957
103
Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33484185
2 years ago
561
203
Mathics: A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica
https://mathics.org/
373
260
Birdwatch, Twitter's collaborative fact checking system
https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/#
350
100
The RS-232 protocol [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHYNxpqKqwo
332
167
Negative 2000 Lines of Code (1982)
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
325
199
Body Doubling
https://bodydoubling.com/
322
288
Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sued-for-open-source-piracy-through-github-copilot/
319
337
Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/03/multiple-assertions-per-test-are-fine/
311
113
Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall
https://safing.io/blog/2022/10/27/portmaster-reaches-1.0/
309
112
TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough
https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/
297
273
Quantum winter is coming
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/11/quantum-winter-is-coming.html
286
138
MDN converted to Markdown
https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/
268
53
Pathfinding Visualizer
https://pathfinding-visualizer-nu.vercel.app/
258
447
It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/5/mastodon/
253
267
Mastodon Explained
https://mastodon.ie/@Ciaraioch/109287818715515862
250
58
3D OpenStreetMap
https://demo.f4map.com
243
125
Engineered ‘Superplant’ Cleans Indoor Air Like 30 Regular Plants
https://singularityhub.com/2022/11/02/this-engineered-superplant-cleans-indoor-air-like-30-regular-plants/
242
454
The type system is a programmer's best friend
https://dusted.codes/the-type-system-is-a-programmers-best-friend
221
62
What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less
https://nautil.us/why-your-brain-isnt-into-the-future-245128/
249
Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33482215
185
23
Creating a pick and place control board with the RP2040
https://blog.thea.codes/starfish-a-control-board-with-the-rp2040/
179
45
Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11831-022-09740-9
169
108
Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid
https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/12/the-ants-have-not-read-kant-petr-kropotkin-and-mutual-aid/
168
154
Context to Twitter's 2023 advertisers issues
https://twitter.com/goangelo/status/1588696157794242560
159
13
So today musl discovered a longstanding bug in Linux's ELF loader
https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1588592850715172865
152
114
Womp 3D – The New Way to 3D
https://www.womp.com/
148
Searchable List of Mastodon Servers
https://instances.social/
147
11
Drgn: A programmable C debugger, scriptable from Python
https://github.com/osandov/drgn
145
308
Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)
https://www.jefftk.com/p/programmers-should-plan-for-lower-pay
142
68
Peto’s Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox
191
60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/03/60-of-home-compostable-plastic-doesnt-fully-break-down-ending-up-in-our-soil/
133
17
Pieca: A Raspberry Pi Camera System for Leica M Mount Lenses
https://teaandtechtime.com/pieca-a-raspberry-pi-camera-system-for-leica-m-mount-lenses/
131
291
Idaho Stop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
129
14
A step by step backpropagation example (2015)
https://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagation-example/
123
85
Bars in Antarctica
https://drinksdigest.com/2021/10/11/there-are-cool-bars-in-antarctica/
77
Poll: How Old Are You?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480849
119
The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/10/04/onion-amicus-brief-supreme-court-anthony-novak/
118
65
Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22333-7
117
World’s largest exoskeleton mech suit inspires a new sport
https://tvpworld.com/61613436/worlds-largest-exoskeleton-mech-suit-inspires-a-new-sport
115
56
The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers
https://newrepublic.com/article/167270/crossword-labor-market-times
165
Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’
https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/spotlight-of-the-week-detail.htm?163
111
95
Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet-another-skill-once-thought-distinctively-human/
180
Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC
https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1588906808395333633
107
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
https://y2y.net/
UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir without patient consent
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/04/uk_governement_set_to_extract/
155
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B – sources
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-infrastructure-costs-by-1-bln-sources-2022-11-03/
102
36
Jetbrains Aqua
https://www.jetbrains.com/aqua/
99
21
QualityScaler: Image/video deeplearning upscaler with any GPU
https://github.com/Djdefrag/QualityScaler
98
Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter
https://www.geekmetaverse.com/jack-dorsey-unveils-bluesky-social-the-decentralized-twitter/
96
48
Sega is keeping mini consoles alive
https://www.theverge.com/23439097/sega-genesis-mini-2-astro-city-mini-v-retro-consoles
93
IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/irc-server-as-tor-hidden-service-on-openbsd/
Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking
https://structpad.app
89
10
Anscombe's Quartet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
88
109
Backlash after 500 drones light up New York City sky to celebrate Candy Crush
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/04/candy-crush-drone-show-backlash
To get kids into science, just do it
https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-get-kids-into-science-just-do-it-11667498494
12
Bomba (Cryptography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)
149
Elon Musk: “thermonuclear name & shame” against advertisers pulling out
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241
139
Thoughts on the “guard” proposal for Go's error handling
https://wagslane.dev/posts/guard-keyword-error-handling-golang/
66
Microneedle patch digs deep to regenerate hair in bald mice
https://newatlas.com/science/microneedle-patch-deep-regenerate-hair-bald-mice/
