1337
307
I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
https://github.com/hackclub/putting-the-you-in-cpu
3 years ago
1123
360
Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)
https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
825
811
Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/remote-work-offices-floorplan-privacy/
801
574
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo
631
46
G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics
http://omrelli.ug/g9/gallery/
585
278
Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/8/9/infrastructure-audit-completed-by-radically-open-security/
513
52
Llama from scratch, or how to implement a paper without crying
https://blog.briankitano.com/llama-from-scratch/
469
71
Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP
https://github.com/kognise/arpchat
432
437
Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/canonical_the_recruitment_process_really_is_that/
424
60
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2023/08/09/happy-birthday-openstreetmap-2/
359
79
SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
https://github.com/zknill/sqledge
354
132
Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
https://blog.mlc.ai/2023/08/09/Making-AMD-GPUs-competitive-for-LLM-inference
317
156
Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design
https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
314
181
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer
304
320
B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amazon-shoe-packages-1.6926200
298
297
Fear of AI just killed a useful tool
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/
259
92
Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-source platform for enterprise web apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37064822
253
94
A Critical Problem (2017)
https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/a-critical-problem/
246
74
Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833315
232
177
When did Postgres become cool?
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/when-did-postgres-become-cool
225
133
J-CIA64 – Modern spare part for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, SX-64
https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/
223
138
Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/
202
Sixto Rodriguez has died
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/singer-songwriter-sixto-rodriguez-subject-searching-sugarman-documentary-102133209
191
101
Pure Bash Bible (2018)
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
190
66
Show HN: Get notified when sites update their terms of service
https://tosnotify.com/
MilkyTracker 1.04
https://milkytracker.org/news/2023/07/05/version-1.04/
188
97
Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers
https://shopify.engineering/internationalization-i18n-best-practices-front-end-developers
182
Supabase Local Dev: migrations, branching, and observability
https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-local-dev
200
Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
https://ava.substack.com/p/therapy-as-a-way-of-aligning-with
174
169
I don't want to host services but I do
https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-services-but-i-do/
160
131
Maui wildfires are 'apocalyptic' as people jump into the ocean to flee
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/weather/maui-county-wildfires-hurricane-dora/index.html
159
34
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming [pdf]
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3570638
158
15
The Garden of Computational Delights
https://arbesman.net/computationaldelights/
153
59
Sensor Watch: a board swap for the classic Casio F-91W wristwatch
https://www.sensorwatch.net/
152
41
Swap_8_and_9: A simple import can modify the Python interpreter
https://kenschutte.com/python-swap-ints/
149
54
Robbie Robertson has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/arts/music/robbie-robertson-dead.html
144
256
Java 21: What’s New?
https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/informatique/java-21-quoi-de-neuf/
148
Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022)
https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/why-static-languages-suffer-from-complexity.html
136
30
Oscilloscope Music
https://oscilloscopemusic.com/
134
50
Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/
The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-time-suse-the-german-linux-company
124
82
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be crumbling into chaos
https://futurism.com/the-byte/stability-ai-stable-diffusion-chaos
145
WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/wework-warns-of-remaining-going-concern-and-says-bankruptcy-possible.html
122
84
The Tetris Effect
https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html
121
129
Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/
113
147
If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
https://harrisbricken.com/chinalawblog/china-exit-bans-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-want-but-you-cant-ever-leave/
111
26
Piano Emulator in Your Terminal
https://github.com/eliasdorneles/upiano
62
Pentium floating-point division bug (1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Archive of novelty answering machine recordings
http://www.noveltyansweringmachine.com/audio/index.html
102
40
“Please do not make it public” (Tencent’s Sogou Input Method)
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/
109
Iterators in Go: A proposed extension
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/iterators
99
7
Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0pYtQG5wI
98
104
Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/91702-govt-warns-kenyans-about-worldcoin
95
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/japan/2023/08/09/society/japan-prefectures-drift-away-from-posting-disaster-warnings-on-x/
9
How RLHF Preference Model Tuning Works (and How Things May Go Wrong)
https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-rlhf-preference-model-tuning-works-and-how-things-may-go-wrong/
91
Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/planetary-defense-nasa-dart-mission-asteroid
90
29
SanDisk Portable SSDs Are Failing So Frequently, We Can No Longer Recommend Them
https://petapixel.com/2023/08/08/sandisk-portable-ssds-are-failing-so-frequently-we-can-no-longer-recommend-them/
86
37
Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with your cloud costs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062007
19
An automatic shiny hunter for any Pokémon game
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-hunts-shiny-pokemon-while-you-sleep
49
Who Was Duns Scotus?
https://aeon.co/essays/duns-scotus-was-no-fool-but-a-brilliant-enigmatic-thinker
20
Lines of code that changed everything (2019)
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
78
72
Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019)
https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting
73
13
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will drop significantly
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-reveals-new-ai-chip-says-cost-of-running-large-language-models-will-drop-significantly-.html
32
Supreme Court rules against Epic, so Apple can keep its App Store payment rules
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826043/epic-apple-app-store-supreme-court-petition
83
Why Sam Altman wants to scan two billion eyes
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-08-05/why-sam-altman-wants-to-scan-two-billion-eyes.html
70
44
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/experiencing-scientific-revolutions
Ask HN: Cheapest hardware to run Llama 2 70B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37067933
