1163
422
Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441918
3 years ago
1066
118
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
https://floor796.com/#t4r0,512,512
561
262
Effective Spaced Repetition
https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition
560
319
Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source
https://decodebytes.substack.com/p/night-of-the-living-brain-fog-dead
503
145
RePalm
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
492
214
The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/recycling-renewables/the-biggest-ev-battery-recycling-plant-in-the-us-is-open-for-business
466
I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
https://davidmuller.github.io/posts/2023/04/10/how-i-fixed-a-parasitic-drain-in-408-days.html
428
200
Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
https://szopa.medium.com/teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-invented-language-9d109c0a0f05
399
210
FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls
https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1645217786698903559
391
252
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
383
64
Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html
358
274
How To Get Started In Soldering
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a43400768/how-to-get-started-in-soldering/
298
497
Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco
https://www.wired.com/story/dashcam-footage-shows-driverless-cars-cruise-waymo-clogging-san-francisco/
277
154
We Need To Talk About Vercel
https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/we-need-to-talk-about-vercel
276
75
Hell Never Ends on x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of
https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1311259-hell-never-ends-on-x
258
98
OpenBSD 7.3
https://www.openbsd.org/73.html
256
559
American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-iq-scores-decline-reverse-flynn-effect/
100
Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages
https://github.com/RafalWilinski/telegram-chatgpt-concierge-bot
237
67
Supabase Logs: open-source logging server
https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-logs-self-hosted
24
EditAnything: Segment Anything + ControlNet + BLIP2 + Stable Diffusion
https://github.com/sail-sg/EditAnything
205
231
Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study
https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-shutting-down-nuclear-power-could-increase-air-pollution-0410
195
42
Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/aperiodic-tilings/
49
Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
https://www.bengreenberg.dev/posts/2023-04-09-github-profile-dynamic-content/
192
84
Dancing Plague of 1518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
184
61
Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512338
85
A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites
https://grep.help/
181
77
Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
https://vigneshwarar.substack.com/p/hackernews-ranking-algorithm-how
176
349
Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-10/apple-s-40-plunge-leads-pc-shipments-down-as-tech-demand-sags
175
112
If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/09/f-you-pay-me/
53
Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa
http://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=09.ComplexPioMachines
169
198
Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019)
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2019/9/24/notes-from-a-sun-tzu-skeptic
168
125
Garum Masala
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/20/garum-masala-indian-ocean-trade-in-antiquity-cobb/
164
70
What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year
https://jakob.space/blog/what-ive-learned-about-formal-methods.html
158
28
The Kissimmee River has been brought back to life, and wildlife is thriving
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/kissimmee-biggest-river-restoration-ever-completed
Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
https://blog.brakmic.com/keycloak-with-postgresql-on-kubernetes/
157
190
Emergent abilities of large language models
https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence
155
65
Hit Man: A technical manual for independent contractors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man:_A_Technical_Manual_for_Independent_Contractors
148
16
Zoomable, animated scatterplots in the browser that scales over a billion points
https://github.com/nomic-ai/deepscatter
13
Aura – Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scale (2022)
https://github.com/SourceCode-AI/aura
83
Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB
https://samthor.au/2023/aws-amplify-is-a-grift/
143
Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/black-holes-prove-the-universe-keeps-exploding-claims-physicist/
135
300
Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
https://macleans.ca/society/what-is-xylazine-the-dangerous-new-drug-fuelling-canadas-opioid-crisis/
131
111
Study reveals robotaxis causing surprisingly little disruption on streets
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/04/10/transit-study-reveals-robotaxis-causing-surprisingly-little-disruption-on-streets/
126
17
Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags
https://bytes.zone/posts/modeling-git-internals-in-alloy-part-2-commits-and-tags/
202
My diatribe against “skeptics” (2016)
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/my-controversial-diatribe-against-skeptics
122
86
P < 0.05 Considered Harmful
https://simplicityissota.substack.com/p/p-005-considered-harmful
121
Previously unknown isotope of uranium discovered
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-previously-unknown-isotope-uranium.html
117
149
Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
https://denyslinkov.medium.com/why-is-gpt-3-15-77x-more-expensive-for-certain-languages-2b19a4adc4bc
116
38
We’re one step closer to reading an octopus’s mind
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/in-a-first-researchers-track-brain-activity-in-a-free-moving-octopus/
94
Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/259584/why-dont-we-define-imaginary-numbers-for-every-impossibility
115
36
DyLoRA: Parameter Efficient Tuning of Pre-Trained Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07558
114
10
Stanford benchmarks and compares numerous Large Language Models
https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core_scenarios
71
static_assert is all you need (no leaks, no UB)
https://twitter.com/krisjusiak/status/1645360641538945025
95
In Praise of Top Down Programming
https://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/3864-in-praise-of-top-down-.html
93
Up (Film Series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)
90
New study sheds light on how amino acids “evolved”
https://www.salon.com/2023/03/01/first-life-on-earth-amino-acid-study/
76
George Harrison and the Struggle for Creative Freedom
https://soaringtwenties.substack.com/p/george-harrison-and-the-struggle
22
Rust Foundation restricts usage of word “Rust” and logos
https://twitter.com/rust_foundation/status/1644132378858729474
80
Size Matters: An Exploration of Virtual Memory on iOS (2022)
https://alwaysprocessing.blog/2022/02/20/size-matters
19
Are We <Thing> Yet?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
79
39
Everybody is the main character
https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/everybody-is-the-main-character/
45
The emotional roller coaster of changing requirements
https://newsletter.abinoda.com/p/changing-requirements