787
486
I would rather see my books get pirated than this
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3 years ago
782
680
Google Maps has become an eyesore
https://www.fastcompany.com/90930810/google-maps-eyesore-5-examples-apple-maps
566
189
Some tactics for writing in public
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/
407
411
PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
https://www.techpowerup.com/312122/psa-intel-graphics-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-by-default
393
249
Raku: A language for gremlins
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/raku-a-language-for-gremlins/
392
287
Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
https://www.warpstream.com/blog/kafka-is-dead-long-live-kafka
390
206
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377
671
Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033652
358
366
Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2023/08/police-raid-worldcoin-cryptocurrency-warehouse-in-nairobi/
356
315
GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
336
179
How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/
313
289
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https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-13
307
102
The Alexander Piano
https://www.alexanderpiano.nz/page/the-alexander-piano
302
160
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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1451807
300
130
The $1M shot that changed sports contests
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36146138/million-dollar-shot-michael-jordan-chicago-bulls-1993
296
489
Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
https://kottke.org/23/08/car-bloat-huge-cars-are-terrible-for-society
291
213
My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
https://getwaitlist.com/blog/solo-dev-startup-stack
282
194
Not Using Zoom
https://the.webm.ink/not-using-zoom
35
Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out
https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/
280
266
Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
https://mhatta.medium.com/gnu-hurd-strikes-back-4021433d506d
277
272
A beginner's guide to Git version control
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/08/02/beginners-guide-git-version-control
237
355
Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/aeroflot-deactivates-brakes-on-nine-aircraft-relies-solely-on-reverse-thrust.php
235
192
Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033753
175
Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/04/sandy-bridge-setting-intels-modern-foundation/
221
49
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https://github.com/diogocapela/flatdraw
38
Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (2015)
https://github.com/chebykinn/sedmario
134
Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code
https://www.phind.com/hn
220
Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
https://qalculate.github.io/
219
203
The combined power of F# and C#
https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/2f70d926-ec92-4dfe-b278-18f78078253d
210
143
Orb is a free and open source web desktop
https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb
209
84
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https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/212592288/how-to-stop-the-login-with-google-pop-up-window?hl=en
205
30
Fantastic Learning Resources
https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/06/fantastic-learning-resources.html
195
79
Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
https://calnewport.com/edsger-dijkstras-one-day-workweek/
103
Linux guide for power users (2022)
https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/
190
125
Perhaps it’s time to sideline the internet when evaluating collective reality
https://www.fastcompany.com/90933474/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-is-a-reminder-that-social-media-is-not-real-life
37
Lithium morphology discovery could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-true-lithium-revealed.html
177
29
Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation
https://chainforge.ai/docs/
171
156
British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever
https://www.t3.com/news/british-gas-starts-to-turn-off-hive-smart-home-devices-forever
162
58
Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams
https://google.github.io/typograms/
161
40
Show HN: Axilla – Open-source TypeScript framework for LLM apps
https://github.com/axilla-io/ax
56
Show HN: Doculite – Use SQLite as a Document Database
https://www.npmjs.com/package/doculite
145
Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html
63
Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers
https://mofi.loud.red/blog/wasm-and-workers
136
10
MIT Press: Open Access Materials
https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection
27
Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/turning-my-framework-laptop-into-a-tiny-desktop-was-fun-now-it-needs-a-job/
133
47
How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop
https://github.com/modal-labs/devlooper
127
144
Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm3427
122
Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033312
113
2
Midjourney API and Diffusion and Dalle2 on Picogen
https://picogen.io/
111
93
Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence
https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/math-for-kids-outside-of-the-calculus
106
149
If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
https://slate.com/business/2023/01/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weight-joe-biden.html
105
120
Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
https://matt-rickard.com/nvidias-cuda-monopoly
51
The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/aug/07/ultimate-rare-40-years-british-videogames-jet-pac-goldeneye-sea-of-thieves
54
CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/08/04/cisa-releases-its-cybersecurity-strategic-plan
8
Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/introducing-incus/17781
101
16
Simple Networking in Linux
https://insanity.industries/post/simple-networking/
97
155
Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1998) [pdf]
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
92
Write your passwords down (2010)
https://blog.jgc.org/2010/12/write-your-passwords-down.html
140
Apple Vision Pro: Why Monitor Replacement Is Ridiculous
https://kguttag.com/2023/08/05/apple-vision-pro-part-5a-why-monitor-replacement-is-ridiculous/
90
Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
https://www.bamsec.com/filing/95017023038779
81
45
Theft of the Mona Lisa (2000)
https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/mona_nav/main_monafrm.html
Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/microsoft-signing-key-stolen-by-chinese.html
75
12
Template for Impactful Ideas
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/idea-to-impact
73
50
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued
72
23
Salesforce Can’t Use 230, May Be Liable for Customer Backpage's Sex Trafficking
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/07/appeals-court-salesforce-cant-use-230-and-could-be-liable-for-sex-trafficking-because-backpage-was-a-customer/
71
22
32by32 – Macintosh History from the 1980s
https://32by32.com/
138
EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators
https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
70
15
The Santa Fe Time Series Prediction and Analysis Competition
https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/working-papers/the-future-of-time-series
11
Semiconductor Supply Chain Explorer (2022)
https://chipexplorer.eto.tech