573
180
Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940871
2 years ago
565
633
LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-11?post=94266395#post-94266395
558
335
Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/07/pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock/
490
446
NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/nasa_mistakenly_disconnects_voyager_2/
447
240
How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?
https://genai.stackexchange.com/questions/177/how-to-get-chatgpt-to-stop-apologizing
442
175
The BBC on Mastodon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
413
188
Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix
https://conduit.rs/
407
776
Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/31/marijuana-addiction-legal-recreational-sales/
371
Free Public WiFi
https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html
367
211
Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/06/help-the-library-of-congress-create-video-games-that-improve-public-knowledge-of-civics/
361
513
A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
https://mstdn.social/@Pandamoanimum/110808340828034444
327
58
Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
https://app.markwhen.com
299
140
Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/17/how-a-small-free-ip-tool-survived/
280
88
Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager
https://linkwarden.app
277
67
Shamir Secret Sharing
https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing
265
357
First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-nuclear-reactor-vogtle-9555e3f9169f2d58161056feaa81a425
255
“BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages
https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games
253
83
Fantasy meets reality
https://cabel.com/2023/07/30/fantasy-meets-reality/
251
131
So, you want to deploy on the edge?
https://zknill.io/posts/edge-database/
250
173
Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941480
245
133
CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/privacy/what-is-warrant-canary/
243
124
The Screwed-O-Meter (2013)
https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/som/
223
230
Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity
https://stackdiary.com/meta-forced-to-reveal-anonymous-facebook-users-identity/
216
221
SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
https://www.ft.com/content/1f873dd5-df8f-4cfc-bb21-ef83ed11fb4d
194
Paperlike Color: Color E-Ink Monitor
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-color-world-first-color-e-ink-monitor/coming_soon
79
The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-Prolific-Packager
209
129
Free and open source software projects are in transition
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/the-floss-transition/
202
56
USearch: Smaller and faster single-file vector search engine
https://unum-cloud.github.io/usearch/
197
130
Mac Mouse Fix
https://mousefix.org/
193
Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/amazon-modifies-ad-revenue-impressions-share-policy-international-fire-tv-apps
182
28
Epicycle Clock
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/?revised
181
Investors are happy to pay premium for tech, but not for AI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/investors-are-happy-to-pay-premium-for-tech-but-not-for-ai
178
145
My journey away from the JAMstack
https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/
92
Predictive Debugging: A Game-Changing Look into the Future
https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/07/27/introducing-predictive-debugging-a-game-changing-look-into-the-future/
176
51
Building Nikola Tesla's Bladeless Turbine [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuzh9mHvzkk
168
63
Chunking 2M files a day for code search using syntax trees
https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/chunking-2m-files
118
SEC Charges Hex Founder Richard Heart with Misappropriating Millions of Dollars
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-143
45
Digging into the odd history of Blade Runner’s title (2017)
https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/why-is-blade-runner-the-title-of-blade-runner.html
167
59
Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
https://varun.ch/history
166
80
Happy 30th FreeBSD: Why FreeBSD open source project has endured
https://aster.cloud/2023/06/16/happy-30th-freebsd-why-the-freebsd-open-source-project-has-endured/
161
23
The Fibonacci Matrix
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/fibonacci/
158
The fall of Stack Overflow, explained?
https://newsletter.devmoh.co/p/the-fall-of-stack-overflow-explained
157
103
Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
https://www.learnlingo.dev
37
An open-source, free circuit simulator
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/30/an-open-source-free-circuit-simulator/
155
185
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/aws_says_ipv4_addresses_cost/
149
40
Paul Reubens has died
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/
147
49
Cards as Weapons (1977)
https://archive.org/details/Cards_as_Weapons_-_Ricky_Jay_1977
142
7
Compilation of Known LK-99 Replication Attempt Claims
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-15
Which vector database should I use? A comparison cheatsheet
https://navidre.medium.com/which-vector-database-should-i-use-a-comparison-cheatsheet-cb330e55fca
127
60
Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944388
125
169
x86 is dead, long live x86
https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20230731-x86-is-dead-long-live-x86/
123
108
Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?
https://matklad.github.io/2023/04/09/can-you-trust-a-compiler-to-optimize-your-code.html
121
20
Curl Command Line Variables
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/07/31/introducing-curl-command-line-variables/
113
21
Show HN: This Girl Next Door Does Not Exist (NSFW)
https://thisgirlnextdoordoesnotexist.net/mindy/
112
135
99-year old trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30k out of work
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/business/yellow-corp-closing/index.html
110
Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)
https://sive.rs/d22
16
Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2023/07/31/occluding-contours-part-1.html
66
Space junk: India says object found in Australia is theirs
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66359381
106
22
OpenTTD 13.4 Released
https://www.openttd.org/news/2023/07/29/openttd-13-4
102
Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by undersupply of seedlings
https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/plans-plant-billions-trees-threatened-massive-undersupply-seedlings
100
150
BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel
https://thedriven.io/2023/06/23/bhp-says-battery-electric-cheaper-than-hydrogen-as-it-dumps-diesel-for-haul-trucks/
30
The Cables That Run the Internet
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/
99
65
Add PayPal to your Stripe integration
https://hyperswitch.io/blog/add-paypal-to-your-stripe-integration
96
75
The future of the web is VNC
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/the-future-of-the-web-is-vnc/
94
151
The New York Times attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger all around us
https://electrek.co/2023/07/30/the-new-york-times-attacks-e-bikes-while-ignoring-car-danger/
93
81
Airlines are a lot like central banks (2020)
https://abroaden.substack.com/p/the-strange-way-airlines-are-actually
91
17
Two supermoons in August
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-supermoons-august-stargazing-fun.html
Open Letter To Nature Medicine – Call to retract "Proximal Origin" paper
https://biosafetynow.org/open-letter-to-nature-medicine/
Show HN: A Notion-like platform for building interactive models
https://www.decipad.com/
8
Randomness in CSS using trigonometry
https://hypersphere.blog/blog/randomness-in-css-using-trigonometry/
87
HATEOAS: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/
86
LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease (2020)
https://www.alanshawn.com/latex3-tutorial/
12
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull
https://justinjaffray.com/query-engines-push-vs.-pull/
26
Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html
Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development
https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2023/07/researchers-create-open-source-platform-for-neural-radiance-field-development/
55
AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02403-0
78
Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition
https://e360.yale.edu/features/menominee-forest-management-logging
77
Retrogram rtl-SDR – a radio spectrum analyzer for your terminal
https://github.com/r4d10n/retrogram-rtlsdr
9
Ar5iv: Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/
72
52
Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)
https://newatlas.com/transport/fortescue-wae-infinity-train-electric/
34
Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN
https://eighty-twenty.org/2023/07/31/dns-as-a-cdn
69
4
Quick thoughts on research
https://michaelnotebook.com/qtr/index.html
44
The inescapable rise of moral superiority
https://thewalrus.ca/the-inescapable-rise-of-moral-superiority/
Flashdown: A terminal based Flashcard app using plain text files
https://github.com/SteveRidout/flashdown
68
32
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-kentucky-cave-wars-reshaped-the-states-tourism-industry-180982585/
Investors are happy to pay premium for tech, but not for AI