919
513
We’re all just temporarily abled
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/
a year ago
675
328
uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin-lite/
491
213
Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40666-3
448
262
GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/08/20/gnu-parallel/
379
321
Don't fire your illustrator
https://sambleckley.com/writing/dont-fire-your-illustrator.html
340
313
Saving Lives (2004)
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
339
297
FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772
331
64
I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
https://minimaxir.com/2023/08/stable-diffusion-xl-wrong/
308
256
5 years ago Valve released Proton
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/5-years-ago-valve-released-proton-forever-changing-linux-gaming/
283
192
The ideal viewport doesn't exist
https://viewports.fyi/
264
113
A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/17/a-retiring-consultants-advice-on-consultants
251
309
Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/18/growing-share-of-americans-favor-more-nuclear-power/
240
60
The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies
https://davidgomes.com/the-broad-set-of-computer-science-problems-faced-at-cloud-database-companies/
238
108
Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads
https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/
234
337
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/
227
269
All of the vehicle license plates available in America
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/
225
224
Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
https://arunraghavan.net/2023/08/to-conference-organisers-everywhere/
223
68
GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver
https://github.com/tapparelj/gr-lora_sdr
217
37
P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications
https://p2panda.org/
211
242
Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/time-ran-slowly-in-the-early-universe-just-as-einstein-predicted/
210
43
Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing
https://rese1f.github.io/StableVideo/
205
114
Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/pixel-binary-transparency-verifiable.html
199
128
Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/08/default-behaviour-sticks-and-so-do-examples.html
190
164
Study: Inflammation drives social media use
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2023/08/lee-inflammation-drives-social-media-use.html
187
109
Ego Death
https://krisnova.net/posts/ego-death/
185
263
Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37210581
179
133
Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks
https://kjhealey.medium.com/cached-takes-80-of-companies-do-not-need-snowflake-or-databricks-5ebda64c0853
177
74
Kullback–Leibler divergence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence
172
135
The History of Windows 2.0
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-20
169
106
Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article278253028.html
105
Why Open Source?
https://getconvoy.io/blog/why-open-source/
167
123
Inside the JVM: Arrays and how they differ from other objects
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-array-objects
161
117
Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)
https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/
145
50
Early Days of AI
https://blog.eladgil.com/p/early-days-of-ai
144
67
Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)
https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/invert-always-invert-avoid-failure
143
4
9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023
https://i.imgur.com/5cGazrG.png
132
30
Blog-cells: Interactive code cells for static sites
https://rameshvarun.github.io/blog-cells/
35
When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/effort-pieces
125
44
FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Port-Linux-DRM-KO
91
Unix is both a technology and an idea
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixTechnologyAndIdea
SolarPi experiment 2: Finally something that works
http://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/SolarPi_experiment_2_Finally_something_that_works.html
111
I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
https://accu.org/journals/overload/27/153/martin_2703/
122
Precompiled binaries removed from serde v1.0.184
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.184
116
2
My talk with Kris Nova about being homeless. See you on the other side, friend
https://kubecuddle.transistor.fm/episodes/dave-fogle-and-kris-nova
Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/21/opinion_column_monday/
Flatpak is not the future (2021)
https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
107
166
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/windows-11-has-made-the-clean-windows-install-an-oxymoron/
103
Bluegrass Archive
https://bluegrassarchive.com/
99
56
Meta threatens to fire workers for return-to-office infractions in leaked memo
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/meta-threatens-return-to-office-layoffs-18303435.php
97
46
How to use a Breadboard. How do breadboards work? (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOiYvdaCis
96
Screen Time at Age 1 Year and Communication, Problem-Solving Developmental Delay
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2808593
93
25
Latest Android Runtime (ART) update led to apps starting 30% faster
https://9to5google.com/2023/08/21/android-runtime-13-14-updates/
23
Show HN: VisionScript, abstract programming language for computer vision
https://github.com/capjamesg/visionscript
38
Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/baghdad-closes-led-advert-screens-after-hacker-shows-porn-film-on-a-screen/
90
98
Building a digital music collection in 2023
https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023-08-20-building-a-digital-music-collection-in-2023.html
89
27
Why Congress is considering a ‘right to repair' law for car owners
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/consumer-reports/why-congress-is-considering-a-right-to-repair-law-for-car-owners/3317168/
11
MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/maclynx-beta-5-utf-8-pull-down-menus.html
87
78
The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games
https://if50.substack.com/p/the-antagonists
86
88
Ask HN: How to monetize a website that is making views?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37207165
84
61
Taos Operating System (1995)
http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html
81
A man who can talk backwards (2017)
https://linguischtick.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/the-man-who-can-talk-backwards/
83
13
Lyrebird the Linux voice changer now supports PipeWire
https://github.com/lyrebird-voice-changer/lyrebird/releases/tag/v1.2.0
36
Associated Press clarifies standards around generative AI
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/not-a-replacement-of-journalists-in-any-way-ap-clarifies-standards-around-generative-ai/
Out-of-memory victim selection with BPF
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/941614/f873a0ec485e01c5/
121
How Hinge's algorithm decides who you date
https://gizmodo.com/hinge-dating-app-algorithm-1850744140
82
40
Show HN: The Uncolouring Book
https://lines.potato.horse
New study measures grammatical complexity of languages
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolution-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html
77
21
Educational Codebases
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/educational-codebases/
76
75
Duo Outage
https://status.duo.com
72
English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
18
The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance
https://lithub.com/the-pleasure-and-communion-of-austens-country-dance/
115
Texas electricity prices soar 6k% as heat wave is expected to shatter records
https://desdemonadespair.net/2023/08/texas-electricity-prices-soar-6000-percent-as-a-fresh-heat-wave-is-expected-to-shatter-records-spot-electricity-prices-jumped-to-4750-per-megawatt-hour-from-the-average-of-75.html
71
16
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
