4310
428
Bram Moolenaar has died
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4
a year ago
610
247
Just normal web things
https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/
481
101
NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause
455
227
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-attack-steals-data-from-keystrokes-with-95-percent-accuracy/
419
559
Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1687535525169930241
418
156
nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990
https://www.funet.fi/
348
207
Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?
https://twitter.com/andercot/status/1687740396691185664
288
51
MK-1
https://mkone.ai/blog/introducing-mk1
276
23
IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM-and-NASA-Open-Source-Largest-Geospatial-AI-Foundation-Model-on-Hugging-Face?sf180690117=1
269
9
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/05/1632219/vims-creator-bram-moolenaar-dies-at-age-62
251
228
Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/110837319716739179
249
326
CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2023/08/05/ceos-pay-climbed-before-layoffs-at-tech-giants-like-alphabet-and-microsoft-data-shows/
239
232
AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI
https://hbr.org/2023/08/ai-wont-replace-humans-but-humans-with-ai-will-replace-humans-without-ai
231
105
Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)
http://www.righto.com/2013/09/intel-x86-documentation-has-more-pages.html
225
Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/04/will-browsers-be-required-by-law-to-stop-you-from-visiting-infringing-sites/
212
215
They didn’t ask to go viral
https://www.wired.com/story/social-media-privacy-consent/
211
69
Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source
https://jesseduffield.com/Lazygit-5-Years-On/
208
70
Try the last internet Kermit server
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10555-try-the-last-internet-kermit-server
204
39
“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer
https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/behold-a-digitization-of-the-most-beautiful-of-all-printed-books-the-kelmscott-chaucer.html
187
145
Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-not-impressed-by-global-dns-blocking-order-230803/
181
28
Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch after paralysis
https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/bioelectronic-medicine-researchers-restore-feeling-lasting-movement-in-man-living-with-quadriplegia
174
Cargo Cult AI
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595860
173
94
We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-re-closer-to-engineering-blood-vessels
172
25
How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]
https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.net/developer/Files/pdf/graphics-and-multimedia/how-does-a-mobile-gpu-work.pdf
164
62
Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet
https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/
159
60
Duck DNS
https://www.duckdns.org/
158
Green vs. brown programming languages (2021)
https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/
157
137
Speed Up C++ Compilation
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/speed-up-c-compilation/30508
152
68
Satellite supergroup spots methane super-emitters
https://innovationorigins.com/en/satellite-supergroup-spots-methane-super-emitters-with-staggering-accuracy/
107
Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c01072
142
75
He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/#repost
134
41
Eventual Business Consistency
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consistency
Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics
https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/number-theory-and-evolutionary-genetics
133
34
GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
https://jamesconroyfinn.com/github-actions-and-vanity-metrics
131
182
Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia
https://www.whathifi.com/news/disney-discontinues-dvd-and-blu-ray-production-in-australia-effective-immediately
124
65
Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
26
Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone
https://nutcroft.com/blog/laniakea-books-public-domain-books-for-everyone/
123
76
WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
120
64
Jim Keller and his pioneering work on chip design and architecture
https://www.edn.com/the-story-of-jim-keller-and-his-pioneering-work-on-chip-design-and-architecture/
117
E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741
119
The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)
https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/
114
Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314435/
112
Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)
https://www.timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm
109
2
First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning
https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1687740396691185664
35
NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-helps-spot-wine-grape-disease-from-skies-above-california
The process of making fake food [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ
63
Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"
https://www.riveducha.com/fix-apple-studio-display-flyback
97
161
Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/scientists-of-chinese-descent-leaving-the-us-at-an-accelerating-pace/4017831.article
96
An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323001073
20
Searching for Paul C. Pratt
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/08/05/searching-for-paul-c-pratt/
89
5
RIP Bram Moolenaar (by me, vi/Vim user for decades)
https://synystron.substack.com/p/rip-bram-moolenaar
