1142
640
Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic
3 years ago
612
127
Show HN: AskHN
https://www.patterns.app/blog/2023/02/19/ask-hn-gpt-embeddings-question-answering/
434
307
LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/02/11/how-your-leds-are-killing-you/
422
456
Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/22/apple-secures-tsmc-3nm-chips/
408
71
Show HN: We’re open-sourcing our session replay tool
https://github.com/highlight/highlight
396
309
AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amd-eyes-supercomputer-efficiency-gains
392
244
Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
https://poste.io/
388
318
Google stopping coding competitions
https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/02/celebrate-googles-coding-competitions.html
364
121
Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project
https://www.diegovera.org/projects
275
Supreme Court rejects man’s bid to sue police over arrest for Facebook parody
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-ohio-mans-bid-sue-police-arrest-facebook-parody-rcna70435
310
192
Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/apple-watch-blood-glucose-monitor-could-revolutionize-diabetes-care-aapl
77
Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
https://fly.io/blog/gossip-glomers/
58
A keypad to control my desk setup
https://github.com/davidz-yt/desk-controller
257
111
NLRB rules that employers can't require laid-off staff to waive labor law rights
https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-that-employers-may-not-offer-severance-agreements-requiring
242
290
Eggspensive
https://eggspensive.net/
234
97
Multiple Sclerosis discovery could end disease's chronic inflammation
https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2023/02/15/multiple-sclerosis-discovery-chronic-inflammation/
282
Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs, after CEO predicted no more layoffs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/22/meta-layoffs/
229
219
Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/aviation/2023/02/20/after-alaska-airlines-planes-bump-runway-a-scramble-to-pull-the-plug/
225
155
Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ball of iron, new study finds
https://www.archyde.com/earths-innermost-layer-is-a-644-kilometer-wide-ball-of-iron-new-study-finds/
224
92
Launch HN: Depot (YC W23) – Fast Docker Builds in the Cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898253
214
78
The unreasonable effectiveness of conditional probabilities
https://two-wrongs.com/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-conditional-probabilities.html
212
76
Show HN: Graph-based AI for longform writing
https://jotte.ai/
204
163
Is artificial light poisoning the planet?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/darkness-manifesto-book-johan-eklof
193
247
Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular
https://twitter.com/Rovio/status/1627956351002443778/photo/1
186
172
Record-Breaking Egg Profits Prompt Accusation of Price Gouging
https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/record-breaking-egg-profits-prompt-accusation-of-price-gouging/
386
Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
https://media.mbusa.com/releases/software-architects-mercedes-benz-previews-its-operating-system-mbos
185
67
Implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts with just their minds
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-implant-lets-those-with-severe-paralysis-send-texts-and-use-the-internet-with-just-their-minds/
183
45
Monitoring my weather at home
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2023/02/19/weather-station/
180
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
35
Motion Canvas – Visualize complex ideas programmatically
https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas
174
59
Experts discover how zebra stripes work to thwart horsefly attacks
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-experts-zebra-stripes-thwart-horsefly.html
173
140
Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp
171
261
Time to get the Posix elephant off our necks?
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3570921
169
31
Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell
https://www.cole-k.com/2023/02/21/tiny-games-hs/
168
34
Italian prosecutors probe Meta for '870Ms EUR tax evasion'
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/business/2023/02/22/milan-prosecutors-probe-meta-for-870-mn-tax-evasion_4093668e-23d4-4841-81c8-cdf4eb91fdf9.html
161
126
The dystopian underworld of South Africa’s illegal gold mines
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines
160
120
C++ Coroutines
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2023/cpp-coro-part-1-yield-return-prime-sieve.html
156
96
Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/webb-telescope-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies-shouldnt-exist
118
Mexico's former public security head convicted by U.S. of taking cartel bribes
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158587253/mexico-genaro-garcia-luna-convicted-drug-cartel-bribes
153
130
1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to work, and 53% want remote positions
https://www.paychex.com/articles/human-resources/retirees-rejoining-the-workforce
147
Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889624
144
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Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate’s fetus is being illegally detained
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/22/pregnant-woman-fetus-jail-roe/
143
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/21/seattle-caste-discrimination-ban/
141
162
The usability of advanced type systems: Rust as a case study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02308
137
50
Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
https://eli.lipsitz.net/posts/internet-connected-pinball/
132
60
Tell HN: Oops Upwork did it again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34904478
128
47
Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction
https://www.ft.com/content/9e04ff7d-f56a-4d5f-a4fa-849336abf659
14
Rust-sitter: Define your entire tree-sitter grammar in Rust code
https://github.com/hydro-project/rust-sitter
123
85
The inner life of the octopus (2022)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-do-octopuses-feel-pain
119
178
Amazon has approval from FTC to acquire One Medical primary-care clinics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-wont-block-amazon-purchase-of-one-medical-network-of-health-clinics-c635495e
279
Most young men are single. Most young women are not
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-young-men-are-single-most-young-women-are-not/
117
Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after purchase of One Medical
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/one-medical-joins-amazon-to-make-it-easier-for-people-to-get-and-stay-healthier
115
Amazon employees express dismay, anger about sudden return-to-office policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-express-dismay-about-sudden-return-to-office-policy.html
114
What's Postgres got to do with AI?
