Archive
Feb 2024
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
- Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
- Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both
- Financial systems take a holiday
- Money bubble
- Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
- US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'
- Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today
- Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet
- The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing
- A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
- You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?
- Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series
- Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban UBI Experiments
- Three companies own 19,000 rental houses in Atlanta, GA
- Shave and a Haircut
- Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
- Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?
- The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
- Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
- Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament
- Hetzner switches to new billing model
- Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
- Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States
- New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches
- Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests
- Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
- Antarctic English
- Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
- HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD
- EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030
- Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion
- "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages
- Walking home at night is not the same for women
- How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets
- Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone
- Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL
- Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]
- Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027
- 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech
- Why I use Firefox
- SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python
- Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
- The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet
- European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies
- Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes
- How video games use lookup tables
- New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency
- Serverless Horrors
- GoboLinux
- Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
- Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people
- Testcontainers
- U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe
- Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
- All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
- Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
- Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
- The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service
- The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta
- Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
- Airfoil
- Testing the F-35C Tailhook
- Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C
- Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off 900 people
- Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
- SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
- Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)
- Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?
- I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
- Why time seems to pass faster as we age
- React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024
- Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
- Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
- Apollo calls AI a 'bubble' worse than even the dotcom era
- The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
- Is Tableau Dead?
- Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)
- New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
- Neanderthals' use of complex adhesives shows high cognitive abilities
- Ryzen Z1's Tiny iGPU
- Social Media First Amendment Cases
- Ottawa to create regulator to hold platforms accountable for harmful content
- Ending the Ivy League's Tax Dodge
- Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
- What a major solar storm could do
- Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old
- How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket
- Gemini and Google's Culture
- Dracula's Biggest Mistake
- Punk is dead and so are we
- Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
- Apache Superset
- Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
- Mistral Large
- Pains of building your own billing system
- Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
- Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU
- Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M
- When Apple takes the European Commission for fools: An initial overview
- Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect
- Home Screen Advantage
- You are not late (2014)
- New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)
- A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps
- FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods
- Profiteering hampers U.S. grid expansion
- Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases – and winning
- Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program
- Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
- Microsoft is driving users away
- Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)
- Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)
- Falsehoods junior developers believe about becoming senior
- Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
- Is Emacs dying?
- You almost never see a clock at the mall
- Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
- Why the world stopped having sex
- Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models
- TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
- Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
- Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike
- What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?
- Selfish reasons to want more humans
- Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning
- Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)
- GenAI and erroneous medical references
- Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
- Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed
- Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
- U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
- Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances
- Ledger
- V Language Review (2023)
- Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?
- Peter Thiel's $100k offer to skip college is more popular than ever
- Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
- Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)
- Notes from an Interviewer
- Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
- Quality is a hard sell in big tech
- The Earth is getting greener
- Losing two jobs in one year
- RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
- A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
- Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out
- Meta's new LLM-based test generator
- Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns
- Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
- Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
- Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
- Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere
- Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
- A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims
- Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
- I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
- Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
- German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
- Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street
- I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
- After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult
- Building a deep learning rig
- High Interest Savings Leaderboard
- Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86
- Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers
- Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
- Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
- Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
- Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
- Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"
- Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university
- Vice website is shutting down
- The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
- Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora
- Form to DB
- Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon
- Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning
- Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context
- Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
- Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
- Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
- Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
- JavaScript Bloat in 2024
- Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
- I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
- YouTube addiction, one month sober
- The mystery of the garage
- Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission
- Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data
- Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub
- Stable Diffusion 3
- Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp"
- Plastic is taking over farms
- Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
- GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
- Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
- Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
- Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England's 'piecemeal' right to roam laws
- Private company landing on the moon today
- YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report
- Unexpected responses from ChatGPT: Incident Report
- BYD launches $15,000 EV
- Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on tips sent to teachers
- Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming
- Go run
- Atuin – Magical shell history
- An introduction to the theory and practice of poker (2020)
- The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
- Boeing ousts 737 MAX chief
- AI behavior guardrails should be public
- Useful Uses of cat
- Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
- Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough
- Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life [video]
- Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance
- ADHD linked to evolutionary success in ancient humans
- iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
- Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
- Gemma: New Open Models
- Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
- What is going on in Argentina?
- Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system
- Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
- U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports
- Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
- ChatGPT went berserk
- Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?
- Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
- Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again
- The lifespan of large appliances is shrinking
- If architects had to work like programmers (1995)
- Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight
- Kagi Sidekick (alpha)
- ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
- Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours
- Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
- Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable
- Moore's Scofflaws
- Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
- Updating Gov.uk’s crown
- Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
- Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
- SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
- Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'
- Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools
- Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?
- Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
- Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
- Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust
- Yulia Navalnaya’s X account was suspended
- X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
- Hetzner GPU Server
- UI is a function of your organization
- Rotten Apple
- Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B
- In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
- Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD
- Stonelifting Etiquette
- UK middle classes 'struggling despite incomes of up to £60k a year'
- WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
- DJI – The ART of obfuscation
- Why is Prettier rock solid?
- Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35B stock deal
- Cake – C23 and Beyond (2023)
- Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games
- Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox
- Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring
- Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]
- Why Are LLMs So Gullible?
- Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
- AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3
- The case against caffeine
- AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer
- Wyze security incident update
- Porting to GCC 14: C language issues
- Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
- Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
- GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont
- Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL
- How to make a better default Firefox UI
- My PHP Problems
- The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
- OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
- The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak
- Biologists discover four new octopus species
- A Plea for Lean Software (1995)
- Floats Are Weird
- Show HN: RAM Prices
- Why are shopping carts always broken?
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
- The AI bullshit singularity
- Sora could ruin peoples lives
- Lapce
- I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)
- How China Built BYD
- The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing
- The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
- Why is everything based on likelihoods even though likelihoods are so small?
- Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
- EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
- Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby
- Python datetime pitfalls, and what libraries are (not) doing about it
- Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
- Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine
- The Layoff
- Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China
- Berkeley's upzoning would be among nation's largest
- Disconnecting the Playstation 5 from Internet installs DVD games faster
- Altman's Ambition
- My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)
- Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)
- Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
- Headphone and Amp Impedance (2011)
- I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
- Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional
- My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)
- The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
- Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
- So long, and thanks for all the bytes
- The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen
- Let me clear a huge misunderstanding
- We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
- It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
- "Stolen" radio tower missing for at least a year
- Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push
- Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
- Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
- Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election
- Coding in Vision Pro
- How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?
- The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
- Paying people to work on open source is good
- Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time
- Popular Git config options
- UI = f(statesⁿ)
- How to keep engineers out of meeting hell
- Why we stopped building cut and cover
- I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
- Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional
- My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
- $5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study
- The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
- Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
- How much electricity does AI consume?
- Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500
- Alexei Navalny has died
- Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
- German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
- Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
- Think Python, 3rd Edition
- Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
- Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
- Video generation models as world simulators
- Happy Birthday Lemmings
- Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
- Solar and battery to make up 81% of new US electric-generating capacity in 2024
- Uv: Python packaging in Rust
- Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
- PWAs wont replace native iOS apps
- Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU
- Sora: Creating video from text
- Fitness trackers find new symptom of depression: body temperature
- Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
- Three virtues of a great programmer
- Every default macOS wallpaper
- Apple Vision Nope: Why I returned mine
- Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple
- Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
- Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
- How I got scammed out of $50k
- Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
- UK Fell into Recession in 2023
- So you think you understand IP fragmentation?
- How to commit part of file in Git
- Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat
- British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
- Goodbye Auth0
- OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed
- Show HN: Aldi Price Map
- What you've got is in fact a people problem
- Commercial property deals in the US are starting to pick up at deep discounts
- Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
- Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal
- Tesla's Cybertrucks are rusting despite stainless steel
- How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
- Internal tools often make bad startup ideas
- Why is Common Lisp not the most popular programming language?
