1182
122
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal
https://fathy.fr/carbonyl
3 years ago
934
1047
Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547265
582
54
Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders
https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/
543
274
Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
https://github.com/stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems/blob/main/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md
405
382
Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/apple-job-cuts-tide/
369
176
Take more screenshots (2022)
https://alexwlchan.net/2022/screenshots/
363
73
Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better
https://github.com/ea/lytro_unlock
350
138
OsmAnd 4.3 for Android devices
https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-android-4-3-released/
317
95
The Mystery of the Dune Font
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font
311
271
Natural language is the lazy user interface
https://austinhenley.com/blog/naturallanguageui.html
310
241
Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons
308
270
Contracts you should never sign
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/contracts-you-should-never-sign/
295
242
PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
https://gizmodo.com/pagerduty-ceo-quotes-martin-luther-king-jr-layoff-email-1850039237
294
221
Best and worst decisions I’ve made
https://stonemaiergames.com/the-10-best-and-worst-decisions-ive-ever-made/
291
107
MusicLM: Generating music from text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325
289
106
“They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it.”
https://mastodon.social/@alexjsp/109760277713815857
287
56
Nature photographer John Fielder donates life’s work to public domain
https://petapixel.com/2023/01/26/celebrated-nature-photographer-donates-lifes-work-to-public-domain/
277
285
ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
https://castlebridge.ie/insights/chatgpt-and-the-enshittening-of-knowledge/
44
Elite for Emacs (2015)
https://www.salkosuo.net/2015/10/22/elite-for-emacs.html
263
41
Pandas Illustrated: Visual Guide to Pandas
https://betterprogramming.pub/pandas-illustrated-the-definitive-visual-guide-to-pandas-c31fa921a43?sk=50184a8a8b46ffca16664f6529741abc
254
105
Sci-Hub: knowledge as a human right
https://sci-hub.ru/
251
100
Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s
https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/bell-telephone-launched-a-mobile-phone-during-the-1940s.html
243
153
Nobody Has My Condition but Me
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/nobody-has-my-condition-but-me
103
Just know stuff (or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)
https://kidger.site/thoughts/just-know-stuff/
233
257
Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/
231
400
Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap
https://www.macworld.com/article/1485237/mac-security-t2-chip-macbook-activation-lock.html
220
MusicLM: Generating Music from Text
https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
219
36
Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides
https://www.searchthedeck.com/
218
The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-galaga-no-fire-cheat-mystery/
216
82
Code Lifespan
https://xkcd.com/2730/
208
151
Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript
https://www.pausly.app/blog/accessible-hamburger-buttons-without-javascript
197
246
Passenger Uses AirTags, Discovers Airline Donated Their Bags to Charity
https://www.blogto.com/travel/2023/01/ontario-couple-tracking-lost-baggage-shocked-air-canada-gave-it-charity/
165
292
High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours
https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-earning-men-are-cutting-back-on-their-working-hours-11674697563
159
229
Rust's Ugly Syntax
https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html
156
74
Cyber is a new language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting
https://cyberscript.dev/
150
120
Religious and spiritual folklore surrounding programming
https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/geek-mythology-the-religious-and
149
Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/
148
269
The Python Paradox (2004)
http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Six doctors swallowed Lego heads (2022)
https://defector.com/an-oral-history-of-the-time-six-doctors-swallowed-lego-heads-to-see-how-long-theyd-take-to-poo
147
Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT
https://www.eightify.app/
24
SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative
https://eighty-twenty.org/2023/01/27/sirtunnel-personal-ngrok
143
172
Why Go and Not Rust? (2019)
https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/
141
25
Reverse engineering programs with unknown instruction sets (2012) [pdf]
https://www.recon.cx/2012/schedule/attachments/40_Chernov-Troshina.pdf
136
ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/01/27/thinkpad-as-server-followup/
134
17
Text-to-4D Dynamic Scene Generation
https://make-a-video3d.github.io/
110
AWS Purity Test
https://www.awspuritytest.com/
133
86
Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/kevin-mitnick-hacked-california-law-in-1983.html
131
90
The continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/
129
18
Evidence of Multicellularity in Single Cell Organism
https://research.gatech.edu/more-e-coli-meets-eye-bme-lab-discovers-evidence-multicellularity-single-cell-organism
127
28
Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11399
125
158
Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?
https://abouttolearn.substack.com/p/omega-3s-are-brain-boosting-effects
29
Remote work is the best thing to happen to families in decades
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/remote-work-is-the-best-thing-to
116
Last Sane Man on Wall Street
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/nathan-anderson-hindenburg-research-short-selling.html
113
The Hostile Forces of Beijing
https://scholars-stage.org/candlelight-vigils-and-hostile-forces/
33
Show HN: Syncing data to your customer’s Google Sheets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548663
99
118
First signs of spring have arrived in parts of south 3 weeks sooner than average
https://www.usanpn.org/news/spring
98
34
The Science of Sword-Swallowing (2007)
https://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2007/10/by-the-sword.html
96
102
Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program
https://pathfinder.intel.com
128
$6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022
https://spannr.com/reports/2022-longevity-funding
92
Deepfaked Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton by Metaphysic
https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepFakesSFW/comments/10meypl/deepfaked_tom_cruise_and_paris_hilton_what_do_you/
27
Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3
https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/shell-genie
85
121
Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus
https://www.matthewball.vc/all/why-vrar-gets-farther-away-as-it-comes-into-focus
Manatee county teachers close class libraries, fearing prosecution under FL law
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/01/23/fearing-prosecution-manatee-county-teachers-cover-up-classroom-books/69832276007/
Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle
https://weathermachine.io/
BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/media/buzzfeed-ai-content-creation/index.html
The ER has become a sanctuary for society’s unmet needs
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-er-has-become-a-sanctuary-for-societys-unmet-needs/
81
Godot 4.0 beta 16: Initial .NET 7 support
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-0-beta-16/
19
Show HN: ML paper podcast generator using GPT and Tortoise-TTS
https://scribepod.substack.com/p/scribepod-1
77
13
Why is Java so weird?
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-java-so-weird
76
52
Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-27/radioactive-capsule-lost-in-wa-emergency-public-health-warning/101901472
23
Tonight's rabbit hole: time math and 32 bit longs
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/01/26/shadow/
