608
688
If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/
a year ago
432
120
Functions are vectors
https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/
374
541
Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-critical-theory-is-radicalizing
338
430
IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)
https://koshka.love/babel/irc-forever.html
337
201
Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
https://www.science.org/content/article/spectacular-superconductor-claim-making-news-here-s-why-experts-are-doubtful
328
122
So you want to build your own open source chatbot
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/
310
87
U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf]
https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/MCRP%203-40.3C%20With%20Erratum%20z.pdf
300
80
What happened to Vivaldi Social?
https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/
296
277
Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/big-tobacco-knew-radioactive-particles-in-cigarettes
265
100
LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler
https://lpython.org/blog/2023/07/lpython-novel-fast-retargetable-python-compiler/
248
51
Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/
236
161
Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/
224
US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf]
https://armyoe.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/1990-fm-22-100.pdf
222
96
Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/
220
157
Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models
https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf
211
147
The papers were not ready for publication
https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1684385895565365248
195
105
Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919175
188
104
Cyberdecks (2013)
https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/Cyberdecks.html
179
Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis
https://philbooth.me/blog/four-ways-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-with-redis
178
82
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger
https://techreport.com/news/google-tries-to-defend-its-web-environment-integrity-as-critics-slam-it-as-dangerous/
176
73
Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub
https://benhoyt.com/writings/gogit/
174
55
The Hacker's Dictionary
http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/index.html
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation
https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-github-and-more-unite-to-defend-open-source-in-eu-ai-legislation/
170
295
Plans develop for high-speed rail in the PNW
https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/07/18/plans-develop-for-high-speed-rail-in-the-pnw/
167
101
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ndaa-lobbying-privacy-loophole/
121
Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-discover-limits-of-major-research-algorithm-20210817/
155
172
The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on
https://www.iflscience.com/the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-has-been-switched-on-70047
154
54
Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/29/skull-games-surveillance-sex-workers/
151
117
1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230729/p2a/00m/0et/006000c
150
291
How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?
https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/how-fast-should-you-accelerate-your
142
38
IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? (2014)
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-blue-lightning-worlds-fastest-386/comment-page-1/
140
285
Alcohol without the hangover – scientists are finding ways
https://www.wsj.com/articles/synthetic-alcohol-no-hangover-511fc418
134
42
F# RISC-V Instruction Set formal specification
https://github.com/mrLSD/riscv-fs
46
Using C++ as a scripting language, part 8
https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/using-c-as-a-scripting-language-part-8-d366fd98676
131
Button Pushes You (2022)
https://despens.systems/2022/06/button-pushes-you/
129
168
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/
114
75
Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/07/red-algae-proteins-grafted-tobacco-double-plant-growth
99
233
The Psychotherapy Myth
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-psychotherapy-myth
10
The Transformer Blueprint
https://deeprevision.github.io/posts/001-transformer/
97
24
St Francis of Assisi
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n15/mary-wellesley/at-the-national-gallery
94
71
Google Employee Accuses WEI-Opponents of Being “Criminals”
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/0doc7unxAQAJ
93
Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force communications – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/29/pentagon-us-air-force-critical-compromise
90
32
Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively
https://last9.io/blog/native-support-for-opentelemetry-metrics-in-prometheus/
86
Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent
84
9
Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI
https://together.ai/blog/llama-2-7b-32k
HuggingFace Text Generation License No Longer Open-Source
https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/issues/726
14
Blue iceberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_iceberg
79
Water Temperatures Hit ‘Hot Tub’ Levels in the Florida Keys
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/water-temperatures-hit-hot-tub-levels-in-the-florida-keys-180982610/
77
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-profits-drop-by-95-percent-3351038/
89
US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/29/julian-assange-us-rejects-australias-calls-to-free-wikileaks-founder-during-ausmin-talks
13
Oops Google Did It Again
https://dombytes.com/post/oops-google-did-it-again/
69
47
Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic
https://buttondown.email/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-an-ending/
