865
130
Kris Nóva has died
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590
129
John Warnock has died
https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-warnock-dies-82-2023-08-20/
588
114
The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
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550
174
Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/54499/shouldnt-very-very-distant-objects-appear-magnified
528
161
So you want to learn physics (2021)
https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
453
Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation
http://deat.tk/jazz2/
397
232
Shit life syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome
317
68
Welcome to Datasette Cloud
https://www.datasette.cloud/blog/2023/welcome/
295
214
Executive Function Theft
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/
278
146
JSON Schema Store
https://www.schemastore.org/json/
266
283
Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui
264
103
An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco
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257
126
Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/17/debian_turns_30/
252
85
TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken
https://timeguessr.com/
250
231
Modernity has made us allergic
https://www.noemamag.com/modernity-has-made-us-allergic/
248
127
Electricity Maps
https://app.electricitymaps.com
162
macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/19/macos-updates-for-apple-silicon-macs-are-larger-than-reported/
229
223
Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil
https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/without-belief-in-a-god-but-never
221
131
Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-mechanical-windmill/
199
113
All of Physics in 9 Lines
https://www.motionmountain.net/9lines.html
193
267
Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
191
122
AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080
https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-7900-xtx-offers-higher-generative-ai-performance-per-dollar-than-nvidia-rtx-4080-after-990-speedup/
177
20
Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-cell-therapy-cornea-patient-stem.html
171
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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/20/23838823/twitter-x-deleted-pictures-links-2014-metadata-t-co-shortener
170
111
VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting
https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
77
Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife
https://www.akshaykhot.com/ruby-hash-is-a-swiss-army-knife/
164
51
Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194392001/judge-who-signed-kansas-newspaper-search-warrant-had-2-dui-arrests-reports-say
150
105
Scripting with Go (2022)
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/scripting
79
Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/17/run-a-macos-vm-on-apple-silicon-from-a-double-click-with-vimy/
142
189
Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/19/seufert-x-downloads
138
Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/amazon-bestselling-book-published-2-days-into-maui-wildfires-raising-red-flags
137
25
16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU
https://www.jiristepanovsky.cz/project.php?p=23cpu
134
33
A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/raid-kansas-newspaper-broke-law-experts-102390880
128
30
OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product
https://github.com/openchatai/OpenCopilot
Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
https://lemire.me/blog/2023/08/18/transcoding-latin-1-strings-to-utf-8-strings-at-12-gb-s-using-avx-512/
125
38
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns
119
GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses (2020)
https://trust-in-soft.com/blog/2020/04/06/gcc-always-assumes-aligned-pointer-accesses/
117
72
A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)
https://zenhack.net/2019/06/25/a-critique-of-the-capnproto-schema-language.html
115
81
It’s lambdas all the way down
https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/It-s-Lambdas-All-the-Way-Down-eb33012f54bb4708af001e0214910698
112
18
CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret TETRA primitives [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57100-all_cops_are_broadcasting
107
87
Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post
https://www.fakehn.com/
97
31
Project Valhalla, Simple as it can be, but not simpler
https://cr.openjdk.org/~jrose/values/larval-values.html
96
26
MacPaint and QuickDraw 1984 source code (2010)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/
94
This can't go on (2021)
https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
92
9
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https://josefbacik.github.io/kernel/2021/10/18/lei-and-b4.html
91
83
Demystifying ESIM Technology [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57190-demystifying_esim_technology
The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)
https://www.spronck.net/sloot.html
86
21
How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (2014)
https://hajo.me/blog/2014/12/28/how-surround-sound-for-headphones-works/
84
35
Large Language Models As General Pattern Machines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04721
Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for southern California
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/19/weather/hurricane-hilary-california-southwest-tropical-storm-saturday/index.html
98
The missing C++ smart pointer
https://blog.matthieud.me/2023/the-missing-cpp-smart-pointer/
78
23
Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4th Gen of Programming Languages? [pdf]
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18524/pdf/OASIcs-SLATE-2023-10.pdf
40
Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (1999)
https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html
69
Ghana's MPs pass bill criminalising witchcraft accusation
https://www.trtafrika.com:443/africa/ghanas-mps-pass-bill-criminalising-witchcraft-accusation-14238700
14
Scientists trap light inside a magnet
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-scientists-trap-light-inside-magnet
65
37
12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/12000-year-old-sequins-hint-at-a-shared-culture-in-indonesian-islands/
5
Ask HN: Can we have link to the person bio/page when we have a black bar?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37201954
63
29
Telemetry on Zelda: Breath of the Wild
https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Telemetry
62
64
Enhancement of mosquito trapping efficiency using pulse width modulated LEDs
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40074