Archive
Jun 2024
- California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA
- Postzegelcode
- The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries
- Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
- Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
- How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed
- Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
- Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
- Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing
- Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
- Reflection for C++26
- The cutest monopoly: Koala Kare
- Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me
- Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI
- Weekend projects: getting silly with C
- The physics of airplane flight
- The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner
- Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser
- Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
- Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
- Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War
- Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
- Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor
- Small businesses in crisis as rising numbers unable to pay rent
- Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative
- FUTO Keyboard
- Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
- A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
- How I overcame my addiction to sugar
- It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
- I'm terrified of old people
- Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
- Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models
- AMD MI300x GPUs with GEMM tuning improves throughput and latency by up to 7.2x
- How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
- A Eulogy for DevOps
- Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
- The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]
- US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps
- The Origins of Yiddish (2014)
- Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
- New ways to catch gravitational waves
- Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?
- The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros
- Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler
- Understanding React Compiler
- Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
- Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
- Software galaxies
- Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
- Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers
- The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing
- 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
- Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
- Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE
- A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations
- Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup
- Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
- Misconceptions about loops in C
- The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
- Entrust Certificate Distrust
- CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
- Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
- Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
- Not everything is behavioral science
- It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry
- At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?
- Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs
- Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
- Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure
- 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
- SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210B
- 6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
- ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
- The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
- South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware
- SpaceX to deliver vehicle to deorbit International Space Station
- Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)
- The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU
- Next gen 3D metal printing
- Figma Slides
- Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG
- Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone
- I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)
- Supreme Court strikes anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts
- Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
- One Million Checkboxes
- Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming
- Should people who quit get unemployment benefits, too?
- Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout
- Will we ever get fusion power?
- Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide
- One Year Since Germany's Nuclear Exit: Renewables Expand, Fossil Fuels Reduced
- gRPC: The Bad Parts
- Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history
- FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't
- American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding in plain sight
- FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
- Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
- Visa, Mastercard $30B swipe fee settlement rejected by US judge
- Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags
- Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure
- Making AI better at math tutoring
- HyperCard Simulator
- Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
- Volkswagen to invest up to $5B in Rivian
- Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
- Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission returns with samples from moon's far side
- Testing AMD's Giant MI300X
- Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm
- Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display
- Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
- Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
- Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items
- Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client
- How GCC and Clang handle statically known undefined behaviour
- It's getting harder to die
- What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
- Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat
- Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
- Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
- Local First, Forever
- Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'
- From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center
- Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing
- Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked
- iDOS 3 Rejected by Apple
- Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
- MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline
- Round Rects Are Everywhere
- Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans
- Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
- Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
- The case for not sanitising fairy tales
- Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings
- A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
- Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
- More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
- 'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain
- Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
- I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
- Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide
- GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022)
- Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
- Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
- CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday
- US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing
- Cosmopolitan v3.5
- US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
- How to do the jhanas
- The economics of the Birkin handbag
- LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
- Traffic noise hurts children's brains
- Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
- Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
- Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
- The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
- US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban
- Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding
- Three ways to think about Go channels
- Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data
- I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
- Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022)
- Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
- Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC
- Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
- I've stopped using box plots (2021)
- The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
- Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead
- A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels
- Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
- ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability
- Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
- SSH as a Sudo Replacement
- Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
- Waymo the Leapfrog
- Google is force canceling gsuite because I used unlimited storage as unlimited
- Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak
- HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
- Greece introduces the six day work week
- AWS Lambda Web Adapter
- Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c
- Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award
- After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)
- Own Constant Folder in C/C++
- Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
- Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
- Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]
- Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust
- My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
- The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
- Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
- Formal methods: Just good engineering practice?
- Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments
- TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer
- How to prolong lithium based batteries
- Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
- Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
- Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
- Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?
- How the square root of 2 became a number
- Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
- Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code
- Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
- Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
- Ladybird browser spreads its wings
- US Bans Kaspersky Software
- A Rant about Front-end Development
- How babies and young children learn to understand language
- How to fix “AI’s original sin”
- I kind of like rebasing
- New York bans 'addictive feeds' for teens
- Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
- More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
- Donald Sutherland has died
- Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
- Notes on Tajikistan
- Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
- Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
- Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
- Atkinson Dithering (2021)
- Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
- React Lua
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program
- NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use
- Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987
- The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling
- Drugmaker to testify on why weight-loss drugs cost 15x more in the US
- Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled
- EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
- Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux
- Nobody knows what's going on
- Hypermedia Systems
- X debut 40 years ago (1984)
- Can men live without war? (1956)
- EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution
- Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- The return of pneumatic tubes
- The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School
- Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives
- Software design gets worse before it gets better
- Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time
- Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
- Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)
- Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
- AI-powered conversion from Enzyme to React Testing Library
- EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
- NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode
- ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture
- Please don't mention AI again
- Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
- I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
- Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
- Google Gemini tried to kill me
- U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment
- Open Source Python ETL
- Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
- KidPix
- Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta
- Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
- Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell
- Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
- Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
- Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools
- Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner
- A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
- The short, happy reign of CD-ROM
- Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative
- Social-Media Influencers Aren't Getting Rich–They're Barely Getting By
- The misunderstood Kessler Syndrome
- Malaysia to Join BRICS
- Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
- Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now
- Cyber Scarecrow
- The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23
- The March of Dimes Syndrome
- What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
- Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI product factory
- Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
- Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
- “Attention assault” on Fandom
- EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
- Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?
