827
469
Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
https://twitter.com/JymFox/status/1665799627377975300
3 years ago
783
318
Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9
561
262
uBlock Origin 1.50.0
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.50.0
551
295
Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind
https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13zr8h2/reddits_recently_announced_api_changes_and_the/
463
246
Tell HN: "I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/reviews/?score=1&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser
430
267
Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success
https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/06/06/royal-navy-says-quantum-navigation-test-a-success/
403
554
Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-06-07/SEC-granted-emergency-restraining-order-to-freeze-repatriate-Binance-US-assets.html
369
213
Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/expensive-air-quality-monitors-not-more-accurate/
354
368
Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP
https://twitter.com/isaacmarovitz/status/1666209780031971341
327
168
Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/how-to-install-ios-17-and-macos-14-developer-betas-now-that-anyone-can-do-it/
300
147
DirectX 12 Support on macOS
https://twitter.com/andytizer/status/1666131239575728130
293
303
Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/
290
89
Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook
https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation
277
462
10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/10_years_after_snowden/
265
112
Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225520
261
315
Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G16§or=ne
252
152
Microsoft has no shame: Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search with a fake AI answer
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23736289/microsoft-bing-chrome-search-fake-ai-chatbot
30
A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
244
138
The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)
https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html
237
100
“Fractureiser” malware in popular Minecraft mods and modpacks
https://prismlauncher.org/news/cf-compromised-alert/
226
115
Air Purifier vs. Positive Pressure Fresh Air System – An Unfair Battle?
https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/air-purifier-vs-positive-pressure-fresh-air-system-an-unfair-battle/
96
“csinc”, the AArch64 instruction you didn’t know you wanted
https://danlark.org/2023/06/06/csinc-the-arm-instruction-you-didnt-know-you-wanted/
217
45
DeepFilterNet: Noise supression using deep filtering
https://github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilterNet
211
330
Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (2017)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/the-amount-of-work-that-once-bought-an-hour-of-light-now-buys-51-years-of-it/
210
66
NL national security law to grant automatic permission for targeted surveillance
https://aboutintel.eu/nl-government-wants-to-abandon-key-safeguards-for-hacking-of-non-targets/
180
The entire finance industry will repeat this quote for a thousand years
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1665759607153893381
179
166
I'm afraid I can't do that: Prompt refusal in generative language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03423
174
76
Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals
https://www.val.town/pricing
167
72
Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227470
219
Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503050993279759
165
87
Mergeable libraries [video]
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10268
162
58
Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat
https://github.com/openchatai/OpenChat
99
Open Source Business Challenges and Reality
https://gist.github.com/lleyton/9c0b75d065f37333ea9851b6cad1d1e6
161
Ohio cryptic lineage update
https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444603829407746
159
Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/
157
36
C++ Implementation of StableDiffusion
https://github.com/axodox/axodox-machinelearning
156
59
Apple Safari 17 beta release notes: JPEG XL support added
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-17-release-notes
155
83
Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
https://blog.randombits.host/monitoring-self-hosted-services/
224
Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/is-ai-killing-the-stock-industry-a-data-perspective/
Kami home camera app suddenly started displaying ads in the app
https://forum.yitechnology.com/t/ads-in-kami-home-yi-home-is-this-true/13127
130
Farewell American Computer Magazines
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/farewell-american-computer-magazines/
129
Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard
https://mcoliver.substack.com/p/quick-vpn-setup-with-aws-lightsail
128
164
Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (2008)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn/
125
107
Cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C
https://thephd.dev/cuneicode-and-the-future-of-text-in-c
235
Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children
119
Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data
https://blog.getdaft.io/p/introducing-daft-a-high-performance
113
24
Show HN: Ezno, a TypeScript checker written in Rust, is now open source
https://github.com/kaleidawave/ezno/discussions/21
136
Math has changed the shape of gerrymandering
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-math-has-changed-the-shape-of-gerrymandering-20230601/
79
FF4J – Feature Flags for Java
https://ff4j.github.io/
108
140
Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225583
91
‘Attractive women 16% more likely to secure startup funding’
https://www.ft.com/content/bff62e63-6a77-433e-b51f-3c7ce188c684
102
212
How many sensors for autonomous driving?
https://semiengineering.com/how-many-sensors-for-autonomous-driving/
46
Scientists Guide Lightning Bolts with Lasers for the First Time
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-guide-lightning-bolts-with-lasers-for-the-first-time-180981462/
95
6
CodeTF: One-Stop Transformer Library for State-of-the-Art Code LLM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00029
94
74
Rust module system encourages bad practices
https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/rust_module_system_encourages_bad_practices
14
Hydroflow: Dataflow Runtime in Rust
https://github.com/hydro-project/hydroflow
44
Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/service-rents-email-addresses-for-account-signups/
86
29
CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht Is Out
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html
84
22
Using Redundant Conditions to Unlock Indexes in MySQL
https://planetscale.com/blog/redundant-and-approximate-conditions
193
Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year
https://singularityhub.com/2023/06/07/global-solar-power-investment-will-top-1-billion-per-day-this-year/
82
110
Show HN: I built an AI language teacher to get you speaking
https://gliglish.com/
80
154
A new CEO says employees can’t work remotely after all, and they revolt
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-ceo-says-employees-cant-work-remotely-after-all-and-they-revolt-81135399
67
101
"The French Connection" censored and re-edited for "modern sensitivities"
https://twitter.com/TheFIREorg/status/1666457570171666432
51
Antarctica gained 600 Gt of ice during '09-'19 vs. a prediction of a 20k Gt loss
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/2059/2023/
Motorbike crashes: highside and lowside crashes explained
https://www.driverknowledgetests.com/resources/motorbike-crashes-highside-and-lowside-crashes-explained/