1717
168
A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)
https://kentnerburn.com/the-cab-ride-ill-never-forget/
2 years ago
882
198
Wobbly clock
https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/wobble-clock/
562
151
Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/
413
416
Quitting the rat race
https://seanbarry.dev/posts/quitting-the-rat-race/
399
477
Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future
398
180
1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-28-8-network-programming-in-age-of-empires-and-beyond
391
268
The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/
383
313
Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1614794516309118977
300
50
Servo to Advance in 2023
https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/
276
183
Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
https://godotengine.org/article/whats-missing-in-godot-for-aaa/
261
357
Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (2016)
http://beelineblogger.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-supermarket-visit-brought-down.html
252
49
Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content
https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch
246
244
Major standard library changes in Go 1.20
https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2023/golang-120-arenas-errors-responsecontroller/
243
135
The art and science of spending money
https://collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-money/
229
79
Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482770/Terra_Firma/
224
59
Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes
https://vento.so
223
98
Byte Magazine 1975-1995
https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
219
199
TensorFlow for Python is dying?
https://thenextweb.com/news/why-tensorflow-for-python-is-dying-a-slow-death
213
146
GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve used
https://every.to/superorganizers/gpt-3-is-the-best-journal-you-ve-ever-used
212
285
Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/01/16/netflix-has-created-a-self-fulfilling-cancelation-loop-with-its-new-shows/
197
211
Tweetbot is back down again
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter-online-third-party-apps-outage
190
116
The FTC plans to curtail the use of non-compete clauses
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/01/12/americas-trustbusters-plan-to-curtail-the-use-of-non-compete-clauses-good
187
18
Selfie – A tiny RISC-V C compiler, emulator and hypervisor
http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/
179
73
Granian – a Rust HTTP server for Python applications
https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian
177
106
Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-16/Special_report
64
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003)
https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1614682414634373120
166
70
How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly in Machine Learning Is Breaking
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/nvidiaopenaitritonpytorch
163
237
There’s no planet B
https://aeon.co/essays/we-will-never-be-able-to-live-on-another-planet-heres-why
160
60
Conditional CSS
https://ishadeed.com/article/conditional-css/
152
75
I Am the Ghost Here
https://www.guernicamag.com/i-am-the-ghost-here/
150
Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs
https://milkyeggs.com/?p=303
128
203
Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h8q6D0s74
125
46
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker
122
124
Intel Core i9-13900T CPU benchmarks show faster than 12900K 125W performance
https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13900t-cpu-benchmarks-show-faster-than-12900k-125w-performance-at-35w/
121
92
How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighting-games-use-delay-based-and-rollback-netcode/
81
Ask HN: When to make the jump to freelance/consultant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400435
119
78
The hardest part of being a junior developer
https://rachsmith.com/the-hardest-part-of-being-a-jnr/
117
95
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/
How my brother's iCloud account was stolen
https://7c0h.com/blog/new/stolen_iphone.html
113
17
Autotone – A vocal pitch correction web application, like Autotune
https://github.com/alexcrist/autotone
100
120
Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (2019)
https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-alexa-wont-wake-up-when-she-hears-her-name-in-amazons-super-bowl-ad
99
27
GPU Caching Compared Among AMD, Intel UHD, Apple M1
https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/05/21/igpu-cache-setups-compared-including-m1/
84
UK Police to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/police-to-get-new-powers-to-shut-down-protests-before-disruption-begins
91
47
Blaze: A high-performance C++ math library
https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/src/master/
Lawyers barred by Madison Square Garden found a way back in
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/madison-square-garden-ban-lawyers.html
71
Adventures in Mastoland
https://searchtodon.social/Adventures-in-Mastoland.html
90
102
ASCII table and history – Or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?
https://bestasciitable.com
88
26
Supporting half-precision floats is really annoying (2021)
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2021-08-05-half-precision-floats.html
87
11
Nick Cave on ChatGPT
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/
131
YouTube Doesn't “Get It”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402292
82
56
Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform
https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey