Archive
May 2024
- UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
- Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC
- Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
- Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
- De-googling, so far
- What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
- Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries
- Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review
- Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real
- Teacher Pay and per Student Spending
- How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
- IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season
- Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses
- This Message Does Not Exist
- Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland
- BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range
- Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
- Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only
- Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
- In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them
- Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process
- What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
- Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
- Stop Using Discord
- Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party
- Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
- EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years
- A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence
- Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
- 'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think
- Engineering for Slow Internet
- Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
- Japan's push to make all research open access
- Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix
- “Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
- Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial
- Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?
- I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
- Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
- Windows 11 disabled all ways to get around Auto Restarts. Is there a workaround?
- What We're Working on in Firefox
- Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks
- Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
- The Pumpkin Eclipse
- Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
- Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective
- Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
- You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill
- PyPy has been working for me for several years now
- I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)
- I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened
- After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
- How actors remember their lines
- FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server
- "My Bike Is Everything to Me"
- How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business
- Gov. Polis Signs Bill Mandating That Consumers Have Options to Fix Electronics
- Nvidia is about to pass Apple in market cap
- Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
- Google releases smart watch for kids
- After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
- Kino: Pro Video Camera
- Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
- Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users
- The rise of the disposable car
- Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
- I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
- Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
- Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say
- DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
- Three Laws of Software Complexity
- Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers
- Starlink's disruption of the space industry
- Donating forks to the dining hall
- AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
- Harrassment of scientists is surging – institutions aren't sure how to help
- Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
- Proposal to change default annotation processing policy in JDK 23
- API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
- Revealed: Israeli spy chief 'threatened' ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
- Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet
- A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima reactor
- California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects
- TTE: Terminal Text Effects
- Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative
- US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September
- Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
- Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange
- Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
- Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song
- Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
- What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
- I Miss BSD/Linux
- AdFlush
- Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
- The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City
- Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
- WP21
- Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device
- Notepad Tab
- Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
- British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed
- The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
- Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems
- Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
- Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
- Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
- Priced out of home ownership
- How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?
- Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
- Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma
- Big data is dead (2023)
- Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
- Turning psychiatric labels into identities
- A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers
- xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
- Is regulated BGP security coming?
- Git cheat sheet [pdf]
- AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board
- The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
- macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions
- Old dogs, new CSS tricks
- What happens in the brain to cause depression?
- What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
- Young women fall out of love with dating apps
- The CompCert C Compiler
- The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]
- Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
- California Senate Passes Bill Requiring Passive Speed Limiters
- Cloudflare took down our website
- To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
- Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone
- Hurl, the Exceptional Language
- How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
- GRC SpinRite
- 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
- Chickens in Trees
- Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
- Last hours of an organ donor
- The Fall of the House of Etsy
- Tmux is worse-is-better
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls
- Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms
- People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)
- Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
- Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
- EU Approves AI Act
- JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development
- My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
- Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
- Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models
- Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
- Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth
- ICQ will stop working from June 26
- Writing a Unix clone in about a month
- Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)
- Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
- ICJ orders Israel to stop military operation in Rafah
- Move over, tractor – The farmer wants a crop-spraying drone
- Morgan Spurlock has died
- Don't microservice, do module
- Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture
- The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI
- Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
- Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
- Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion
- Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults
- Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?
- An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023
- FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf]
- US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)
- Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case
- Act on Press
- Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago
- iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin
- Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges
- Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
- Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
- Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued
- Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product
- We're ending our Samsung collaboration
- Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange
- The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
- Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
- Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights
- Making EC2 boot time faster
- Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?
- First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars
- 300k airplanes in five years
- Ask HN: Discuss ADHD and your use of medication
- BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
- Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)
- It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
- DuckDuckGo was down
- WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
- Drone Flying 101 – An interactive tutorial for beginners
- Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit
- OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
- US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
- Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
- A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows
- All the remedial classes in one place
- Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
- Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say
- Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
- Bluesky adds direct messages
- S3 is showing its age
- Try Clojure
- One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid
- Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low
- Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare
- Pluckable Strings
- Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM
- The push to ban ransom payments is gaining momentum
- Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
- Why not just do simple C++ RAII in C?
- 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public
- On Self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
- What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)
- Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?
- Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
- Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?
- Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
- The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country
- Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
- Number 16 (spider)
- Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
- "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
- Scandal at America's top science fair
- A Road to Common Lisp (2018)
- Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
- Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)
- Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More
- Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file
- iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
- The curious case of the missing period
- Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
- Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
- I want flexible queries, not RAG
- How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
- Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
- The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
- Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
- Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)
- Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
- How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
- CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
- “Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband
- What UI density means and how to design for it
- One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
- Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
- NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
- Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
- Why Are Sloths So Slow?
