750
608
Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/why-a4-the-mathematical-beauty-of-paper-size/
4 years ago
519
254
Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/sockfish.html
417
597
Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1566826229931524096
324
271
Don't ignore the janitor
https://happychasing.substack.com/p/see-people
316
191
Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/
309
439
All poverty is energy poverty
https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/all-poverty-is-energy-poverty
308
1155
Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1566728231893573634
301
134
Userspace FUSE for macOS
https://www.fuse-t.org/
265
237
FLAC – Format overview
https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.html
Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/rings-of-power-reviews-delayed-amazon-prime-video-1235358724/
250
190
Common Lisp vs Racket
https://gist.github.com/vindarel/c1ef5e043773921e3b11d8f4fe1ca7ac
241
146
Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/31/engineering-metrics.html
229
210
I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete
https://github.com/SharonBrizinov/slack-anti-delete
226
68
Using Stable Diffusion's img2img on some old Sierra titles
https://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php?topic=2081.0
188
Apple AMX instruction set (M1/M2 matrix coprocessor)
https://github.com/corsix/amx
207
162
Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/09/01/heatwaves-kill-more-americans-than-hurricanes-tornadoes-and-floods
195
107
Credit Karma fined $3M by FTC for misleading consumers with credit card offers
https://thefintechtimes.com/credit-karma-fined-3million-by-ftc-for-misleading-consumers-with-credit-card-offers/
'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/serious-errors-in-research-linking-deaths-to-red-meat-qtdh28fv5
163
168
Blockchains by number of nodes/validators
https://chainparrot.com/blockchains-by-number-of-nodes.html
159
105
Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground
https://www.drawanything.app/
157
Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/09/writing-an-app-is-like-coding-for-laserdisc/
41
Infinite Stable Diffusion Videos
https://orbdog.com
156
34
How to present backend demos
https://rxhl.notion.site/How-To-Present-Backend-Demos-861303c09e3e48fcb33a2a6999260e59
155
69
Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (2015)
https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2015/01/outlook-com-is-silently-discarding-email-messages/
153
39
Dreamy Blur
https://yuanchuan.dev/dreamy-blur
151
249
Toyota patents plans for EV with manual transmission and clutch
https://insideevs.com/news/566896/toyota-electric-vehicle-manual-transmission/
147
72
In wake of data breach – Samsung forcing users to accept T&CS or risk their data
https://thecrow.uk/in-wake-of-epic-data-breach-samsung-forcing-users-to-accept-new-terms-or-risk-their-data/
Show HN: WakaQ - a Python distributed task queue
https://wakatime.com/blog/56-building-a-distributed-task-queue-in-python
144
176
Static site hosting hurdles
https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2022/09/notes/b08118d8/
59
Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings and Shootings for Hire
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/09/violence-as-a-service-brickings-firebombings-shootings-for-hire/
143
141
The quantum computing bubble
https://www.ft.com/content/6d2e34ab-f9fd-4041-8a96-91802bab7765
Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yFd2Pq_rg
140
27
Launch HN: Mito (YC S20) – Edit a spreadsheet, generate Python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32723766
165
Study: Chances of serious side effects from coronavirus vaccines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/?fs=e&s=cl
138
12
Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
137
7
Extending SQLite with Rust
https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/extending-sqlite-with-rust/
75
Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
https://driftingin.space/posts/complexity-kubernetes
122
67
Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Please-continue-supporting-iOS-Android-streaming-SDKs/td-p/5416477
120
55
Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/09/03/nobel-prize-winner-gregg-semenza-retracts-four-papers/
118
35
Meta Fined $400M for Treatment of Children’s Data on Instagram
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/business/meta-children-data-protection-europe.html
112
37
Solr’s Dense Vector Search for indexing and searching dense numerical vectors
https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/query-guide/dense-vector-search.html
108
57
Mille Bornes
http://www.codex99.com/design/28.html
92
The Sheer Terror of PAM
https://xeiaso.net/talks/rustconf-2022-sheer-terror-pam
78
Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out for public use and that's considered “OK”
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/x3lahr/d_senior_research_scientist_at_googleai_negar/
104
SQLite 3.39.3
https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_39_3.html
102
53
Apple II Desktop Updated
https://www.callapple.org/vintage-apple-computers/apple-ii/apple-ii-desktop-updated-3/
101
179
How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/05/i-didnt-want-it-anywhere-near-me-how-the-apple-airtag-became-a-gift-to-stalkers
99
14
Virtual Ants
https://healeycodes.com/virtual-ants
91
54
Rethinking indoor air chemistry
https://www.mpg.de/19157061/0902-chem-oxidation-field-152990-x
87
Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (2010)
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/nano-nonsense-25-years-of-charlatanry/
85
33
PHP 8.2.0 RC1 available for testing
https://www.php.net/archive/2022.php
81
Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32724564
79
3
How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled (2020)
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
Szeged in 1934 (1993) [pdf]
https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22/Ford/Lorch219-230.pdf
Being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-progress-an-environmentalist
76
58
Two philosophers found purpose in the world of work
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-philosophers-found-purpose-in-the-world-of-work-11662177661
2
Copy Dialog Lunar Lander
https://github.com/Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander
71
6
uLisp wireless message display with a Pi Pico W
http://forum.ulisp.com/t/wireless-message-display/1062
15
Show HN: AutoML Python Package for Tabular Data with Automatic Documentation
https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised
42
Tell HN: Microsoft's captcha is pretty hard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32729823
117
CA grid: real-time status
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html
66
77
DIY mechanical keyboard switch lets you set its actuation point
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/diy-mechanical-keyboard-switch-lets-you-set-its-actuation-point/
65
19
Contrasting Intel AMX and Apple AMX
https://www.corsix.org/content/contrasting-intel-amx-and-apple-amx
63
22
Alan Perlis and the evolution of programming languages
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/alan-perlis-and-the-evolution-of-programming-languages/
61
18
Mangroves on a Landfill
https://placesjournal.org/article/informal-settlers-environmental-rehabilitation-manila/
60
Impact of programming on primary mathematics learning
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959475222000883
49
Premature optimization caught up with me as well
https://martin.leyrer.priv.at/y2022/m09/premature_optimisation.html
16
Visualize active fires around the world with Javascript
https://blog.znote.io/2022/znote-climate-post/