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/whats-postgres-got-to-do-with-ai
159
Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34899976
112
7
Employers can't force you to keep quiet to get severance, labor board decides
https://www.businessinsider.com/nlrb-rules-that-employers-cant-stifle-speech-for-severance-2023-2
What I did not learn about writing in school
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-did-not-learn-about-writing-in-school/
110
The US Supreme Court doesn’t understand the internet
https://www.wired.com/story/the-supreme-court-section-230-the-internet/
107
26
AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll
https://mattrighetti.com/2023/02/22/asciidoc-liquid-and-jekyll.html
106
104
Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea
https://www.science.org/content/article/dark-energy-supermassive-black-holes-physicists-spar-over-radical-idea
103
84
Passwordless authentication with FIDO2–beyond just the web
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/923656/b15e2aa9b44ac718/
102
39
The Importance of Probability in Data Science
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2023/02/importance-probability-data-science.html
100
AI Is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else
https://mebassett.info/ai-useful-for-capitalist
21
GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/godaddy-says-a-multi-year-breach-hijacked-customer-websites-and-accounts/
99
124
US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/us-housing-market-posts-2-3-trillion-drop-biggest-since-2008
286
A Lost Hiker’s SOS Signal Sparked a Wildfire. Now He Must Pay $300k
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/a-hiker-started-a-wildfire-trying-to-signal-for-help-now-he-owes-the-government-300000/
Custom Embeddings: Why going viral caused us to rip out everything in a weekend
https://www.buildt.ai/blog/viral-ripout
Should GPT Exist?
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7042
95
Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day
https://encord.com/blog/we-employed-chatgpt-as-an-ml-engineer-this-is-what-we-learned/
13
Turning a Typewriter into a Linux Terminal
https://habr.com/en/post/692488/
94
43
Tumblr iOS revenue increased 125% since launching parody of paid verification
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/tumblr-ios-revenue-increased-125-since-launching-its-parody-of-paid-verification/
29
Loxilb: eBPF based cloud-native service load-balancer
https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilb
'The Problem Index' – Which Countries Have the Worst Demographics
https://stenoresearch.com/watch-series/introducing-the-problem-index-which-countries-have-the-worst-demographics/
91
12
Show HN: Graphic – A grammar of data visualization and Flutter charting library
https://github.com/entronad/graphic
27
Show HN: Vector icons, but for viral memes
https://www.streamlinehq.com/elements/memes
88
41
Arizona’s top prosecutor concealed records debunking election fraud claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/arizona-election-fraud-claims-mark-brnovich/
Gmail spam is out of control
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897427
87
Ambient: Multiplayer-first game engine, powered by Rust, WebAssembly and WebGPU
https://www.ambient.run/post/introducing-ambient
64
There are no (absolute) red flags in venture capital
https://blog.aaronkharris.com/there-are-no-absolute-red-flags-in-venture-capital
86
46
What the Higgs boson tells us about the universe
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/what-the-higgs-boson-tells-us-about-the-universe
Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me
https://www.engadget.com/apple-is-convinced-my-dog-is-stalking-me-143100932.html
19
Investigating cognitive neuroscience theories of human intelligence (2022)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.26164
83
Soylent Acquired by Starco Brands
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/soylent-acquired-starco-brands-nutrition/
81
90
Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)
https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-03-02-fastbook/
80
8
Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor
http://www.righto.com/2023/02/8086-interrupt.html
36
Towards quantum computers that are robust to errors
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04532-4
93
Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/ubuntu-flavors-no-flatpak
79
Jimmy Carter: Unlucky President, Lucky Man
https://fallows.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter-unlucky-president-lucky
73
56
Coin Operated Capitalism (2019)
https://columbialawreview.org/content/coin-operated-capitalism/
How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-engineer-buildings-that-withstand-earthquakes/
AI Companion Users Are in Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3py9j/ai-companion-replika-erotic-roleplay-updates
70
89
De-Extinction? Surely You’re Joking
https://cell.substack.com/p/extinction
24
The Reaction Economy
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n05/william-davies/the-reaction-economy
