1166
332
Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
https://www.boringreport.org/
3 years ago
941
571
When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1655925905527537666
924
389
100K Context Windows
https://www.anthropic.com/index/100k-context-windows
600
264
Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
https://badar.tech/2023/04/30/electronics-lab-bench-setup-guide/
549
516
Go with PHP
https://gowithphp.com/
460
544
YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail
https://news.yahoo.com/youtuber-staged-plane-crash-faces-205718964.html
455
124
Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/create-immersive-3d-map-experiences-photorealistic-3d-tiles
454
367
Fuck being productive
https://dostoynikov.bearblog.dev/fuck-being-productive/
408
86
Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/scientists-regenerate-hair-cells-enable-hearing
378
351
Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
365
204
Windows 11 in Svelte
https://github.com/yashash-pugalia/win11-svelte
304
180
Pharo 11
https://pharo.org/news/pharo11-released.html
296
Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html
292
237
Bcachefs – A New COW Filesystem
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/#mf171fd06ffa420fe1bcf0f49a2b44a361ca6ac44
278
297
IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX
https://unchainedcrypto.com/irs-files-44-billion-claims-against-bankrupt-ftx/
273
512
Pixel Tablet
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_tablet?hl=en-US
268
135
BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
https://www.barebones.com/store/
267
231
Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/11/fairbuds-xl-review-noise-cancelling-headphones-fix-yourself-bluetooth
265
162
Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/930705/4bbe9c26d7884277/
254
98
Problems harder than NP-Complete
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/problems-harder-than-np-complete/
245
54
Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2023/05/10/synthstrom-deluge-goes-open-source/
234
226
The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ugly-truth-behind-we-buy-ugly-houses
227
220
Ask HN: Resources for older developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902086
221
121
Show HN: Moderator Mayhem, a game about the difficulties of content moderation
https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/
219
347
Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906604
212
82
Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core
205
193
One Day You'll Find Yourself
https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com
139
Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nf7s6933tnn8
195
Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2018/03/pytz-fastest-footgun.html
192
210
Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65557469
187
117
Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)
https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/place-mushrooms-in-sunlight-to-get-your-vitamin-d
173
238
The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
https://fly.io/blog/js-ecosystem-delightfully-wierd/
171
10
Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-workers-wont-get-annual-pay-bump-despite-18-3-billion-in-profit-in-past-3-months/1100-6513990/
TP–7 Field Recorder
https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7
158
53
Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding
https://eev.ee/blog/2021/01/26/gamedev-from-scratch-1-scaffolding/
157
32
Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
https://tailscale.com/blog/session-recording-beta/
155
143
SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss
https://www.ft.com/content/1dd470c2-be80-4887-83cc-87be93100a12
151
64
Baseline: a unified view of stable web features
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/baseline-unified-view-stable-web-features/
141
30
Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced
https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui
140
33
The Xerox PARC Archive
https://info.computerhistory.org/xerox-parc-archive
232
Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/resilient-drug-supply/drug-shortages-have-worsened-and-may-only-increase-future-experts-say
113
Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution
https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
138
44
Understanding the power of bitwise operators
https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/understanding-the-power-of-bitwise
336
Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-are-scooping-up-big-techs-cast-off-workers-981f7d35
126
6
Microsoft's CEO Says No Raises for Full-Time Employees This Year
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-no-raises-full-time-ceo-satya-nadella-1850424823
125
186
NIH restarts bat virus grant
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-restarts-bat-virus-grant-suspended-3-years-ago-trump
119
18
The Backbone: A History of the Internet
https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/
112
25
The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2017/03/viterbi-algorithm-50/
110
70
The Two Cultures (1959) [pdf]
https://apps.weber.edu/wsuimages/michaelwutz/6510.Trio/Rede-lecture-2-cultures.pdf
109
108
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)
https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
104
83
Sorry Purism, I’m not investing. It’s (possibly) not even legal
https://gabrielsieben.tech/2023/05/10/sorry-purism-im-not-investing-its-not-even-legal/
99
Show HN: Hacker News with Tags
https://histre.com/hn/
97
23
GitHub push protection is free for all public repositories
https://github.blog/2023-05-09-push-protection-is-generally-available-and-free-for-all-public-repositories/
96
235
Against longtermism (2021)
https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
94
41
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/11/bh_asia_mobile_phones/
93
37
Airbnb CEO: CEOs calling workers back to the office 'going away to the Hamptons’
https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-brian-chesky-ceos-mandating-return-to-office-going-hamptons-2023-5
Degreeless.Design: A curated resource list to kickstart your design education
https://www.degreeless.design
91
49
Forgetful Browsing
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/25-forgetful-browsing/
38
Hobson’s choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice
New Directions in Cloud Programming (2021) [pdf]
https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper16.pdf
85
73
Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078
84
36
The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (2014)
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
81
39
An IBM computer learned to sing in 1961
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-an-ibm-computer-learned-to-sing
80
35
Free42 – An HP-42S Calculator Simulator
https://thomasokken.com/free42/
Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/11/muharrem-ince-turkish-presidential-candidate-withdraws-alleged-sex-tape
78
63
Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419012/
A transformer-based method for zero and few-shot biomedical NER
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04928