wealth Distribution in the United States
- Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
- PEP 760: No more bare excepts
- On 17th century "cocaine"
- Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
- Proposal: JavaScript Structs
- Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy
- Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
- Addition is all you need for energy-efficient language models
- US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
- HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd
- On the Nature of Time
- Don't let dicts spoil your code
- A modest critique of Htmx
- Who died and left the US $7B?
- End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
- How to delete your 23andMe data amid the company's turmoil
- Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says
- Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
- European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
- My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine
- GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment
- The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
- Show HN: Kotlin Money
- Do U.S. ports need more automation?
- The Nazi of Oak Park
- Differential Transformer
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
- The Static Site Paradox
- A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase
- The missing middle: firms in developing countries
- FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy
- uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address
- Is the attack helicopter dead?
- Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
- Fun with Go Iterators
- US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward
- Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
- Building a single-page app with Htmx
- What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
- The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
- Python 3.13.0 Is Released
- Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster
- Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
- Automating processes with software is hard
- Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel
- Hetzner Object Storage
- An e-waste dumping ground
- Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)
- California bans sell-by dates
- Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't
- Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference
- Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video
- How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
- Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon
- AI won't replace human devs anytime soon
- Sq.io: jq for databases and more
- Rust needs a web framework
- Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
- Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?
- Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
- Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging
- Gleam Is Pragmatic
- The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)
- The Naming of America (2023)
- XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support
- To Be Born in a Bag
- John Carmack on inlined code (2014)
- AI is an impediment to learning web development
- 'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'
- WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe
- Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)
- Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
- Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
- Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard
- We're excited about our new roundabout
- We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
- So thieves broke into your storage unit again
- Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)
- What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)
- CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)
- Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $
- I Stayed
- Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare
- The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
- Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections
- Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers
- It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
- Sailfish Mobile OS
- Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
- Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
- Whence '\n'?
- Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
- Linux from Scratch
- Don't squander public trust on bullshit
- LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday
- Max Schrems wins privacy case against Meta over data on sexual orientation
- How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?
- No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems
- 12 Months of Mandarin
- Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first
- Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
- Why Is Light So Fast?
- Meta Movie Gen
- Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
- Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest
- Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
- New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data
- I got everything off the cloud and am paying less
- Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
- Please Don't Make Me Download Another App
- Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)
- 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space
- Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)
- ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
- Response to WP Engine’s Lawsuit
- The Heart of Unix (2018)
- Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan
- Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
- The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
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