Archive
Aug 2024
- Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
- Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
- The Threat to OpenAI
- Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)
- Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+
- Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
- Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
- Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
- Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
- Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
- EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
- Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
- Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
- Crows are even smarter than we thought
- Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
- Rust in Linux Revisited
- Brazilian court orders suspension of X
- Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews
- Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying
- Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990
- The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
- City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
- AnandTech Farewell
- Japan police: Nearly 4k who died alone at home not found for over a month
- Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
- Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
- Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)
- I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
- SDL3 new GPU API merged
- Blood Disorder: Unveiling the Mystery of My Poisoning in Sweden
- Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k
- The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
- Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28
- Elasticsearch is open source, again
- Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits
- Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
- Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
- Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
- Update on Llama adoption
- GNU Screen 5.0 Released
- Can solar costs keep shrinking?
- How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
- Low Cost Mini PCs
- Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
- OpenAI is good at unminifying code
- UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
- Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS
- Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement
- Telegram founder charged with wide range of crimes in France
- Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?
- Brazil top court threatens to suspend X within 24 hours
- FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system
- HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver
- 48% of NYC riders do not pay the bus fare
- Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
- A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines
- Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase
- Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair
- The Future of TLA+ [pdf]
- The 4-chan Go programmer
- New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky
- Kotlin for data analysis
- Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI
- Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
- Maker Skill Trees
- Panasonic Toughbook 40
- Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights
- French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court
- Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
- Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
- The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
- Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?
- Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
- Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa
- Home Assistant Presence Simulation
- Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
- Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month
- What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
- Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
- The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis
- COSMIC Alpha Released
- Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?
- Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
- Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
- Diffusion models are real-time game engines
- Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
- Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
- Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project
- Faster CRDTs (2021)
- UltimateAntiCheat
- A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
- U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
- Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
- Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
- Just use fucking paper, man
- Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
- The Monospace Web
- Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
- Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
- 80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report
- Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
- Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women
- Marketing to Engineers (2001)
- Intelligence is not like height
- Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
- Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?
- Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
- "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
- Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
- Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick
- Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
- The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
- The End of Finale
- Snowden: The arrest of Durov is an assault on the basic human rights
- Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models
- Intel Layoffs: Is Future U.S. Chip Independence in Trouble
- The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted
- Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU
- Using AI to fight insurance claim denials
- Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
- Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
- Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so
- Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature
- NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture
- A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)
- Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters
- Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
- Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
- Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
- We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
- Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
- Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
- Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries
- Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off
- Writing a Rust compiler in C
- Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
- Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them
- Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
- Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act
- Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics
- TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
- The art of programming and why I won't use LLM
- Linux Pipes Are Slow
- Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
- Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
- Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible
- Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)
- Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone
- Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
- Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
- How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
- Why Does Elisp Suck
- In pre-WWII Berlin, the shape of your roof was a political decision
- If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
- Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
- Strandbeest
- Why fans of nuclear are a problem today
- How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
- Ruby's official documentation just got a new look
- Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
- Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
- Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)
- Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
- Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
- NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
- JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
- Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library
- Pipe Syntax in SQL
- You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
- A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
- Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
- They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
- Hot Page – a graphical site builder
- "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows
- Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
- Clojure Desktop UI Framework
- Reddit banned me for developing Geddit
- Did you lose your AirPods?
- BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time
- Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list
- My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
- Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
- Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
- Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles
- Adding 16 kb page size to Android
- Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
- OpenSSH Backdoors
- DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
- Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief
- SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
- Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]
- The staggering death toll of scientific lies
- 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
- Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)
- Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better
- The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
- We need to liberate the Postcode Address File
- Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
- GLP-1 therapy increases visceral adipose tissue metabolic activity
- Hacker Purity Test (1989)
- Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
- Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
- Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes
- Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
- Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism
- 84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress
- No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
- What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
- Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from California to Seattle
- Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)
- Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
- I sped up serde_json strings by 20%
- Designing my own watch (2020)
- Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?
- I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
- Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
- Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
- Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
- US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died
- Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
- Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
- Accident Forgiveness
- Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
- Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO
- Code review antipatterns
- U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier
- Make Firefox Private Again
- Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial
- We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad
- Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust)
- How to build a 50k ton forging press
- Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
- I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
- ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
- Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
- The semantic web is now widely adopted
- Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased
- Calling All Hackers
- Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
- US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements
- US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements
- Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
- MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
- Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
- Zed AI
- Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
- Making database systems usable
- The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
- Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you
- The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
- The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)
- Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]
- Toasts are bad UX
- Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
- The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)
- Sourcegraph went dark
- $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU
- GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US
- Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives
- Artificial intelligence is losing hype
- What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg
- On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
- Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
- AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
- 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
- Transformers in music recommendation
- The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
- On finishing projects
- Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
- Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
- How Deep Can Humans Go?
