665
374
Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time
4 years ago
636
146
GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax
621
275
Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/od3h8b/audacity_may_collect_data_necessary_for_law/
440
196
Stockfish 14
https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/stockfish-14/
422
248
Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/PCkKU357M2Q/
350
96
Soviet Venus Images (2004)
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
333
95
Blender and the Rabbids
https://www.blender.org/user-stories/blender-and-the-rabbids/
332
132
The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-idempotency-key-header-00
331
24
Write a time-series database engine from scratch
https://nakabonne.dev/posts/write-tsdb-from-scratch/
281
242
The Growth Ponzi Scheme
https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
261
111
Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)
https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/
237
218
Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?
https://drewdevault.com/2021/07/04/Is-GitHub-a-derivative-work.html
25
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly
https://cprimozic.net/blog/speeding-up-webcola-with-webassembly/
210
43
Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017)
https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
209
68
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above
https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-moving-above/
201
108
When static makes your C code 10 times faster
https://mazzo.li/posts/c-performance-anecdote.html
177
176
The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-internet-speeds
174
93
On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others
https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/working-too-hard/
173
175
EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/02/eu-antitrust-head-warns-against-apple-using-privacy-security-to-stave-off-competition
169
37
Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
https://www.digitalviolence.org/
159
32
Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design
https://labs.sentinelone.com/bypassing-macos-tcc-user-privacy-protections-by-accident-and-design/
151
66
Ian Knot (2003)
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
144
29
The Powder Toy
https://github.com/The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy
141
34
Archive and genealogy of all Quake 1 bots
https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive
140
50
Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
https://github.com/jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension
134
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/27/ray-a-distributed-framework-for-emerging-ai-applications.html
10
Dynamic Linking Best Practices
https://begriffs.com/posts/2021-07-04-shared-libraries.html?hn=2
130
16
Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017)
https://jeremykun.com/2017/02/27/the-reasonable-effectiveness-of-the-multiplicative-weights-update-algorithm/
120
78
Heat Domes Are a Red-Hot Warning on Climate Costs
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-03/heat-domes-are-a-red-hot-warning-on-climate-costs
118
223
Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/social-media-broken-a-new-report-offers-25-ways-to-fix-it
39
GPT-J: GPT-3 Democratized
https://www.p3r.one/gpt-j/
115
9
Let's build a simple interpreter for APL, part 2 (2020)
https://mathspp.com/blog/lsbasi-apl-part2
114
110
Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/us/florida-condo-collapse-steel-rebar.html
112
21
Bringing Emulation into the 21st Century
https://blog.davetcode.co.uk/post/21st-century-emulator/
San Francisco Organized Shoplifting Surge Prompts Target to Cut Operating Hours
https://www.newsweek.com/san-franciscos-organized-shoplifting-surge-prompts-target-cut-operating-hours-1606674
Stop mocking your system
https://blog.bitgloss.ro/2020/10/stop-mocking-your-system/
105
47
PowerTOP – diagnose issues with power consumption and power management on Linux
https://01.org/powertop/
104
33
Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-cycles-michael-mullany
102
Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728154
100
181
Return of the Mac (2005)
http://paulgraham.com/mac.html
92
11
Graph Programming (2020)
https://www.hyro.ai/post/graph-programming
86
Show HN: Ready UI – Bootstrap UI blocks
https://readyui.co/
85
Ask HN: How do SMBs afford such expensive software engineers in the US?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27729059
20
A completely unoptimized terminal renderer that runs at several thousand FPS
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1411437902802808832
83
PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center
https://gist.github.com/pushpendre/359706010c20bc1d18123510749f5da5
81
45
The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated
https://nautil.us/issue/102/hidden-truths/the-human-family-tree-it-turns-out-is-complicated
116
Terrible programming features from the past
https://medium.com/young-coder/3-terrible-programming-features-from-the-past-ee5260af1d74
80
17
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (Updated to v0.9.8)
https://anonymousplanet.org/index.html
79
31
DIY IoT Fan
https://mulliken.net/blog/dont-buy-new-upgrade-something-old-a-honeywell-standing-fan-to-be-exact
Bash function names can be almost anything
https://blog.dnmfarrell.com/post/bash-function-names-can-be-almost-anything/
74
Electron tube New Automatic Computer
https://ena.computer/
73
4
CVE-2020-9771 is not fixed correctly (2020)
https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/cve_2020_9771/
70
15
CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams
https://mgaudet.github.io/CompilerJobs/
69
Health insurers are threatening not to cover some patients’ ER bills
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/1/22557401/united-healthcare-emergency-room-visits-medical-bills
The unexpected complications of minor features (2020)
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/unexpected-complications-1535
Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013)