708
352
“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
2 years ago
529
426
Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-10/apple-aapl-avoids-tech-layoffs-because-it-didn-t-overhire-like-google-amazon
505
205
Wi Flag (2002)
https://asheron.fandom.com/wiki/Wi_Flag
500
227
Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace
https://frame.work/blog/now-offering-2tb-ssds-for-steam-deck-in-the-framework
499
161
My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder
https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/
461
552
Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743772
432
182
QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
https://chollinger.com/blog/2023/01/qgis-is-the-mapping-software-you-didnt-know-you-needed/
400
799
US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-shoots-down-unknown-flying-object-175f9078d1df36e392b2956ba771001e
384
415
I changed my mind about nuclear waste
https://zionlights.substack.com/p/everything-i-believed-about-waste-was-wrong
366
162
Jupyterlab Desktop
https://blog.jupyter.org/introducing-the-new-jupyterlab-desktop-bca1982bdb23?gi=8d071739f6eb
332
193
Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/09/yahoo-will-lay-off-20-of-staff-or-1600-people/
324
235
Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3575693.3575710
323
67
Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
https://www.spaghettify.dev/
311
284
Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/02/10/reddit-confirms-it-was-hacked-recommends-users-set-up-2fa/
306
173
David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set
https://twitter.com/davidguetta/status/1621605376733872129
286
21
Aurora
https://www.drawaurora.com/
278
39
A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs
https://vlcn.io/blog/gentle-intro-to-crdts.html
261
218
The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-2023
335
Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746161
257
200
Money Laundering and AML Compliance
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/money-laundering-and-aml-compliance/
249
385
Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
https://nathenry.com/writing/2023-02-07-seattle-walkability.html
246
How a heat pump works
https://hvac-learning.com/courses/heat-pumps-part-1/
215
82
Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
https://mrscraper.com
213
98
How a Zig IDE Could Work
https://matklad.github.io/2023/02/10/how-a-zig-ide-could-work.html
209
Why big tech companies need so many people
https://thebuilderjr.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-companies-need-so-many
203
293
Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust (2022)
https://www.risingwave-labs.com/blog/building-a-cloud-database-from-scratch-why-we-moved-from-cpp-to-rust/
201
187
Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34739033
198
92
Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models
https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad
69
Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-search-6-0-0/
188
53
Reverse engineering an e-ink display
https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/22-23/reverse_engineering_epaper/
50
Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/five-tips-for-a-healthier-postgres-database-in-the-new-year
180
Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/decorated-with-4000-skeletons-this-roman-church-will-have-you-pondering-your-own-mortality-180981573/
175
70
A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me
https://cyberscoop.com/irs-facial-recognition-identity-privacy/
103
DuckDB – An in-process SQL OLAP database management system
https://duckdb.org/
158
37
Understanding and coding the self-attention mechanism of large language models
https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/self-attention-from-scratch.html
155
18
Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
152
Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour-hershs-pipe
147
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/30/opinion_eu_foss_security/
179
Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744348
146
45
A new way to build with Large Language Models
https://blog.fixie.ai/introducing-fixie-ai-a-new-way-to-build-with-large-language-models-d4e1aeee6b81
134
The XML spec is 25 years old today
https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
127
57
Dual Coincidence is likely the most complex electromechanical game
https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/dual-coincidence-five-way-pinball-electromechanical-game/
126
63
Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/
120
52
Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design
https://www.usegalileo.ai/
116
6
GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA
https://torrentfreak.com/github-and-eff-back-youtube-ripper-in-legal-battle-with-the-riaa-230210/
111
124
Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/game-changers/
Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020)
https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/
110
46
The best way to launch your startup [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36A-YTxiOw
How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-files-taxes-wash-sales-goldman-sachs
66
Flurly has been shut down by Stripe
https://flurly.com/blog/flurly-stripe-shutdown
102
Ask HN: Are people considering moving off of Fly.io?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946
99
High-Energy Lasers
https://www.raytheonintelligenceandspace.com/what-we-do/advanced-tech/lasers
96
Rust: A Unique Perspective (2019)
https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2019/02/07/rust-a-unique-perspective.html
90
49
Why backlogs are useless, why they never shrink, and what to do instead
https://lucasfcosta.com/2023/02/07/backlogs-are-useless.html
Show HN: Enc – A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG
https://github.com/life4/enc
85
14
Show HN: Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software
https://akawashiro.github.io/jendeley/
83
144
Why is there so much useless and unreliable software?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34737084
81
27
Why TLS is better without STARTTLS (2021)
https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/
80
Windows 11 is collecting more user data than you know
https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-user-data/
79
25
Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions
https://medarc.notion.site/Real-Time-Brain-to-Image-Reconstructions-e1116f115715456a96bb053a304b6292
78
35
The Inference Cost of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-inference-cost-of-search-disruption