- I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)
- Amazon Sued over Prime Video Ads: Class-Action Suit Alleges Deception
- The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
- Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’
- Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
- Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?
- Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
- 525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended
- Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
- Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
- YC: Requests for Startups
- Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
- Only real people can patent inventions – not AI, US Government says
- Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
- Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise
- The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
- European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption
- Over 50% of the population of Germany does not own their home
- What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
- Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading
- Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993
- Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell
- The Matrix Trashfire
- Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store
- YouTube Oddities
- Not all TLDs are Created Equal
- Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years
- Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died
- Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
- 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born
- Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
- Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
- Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors
- Fly.io has GPUs now
- Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
- Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?
- The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
- How to center a div in CSS
- Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
- End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
- Stable Cascade
- Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries
- Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first 'Full Self-Driving' fatality
- Mastering Programming (2016)
- Apple's iMessage avoids EU's Digital Markets Act regulation
- Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
- The dating app paradox
- Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
- Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck
- A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow
- Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS
- Is something bugging you?
- Non-code contributions to open source
- "PayPal took $80k from me and banned me"
- The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
- Git tips and tricks
- Nokia made too many phones
- Stable-Audio-Demo
- Induced demand is not a useful concept
- It Is Somebody's Moral Imperative to Leak "Coyote vs. Acme" to the World
- Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google
- Abandoned villages of Hong Kong
- Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard
- The Chevy Equinox EV will get 319 miles of range and start at around $35,000
- What if I’m wrong? (2023)
- Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs
- AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
- Mornington Crescent
- US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster
- The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)
- Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
- Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?
- On the Proposed California SB 1047
- I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
- Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
- "Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom
- Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)
- The idea that AI will just augment jobs never replace them
- Home Assistant: Three years later
- Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
- AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
- Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home
- Billions stolen in wage theft from US workers
- When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)
- Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers
- Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback
- Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
- Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)
- Systemd by Example (2021)
- Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)
- 28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
- We need to talk about parentheses (2020)
- It Can Be Done (2003)
- FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips
- Where did DNA come from?
- Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?
- Deleting and destroying finished movies
- Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
- Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
- The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
- Finding a new software developer job
- Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?
- Popcorn Time 0.5.0
- When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
- Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?
- I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
- 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
- Ventum, Dimond, Cervelo – Why do these triathlon bikes look so weird?
- CSS Is Logical
- The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid
- OpenFPGA
- Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
- Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
- What it was like working for Gitlab
- Waymo car vandalized and lit on fire in San Francisco
- Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
- A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
- Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API
- Has LA cracked the code for building affordable housing?
- Grabby Aliens (2021)
- Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world
- Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit
- Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
- 46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023
- A French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
- Aho – a Git implementation in Awk
- Tenets
- A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K
- I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)
- Getting rid of bed bugs: trickier than ever
- A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
- Germany's days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end
- Getting into robotics as a software engineer
- Cloud Egress Costs
- OPML is underrated
- What is trauma? The author of "The Body Keeps the Score" explains [video]
- Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
- Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
- ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
- Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
- All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
- How to write stuff no one else can
- How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
- Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking
- Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
- Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it
- 250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released
- Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
- Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021)
- Fedora Atomic Desktops
- Postgres as queue
- A 2024 plea for lean software
- Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
- Tiny quadrotor learns to fly in 18 seconds
- Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1M in defamation lawsuit
- Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
- Permutation City (1994)
- World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
- Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
- It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]
- How SSH port became 22 (2017)
- Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai
- Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical
- Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
- What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
- Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
- Thoughts on tech employment
- Funimation End of Services
- React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good
- Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
- Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
- Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
- Ask HN: Advice for a new father?
- Doorway effect
- OpenAI compatibility
- The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts
- Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?
- Sudo for Windows
- FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
- Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
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