685
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Maps distort how we see the world
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/maps-distort-how-we-see-the-world
2 years ago
549
231
Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-dev-mode/
417
142
Cookie Clicker saved my PhD
https://advaitsarkar.wordpress.com/2021/12/17/how-my-online-gaming-addiction-saved-my-phd/
388
206
GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1671272883379908608
385
495
Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/developer-tools-to-create-spatial-experiences-for-apple-vision-pro-now-available/
378
247
FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-deceptive-prime-sign-up-and-cancellation-process.html
370
97
A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
https://www.noulakaz.net/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/
357
322
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability
https://lwn.net/Articles/935592/
342
214
Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421483
337
225
Go 1.21 Release Candidate
https://go.dev/blog/go1.21rc
328
181
Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-swiss-fruit-company-change-logo-3336622/
312
164
Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
https://www.engadget.com/apples-union-busting-practices-violated-employee-rights-at-nyc-store-judge-rules-115036323.html
304
209
Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google
https://post.news/@/noam/2RTRvTNNxSCQb3yNjqa0DPfr1Yk
Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces
https://yotam.net/posts/linux-namespaces-are-a-poor-mans-plan9-namespaces/
299
134
Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says
https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-duped-millions-consumers-into-enrolling-prime-ftc-2023-06-21/
292
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Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef
291
512
Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-deepfakes-disinformation-psychology/
274
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Did I receive fraudulent DMCA takedowns?
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-fake-takedowns.html
257
84
Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619
256
106
Textbooks are all you need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
240
Ego and Math [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7GVHB2wiyg
239
371
A case for toe socks
https://herman.bearblog.dev/a-case-for-toe-socks/
223
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Handles are the better pointers (2018)
https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
204
137
Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform
https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1670796482188910592
203
46
What every programmer should know about memory (2007) [pdf]
https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
199
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Free Organ
https://www.organclearinghouse.com/organs-for-sale#/3141-austin-san-francisco
198
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How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch
https://furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com/p/how-my-children-n2-acquired-absolute
196
34
AI Workbooks – A notebook interface for LLMs, image and audio models
https://lastmileai.dev/workbooks/clj2y933l000mr0avd2ck42s9
165
NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux
https://sam.gov/opp/2e0365ce1e3c4c179b50fb15573d68e4/view
192
Moog sells its business to InMusic
https://ra.co/news/79174
189
364
Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin
https://thebaffler.com/latest/brains-on-drugs-semley
184
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Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
179
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Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)
https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html
178
53
Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730
174
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Google IS selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?
https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1671603045640151041
171
163
Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware
https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/130205
170
76
Over 100k ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/over-100000-chatgpt-account-credentials-made-available-on-the-dark-web
167
144
Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/exhibit-k-microsoft-activision
32
How RLHF Works
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/how-rlhf-works
59
JetBrains Noria
https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2023/02/fleet-below-deck-part-vi-ui-with-noria/
160
141
Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)
https://moretothat.com/money/
159
68
Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/top-mental-health-and-prayer-apps-fail-spectacularly-at-privacy-security/
155
44
Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction
https://tedunderwood.com/2023/03/19/using-gpt-4-to-measure-the-passage-of-time-in-fiction/
147
Some were meant for C [pdf] (2017)
https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf
130
Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories
https://www.kodytools.com/units
What to do if your house is overflowing with books
https://lithub.com/what-to-do-if-your-house-is-overflowing-with-books/
The Almost Romance Languages
https://dannybate.com/2022/11/21/the-almost-romance-languages/
131
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I won't pay on your website
https://github.com/juspay/hyperswitch/wiki/Why-I-won%27t-pay-on-your-website
129
22
The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
https://nautil.us/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic-235253/
128
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Ruby Hacking Guide (2004)
https://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io
123
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Company to pay fine after hiring fake priest to extract confessions of workers
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/business/california-restaurant-fake-priest-fine/index.html
122
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Diaphora: an open-source program diffing IDA plugin
https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora
118
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MyNOR – The yet minor computer. No CPU, no ALU, one NOR-gate is enough
http://www.mynor.org/
117
Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf]
https://www.mclibre.org/descargar/docs/libros/ooc-ats.pdf
114
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Magvit: Masked Generative Video Transformer
https://magvit.cs.cmu.edu/
113
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Platinum Photography
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-platinum-photography-edition
111
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System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps
https://www.systeminit.com/blog-second-wave-devops/
108
The real lesson of The Truman Show
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/06/the-truman-show-25-years-later/674456/
105
Research papers on ML in Compilers
https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers
The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend
https://gwern.net/tank
103
23
Reading Log for Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming
https://yongjie.codes/reading-logs/effective-c/
60
The History of Coffee (2015)
https://www.ncausa.org/about-coffee/history-of-coffee
100
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Africa’s Richest City Is Crumbling Under Chaos and Corruption
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-16/south-africa-s-crime-chaos-and-corruption-make-it-look-like-a-failed-state
86
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation with GOP Billionaire
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
99
24
Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/scientists-conduct-first-test-of-a-wireless-cosmic-ray-navigation-system/
69
Tree-Ring Watermark: Invisible Robust Fingerprints of Diffusion Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20030
96
57
Show HN: Image Upscaler AI
https://imageupscalerai.com/
94
72
Agile is people, the rest is commentary
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/agile-is-people-the-rest-is-commentary/
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (1943)
https://www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote.html
Typography 2024: For America’s Best
https://practicaltypography.com/typography-2024.html
91
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US approves chicken made from cultivated cells
https://apnews.com/article/cultivated-meat-lab-grown-cell-based-a88ab8e0241712b501aa191cdbf6b39a
90
67
Running Postgres as a Unikernel
https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-postgres-as-a-unikernel
63
Show HN: Kysely, a type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript
https://kysely.dev/
3
A few scanning tips
https://www.scantips.com/
87
The art of refurbing old computers
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/21/pc_officina_positive_trashware/
Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/
1
Leaking secrets through caching with Bunny CDN
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/bunny-cdn-caching-vulnerability/
83
80
The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767094/fcc-investigation-internet-data-caps-net-neutrality
82
Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426
81
115
Ask HN: Refusing all cookies, still targeted by ads. How?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417699
65
How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-i-installed-truenas-on-my-new-asustor-nas
18
Blue Ocean Strategy
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/blue-ocean-strategy
30
Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest
https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-goes-nuclear-removes-moderators-of-subreddits-that-continued-to
77
10
Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/dependency-hell.md
7
50% on HumanEval with just 1.3B model
https://twitter.com/sytelus/status/1671333552204693504
11
Tom MacWright's Projects
https://macwright.com/projects/
75
Microsoft rewrote Q# compiler in Rust
https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp
74
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An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers
https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/06/21/an-app-can-transform-smartphones-into-thermometers-that-accurately-detect-fevers/
73
If you can’t tell a story about it, it isn’t real
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/06/15/if-you-cant-tell-a-story-about-it-it-isnt-real/
19
Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action
https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight-lite
