629
281
How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole
https://charity.wtf/2023/08/17/how-to-communicate-when-trust-is-low-without-digging-yourself-into-a-deeper-hole/
3 years ago
332
StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
555
262
Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites/
535
186
Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
https://blog.jgc.org/2023/08/retrieving-1tb-of-data-from-faulty.html
439
520
Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156372
370
334
Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
https://www.jobcorps.gov/
344
104
Debian celebrates 30 years
https://bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian-turns-30.html
327
192
Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried in southeast Australia, scientists say
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2023/08/asteroid-crater-520km-in-diameter-buried-deep-in-southeast-australia-scientists-say/
325
165
Mullvad Browser
https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser/
316
1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23835116/have-you-seen-these-dehumidifiers-stop-using-them-or-you-might-die
305
489
Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-17/white-noise-podcasters-are-costing-spotify-38-million-a-year
300
387
Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
https://aheze.substack.com/p/getting-a-job-at-apple-without-going
293
239
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350
289
234
SUSE to go private
https://www.suse.com/news/EQT-announces-voluntary-public-purchase-offer-and-intention-to-delist-SUSE/
284
28
Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems
https://tokio.rs/blog/2023-01-03-announcing-turmoil
91
I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022)
https://rachit.pl/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/
254
208
DIY Espresso (2020)
https://www.fourbardesign.com/2020/10/diy-espresso.html
209
Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/16/can-computing-clean-up-its-act
236
2
SUSE to Go Private
https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/suse-go-private
223
76
QR codes appearing in Google street view?
https://nso.group/@haifisch/110901720830132689#.
221
172
Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job
https://www.dancowell.com/breaking-the-rules/
195
457
Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156101
261
Fusion Foolery
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/
191
177
Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
https://dodov.dev/blog/why-does-email-development-have-to-suck
185
146
Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters
https://anoopdixith.com/disasters/
175
171
Managing difficult software engineers
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/managing-bad-engineers/
59
AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/15t0lsm/i_turned_a_95_amd_apu_into_a_16gb_vram_gpu_and_it/
377
A look into the finances of SpaceX
https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b
166
164
“Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29203127/
162
Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-generative-ai-learning-features/
89
Railway Safety Posters (2022)
https://www.thaitrainguide.com/2022/06/10/railway-safety-posters/
157
142
A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us
https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/03/20/a-world-to-win-webassembly-for-the-rest-of-us
154
176
My resignation letter as R7RS-large chair
https://groups.google.com/g/scheme-reports-wg2/c/xGd0_eeKmGI/m/q-xM5fbuAQAJ
150
125
Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/science/climate-paleontology-mammals.html
194
Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-3-1-a-retrospective-on-functional-style-programming-in-dart-3-a1f4b3a7cdda
145
19
RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills
https://robopen.github.io/
139
4
New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
https://text.npr.org/1194202562
121
Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/anti-vampire-graves-poland
137
30
Market Map
https://marketmap.one
131
70
YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google-children-privacy.html
129
207
A search for technosignatures around nearby stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02712
211
Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study
https://www.uea.ac.uk/news/-/article/fresh-evidence-of-chatgpts-political-bias-revealed-by-comprehensive-new-study
128
93
NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)
https://jeremykun.com/2017/12/29/np-hard-does-not-mean-hard/
127
169
Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/review-acronym-rmt02-asus/
126
51
Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers
https://consensus.app/
123
82
Joys and pains of insects
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/
119
23
The aging brain: is misplaced DNA to blame?
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/aging-brain-misplaced-dna-blame
118
35
An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
https://www.kentik.com/blog/dual-subsea-cable-cuts-disrupt-african-internet/
117
71
YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto
https://andersoncardoso.github.io/ydd/
114
Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/israeli-researchers-produce-green-hydrogen-with-90-efficiency-without-electrolysis-218644.html
113
138
Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02563-z
111
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
120
A simple way to test the charge level on alkaline batteries (2015) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwfFBUVxpac
108
88
Too many fonts in Windows 10 can cause slow application starts
https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/too-many-fonts-in-windows-10-can-cause-slow-application-starts/
107
122
We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/20/we-ruined-status-leds-heres-why-that-needs-to-change/
38
Unit: A visual programming system [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvvzolKHt2E
103
24
Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
https://questdb.io/blog/fuzz-testing-questdb/
98
Show HN: Run globally distributed full-stack apps on high-performance MicroVMs
https://www.koyeb.com/
97
66
Captain Zilog Crushed: The Story of the Z8000
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/captain-zilog-crushed-the-story-of
92
25
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics [pdf]
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/akherim/PCM.pdf
53
Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors. Giddy up
https://notmycows.com/
26
A blood factor can rejuvenate the aging brain
https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/molecular-dx-topic/a-blood-factor-can-rejuvenate-the-aging-brain/
87
84
Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/08/17/going-back-to-the-old-pre-x-twitter-ios-app/
184
The Fill and Flush deplaning method
https://www.fillandflush.com
81
31
Abbrev: A hidden Ruby gem
https://www.akshaykhot.com/ruby-abbrev-module/
80
63
Old software keeping space missions alive
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230815-the-ancient-tech-keeping-space-missions-alive
21
Amazon to Impose 2% Fee on Third-Party Sellers Who Ship Products Themselves
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/amazon-is-imposing-fee-on-sellers-who-ship-products-themselves
9
Algebraic data types in Lua (almost)
https://mrcjkb.dev/posts/2023-08-17-lua-adts.html
79
DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs
https://github.com/mr-gpt/deepeval
78
Policy Engines: Open Policy Agent vs. AWS Cedar vs. Google Zanzibar
https://www.permit.io/blog/policy-engines
Show HN: Strich – Barcode scanning for web apps
https://strich.io
170
Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favor-tiktok-ban-reutersipsos-poll-2023-08-16/
74
13
The TextFX Project
https://textfx.withgoogle.com/
64
How the Army tried and failed to build a bicycle corps (2020)
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/02/25/how-the-army-tried-and-failed-to-build-a-bicycle-corps/
69
German Cabinet approves liberalization of Cannabis Possession
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-bundestag-cabinet-approves-liberalization-of-cannabis-rules/
65
43
Adyen Plummets as Sales Miss Erases $20B of Market Value
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/adyen-plunges-20-hiring-inflation-072432744.html
62
Show HN: Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs
https://www.shadeform.ai/
60
Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack
https://blog.yusu.ke/hono-htmx-cloudflare/
36
The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/17/greenhouse-emissions-income-inequality/
