949
251
New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
https://keith-mcnulty.medium.com/heres-how-two-new-orleans-teenagers-found-a-new-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem-b4f6e7e9ea2d
3 years ago
572
1316
I wish GPT4 had never happened
https://chaudhry.notion.site/I-wish-GPT4-had-never-happened-9f0cbf2848a44ec9911c07fb34ff5de3
444
431
Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/violent-enough-to-stand-still
387
166
The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
https://www.routledge.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-The-Art-of-Automatic-Memory-Management/Jones-Hosking-Moss/p/book/9781032218038
308
138
A 1.5GB string
https://blog.backslasher.net/1.5GB-string.html
299
315
Why and how we retired Elm
https://kevinyank.com/posts/on-endings-why-how-we-retired-elm-at-culture-amp/
286
161
Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-ban-financial-lending-apps-from-accessing-user-photos-contacts
283
300
Electricity Prices by Country
https://www.electricrate.com/data-center/electricity-prices-by-country/
276
202
Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study too good to be true
https://inews.co.uk/news/do-judges-give-out-tougher-sentences-when-hungry-the-story-behind-a-study-too-good-to-be-true-2238347
199
Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors
270
85
GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot
https://minifree.org/
250
83
FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft
https://www.faa.gov/airport-design-challenge
244
116
Go port of SQLite without CGo
https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite
214
FCC warns Portland church to shut down pirate FM operating under its steeple
https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-warns-portland-church-to-shut-down-pirate-fm-operating-under-its-steeple/article_f89e2ebc-cf96-11ed-9c83-4b0d056dd422.html
211
101
To supercharge learning, look to play
https://nautil.us/to-supercharge-learning-look-to-play-292946/
200
68
0x0: Share Files from Terminal
https://0x0.st/
191
193
Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-installs-cameras-public-places-identify-penalise-unveiled-women-police-2023-04-08/
190
141
Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/Go121LinuxStaticToolchain
32
Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014)
http://maplant.com/gc.html
170
115
Tables no longer needed for HTML email
https://fullystacked.net/posts/modern-html-email/
158
53
Legs and knobs for IKEA and other furniture
https://www.prettypegs.com/
157
96
Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976221145316
150
148
Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1644635086715858944
147
Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness
https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle
76
Tidyverse 2.0.0
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/tidyverse-2-0-0/
144
79
The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/04/07/kimchi-onggi/
137
36
Pydantic V2 rewritten in Rust is 5-50x faster than Pydantic V1
https://docs.pydantic.dev/blog/pydantic-v2-alpha/
135
167
America is back in the factory business
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-manufacturing-factory-jobs-comeback-3ce0c52c
134
80
Show HN: BrowserBox – do stuff with browsers that you can't normally
https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBox
127
27
Reverse-engineering the division microcode in the Intel 8086 processor
https://www.righto.com/2023/04/reverse-engineering-8086-divide-microcode.html
126
51
Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots
https://www.askmarvin.ai/guide/concepts/tui/
122
12
Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific papers, or other documents
https://gitlab.com/mildlyparallel/trashcan
121
The Erosion of Free Will: Why Society's Loss of Belief in Freedom Is Dangerous
https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-erosion-of-free-will-why-societys
118
Custom Allocators in Rust
https://nical.github.io/posts/rust-custom-allocators.html
47
AI powered realtime fluid simulations are here
https://echoesofsomewhere.com/2023/04/06/ai-fluid-simulations/
114
15
Show HN: Learn Rust 101 – A guide to aid your journey of becoming a Rustacean
https://github.com/plabayo/learn-rust-101/blob/main/README.md
105
98
I regret using Ionic for app development
https://mhamri.com/why-i-regret-using-ionic-for-app-development-c8b21b88d83a
104
23
Show HN: Spotify streaming GDPR dump local analyzer
https://github.com/pldubouilh/spotify-gdpr-dump-analysis
103
57
Building a Database in the 2020s (2022)
https://me.0xffff.me/build-database-in-2020s.html
102
11
Deep learning library written in Futhark
https://github.com/HnimNart/deeplearning
100
24
Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01003
99
46
QSL Card
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSL_card
97
66
Ex-S.F. fire commissioner with fractured skull after metal pipe attack
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/marina-sf-crime-attack-fire-commissioner-17883532.php
93
54
MSI confirms cyberattack, warns against unofficial firmware
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/07/msi_cyberattack_bios/
92
31
Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby (1996)
https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/files/simhobby-local.htm
91
28
Porting the Slint UI Toolkit to a Microcontroller with 264K RAM
https://slint-ui.com/blog/porting-slint-to-microcontrollers.html
4
Poland overtakes US to have world’s 2nd largest lithium-ion battery capacity
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/04/06/poland-overtakes-us-to-have-worlds-second-largest-lithium-ion-battery-production-capacity/
87
Knit: Making a Better Make
https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/3-knit-better-make/
Making IELM (Emacs Lisp REPL) More Comfortable
https://www.n16f.net/blog/making-ielm-more-comfortable/
82
5
A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-Side (Part 10): Benchmarking
https://blog.peterzhu.ca/ruby-c-ext-part-10/
19
PyDPainter 1.0.5 – Amiga Deluxe Paint Clone Written in Python
https://www.pygame.org/project/5157/8204
75
59
Effects of Licorice on the Cardiovascular System (2019)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836258/
13
PEP 684 was accepted – Per-interpreter GIL in Python 3.12
https://twitter.com/ericsnowcrntly/status/1644439953214959629
73
25
Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959
71
10
Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-alleged-privacy-intrusion-2023-04-08/
Weber–Fechner Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/105IDODri5Qbi3Mj-SGHFUwkfEzt4pAXA4qsprHRzdmo/edit#gid=0
70
65
When Slide Rules Ruled (2006) [pdf]
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/2006/stoll2006a.pdf
77
Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1644348267981930498
67
7
Ways to Put Lasers on Silicon
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lasers-on-silicon
Cash App founder Bob Lee had left San Francisco over crime
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/bob-lee-stabbing-san-francisco-b2315141.html
63
Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496107
Twitter Has Stopped Working in NetNewsWire
https://nnw.ranchero.com/2023/04/07/twitter-has-stopped.html
So you want to play with Wi-Fi? It’s dangerous to make frames alone. Take this
https://www.cybersecurity.blog.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/so-you-want-to-play-with-wi-fi/