1901
1795
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232
2 years ago
1099
368
Datomic is Free
https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/datomic-is-free.html
930
713
Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit
823
239
As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/664502/using-clothesline-steel-core-wire-rope-for-ac-and-dc
704
471
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
https://brave.com/search-independence/
619
193
Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/colorado-governor-signs-tractor-right-to-repair-law-opposed-by-john-deere/
459
Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/27/apple-employees-siri-struggles/
416
241
Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Integrations/Why-So-Much-Telemetry/td-p/455961/page/3
410
54
A visual book recommender
https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2023-04-12/visual-book-recommender/
394
391
Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/a-message-from-drew
332
217
Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
https://monadical.com/posts/shades-of-rust-gui-library-list.html
312
163
ChatGPT for Hardware Design
https://docs.flux.ai/tutorials/ai-for-hardware-design
347
On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/en
289
173
Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY#73mBtVKKfeJGJ1yaY7hV
285
144
The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
https://twitter.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1650871570137600000
263
82
FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update
https://blog.flipperzero.one/1-month-battery-life-with-firmware-update/
183
US Supreme Court Justices get lavish gifts; Raise bar for bribery prosecutions
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/04/26/u-s-supreme-court-justices-take-lavish-gifts-then-raise-the-bar-for-bribery-prosecutions/
235
66
Forbes mocked as another '30 Under 30' honoree accused of fraud
https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/forbes-mocked-as-another-30-under-30-honoree-accused-of-fraud-incredible-track-record/
219
Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe Rust
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/27/microsoft_windows_rust/
68
NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-power-hack-extends-voyager-2-mission-science-1850378890
213
165
European DSA Recipients of Services Report
https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/dsa/mt/
199
57
Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/
194
41
California Court of Appeal finds geofence warrant unconstitutional
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/first-us-appellate-court-decide-finds-geofence-warrant-unconstitutional
191
102
Hotspot performance engineering fails
https://lemire.me/blog/2023/04/27/hotspot-performance-engineering-fails/
185
227
Brazil judge orders temporary suspension of Telegram
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-telegram-suspension-social-media-school-violence-d72acaacd3c1b4d07c2c4fcb094f4ce6
35
New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches, Up to 10~15% Better Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPS-Threshold-Linux-Tune
182
61
Quicssh: SSH over QUIC
https://github.com/moul/quicssh
178
21
XTDB 2.x Early Access
https://www.xtdb.com/v2
167
19
GCC 13 Released
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html
162
168
The Disappointment of 5G
https://circleid.com/posts/20230127-the-disappointment-of-5g
161
88
The Canoe Commuters of the CIA (2019)
https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/declassified-cias-canoe-pool
159
The future of programming: Research at CHI 2023
https://austinhenley.com/blog/futureofprogramming2023.html
155
108
Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US
https://electrek.co/2023/04/27/wind-and-solar-are-now-beating-coal-in-the-us/
153
55
The Italian farmers saving an ancient fruit with solar power
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-how-agrivoltaics-helped-save-italys-citron-and-lemon-trees
151
45
Learn C and build your own Lisp (2014)
https://buildyourownlisp.com/contents
148
20
Listening to Satellites: A Journey with My RTL-SDR V3
https://moh53n.medium.com/listening-to-satellites-a-journey-with-my-rtl-sdr-v3-5ba719bc68a5
141
24
Current architectural best practices for LLM applications
https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for-llms/
136
101
Lyft to cut 1,072 employees, or 26% of its workforce
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/lyft-layoffs-company-to-cut-1072-employees-or-26percent-of-its-workforce.html
134
70
New nanoparticles can perform gene editing in the lungs
https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-nanoparticles-can-perform-gene-editing-lungs-0330
71
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software
https://www.filfre.net/2023/04/the-next-generation-in-graphics-part-1-three-dimensions-in-software-or-quake-and-its-discontents/
123
Why gravity is not like the other forces
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-gravity-is-not-like-the-other-forces-20200615/
132
95
Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released
https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-11-and-cbuilder-11-community-editions-released/
131
116
Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees
https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/
130
97
Pinecone raises $100M Series B
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series-b/
87
Samsung Profits Plunge 95%
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/tech/south-korea-samsung-q1-profits-plunge-intl-hnk/index.html
200
Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mxkj/inside-the-chaotic-world-of-kids-trying-to-play-video-games-on-school-laptops
114
52
Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer (2021)
https://monadical.com/posts/cobol.html
107
The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/27/1072102/the-future-of-generative-ai-is-niche-not-generalized/
104
47
Why Oatmeal Is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation [pdf]
https://knivesandpaintbrushes.org/projects/why-oatmeal-is-cheap/why_oatmeal_is_cheap_fdg2023.pdf
32
Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/04/of-sun-ray-laptops-mips-and-getting.html
99
121
GNU Pascal (2005)
https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html
18
High-res image reconstruction, latent diffusion models from human brain activity
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v3
93
Lithuanian university locks out students again for not using proprietary 2FA
https://gitlab.digilol.net/Siren/vgtu-article/-/blob/4a34721d392b856f26956a9e185e4d8c5371d27d/vgtu.md
91
44
BlueHat IL 2023: Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE
110
Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/oral-sex-throat-cancer-uk-us-b2327921.html
