1065
801
Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7
3 years ago
722
211
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184
584
157
I found a bug in SQLite
https://www.philipotoole.com/how-i-found-a-bug-in-sqlite/
552
624
Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal
https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status
543
654
Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
https://www.neowin.net/news/here-are-5-not-so-great-features-coming-soon-to-windows-11/
538
645
Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628
491
376
The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
https://simon.peytonjones.org/assets/pdfs/haskell-exchange-22.pdf
470
56
The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin
https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html
382
366
Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
https://kevquirk.com/is-dark-mode-such-a-good-idea/
363
171
A neat XOR trick
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-12-10-xor/
302
154
Getting Started with Tmux
https://ittavern.com/getting-started-with-tmux/
285
153
The maddening mess of airport codes [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw
283
383
What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?
https://novum.substack.com/p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest-rates
282
98
IPv6 Internet is broken
https://adminhacks.com/broken-IPv6.html
267
178
Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33939805
264
102
The longest ever flight was 64 days in a Cessna 172 (2021)
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/
256
Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942558
241
203
Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943707
223
24
Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap
https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/creating-aerial-imagery-with-a-bike-helmet-camera-and-opendronemap/
222
232
What happens to a smartphone when it gets stolen?
https://hachyderm.io/@em0/109494729273725207
80
VHS-Decode – Software defined VHS decoder
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
192
110
AI unmasks anonymous chess players, posing privacy risks
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-unmasks-anonymous-chess-players-posing-privacy-risks
190
188
Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/12/08/japanese-manga-are-being-eclipsed-by-korean-webtoons
189
135
VPN by Google One security assessment
https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/12/09/public-report-vpn-by-google-one-security-assessment/
179
78
Using GPT3 to Interpret Dreams
https://www.nightcap.guru/
164
27
CNC Gothic Stone Carving by the Carmelite Monks
https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
159
Video games made in the USSR (2020)
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/332384-video-games-soviet-russian-tetris
217
As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big
https://www.businessinsider.com/used-vehicle-retailer-carvana-bankruptcy-car-buyers-inventory-2022-12
Copyright denied because the model’s pose is not unique
https://twitter.com/zemotion/status/1600529480099196928
85
GPT based tool that writes the commit message for you
https://github.com/KanHarI/gpt-commit-summarizer
150
15
Vector Animations with Python (2014)
http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/09/20/vector-animations-with-python/
148
38
VR robots are building railways in Japan
https://virtualuncle.com/2022/04/26/giant-vr-robots-are-building-railways-in-japan/
139
133
Dreams change under authoritarianism (2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism
138
142
What's wrong with social science and how to fix it (2020)
https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
149
Orion has splashed down off the coast of Baja, California
https://twitter.com/nasa_orion/status/1601995706642071552
129
63
Richard Hipp Speaks Out on SQLite (2019) [pdf]
https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1906/pdfs/06_Profiles_Hipp.pdf
124
109
I started taking English classes at the age of 46
https://mxgrn.com/blog/english-classes
123
177
Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/dark-matter-nightmare-scenario/
120
131
USDD/Tron near collapse: USDD stablecoin below $0.97, reserve collateral drained
https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/zijx5o/usddtron_are_about_to_collapse_usdd_justin_suns/
118
Building a walking routine
https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-single-greatest-habit-you-can-build
116
144
Designed for Rural Living
https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/designed-rural-living
113
236
New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors
https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/wrapping-multiple-errors/
246
Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than Japan
https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/05/19/asias-advanced-economies-now-have-lower-birth-rates-than-japan
6
Why Logtalk?
https://logtalk.org/rationale.html
107
26
Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi)
https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2022-11-28-psion-sidecar-ppp-modem-and-terminal/
104
43
“A damn stupid thing to do” – The origins of CPL, BCPL, and C (2020)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/
99
‘Diablo IV’ developers work long hours, bracing for impending release
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/12/08/diablo-iv-release-date-crunch/
96
45
Opinionated products breed passionate customers
https://www.wking.dev/library/opinionated-products-breed-passionate-customers
95
31
Hackers earn $990k for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-earn-989-750-for-63-zero-days-exploited-at-pwn2own-toronto/
90
82
LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1
https://spectrum.ieee.org/airship
47
"Doctors fitted a contraceptive coil without my consent"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63863088
86
Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V2 Unix (at least)
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/LoginShellMarkerHistory
84
The Reason Washington Is Silent on the FTX Fiasco - Bipartisan Donations
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/09/crypto-scandal-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-00073178
34
Elastic UI – Component library for data-driven web apps
https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/
14
A data-centric introduction to computing
https://dcic-world.org/2022-08-28/index.html
77
Taming names in software development
https://www.simplethread.com/taming-names-in-software-development/