764
526
The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finding-too-many-early-galaxies/
3 years ago
670
92
Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
https://www.zephray.me/post/grayscale_lcd/
566
353
The Yaml document from hell
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
517
316
Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
https://news.cision.com/lkab/r/europe-s-largest-deposit-of-rare-earth-metals-is-located-in-the-kiruna-area,c3696152
509
474
Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350446
448
260
This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
https://blog.elevenlabs.io/enter-the-new-year-with-a-bang/
441
390
The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-power/
421
388
A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/faa-ground-stop-causes/index.html
372
207
SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sqlite-wasm-in-the-browser-backed-by-the-origin-private-file-system/
365
443
Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359504
354
69
Nintendo 64 Java
https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/nintendo64_java.php
327
139
Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/01/supporting-use-of-rust-in-chromium.html
319
121
Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/hinton-forward-algorithm/
28
A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/ssh-tunnels/
309
180
Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
https://kristall.random-projects.net/
297
664
New video of Tesla crash demonstrates the problem of semi-automated driving
https://www.theautopian.com/newly-released-video-of-thanksgiving-day-tesla-full-self-driving-crash-demonstrates-the-fundamental-problem-of-semi-automated-driving-systems/
287
116
Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR
https://tracy.posthaven.com/part-ii-the-failure-points-from-$5m-to-$100m-in-arr
263
277
Just use a monorepo
https://buttondown.email/blog/just-use-a-monorepo
256
131
Your tech stack is not the product
https://hoho.com/posts/your-stack-is-not-the-product/
241
370
Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/12/2023/eggs-are-60-more-expensive-than-last-year-in-the-us
236
61
Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb (2021)
https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sierras-macintosh-timebomb
231
System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser
217
168
Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research
Medium Embraces Mastodon
https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11
205
166
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/
199
214
The Collapse of U.S. Healthcare – The Perspective of a Primary Care Physician
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34347962
198
79
Memory loss: Expert advice for improving memory and concentration
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23537229/improve-your-memory-concentration-tips
197
106
U.S. cancer death rate has dropped by a third since 1991
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cancer-death-rate-has-dropped-by-a-third-since-1991-11673535327
181
50
Webb confirms its first exoplanet
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_confirms_its_first_exoplanet
33
Vulkan Tutorial (Rust)
https://kylemayes.github.io/vulkanalia/
179
184
Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1125205641/amazon-warehouse-union-staten-island
173
82
Pictures of a working garbage collector
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/01/garbage-collector.html
CEO Jack Altman’s email to Lattice employees
https://lattice.com/blog/ceo-jack-altmans-email-to-lattice-employees
167
127
Bulgarian law enforcement raids offices of cryptocurrency firm Nexo
https://sofiaglobe.com/2023/01/12/bulgarian-law-enforcement-raids-offices-of-cryptocurrency-firm-nexo/
15
A modular system for isometric pixel blocks
https://c6y.github.io/tilix-reference/
162
75
Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/KernelBindBugIn6016
153
146
Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34353049
149
326
Do heat pumps work in cold climates?
https://carbonswitch.com/do-heat-pumps-work-in-cold-weather/
183
Vim is touch-typing on steroids
https://www.trickster.dev/post/vim-is-touch-typing-on-steroids/
145
113
Researchers cannot always differentiate AI-generated and original abstracts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00056-7
144
172
The disappearance of the hit-driven business model
https://dearproducer.com/the-disappearance-of-the-hit-driven-business/
133
Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running
https://restofworld.org/2023/mexico-metro-drivers-whatsapp-trains/
3
Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2023-01-11-tree-sitter-tlaplus/
59
Niron Magnetics – powerful, rare earth-free permanent magnets
https://www.nironmagnetics.com/
124
Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-launches-dollar699-core-i9-13900ks-the-worlds-first-6-ghz-cpu-available-now
122
34
The curious Soviet mini-sub of South Alabama (2018)
https://laststandonzombieisland.com/2018/11/24/the-curious-soviet-mini-sub-of-south-alabama/
73
Extreme 'rogue wave' in the North Pacific confirmed as most extreme on record
https://www.sciencealert.com/extreme-rogue-wave-in-the-north-pacific-confirmed-as-most-extreme-on-record
118
35
Lid – Lo-fi image dithering
https://rawtext.club/~sloum/lid.html
109
39
The Derivative of a Regular Type is its Type of One-Hole Contexts (2001) [pdf]
http://strictlypositive.org/diff.pdf
108
Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30794
107
17
Own Your Data
https://yourdigitalrights.org
101
From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
https://shopify.engineering/overhauling-shopify-cli-for-a-better-developer-experience
105
27
Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977
https://www.righto.com/2023/01/reverse-engineering-airspeedmach.html
104
What if writing tests was a joyful experience?
https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/
100
23
30 years of Brainfuck
https://deusinmachina.substack.com/p/weird-ones-30-years-of-brainfuck
12
DIY Spacecraft Models
https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/toolkits/diy-paper-spacecraft-models
99
21
The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)
https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html
98
Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools
https://lucaskostka.com/posts/foundational_knowledge
41
Atari 2600 hardware design: Making something out of almost nothing
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/01/11/atari-2600-hardware-design-making-something-out-of-almost-nothing/
97
85
Floppy Disk Museum on a Bootable Floppy serving from a 286 PC
http://floppy.museum/
138
Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34355892
96
FTX pre-mortem overview
https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-pre-mortem-overview
94
42
U.S. judge rules Apple Watch infringed Masimo's pulse oximeter patent
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-apple-watches-infringed-masimo-patent-medical-device-maker-2023-01-11/
93
Chick Fil A's Edge Enterprise Architecture
https://medium.com/chick-fil-atech/enterprise-restaurant-compute-f5e2fd63d20f
89
How sugar and fat affect your brain
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/how-sugar-and-fat-affect-your-brain
87
46
Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34353919
What Every Competent Graph DBMS Should Do
https://kuzudb.com/blog/what-every-gdbms-should-do-and-vision.html
83
Null Call: Advice for the vestigial shamans among us (2021)
https://arcove.substack.com/p/null-call
78
132
Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8yxb/citizen-app-lays-off-dozens-of-employees
38
Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
https://en.fuckupnights.com/
43
My list of favorite secure messaging apps
https://supernova.tilde.team/messengers.html
30
Velocity defeats itself – get acceleration instead
https://jessitron.com/2022/12/22/velocity-defeats-itself-get-acceleration-instead/
72
JPM Shutters Financial Aid Site Frank, Accuses Founder of Fraud
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/jpmorgan-chase-shutters-student-financial-aid-website-frank.html
68
8
CIRCL: Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library
https://github.com/cloudflare/circl
65
Show HN: New GraphQL API for WordPress
https://github.com/leoloso/PoP/releases/tag/0.9.3
Tell HN: Tailscale terms updated, added mandatory arbitration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357616
64
66
Want a Viking funeral? Only state that allows it is Colorado
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/01/11/want-a-viking-funeral-only-state-that-allows-it-is-colorado/
20
Rotary dialer as USB keyboard
https://petrovs.info/post/2023-01-12-shaiba/
63
31
Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/12/svante-paabo-interview-nobel-prize
