Archive
Jul 2024
- SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant
- Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
- Foobar2000
- Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow
- After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
- Stop Destroying Videogames – European Citizens' Initiative
- Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs
- The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers
- I prefer rST to Markdown
- Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon
- Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
- Robot dentist performs first human procedure
- Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri
- How great was the Great Oxidation Event?
- Common side effects of not drinking
- macOS in QEMU in Docker
- FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)
- Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
- The effect of CRTs on pixel art
- Our audit of Homebrew
- Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
- Fake job interviews are securities fraud
- Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
- Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission
- Swift Homomorphic Encryption
- Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)
- Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
- Why doesn't advice work?
- Meta Launches AI Studio in US
- A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
- Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)
- Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?
- Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
- Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper
- The lie of music discovery algorithms
- C Macro Reflection in Zig
- Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are
- If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity
- Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
- Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs
- What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
- Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
- LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
- After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
- SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
- FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
- One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
- Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops
- CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
- Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
- New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
- Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
- The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s
- Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points
- MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader
- Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
- Don't blindly prefer `emplace_back` to `push_back` (2021)
- tolower() with AVX-512
- Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
- Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry
- Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf (2010)
- How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood
- A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
- Share of total health spending, by percentile
- Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol
- The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)
- How to debug your battery design
- How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
- Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
- Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland
- Tritone Substitutions
- Weight-loss drugs are causing people to spend less at the grocery store: study
- An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
- The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations
- Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)
- Ask HN: What's an appropriate compensation counter offer in London 2024?
- Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
- UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift
- SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
- In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
- IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers
- Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
- MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate
- Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
- Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence
- Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks
- The New Internet
- Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient
- Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
- Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?
- Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy
- France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
- Decline of Indian vultures
- Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration
- A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow
- Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished
- AI crawlers need to be more respectful
- Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)
- Secure Boot is broken on 200 models from 5 big device makers
- OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
- Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
- SVG Triangle of Compromise
- Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
- AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
- Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
- Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community
- Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities
- Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
- A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
- Why Levittown didn't revolutionize homebuilding
- CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
- Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point
- My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)
- Apple Maps on the web launches in beta
- Every company should be owned by its employees
- EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware
- Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
- Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
- Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?
- The secret of Minecraft (2014)
- Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?
- X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
- The rich history of ham radio culture
- CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4B
- Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
- Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]
- Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice
- CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
- AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
- Large Enough
- Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
- Physicists may now have a way to make element 120
- You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
- We've built the Ultimate e-Bike Battery that you can Repair and Refill
- CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee
- More delays for Euston's HS2 station
- "Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)
- Preliminary Post Incident Review
- MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
- What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA
- The Origin of Emacs in 1976
- Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust
- Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
- You can opt out of airport face scans
- Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]
- Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
- America’s Transit Exceptionalism
- How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
- Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
- Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
- Chinese-born chemist cleared of last conviction under US’s espionage probe
- Warsaw came close to never being rebuilt (2015)
- Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?
- Intent to end OCSP service
- Open source AI is the path forward
- Llama 3.1
- A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017)
- U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
- Types as Interfaces
- Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
- Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
- Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
- The Linux audio stack demystified (and more)
- Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
- Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
- Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
- The Elegance of the ASCII Table
- United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
- Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
- July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs
- Glasgow 2024 Hugo Awards Statement – 22 July, 2024
- Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii
- Copying is the way design works (2020)
- What Is Entropy?
- Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
- Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today
- Why Americans aren't having babies
- The workers have spoken: They're staying home
- How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?
- Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
- Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice
- It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)
- How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
- No More Blue Fridays
- Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available
- No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)
- Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
- Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building
- Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling
- Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses
- Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?
- Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
- Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction
- The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
- Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
- Jiff: Datetime library for Rust
- CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes
- Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf]
- Pin
- Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD
- When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
- The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
- Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
- Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing
- Why Discover is no American Express
- So you think you know box shadows?
- User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned
- Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade
- Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"
- rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- "Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack"
- What is the significance of the character "j" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)
- X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
- Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
- Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
- Empathy for the user having sex with your software
- Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
- Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
- Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
- CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago
- CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries
- Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage
- Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
- How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?
- 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023
- Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?
- Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums
- Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe
- Aro – Zig's new C compiler
- Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
- Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?
- Technical Details on Today's Outage
- Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
- I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
- Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout
- AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
- Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska
- Never Update Anything
- The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
- CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
- It's not just CrowdStrike – the cyber sector is vulnerable
- Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
- NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock
- FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
- Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
- Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
- CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
- Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
- Ruby methods are colorless
- What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
- Elephants use namelike calls
- Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?
- What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
- USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
- Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
- Polychromatic Pixels
- Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
- Ford spends $3B to expand large truck production in plant previously set for EVs
- Ask HN: Every day feels like prison
- Mistral NeMo
- Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
- He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
- The Objects of Our Life (1983)
- Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
- Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
- Premature Abstraction
- My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
- Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare
- Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation
- Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
- Overcoming the limits of current LLMs
- NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
- A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
- Jailbreaking RabbitOS
- Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
- TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
- Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked
- Panic at the Job Market
- A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste
- Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies
- Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)
- Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
- The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
- Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks
- CSS Classes Considered Harmful
- Gitlab Explores Sale
- Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
- Introduction to Bash Scripting
- Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit?