- iTerm2 3.5.0
- The OpenAI board was right
- CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown (2011)
- Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs
- Taking Risk
- Shipbreaking
- Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
- Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
- SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit
- Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel
- Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
- Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial
- Enlightenmentware
- Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
- Introducing Copilot+ PCs
- Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban
- The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)
- Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees
- How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search
- CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js
- Grothendieck’s use of equality
- ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
- 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe
- OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT
- Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
- British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim
- On the trail of my identity thief
- Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
- The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
- The Lunacy of Artemis
- Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident
- Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
- C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)
- Llama3 implemented from scratch
- Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
- Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
- AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training
- Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances
- Microwaves Not Made in China
- Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
- Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember
- Swift Tooling: Windows Edition
- Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
- Riven
- Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
- Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
- Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site
- Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
- Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
- Calculus with Julia
- Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner
- Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
- Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
- I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
- Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic
- I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
- If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video]
- Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
- Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
- LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core
- 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
- Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check
- Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
- First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space
- The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
- Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)
- I'm Bearish OpenAI
- Falling in love again with disposable cameras
- OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
- Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
- Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
- Rents are rising faster than wages across the country
- 'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference
- Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)
- GDPR: Is It Worth It?
- Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop
- Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective
- Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]
- How to read C type declarations (2003)
- ADSL works over wet string (2017)
- Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant: Finished in 1978 but never used
- Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build
- Exercises to Learn Rust
- A forged Apple employee badge
- Slack AI Training with Customer Data
- Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
- Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
- Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
- Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
- Online censorship's institutional power
- You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings
- Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
- The Downfall of DeviantArt
- I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
- ChatGPT-4o vs. Math
- Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
- Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
- Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
- The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world
- Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
- State of the Terminal
- What's New in Neovim 0.10
- F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language
- Students invent quieter leaf blower
- Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
- VCs aren’t your friends
- Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
- Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
- Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)
- Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
- A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history
- What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)
- Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML
- PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google
- LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email
- Android's theft protection features
- Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter
- Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic
- Swiss vs. American parenting: Differences according to a US mom
- Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
- Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
- The Worst Website in the Entire World
- Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'
- Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports
- How to get 7th graders to smoke
- Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
- Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
- We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem
- Tim Cook is running out of ideas
- Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
- Germany solar power output jumps to record highs
- Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More
- Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification
- Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
- AI is the reason interviews are harder now
- Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
- Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)
- Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content
- The most talented person in the world
- U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense
- Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
- One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
- Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
- The new APT 3.0 solver
- Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency
- Gemini Flash
- Veo
- Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook
- VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
- Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)
- Firefox search update
- Fast linked lists
- Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East
- Bossware is a big legal risk
- New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
- My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
- Branded types for TypeScript
- Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair
- Claude is now available in Europe
- The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA
- Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
- Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
- Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier
- GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
- Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads [audio] (2023)
- Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent
- DOS game “F-15 Strike Eagle II” reverse engineering/reconstruction war stories
- Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
- GPT-4o
- A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows
- Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users
- Good, Kind, Caring People Became the Bad Guys
- Falcon 2
- Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]
- Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
- Static Chess
- The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed
- It’s an age of marvels
- Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
- Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
- eu/acc
- Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
- Suddenly There Aren't Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed
- Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
- Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]
- Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
- Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
- GPUs Go Brrr
- I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
- Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
- Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner
- Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)
- Becoming an Amateur Polyglot
- The Age of Rage: Why Are People Are So Angry?
- Homoiconic Python
- Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla
- America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
- Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
- Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
- 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
- Garbage Collectors Are Scary
- When children become caregivers, who cares for them?
- Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
- Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
- Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense"
- Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
- Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)
- Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
- Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
- Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
- A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space
- Jim Simons has died
- KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
- Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
- Popover API
- Why you can hear the temperature of water
- Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ
- Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
- 100k Stars
- I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb (2019)
- Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell
- So We've Got a Memory Leak
- Polestar eliminates the rear window in latest electric car
- Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative
- The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
- The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology
- Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
- The world has probably passed peak pollution
- Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
- Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
- How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
- It's always TCP_NODELAY
- Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
- Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings
- Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
- Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
- No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
- Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
- FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users
- Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres
- Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
- What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready
- Algebraic Data Types for C99
- Libyear
- UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)
- Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
- The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
- Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C
- Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership
- I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
- Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness
- OpenAI: Model Spec
- Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
- Steve Albini has died
- Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online
- AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules
- A Canadian lobby group is promoting "widespread adoption of age verification"
- Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claim
- TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
- 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
- Symbolica Computer Algebra System
- StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI
- Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
- Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
- Ointers: A library for representing pointers where bits have been stolen (2021)
- The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year
- The search for easier safe systems programming
- U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
- The C++ Iceberg
- Why use ECC? (2015)
- US revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei
- Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
- How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
- The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
- Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components
- New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro
- Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air
- Apple introduces M4 chip
- The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
- Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios
- Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
- Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
- Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
- Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
- Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
- Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"
- Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
- Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed
- Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
- Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content
- Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
- An infinite canvas for code exploration
- VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'
- Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
- The best way to have complex discussions?
- How to escape Honda's privacy hell
- Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
- A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
- Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering
- How I think about debt
- Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
- NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul
- Design docs at Google (2020)
- Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants
- Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
- How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries
- Grace Version Control System
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