657
99
The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished
https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230420_byodb_done/
3 years ago
597
1035
iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
https://www.techradar.com/news/ios-17-app-sideloading-might-only-be-available-in-europe
547
117
Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills
https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/
480
215
Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study
https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/
431
519
Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-21/alphabet-ceo-s-pay-soars-to-226-million-on-massive-stock-award
358
214
Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
https://mitchellh.com/writing/prompt-engineering-vs-blind-prompting
341
503
There is no A.I.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
332
333
Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/housing-should-be-affordable-except-when-i-sell-my-house-for-a-million-dollars
302
143
Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-brains-connections-to-the-body-are-crisscrossed-20230419/
262
160
The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
233
106
Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees: new research
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-moths-efficient-pollinators-bees.html
229
134
The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dc-dc-voltage-conversion
223
70
Finetuning Large Language Models
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/finetuning-large-language-models
212
97
Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (2020)
https://github.com/Effective-Immediately/effective-immediately
207
141
The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam
https://win-vector.com/2023/04/22/the-sell-as-scam/
199
196
Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665168
120
Telegram Web Apps for Bots
https://core.telegram.org/bots/webapps
195
80
Google Mars (2005)
https://www.google.com/mars/
194
56
Saturn's Interior After the Cassini Grand Finale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09215
433
Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/methane-warm-earth-atmosphere-radiation
192
331
How much can Duolingo teach us?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/how-much-can-duolingo-teach-us
184
273
Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs
https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/europe-vegan-food-sales-meat-products/
177
System D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D
176
74
Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM
https://www.anvilsecure.com/blog/compromising-garmins-sport-watches-a-deep-dive-into-garminos-and-its-monkeyc-virtual-machine.html
170
51
Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-solar-farms-generate-fresh-soil.html
162
78
How did the chess pieces get their names?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names
158
380
Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-crypto-exchange-coinbase-secures-bermuda-licence-2023-04-20/
155
88
Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.html
149
Ask HN: Why is TSMC so competitive in semiconductor fabrication?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665076
87
When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty
https://entomologytoday.org/2020/03/19/when-a-mosquito-cant-stop-drinking-blood-the-result-isnt-pretty/
140
163
Schools bought millions of Chromebooks and 3 years later they’re breaking down
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn
136
115
The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-209-the-sudan-crisis-and
11
Mathematician uncovers way to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mathematician-uncovers-methods-sampling-errors.html
135
92
More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered
https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-just-mind-boggling-more-19-000-undersea-volcanoes-discovered
121
Amazon investigates after high-value orders were switched for cheaper products
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-65310418
119
67
Explosions are great, actually
https://1517.substack.com/p/explosions-are-great-actually
48
Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9
110
81
I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
https://apitman.com/18/#html-redirects
107
145
The loophole that made cars in America so big
https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-loophole-that-made-cars-in-america
104
54
Indigo: A game engine for functional programmers, in Scala
https://indigoengine.io/
101
150
Apple will launch a journaling app
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/apple-plans-mental-health-focused-journaling-app-for-ios-17/
Negative Mass
https://students.tools/negative/?6=9
19
Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly
https://ariadne.space/2023/04/13/writing-portable-arm64-assembly/
95
15
WebAssembly Text Code Samples
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/webassembly-text-code-samples/
94
Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/magic3d/
93
89
Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/chromebooks-arent-built-to-last-average-device-has-4-years-of-updates-left/
98
Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive
https://theamericanscholar.org/phantoms/
103
JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
https://corecursive.com/json-vs-xml-douglas-crockford/
85
23
Email yourself from a Google Sheet
https://blog.bettersheets.co/simply-email-yourself-from-a-google-sheet/
20
XINF
https://xinf.dev/
77
ReceptioGate and the (Absolute) State of Academia
https://thecritic.co.uk/receptiogate-and-the-absolute-state-of-academia/
75
Singapore plans to execute man over 1kg of cannabis
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/04/22/2003798402
73
12
Google does not sell your data. It's worse
https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/does-google-sell-your-data
72
47
Maintain consistent styles for developers working across various editors
https://editorconfig.org/
The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16
https://www.corsix.org/content/converting-fp32-to-fp16