Archive
Feb 2025
- An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
- Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
- Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
- How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
- 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
- Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
- 3,200% CPU Utilization
- Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
- Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID
- AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
- Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data
- Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms
- AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
- SEC Declares Memecoins Are Not Subject to Oversight
- A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes
- Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
- Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
- WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
- Microsoft is killing Skype
- Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
- US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
- macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
- Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
- Fire-Flyer File System (3FS)
- Does iOS have sideloading yet?
- Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink
- IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
- GPT-4.5
- EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
- The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)
- Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
- Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water
- Distributed systems programming has stalled
- Solitaire
- Fish 4
- US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency
- API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value
- Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years
- Gene Hackman has died
- Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED
- FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US
- iMac G4(K)
- Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit
- Put a data center on the moon?
- Replace OCR with Vision Language Models
- The need for memory safety standards
- Cross Views
- Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
- The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
- Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
- Alexa+
- Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships
- Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion
- TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
- "Do you not like money?"
- Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist
- State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness
- The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter
- Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral
- Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace
- EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
- Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
- Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
- Certificate Transparency in Firefox
- I Went to SQL Injection Court
- The XB-70 (2019)
- Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
- 'Hey Number 17 '
- Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
- New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes
- Hyperspace
- Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents
- Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business, close all of its stores
- ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
- DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers
- Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
- What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports
- Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
- Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
- US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's conviction
- Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
- Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
- Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
- How Core Git Developers Configure Git
- What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?
- Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
- There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
- How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta
- Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparable harm,” judge rules
- DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
- Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
- It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI
- Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
- “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
- Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
- Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
- Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states
- Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming
- Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone
- MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
- Laravel Cloud
- Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
- Calendar.txt
- ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods
- 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security
- Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
- Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
- Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?
- Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
- Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US
- Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says
- Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"
- We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
- Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
- Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? (2021)
- OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
- DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs
- How the UK Is Weakening Safety Worldwide
- Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
- Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
- Bitwarden Authenticator
- European word translator: an interactive map
- Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
- AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'
- In memoriam
- Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
- WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
- Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?
- It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
- 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
- Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down
- Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?
- BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells
- But good sir, what is electricity?
- Half-Life
- How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present
- Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science
- Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs
- Making any integer with four 2s
- Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts
- Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)
- Gig workers worked more but earned less in 2024: study
- OpenBSD Innovations
- In Defense of Text Labels
- Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
- Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
- US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit
- The $1.5B Bybit Hack
- FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
- Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website
- Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
- Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
- Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it
- Florida insurers steered money to investors while claiming losses, study says
- DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
- After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase
- Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)
- If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
- Why Clojure?
- 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
- Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
- Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Expectations
- DigiKey's Tariff Resources
- We are the builders
- The Deep Research problem
- 20 years working on the same software product
- Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images
- Suckless.org: software that sucks less
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut
- Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)
- Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset
- Why Ruby on Rails still matters
- Bybit loses $1.5B in hack
- I found a backdoor into my bed
- Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
- I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
- Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
- Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
- SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired
- Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
- Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea
- HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
- Users don't care about your tech stack
- Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding
- Every .gov Domain
- Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker
- Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
- US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch
- DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
- Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (2021)
- The Shape of a Mars Mission
- Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
- BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
- Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico over next 4 years
- Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
- TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
- I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
- Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
- DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
- A.I. is prompting an evolution, not extinction, for coders
- OpenEuroLLM
- You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)
- The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI
- A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities
- Ancient switch to soft food gave us overbite–the ability to pronounce 'f's,'v'
- A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself
- Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
- Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise
- AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
- Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
- When your last name is Null, nothing works
- Customizable HTML Select
- The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
- After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem
- DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
- Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson
- LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode
- Mexico issues legal threat to Google
- Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
- Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
- Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
- AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
- What should I expect from moving tech jobs from USA to Europe?
- Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
- 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
- Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy
- Minuteman III test showcases readiness of U.S. nuclear force's deterrent
- Can I ethically use LLMs?
- National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
- Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate
- When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
- Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
- Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
- Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
- Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
- Gravitational Effects of Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through Human Body
- Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
- Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage
- Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M
- Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
- Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
- Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
- A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA's air traffic control system
- "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
- Thoughts on Daylight Computer
- USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
- Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything
- HP Acquires Humane's AI Software
- A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
- Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?
- South Korean regulator accuses DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance
- Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
- My LLM codegen workflow
- Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
- Moving on from 18F
- Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)
- Pi-hole v6
- Among top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds
- Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy
- Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
- One year after switching from Java to Go
- Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
- File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
- Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?
- By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
- Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
- Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
- Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests
- Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
- Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers
- The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach
- Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal
- Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
- Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased
- A secret poker game you can play on the subway
- XOR
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
- Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
- Grok3 Launch [video]
- The Generative AI Con
- My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
- Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?
