957
992
Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/ask-wirecutter-dumb-tvs/
3 years ago
660
318
Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
https://github.blog/2023-04-06-building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/
546
457
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/7/chatgpt-lies/
510
289
Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165680024/perennial-rice-plant-once-harvest-again-and-again
503
211
Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub
https://codeberg.org/
407
273
Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/the-dumb-reason-twitter-wont-allow-retweeting-tweets-linking-to-substack/
390
277
60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically
https://www.vox.com/23055489/irs-automatic-filing-prepopulated-returns
389
315
U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-cables/
368
198
Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days
https://status.mycloud.com/os4
343
107
How does database sharding work?
https://planetscale.com/blog/how-does-database-sharding-work
324
182
Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-010
314
150
NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/
224
33
The machines of Tatjana van Vark
https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/artisan/tatjana-van-vark/
219
59
How to be consistent
https://csprimer.com/articles/consistency/
209
89
Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?
https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/
202
129
How to Stop Ruminating
https://www.sudarkoff.blog/p/how-to-stop-ruminating
200
32
How to Design Programs 2nd Edition
https://htdp.org/2023-3-6/Book/index.html
195
44
James Niehues Ski Map Artist
https://jamesniehues.com/
79
Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/07/medical-data-privacy-phreesia/
189
54
Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant
https://github.com/pgosar/ChatGDB
183
76
JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript
https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
176
14
Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries
https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL
172
SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch
https://spacenews.com/spacex-closing-in-on-first-starship-super-heavy-launch/
161
38
Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/messenger
155
131
Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2
98
Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9
https://estesrockets.com/spacex-falcon-9/
154
124
The longest straight line in Great Britain without crossing a public road
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/04/the-longest-straight-line-in-great.html
149
133
Flipper Zero banned by Amazon for being a ‘card skimming device’
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/flipper-zero-banned-by-amazon-for-being-a-card-skimming-device-/
147
66
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under
https://futurism.com/the-byte/stable-diffusion-stability-ai-risk-going-under
143
48
Haxe 4.3
https://haxe.org/download/
142
31
Big Ball of Mud (1999)
http://www.laputan.org/mud/
134
20
NSA created online cybersecurity course with 100s of classes
https://clark.center/c/nccp
132
106
Ampere Altra Dev Kit has launched 32, 64, 80 core arm64 processor
https://www.ipi.wiki/products/com-hpc-ampere-altra
128
47
Quantum Computing 101
https://academy.meetiqm.com/curriculum/index.html
126
184
Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9KV8uCtj4
8
DPReview Will Remain Available as an Archive After It Closes
https://petapixel.com/2023/04/07/dpreview-will-remain-available-as-an-archive-after-it-closes/
117
104
Neovim 0.9
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/040f1459849ab05b04f6bb1e77b3def16b4c2f2b
116
69
Ask HN: What's your best resource for keeping up-to-date on AI developments?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35479853
112
NYPD officers brag about milking overtime in accidental recording
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officers-brag-about-milking-overtime-call-detainees-names-in-accidental-recording
111
90
Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better
https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-how-the-dutch-did
65
Replacing bad systems with bad systems
https://seths.blog/2023/04/replacing-bad-systems-with-bad-systems/
109
Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35485552
97
12
Cerebras-GPT: Open Compute-Optimal Language Models Trained on Cerebras Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03208
96
60
In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/04/whats-going-on-with-volkswagens-software-division/
Bosses want hard workers, so they’re hiring older people
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-older-workers-work-harder-some-bosses-think-so-c4088c7d
95
Frequency comb breathalyzer detects Covid with excellent accuracy
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/04/jilas-frequency-comb-breathalyzer-detects-covid-19-excellent-accuracy
93
102
What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, gympie-gympie
https://www.iflscience.com/woman-explains-what-it-was-like-to-fall-into-the-worlds-most-dangerous-plant-68176
Avoidance Speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_speech
92
Will another Forbes 30 under 30 member be arrested for fraud before 2025?
https://manifold.markets/LarsDoucet/will-another-forbes-30-under-30-mem
115
A Case Study on the Uber Alumni Network
https://trailruncapital.substack.com/p/beyond-the-paypal-mafia-a-case-study
91
16
Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/07/tesla-intimate-car-camera-images-shared
24
Board game where tigers hunt goats while goats block their movements
https://github.com/sumn2u/baghchal
88
Under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/06/forbes-30-under-30-tech-finance-prison
67
Administrative Scripting with Julia
https://github.com/ninjaaron/administrative-scripting-with-julia
80
13
Twitter disables likes or comments on Substack?
https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1644306228913516545
15
Did I Uncover a $100M Mistake with the Millennium Tower “Fix”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezg8PxVSYA
Wing Commander IV
https://www.filfre.net/2023/04/wing-commander-iv/
78
22
Show HN: A minimal job board for signal processing engineers
https://signalprocessingjobs.com/
77
75
I’m staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644431125463351298
73
How the fuck did we get here? A small rant on the "modern" front-end
https://fagnerbrack.com/how-the-fuck-did-we-get-here-b9bac6ba7a0f
74
USA Cycling champion dies after being struck by car in San Francisco’s Presidio
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/usa-cycling-champion-dies-struck-driver-presidio-17883293.php
72
28
Elusive ‘Einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/science/mathematics-tiling-einstein.html
71
Alcohol recovery startups shared patients’ private data with advertisers
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/monument-tempest-alcohol-data-breach/
70
39
Frank Rosenblatt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rosenblatt
PatternFly: An open source design system
https://www.patternfly.org/
Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7
68
Show HN: Compress GPT-4 Prompts
https://www.promptreducer.com/
53
Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS
https://www.webase.com/
2
PostgreSQL Logical Replication Gotchas
https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-replication-gotchas.html
36
HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it (2015)
https://www.dursi.ca/post/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it