- The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
- Caltrain's new electric trains
- Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
- Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
- What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
- Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)
- Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
- Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
- Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
- Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
- Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M
- Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
- NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
- Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue
- Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil
- Algorithms we develop software by
- Micro-libraries should never be used
- Leaving Neovim for Zed
- What if Germany had invested in nuclear power?
- Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more
- Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
- Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy
- A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other
- Bug squash: An underrated interview question
- The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)
- On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)
- Getting back into C programming for CP/M
- UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite
- Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
- FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)
- Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word?
- Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
- Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
- Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
- AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care
- X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
- Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
- Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
- An unordered list of things I miss in Go
- China's manufacturers are going broke
- Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf]
- Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
- X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
- Just use Postgres
- Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
- Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
- VanillaJSX.com
- Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
- Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
- the US government has to start paying for things again
- The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
- Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models
- Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
- Is this the slow decline of the Apple "cult"?
- Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance
- Aristotle – How to live a good life
- PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk
- Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries
- CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
- ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library
- Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret
- We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
- It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
- Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators
- Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
- CockroachDB license change
- Apple vs. the "Free Market"
- Galois Theory
- Toyota bets big on hybrid-only models as EV demand slows
- Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
- Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious
- Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)
- Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy
- No tax on tips: Why politicians love it, and economists don't
- A pedantic review of the Las Vegas loop
- Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin
- Trainwreck Design
- GitHub was down
- Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)
- Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach
- How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
- How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
- Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
- Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]
- Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American
- Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?
- It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore [video]
- Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
- Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)
- CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good
- Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
- Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
- Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
- Grok-2 Beta Release
- Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms
- Introducing passkey support to Fastmail
- The TikTok Case Will Be Determined by What's Behind the Government's Black Lines
- John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life
- Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
- US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling
- Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons
- The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
- Pixel Watch 3
- All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
- Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
- Google Pixel 9 Pro
- DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
- Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
- An open-source flow battery kit
- What you learn by making a new programming language
- I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
- The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
- Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI
- Core Python developer suspended for three months
- Are we living in the age of info-determinism?
- Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)
- Gitlab is reportedly up for sale
- Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
- The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
- 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
- Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week
- Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit
- NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon
- Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
- San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
- Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
- Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be
- Why we picked AGPL
- FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band
- Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS
- Repair and Remain (2022)
- Cancer rates are rising in young people
- Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
- Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync
- Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme
- Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
- AMD records its highest server market share in decades
- There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
- Okay, I Like WezTerm
- Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
- US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
- Spray-foam insulation makes homes unable to be mortgaged
- Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++
- SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube
- I Quit Spotify
- OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception
- GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13
- Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer
- Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers
- Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth
- China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
- Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
- How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
- It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis
- ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing
- Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'
- Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
- CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon
- Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
- Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)
- A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final
- OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
- Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs
- Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS
- OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
- The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
- Online Dating
- Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
- I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
- Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement
- Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]
- AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile
- Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?
- Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)
- DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
- "Jeff Bezos and Amazon tried to imprison my husband"
- Antifragility in complex dynamical systems
- OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
- Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool
- A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
- Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall
- Moxie Marlinspike: Agile is killing software innovation
- On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited
- Does Astrology Work?
- Susan Wojcicki has died
- Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
- Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk
- Building a highly-available web service without a database
- Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers
- Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds
- Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees
- DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems
- Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips
- Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP
- .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
- Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor
- Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
- Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
- Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
- Jake Seliger has died
- Using alternative browser engines in the European Union
- OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews
- Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?
- USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation
- National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails
- Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
- Apple is America's semiconductor problem
- Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython
- Intel's Immiseration
- Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative
- Do quests, not goals
- LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
- Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit
- How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
- Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment
- Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
- How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
- I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350
- The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)
- More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland
- RLHF is just barely RL
- Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
- In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality
- Can kids master the video games their parents loved?
- The Third Atomic Bomb
- Prevention of HIV
- NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
- Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
- GitButler is now fair source
- What are the Olympics shooting competitors wearing on their faces?
- Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem
- 1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide
- Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
- Maximal min() and max()
- Poetry was an official Olympic event
- I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life
- Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)
- Gear Acquisition Syndrome
- Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
- Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments
- AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming
- How Uber tests payments in production
- 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam
- Medieval
- My favorite device is a Chromebook
- How French Drains Work
- Please do not attempt to simplify this code
- Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
- Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X
- YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
- Google says it is obligated to disclose confidential info to U.S. government
- Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown
- The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script
- Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
- Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
- Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
- Structured Outputs in the API
- East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
- Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
- Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"
- Vacant pharmacies are holding back NYC retail
- Moments in Chromecast's history
- OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic
- The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO
- Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
- No Salt
- Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit?
- Eyechat
- Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
- Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
- Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
- Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
- C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance
- Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
- How the music industry learned to love piracy
- I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)
- Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week
- Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
- Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS
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