- On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)
- Police arrest apparent leader of 'Zizian' group
- Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
- Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)
- X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
- Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators
- New junior developers can’t code
- Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon
- All Kindles can now be jailbroken
- YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
- San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
- Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
- Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M
- Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting
- Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
- I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
- Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
- When Not to Obey Orders (2019)
- Big tech has disrupted the social contract
- The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A
- Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th
- Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
- IPv6 Is Hard
- Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
- United States Power Outage Map
- Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]
- So Many Unmarried Men
- The number line freaks me out (2016)
- Bosch's brake-by-wire system may be the next big leap in automotive tech
- Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023)
- “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
- 50 Years of Travel Tips
- 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision
- US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
- Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
- The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
- Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?
- NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
- Perplexity Deep Research
- My Life in Weeks
- Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making
- Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?
- More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year
- Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
- Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
- Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
- Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
- Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
- Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement
- What situations in classical physics are non-deterministic? (2018)
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]
- Jane Street's Figgie card game
- Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?
- If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it
- Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores
- Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
- The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
- A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
- We were wrong about GPUs
- Complex dynamics require complex solutions
- The hardest working font in Manhattan
- LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
- Sunsetting Create React App
- The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view
- Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10
- Siren Call of SQLite on the Server
- DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI
- ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online
- AI will divide the best from the rest
- Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
- The History of S.u.S.E
- Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI
- AI is stifling new tech adoption?
- You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
- Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]
- "Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant
- Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
- On Bloat
- Extensible WASM Applications with Go
- Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
- The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas
- Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)
- Germany says its warships were sabotaged
- TikTok is back in the App Store
- Apple Resumes Advertising on X
- OCR4all
- We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality
- The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
- OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site
- JPMorgan CEO: "I don't care how many people sign that f—ing [WFH] Petition"
- Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
- Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
- Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
- Gold Is Worth More in New York
- 'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care
- Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
- USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
- Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
- LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
- Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA
- TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration
- Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business
- DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency
- Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?
- Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
- Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
- U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
- Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees
- DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds
- DOGE as a National Cyberattack
- Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
- Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
- Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker
- Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood
- Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem
- Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
- YouTube's New Hue
- What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase
- Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
- The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
- 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
- Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
- How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed
- The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
- Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
- Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
- DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
- EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI
- Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
- US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
- Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
- Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
- ElevenReader
- I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)
- jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
- Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance (2017)
- TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
- The year I didn't survive
- WASM will replace containers
- Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained
- JJ Cheat Sheet
- A Year of Telepathy
- BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
- NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV
- Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
- DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
- The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
- Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'
- Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)
- UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts
- IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
- JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform
- E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays
- Intel's Battlemage Architecture
- I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
- Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
- Boring tech is mature, not old
- Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII
- How about trailing commas in SQL?
- TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?
- Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
- Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
- Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
- Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
- We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
- Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
- Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments
- Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees
- Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
- NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
- 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS
- Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
- CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
- The Anthropic Economic Index
- Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
- Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
- The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind
- What about K?
- I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
- Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
- I built an AI company to save my open source project
- Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
- SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery
- Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)
- Rust kernel policy
- The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]
- To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
- Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud
- How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
- Don't Be Frupid
- Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies
- I Blog with Raw HTML
- Three Observations
- AI Demos
- Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
- Why blog if nobody reads it?
- UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials
- A drill bit that can also drive screws
- LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning
- Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States
- Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog
- Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
- Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)
- Is NixOS truly reproducible?
- Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
- Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)
- Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)
- Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
- Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
- Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement
- The LLMentalist Effect
- We are destroying software
- 'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That
- Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
- LINUX is obsolete (1992)
- Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation?
- VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
- Obscure islands I find interesting
- Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
- Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
- German civil activists win victory in election case against X
- Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]
- The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency (1997)
- Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)
- Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing
- Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program
- Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math
- Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
- Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
- Balcony solar is taking off
- U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
- Announcing the data.gov archive
- Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
- Tesla Is Alienating the People It Needs Most: Study
- Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family
- Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
- California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots
- Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)
- Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
- Understanding Reasoning LLMs
- DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts
- Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots
- Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
- GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
- U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report
- Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
- Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt
- US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
- Hotline for modern Apple systems
- Some terminal frustrations
- Linux Running in a PDF
- Subway crime plummets as ridership jumps significantly in congestion pricing era
- OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
- I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
- Microplastics in the human brain
- What does it mean that MP3 is free?
- Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
- Google kills diversity hiring targets
- Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
- Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist
- Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
- Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
- DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
- Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
- Eggs US – Price – Chart
- 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says
- Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
- Servo's progress in 2024
- Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
- I'm Done with Ubuntu
- Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
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