1215
774
A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments
a year ago
673
261
Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj
665
257
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/08/pixar-adobe-apple-autodesk-and-nvidia-form-alliance-for-openusd/
613
255
Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16802
593
285
Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism
https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686286684424691712
504
205
Nim 2.0
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2023/08/01/nim-v20-released.html
479
533
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956867
476
290
Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037
1183
Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-drug-decriminalization-results-overdoses/674733/
436
163
Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC
https://www.inferse.com/660551/hardware-hacker-mods-an-m1-mac-mini-to-receive-power-over-ethernet-instead-of-the-ac-input/
397
203
Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
357
217
The worst API ever made (2014)
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0025
332
195
Splitting the Web
https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html
326
208
Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups
https://iamvishnu.com/posts/randsom-signup
320
274
Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02444-5
307
173
Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect
https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1686498517227814912
305
283
Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2320
295
250
Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-votes-to-let-people-whove-used-marijuana-work-at-intelligence-agencies-like-cia-and-nsa-as-part-of-defense-bill/
284
190
Emacs is my new window manager
https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
248
49
Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
https://magicloops.dev
246
103
Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36957204
245
127
IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware
https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS
236
51
Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques
https://www.nullpt.rs/evading-anti-debugging-techniques
230
94
Transform your Android device into a Linux desktop
https://mrs-t.medium.com/transform-your-android-device-into-a-linux-desktop-110a3d084ac6
227
160
Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
https://gpus.llm-utils.org/nvidia-h100-gpus-supply-and-demand/
220
90
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-ancient-materials-0731
219
391
Uber posts first quarterly net profit
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-q2-earnings-report-2023-453c335a
212
71
Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/04/11/pengrun/
211
24
Show HN: PromptTools – open-source tools for evaluating LLMs and vector DBs
https://github.com/hegelai/prompttools
201
527
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956865
183
City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/News_and_notes
181
99
“Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web
https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/9-web-environment-integrity/
172
53
YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6eNmtHFQk
59
How pencils are made in a Japanese factory [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_57TP6RFk
47
Git files hidden in plain sight
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2023/07/31/git-files-hidden-in-plain-sight/
161
43
Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library
https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
158
174
Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su
146
70
Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/slowness-essence-knowledge
143
221
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-this-ai-moment-may-be-the-real-deal
139
78
Sunak’s family firm signed deal with BP before opening new North Sea licences
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/
137
39
eGPU: A 750 MHz Class Soft GPGPU for FPGA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08378
133
Help I accidently enabled HSTS on localhost
https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2023/07/help-i-accidently-enabled-hstson.html
131
Damaging results of mandated return to the office: it’s worse than we thought
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-finding-damaging-results-mandated-095555463.html
128
63
Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes
https://www.seriouseats.com/studio-ghibli-anime-best-food-scenes
Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958516
126
32
First-principles study on the electronic structure of Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O (x=0, 1)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16040
125
27
Pixel Pump: Open-source vacuum pickup tool
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/01/pixel-pump-the-open-source-vacuum-pickup-tool-is-now-shipping/
14
Permission.site (2016)
https://permission.site/
116
Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2021-09-10-browsing-the-web-from-eu/
114
First release of jq in 5 years
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7rc1
108
104
Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdRestartHidesProblems
106
18
Opus Databending Drumkit
https://suricrasia.online/opus-databending-drumkit/
26
Oxocards: Interactive programmable minicomputers
https://oxocard.ch/en/
101
119
Fitch Downgrades the US Rating to 'AA+'
https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-united-states-long-term-ratings-to-aa-from-aaa-outlook-stable-01-08-2023
98
16
Who and What Is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/who-and-what-is-behind-the-malware-proxy-service-socksescort/
91
57
Researchers have come up with a new way to store electricity in cement
https://www.science.org/content/article/electrified-cement-could-turn-houses-and-roads-nearly-limitless-batteries
65
No telemetry in the Rust compiler: metrics without betraying user privacy
https://estebank.github.io/rustc-metrics.html
A Nordic revolt against 'ugly' modern architecture
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-01/a-scandinavian-uprising-against-modern-architecture
86
25
Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time
https://webrecorder.net/
85
15
Toward Condensers
https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/notes/03-toward-condensers
84
68
Can you simply brainwash an LLM?
https://gradientdefense.com/blog/can-you-simply-brainwash-an-llm
Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
https://www.localcan.com/
81
The Canopener Bridge
https://11foot8.com/
80
Alfred-40B, an OSS RLHF version of Falcon40B
https://www.lighton.ai/blog/lighton-s-blog-4/introducing-alfred-40b-0723-38
102
Philosophy of Science 101: What is the problem of induction?
https://www.thecollector.com/problem-of-induction-philosophy-of-science/
56
A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (1992)
https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving
