989
739
I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend
3 years ago
809
216
Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
https://twitter.com/johnmcelhone8/status/1600683623250030593
550
72
Bumblebee: GPT2, Stable Diffusion, and More in Elixir
https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-bumblebee-gpt2-stable-diffusion-and-more-in-elixir-3Op73O
528
337
Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/
517
226
You don't need live chat on your website
https://timharek.no/blog/you-dont-need-chat-on-your-site/
412
514
Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/everything-sam-bankman-fried-is-doing
408
457
FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/ftc-seeks-block-microsoft-corps-acquisition-activision-blizzard-inc
437
Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-combines-maps-and-waze-teams-in-restructuring-move-11670462301
320
204
ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-rot13.html
318
185
Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
https://beta.sayhello.so/
317
179
Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM
https://github.com/exaloop/codon
297
180
Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/soil-midwestern-us-eroding-10-1000-times-faster-it-forms-study-finds
293
84
Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
https://rez0.blog/hacking/2022/12/02/hacking-on-a-plane.html
263
282
PHP 8.2
https://www.php.net/releases/8.2/en.php
255
146
The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (1998)
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm
254
42
A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
https://spritesmods.com/?art=doom-bauble&page=1
233
56
Ideas that changed my life
https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/
230
306
TSMC founder Morris Chang says globalization and free trade 'almost dead'
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-founder-Morris-Chang-says-globalization-almost-dead
225
139
Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
https://news.fnal.gov/2022/12/fermilab-cern-recommendation-for-linux-distribution/
203
Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907357
217
Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
https://medium.com/graalvm/babashka-how-graalvm-helped-create-a-fast-starting-scripting-environment-for-clojure-b0fcc38b0746
196
Effectivealtruism.org purchased a £15M estate for its headquarters in 2021
https://twitter.com/paulmainwood/status/1600433194691502081
189
126
Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/12/08/the-cleantech-job-market-every-modeler-is-supposed-to-be-a-great-python-programmer/
273
Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-place-like-home.html
183
22
5000x faster CRDTs: An adventure in optimization (2021)
https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
93
Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/intel-using-dxvk-part-of-steam-proton-for-their-windows-arc-gpu-dx-9-drivers/
172
116
I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion
https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html
171
Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?
https://www.meter.com/mac-osx-awdl-psa
168
195
What comes up when you flush
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/12/08/cu-scientists-shine-light-what-comes-when-you-flush
163
246
Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-02/duolingo-plus-gave-fans-of-free-app-a-cost-worth-paying
160
53
Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906591
155
28
Show HN: Ezy – open-source gRPC client, alternative to Postman and Insomnia
https://github.com/getezy/ezy/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.13.2
152
192
Why I'm less than infinitely hostile to cryptocurrency
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile
144
45
AlphaCode Attention Visualization
https://alphacode.deepmind.com/
136
151
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/bee-wilson/like-a-bar-of-soap
135
57
Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
https://margin.re/2022/06/pulling-mikrotik-into-the-limelight/
161
How to write like Malcolm Gladwell
https://commonreader.substack.com/p/how-to-write-like-malcolm-gladwell
133
143
Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
https://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work
132
18
Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars higher than ever on 35th Red Planet flight
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-altitude-record-35th-flight
125
95
Meditations on an inexpensive laundry basket
https://onefoottsunami.com/2022/12/08/meditations-on-an-inexpensive-laundry-basket/
124
112
Airtable lays off over 250
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/airtable-layoffs/
119
20
Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes
https://authzed.com/blog/annotated-zanzibar-launch/
118
31
Precise atom manipulation through deep reinforcement learning
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35149-w
21
Advent of q 2022
https://github.com/qbists/studyq/tree/main/aoc/2022
115
37
Show HN: Wasp – DSL/framework for building full-stack web apps – now in beta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910997
108
205
The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language
https://medium.com/dartlang/the-road-to-dart-3-afdd580fbefa
79
ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches
105
47
Paleontologist accused of faking data in dino-killing asteroid paper
https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper
103
102
Atari revives unreleased arcade game that was too hard for 1982 players
https://www.engadget.com/akka-arrh-remake-jeff-minter-atari-200603455.html
65
Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL
https://github.com/gitpod-io/website/blob/main/src/routes/blog/introducing-gitpod-dedicated.md
98
70
‘Significant overload’ caused Norway’s timber bridge collapse
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/significant-overload-caused-norways-timber-bridge-collapse-05-12-2022/
97
19
Writing Is Magic
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/11/08/writing.html
92
15
A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11142
The Uninhabitable Earth (2017)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
34
Adventures in Teletext Recovery
https://www.andrewnile.co.uk/blog/adventures-in-teletext-recovery/
88
35
Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade
https://lithub.com/napoleonic-conspiracy-theories-unsociable-shabbiness-and-more-occupational-hazards-of-the-second-hand-book-trade/
147
Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron
https://andrewpillar.com/programming/2022/12/08/systemd-timer-an-alternative-to-cron/
138
Artificial intelligence is permeating business at last
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/06/artificial-intelligence-is-permeating-business-at-last
How PostScript kickstarted desktop publishing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/adobe-postscript-code
78
25
1M Watts of RF – How the FM Supertower Works
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/1-million-watts-rf-how-fm-supertower-works
76
111
Asbestos Cigarette Filters (2018)
https://www.asbestos.com/products/cigarette-filters/
73
The Deep Weirdness of Beavers
https://lithub.com/part-bear-part-bird-part-monkey-part-lizard-on-the-deep-weirdness-of-beavers/
41
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer
https://bt.ht/alpine/
71
German states and federal government agreed on nationwide 49€ ticket coming 2023
https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-12-08-mpk-decides-on-germany-ticket--according-to-scholz--it-should-come-%22very-quickly%22-.H1-dBr31Oo.html
Data stream hack gets UCI world championship qualifier banned
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/12/zwift-uci-cheating-astounding-championship-qualifier.html
221
Discriminatory attitudes against the unvaccinated during a global pandemic
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05607-y
Show HN: Hnpdf.com – Quick access to pdfs shared on Hacker News
https://hnpdf.com/latest
69
6
Hash-based digital signatures (almost) from scratch
https://medium.com/@georgwiese/hash-based-digital-signatures-almost-from-scratch-da57e54dd774
44
Edge-compatible Serverless Driver for Postgres
https://neon.tech/blog/serverless-driver-for-postgres/
68
13
Alfalfa farming is 0.2% of the Utah economy but uses 68% of available water
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/12/04/why-its-time-utah-buy-out/
Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905368
66
30
A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan
https://magoo.medium.com/a-blameless-post-mortem-of-usa-v-joseph-sullivan-a137162f7fc9
52
BlackRock 2023 Outlook [pdf]
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate