736
208
DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd
3 years ago
724
283
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
https://www.alpharail.co.nz/why-do-railway-tracks-have-crushed-stones-alongside-them/
704
128
Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/
624
239
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue
455
314
High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students
https://torrentfreak.com/high-prices-make-textbook-piracy-acceptable-to-most-students-230604/
435
356
WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4909/wfh-watched-home-office-365-and-workplace-surveillance-creep
402
172
Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices
https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/
336
71
Blink 1.0
https://github.com/jart/blink/releases/tag/1.0.0
320
124
Apple Virtualization Framework
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
308
218
It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jun/4/closed-model-training/
284
111
Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/04/lung-cancer-pill-cuts-risk-of-death-by-half-says-thrilling-study
279
234
Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”
https://www.fry-ai.com/p/social-media-no-humans-allowed
274
32
Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/meta-is-trying-and-failing-to-crush-unions-in-kenya
225
55
Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/
194
116
Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts
https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe/110436657882930430
184
119
World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
182
47
Traffic cop sues city for get-out-of-jail-free cards for NYPD friends and family
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/nypd-lawsuit-courtesy-cards-traffic-tickets
181
A new line drawing method for the cycle savvy
http://www.quiss.org/boo/
180
224
Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
163
145
GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2023/03/31/private-ish-github-repos/
162
27
A push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller
161
164
Do we need copyright? (2012)
https://lemire.me/blog/2012/03/22/do-we-need-copyright/
155
167
It could cost $21B to clean up California’s oil sites, study finds
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
154
Pentagon contracting Starlink to provide satellite communications for Ukraine
https://defensescoop.com/2023/06/01/pentagon-contracting-with-spacexs-starlink-to-provide-satellite-communication-capabilities-for-ukraine/
150
87
Live dashboard of carbon dioxide removal purchases
https://www.cdr.fyi/
144
35
OpenAI is getting sued for being biased with Y Combinator
https://twitter.com/short_straw/status/1655352280202313734
141
A not-so-quick introduction to the C++ allocator model
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/06/02/not-so-quick-pmr/
149
At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1939160/at-last-the-raspberry-pi-shortage-is-finally-coming-to-an-end.html
138
20
Wonky – An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules
https://pudding.cool/2023/06/groove/
212
Child Labor Is on the Rise
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is-on-the-rise
137
83
.ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf]
https://www.afnic.fr/wp-media/uploads/2023/05/ga-domain-names-soon-to-return-to-Gabonese-management-1.pdf
132
Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics
https://erikdestefanis.substack.com/p/iceland-the-emerging-tech-ecosystem
126
42
Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit
https://hbr.org/2016/01/trick-yourself-into-breaking-a-bad-habit
123
57
Llama.cpp can do 40 tok/s on M2 Max, 0% CPU usage, using all 38 GPU cores
https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1665402680376987648
114
19
Where the Wood-Wide Web Went Wrong
https://undark.org/2023/05/25/where-the-wood-wide-web-narrative-went-wrong/
109
49
Crun: Fast and lightweight OCI runtime and C library for running containers
https://github.com/containers/crun
XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs
https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1665292410232995842
108
158
Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2012) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
101
A birder's quest to see 10k species
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/peter-kaestner-birder/
97
16
Blood test for 50 types of cancer could speed up diagnosis, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study
96
89
Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy
https://www.sambowman.co/p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-vetocracy
15
Redream: Realtime Diffusion, Using Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion API
https://github.com/Fictiverse/Redream
90
69
Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people struggling to cope
https://vietnam.postsen.com/local/352866/Continuous-power-outage-people-struggling-to-cope-with-the-heat.html
63
The culture map: How to navigate foreign cultures in business
https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html
88
AMD’s RX 7600: Small RDNA 3 Appears
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/06/04/amds-rx-7600-small-rdna-3-appears/
33
In Praise of the Park Bench
https://lithub.com/a-place-of-both-solitude-and-belonging-in-praise-of-the-park-bench/
17
The AI firm that conducted ‘state surveillance’ of your social media posts
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/03/logically-ai-firm-social-media-posts-covid/
86
Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15614
84
28
A shocking number of birds are in trouble
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/a-shocking-number-of-birds-are-in-trouble/
Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire portfolios
https://cointelegraph.com/news/atomic-wallet-exploited-users-report-loss-of-entire-portfolios
82
12
D-Day Psyop (2014)
https://psywarrior.com/DDAYPSYOP.html
81
7
eBPF for Cybersecurity – Part 1
https://blog.cloudnativefolks.org/ebpf-for-cybersecurity-part-1
78
77
Java 21: No more public static void main
https://twitter.com/fireship_dev/status/1665414702942363654
76
The end of the Silicon Valley dream
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-silicon-valley-dream/
46
Geohot/Tinycorp gives up on AMD
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198
75
GNU poke: an extensible editor for structured binary data
http://www.jemarch.net/poke
74
37
Rsh: Ruby SHell
https://github.com/isene/rsh
72
Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/counter-disinformation-unit-government-covid-lockdown/
Warner Discovery CEO made $498M in the last 5 years– 384x the average writer
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/top-hollywood-exec-made-498-million-in-5-years-while-writer-pay-fell.html