- The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing
- After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table
- I am starting an AI+Education company
- Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission
- Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum
- Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
- Private Browsing 2.0
- We created a fake delivery company to get a job
- Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read
- Codestral Mamba
- UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes
- Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency
- Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
- I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything
- OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
- For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
- Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, has died
- Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
- A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
- Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?
- The Delusion of the Polygraph
- How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
- Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
- L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
- The Mafia of Pharma Pricing
- A word about private attribution in Firefox
- Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
- Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
- Story points are pointless, measure queues
- Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking
- Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
- Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
- HTML Tags Memory Test
- The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy
- I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)
- Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago
- Rust for Filesystems
- Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
- Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
- Human history in the very long run (2021)
- Just Be Rich (2021)
- California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries
- Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
- How to Know When It's Time to Go
- The only tourist in Moldova
- Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
- Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
- Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study
- The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
- After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS
- No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
- How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)
- Does generative AI facilitate investor trading? Evidence from ChatGPT outages
- Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
- Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally
- Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally; walked off-stage
- Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
- Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
- Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again
- Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
- Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
- "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"
- For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)
- Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
- Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128
- Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)
- Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care
- Use a work journal
- Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows
- Crafting Interpreters
- How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
- Things I know about Git commits
- "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software
- Goldman Sachs: AI Is overhyped, expensive, and unreliable
- Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
- Follow the Crypto
- What could explain the gallium anomaly?
- CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
- Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86
- Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
- Windows NT for Power Macintosh
- How to mail an SD card with gummy glue
- AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
- Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
- As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
- Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement
- GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet
- Using S3 as a Container Registry
- Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
- WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
- Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say
- Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
- We need visual programming. No, not like that
- Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
- Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
- If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it
- Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)
- Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making
- Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions
- GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)
- Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?
- The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)
- Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
- Engineering principles for building financial systems
- Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
- Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
- An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
- Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
- Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze
- The NYT book review is everything book criticism shouldn't be
- Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers?
- Big Ball of Mud (1999)
- What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)
- Zed on Linux Is Here
- Apple Users Are Keeping Their Devices for Longer as Upgrades Slow
- Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
- Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)
- Vision language models are blind
- AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
- Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
- Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
- Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?
- Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years
- Plausible Community Edition
- Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
- Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds
- A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything from Smartphones to Missiles
- Awsviz.dev simplifying AWS IAM policies
- The UK can go back to being the richest country in the world
- Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery
- Metal thieves in America's cities
- How to validate a market with development boards and SD cards
- How CD pregaps gained their hidden track superpowers
- Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
- Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working
- Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures
- Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
- Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]
- Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
- Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
- Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
- PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
- So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
- HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
- Surprising gender biases in GPT
- Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
- The Race to Seal Helium HDDs (2021)
- Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear
- The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science
- Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually
- Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing (2011)
- Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience
- SF's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record
- Making my own wedding rings
- Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner
- Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction
- Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition
- Dear Roku, you ruined my TV
- C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
- Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months
- No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
- Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists
- Entering text in the terminal is complicated
- The Right Kind of Stubborn
- 1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file
- Spot the Drowning Child (2015)
- Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
- “Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept
- Python Has Too Many Package Managers
- For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free
- Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11
- Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
- Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
- Do Skis Get Blunt?
- I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
- ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs
- The internet is already over (2022)
- Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure
- Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
- Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
- Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030
- Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
- A reawakening of systems programming meetups
- YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
- Germany set to overhaul subsidy regime for renewable energy
- Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads
- "AI", students, and epistemic crisis
- Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
- Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
- Microsoft Is Dead (2007)
- Tokens are a big reason today's generative AI falls short
- How to think in writing
- Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
- Why haven't biologists cured cancer?
- Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
- First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
- Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
- The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
- Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids
- Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release
- Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
- Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage
- Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
- What if everything is conscious?
- Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation
- YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
- PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
- Volcanoes can affect climate
- Let's stop counting centuries
- Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
- Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
- Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
- The Software Crisis
- ChatGPT just (accidentally) shared all of its secret rules
- Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal
- I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs
- How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD
- Russia Claims Breakthrough With ATACMS
- Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool
- I have no constructor, and I must initialize
- The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer
- Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
- Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dead Yet
- “Technical” Skills
- Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
- Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
- NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop
- The War on Estonian Forests (2022)
- Batteries: How cheap can they get?
- Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
- Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery
- SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
- Advantages of incompetent management
- The sad state of property-based testing libraries
- Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
- Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
- Kanban vs. Scrum: What's the difference?
- The magic of small engineering teams
- Region-specific Machines pricing
- "Superintelligence" 10 years later
- The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)
- The Origins of DS_store (2006)
- The joy of reading books you don't understand
- AI's $600B Question
- Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
- Analyzing my electricity consumption
- The Cheapest NAS
- The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism
- Don't use booleans (2019)
- Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
- Python with Braces
- Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
- A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans
- I Received an AI Email
- Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build
- Why Bridges Don't Sink
- Engine Sound Simulator
- All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
- Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
- Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand
- Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
- Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine
- Meta 3D Gen
- Figma disables AI app design tool after it copied Apple's weather app
- With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
- Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
- The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
- Why is Chile so long?
- How random are TOTP codes?
- What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)
- Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
- Booting Linux off of Google Drive
- Should this be a map or 500 maps?
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