699
113
A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
https://www.stefanjudis.com/a-firefox-only-minimap/
2 years ago
633
525
LazyVim
https://www.lazyvim.org/
508
317
Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/
472
212
You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email
https://twitter.com/JakeMooreUK/status/1680962682726363136
445
437
Never waste a midlife crisis
https://austinkleon.com/2023/07/10/never-waste-a-midlife-crisis/
381
130
Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/
346
730
The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X
https://twitter.com/scienceisstrat1/status/1680959906969444352
165
How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)
https://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/
330
182
Coroutines for Go
https://research.swtch.com/coro
324
93
The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
https://wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation/110708950540815886
266
451
The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
https://www.vox.com/23712664/parking-lots-urban-planning-cities-housing
258
133
The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality
https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html
247
562
A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
https://news.umich.edu/a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-foil-car-thieves/
233
177
Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/Recent_research
222
49
Notes on Puzzles
https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/notes-on-puzzles
214
61
My broken ThinkPad plays music upon booting
https://nerology.substack.com/p/my-broken-thinkpad-plays-music-upon
208
178
Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram
https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/
204
226
What's wrong with enterprise Linux
https://unix.foo/posts/enterprise-linux/
190
141
What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/what-att-and-verizon-knew-about-toxic-lead-cables/a288b7d4-28f3-470e-b6c4-72341c97b3a0
189
151
Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases
https://nautil.us/loss-of-smell-may-be-an-early-sign-of-brain-diseases-354483/
187
91
Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live is a beautiful relic – and the end of an era
https://www.theverge.com/23797349/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki
243
Strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=454a20c8756c9c1d55419153255fc7692b3d2199
176
106
Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj
166
139
The Nano ESP32
https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/07/17/introducing-the-nano-esp32-thats-iot/
157
219
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36764829
68
“Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0
146
83
Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
https://katacontainers.io/
143
Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36754366
142
60
The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-power-technique-a-strategic-approach-to-self-discipline-11bc6724d6
138
31
Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app
https://www.deepakg.com/bringing-19th-century-ornamental-tile-illustrations-into-a-21st-century-web-app
137
Copy is all you need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06962
135
Are large language models a threat to digital public goods?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07367
126
98
Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/wixs-new-tool-can-create-entire-websites-from-prompts/
123
234
WHO aspartame brouhaha
https://dynomight.net/aspartame-brouhaha/
116
21
Harry Frankfurt has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/books/harry-g-frankfurt-dead.html
112
71
Crystal 1.9.1
https://crystal-lang.org/2023/07/17/1.9.1-released/
102
194
Couples with joint checking accounts are happier
https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jcr/ucad020/7077142
78
Moodle: Open-Source LMS
https://moodle.org/
101
44
Launch HN: Grai (YC S22) – Open-Source Data Observability Platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758122
100
238
Ask HN: Why does Firefox have such a low market share anyways?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759162
42
Crosswords and chess may help more than socializing in avoiding dementia
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-crosswords-chess-socializing-dementia.html
82
Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/finland-phone-mobile-free-island-b2361499.html
95
105
Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage
https://newatlas.com/electronics/computer-memory-resistive-switching-denser-data-storage/
Booking.com halts payments to hosts over IT technical maintenance
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/17/bookingcom-halts-payments-hosts-technical-maintenance
94
79
Backyard Metalcasting (2018)
https://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/
30
Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (2016)
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/arrivals-designers-crafted-mesmerizing-alien-alphabet/
84
72
Show HN: Peeng – like Pingdom, but the other way around and simpler
https://www.peeng.sh
The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1727-h/1727-h.htm
50
A.I. (1981)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/12/14/a-i
AI watches millions of cars and tells cops if you’re driving like a criminal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/07/17/license-plate-reader-ai-criminal/
18
FlashAttention-2, 2x faster than FlashAttention
https://twitter.com/tri_dao/status/1680987580228308992
77
74
You can't stop the business, or why rewrites fail
https://swizec.com/blog/you-can-t-stop-the-business-or-why-rewrites-fail/
A technical look at ZeroNet
https://znano.eu.org/blog/posts/a-very-technical-look-at-zeronet
121
Tokyo Is the New Paris
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/tokyo-is-the-new-paris
