Archive
Dec 2024
- Happy New Year 2025
- FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
- Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
- Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
- The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
- Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
- Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading
- Darktable 5.0.0
- Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
- A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs
- Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)
- Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race
- U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
- Dog Aging Project
- Software Design Is Knowledge Building
- App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
- BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff
- More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
- Orbit by Mozilla
- Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?
- LineageOS 22
- Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
- China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025
- I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig
- Database mocks are not worth it
- What I learned reporting in cities that take belongings from homeless people
- Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11
- US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010
- Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?
- Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts
- FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness
- Fun facts about SQLite
- AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
- Dungeons and Dragons rolls the dice with new rules about identity
- Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
- Most people don't care about quality
- Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
- Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
- Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth
- VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data
- Curl-Impersonate
- 'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system
- I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
- From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]
- Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
- OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
- Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes
- Brave Care Has Closed
- Jimmy Carter has died
- Short-term rentals are hollowing out communities with loose restrictions
- Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?
- Notes on China
- Developing inside a virtual machine
- Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold
- I was wrong about the ethics crisis
- BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)
- How China turns members of its diaspora into spies
- 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
- Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
- The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024
- Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again
- How I run LLMs locally
- BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]
- Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?
- Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing
- Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers
- All You Need Is 4x 4090 GPUs to Train Your Own Model
- Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
- Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
- Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death
- Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway
- EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
- After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly
- Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
- Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)
- Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
- U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage
- Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
- I automated my job application process
- 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas
- EmacsConf 2024 Notes
- So you want to write Java in Neovim
- Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats
- Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?
- Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
- Ada's dependent types, and its types as a whole
- PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P
- Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement
- Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]
- Spotify is full of AI music
- Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
- TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips
- They have not been trained for this
- VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles
- Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy
- Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'
- Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
- Bench accounting services shutting down
- Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it
- Does current AI represent a dead end?
- The new science of controlling lucid dreams
- Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch
- Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission
- The paper passport's days are numbered
- Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers
- Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'
- Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon
- Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law
- Ghostty 1.0
- OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly
- The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
- Lua is so underrated
- Short Message Compression Using LLMs
- Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
- A Tour of WebAuthn
- Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously
- The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
- Should more of us be moving to live near friends?
- Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage
- A Minecraft server written in COBOL
- Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
- Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
- Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
- Seconds Since the Epoch
- Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
- Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy
- Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports
- ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Officially Erased From Canon
- Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
- Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth'
- Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
- The Rise and Future Fall of MicroStrategy
- Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?
- Guide to mechanical keyboards
- Ruby 3.4.0
- Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers
- That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection
- Merry Christmas Everyone
- Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch
- Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
- macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
- Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804
- Electric cars could last much longer than you think
- AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
- Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses
- Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022)
- Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk
- Why making friends as an adult is harder
- New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer
- Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI
- Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours
- Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary
- 38th Chaos Communication Congress
- The number pi has an evil twin
- Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32
- Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)
- Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?
- What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]
- C++ is an absolute blast
- Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
- Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
- Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
- The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war
- Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)
- My Colleague Julius
- Xerox to acquire Lexmark
- On the nature of computing science (1984)
- Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
- Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?
- Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
- WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States
- 'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images
- Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
- CUDA Moat Still Alive
- Cognitive load is what matters
- Apple must ensure interoperability of iPhone with rivals, says EU
- Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
- Something is wrong on the Internet
- The Riddle of Luigi Mangione
- One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch
- Long Term Software Development
- How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
- GPT-5 is behind schedule
- Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
- Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app
- One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices
- Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker
- Why we use our own hardware
- I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24
- Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time
- AI Is the Black Mirror
- A data table thousands of years old (2020)
- Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web
- Introducing S2
- Query Apple's FindMy network with Python
- The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
- US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp
- Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
- Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs
- OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
- Grayjay Desktop App
- Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?
- Building Effective "Agents"
- The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun
- Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
- Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions
- A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
- Tldraw Computer
- The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)
- My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
- More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
- Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
- The era of open voice assistants
- Kelly Can't Fail
- Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential
- How types make hard problems easy
- Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect
- Revisiting Stereotype Threat
- A Knife Forged in Fire
- Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond
- Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
- Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
- Ghost artists on Spotify
- How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
- Alignment faking in large language models
- Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019)
- Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
- Error Stacking in Rust
- There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)
- Half My Life with Perl
- Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature
- Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design"
- The RAM Myth
- Java in the Small
- Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
- Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
- 1-800-ChatGPT
- GitHub Copilot is now available for free
- A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
- Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
- How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments
- Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer
- More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
- US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report
- Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Among LLM Agents
- Updates to H-1B
- How to lose a fortune with one bad click
- How Boston City Hall was born
- Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked
- The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
- An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)
- Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps
- How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang
- Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
- Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search
- Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
- Design Token-Based UI Architecture
- FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices
- In Defense of Y'All
- Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies
- A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)
- The Headlight Brightness Wars
- Moon
- Is stuff online worth saving?
- Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro
- Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
- Developing Developers (2015)
- After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
- Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
- When should we require that firmware be free?
- MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
- Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
- Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter
- Ten Thousand Years
- Always go to the funeral (2005)
- The Year of McDonald's
- Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches
- Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
- Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
- To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good
- Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
- Veo 2: Our video generation model
- What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)
- The Power Mac 4400
- In Search of a Faster SQLite
- Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'
- Apple Watch with Android
- Germany government collapses at a perilous time for Europe
- Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
- Modelica
- Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
- Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
- Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
- "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"
- Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works
- Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway
- Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
- UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
- Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
- Conda: A package management disaster?
- Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe
- OpenERV
- US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
- Scores for adults are dropping on tests of basic skills
- Inside the university AI cheating crisis
- Map of GitHub
- Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)
- Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
- Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
- Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
- A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
- Crystal Ball Trading Game
- Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
- School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
- What Is Vim?
- Should programming languages be safe or powerful?
- Problems with Python dependency management
- They see your photos
- Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?
- HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025
- Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion
- The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport
- Preferring throwaway code over design docs
- Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)
- Uv, a fast Python package and project manager
- What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know
- Htmx 2.0.4 Released
- macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
- Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
- Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]
- Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
- The Luon programming language
- McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis
- OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
- Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
- New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs
- Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
- People who are good at reading have different brains: study
- Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise
- I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
- Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn
- Test
- My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)