- Sei pays out $2M bug bounty
- Htmx 2.0.0 has been released
- Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide
- FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
- Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free
- TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough
- React 19 almost made the internet slower
- How to test without mocking
- Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)
- DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
- Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
- Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s
- Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access
- McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
- Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship
- Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
- Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player
- How innovative is China in nuclear power?
- 'Equals' has more than one meaning in math
- How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court
- Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models
- I learned Haskell in just 15 years
- Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall
- They make USB-C cables with displays now
- Horses may have been domesticated twice
- MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5
- Bouba/kiki effect
- First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini
- Experts vs. Imitators
- Japanese words and names sound African (2022)
- Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)
- Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
- Edinburgh, Scotland makes it illegal to advertise SUVs
- The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
- An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
- NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
- Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
- What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
- Are animals conscious? New research
- Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch
- North Dakota voters just approved an age limit for congressional candidates
- French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy
- Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011
- London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS
- Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)
- The state of carbon dioxide removal
- You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality
- Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
- Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
- The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding
- Good code is rarely read
- 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
- Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
- Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
- Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
- Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"
- In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)
- AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
- Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
- YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers
- Leveraging Zig's Allocators
- The sun's magnetic field is about to flip
- Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
- Sleep deprivation disrupts memory
- H.264 Is Magic (2016)
- Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics
- Start presentations on the second slide
- The problem with OpenTelemetry
- I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
- Brain-Health Benefits of Weightlifting
- FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets
- 40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent
- A look at Apple's technical approach to AI including core model performance etc.
- Tesla Releases Results of 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
- Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
- Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
- A common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality
- Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
- I bought an encyclopedia
- Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
- React 19 Breaks Async Composability
- IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries
- Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person
- U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years
- Chinese yuan becomes Russia's main foreign currency, replacing dollar and euro
- You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents
- Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize
- Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
- AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
- The American West is figuring out how to keep cool
- MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
- Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content
- Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
- iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
- Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll
- Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?
- Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?
- Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours
- Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says
- Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world
- Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry
- Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
- AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
- Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
- How Meta trains large language models at scale
- Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]
- Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
- ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
- The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
- Group chats rule the world
- Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
- The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas
- How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system
- Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust
- Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab
- Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
- Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19
- AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
- Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
- Raspberry Pi is now a public company
- My thoughts on Python in Excel
- Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]
- Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
- T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next
- How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)
- Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
- Swift Static Linux SDK
- Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
- The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
- Decade of the Battery
- US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports
- Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?
- London–Calcutta Bus Service
- ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
- Lynn Conway has died
- Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend
- Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
- Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
- Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US
- FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging
- Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
- Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
- Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
- Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
- Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
- All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration
- I like the RP2040
- A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
- Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
- Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi
- Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted
- The Titan Submersible Disaster. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing
- Author Clock: a novel way to tell time
- Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
- Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
- POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)
- British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower
- macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips
- Designing a website without 404s
- Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
- Ship Something Every Day
- Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab
- Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
- Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
- Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood
- OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
- macOS Sequoia Preview
- Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
- Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
- Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone
- How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory
- Apple Debuts VisionOS 2
- Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
- Why Triplebyte Failed
- Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt
- The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status
- AI Hype is completely out of control – especially since ChatGPT-4o [video]
- Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner
- Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
- Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
- Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn
- Sending emails to my three-year-old
- Senior employees, ordered back to the office, are jumping ship
- Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)
- The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do robotics?
- Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats
- WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing
- Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)
- Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
- The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf]
- It is time for more holistic practices in mental health
- The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
- On being brought up by libertarian economists
- A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
- Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
- Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
- A Revolution in Biology?
- No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)
- With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock
- Everything about Mars is the worst (2017)
- The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
- Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres
- I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
- Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
- So you want to build a browser engine
- Högertrafikomläggningen
- How many High Streets are there in London?
- Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers
- Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia
- Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
- Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
- Claude's Character
- What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
- Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
- The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
- Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?
- Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
- Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates
- Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)
- Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
- Used cars retain designs and features more coveted than their replacements
- D-Day, as told by paratroopers
- The aging U.S. power grid is about to get a jolt
- Why are debut novels failing to launch?
- Feynman’s Razor
- Alarms in medical equipment
- Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
- OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
- Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
- How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
- The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening
- Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
- The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)
- Alan Turing died 70 years ago
- Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)
- Desktop Linux is an Untapped Gold Mine
- US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero
- Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
- Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards
- Make your program slower with threads (2014)
- HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade
- Microsoft Issues New Warning for 70% of All Windows Users
- AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
- An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
- Extracting concepts from GPT-4
- Qwen2 LLM Released
- lsix: Like "ls", but for images
- Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket
- The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data
- Roman Roads (2017)
- Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
- AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
- Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
- Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC
- I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
- Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
- Starship's Fourth Flight Test [video]
- Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s
- TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security
- U.S. clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
- PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx
- Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
- Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
- Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
- Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
- Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
- Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images
- Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
- Own a weather station? We want your data
- 85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
- Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
- Stable Audio Open
- We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
- Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases
- Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
- Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month
- Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
- Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
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