832
371
E-ink is so Retropunk
https://rmkit.dev/eink-is-so-retropunk/
3 years ago
395
237
Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
https://slack.engineering/slacks-migration-to-a-cellular-architecture/
299
44
Thoughts about what worked in math circles
https://buttondown.email/j2kun/archive/thoughts-about-what-worked-in-math-circles/
286
93
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022)
http://karpathy.github.io/2022/03/14/lecun1989/
265
160
90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/27/90-of-eco-friendly-paper-straws-contain-traces-of-toxic-forever-chemicals/
253
85
FFmpeg Explorer
https://ffmpeg.lav.io
252
162
Fish – A friendly interactive shell
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
99
n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
https://n8n.io
227
Linux on a Commodore 64
https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64
222
49
Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)
https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/when-kraftwerk-issued-their-own-pocket-calculator-synthesizer.html
221
A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/this-venture-backed-startup-has-quietly-bought-more-than-80-mom-and-pop-shops/
212
50
Sidewalk Garden
https://zachklein.com/Sidewalk+Garden
208
67
A video of the transformation of a single cell into a salamander
https://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video/772/995/1442844739770_1550184269599_1442865731523_mp4_video_1024x576_1632000_primary_audio_eng_3.mp4
201
82
Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase
https://about.sourcegraph.com/cody
193
553
For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-microschools-pods-esa-vouchers/
189
69
Clean mount lists in Linux
https://dbohdan.com/clean-mount-lists
187
58
Let maintainers be maintainers
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/306832.html
181
39
Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough
https://cacm.acm.org/news/275684-historic-algorithms-help-unlock-shortest-path-problem-breakthrough/fulltext
174
176
As I get older, I just don't care about new technology
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1613yqj/as_i_get_older_i_just_dont_care_about_new/
171
126
Japan's abandoned villages
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/18/japan/society/exploring-the-eerie-beauty-of-japans-abandoned-villages/
159
97
Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll
https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
155
346
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise
153
156
Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules
150
114
Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media
140
UX design patterns for loading
https://pencilandpaper.io/articles/ux-pattern-analysis-loading-feedback/
138
79
Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274882
137
341
66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/66percent-of-americans-say-they-want-extended-european-style-vacation-policies-at-work.html
33
NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016)
https://github.com/samanthadoran/potential-disco
136
145
We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory
135
100
Reasons to replace advanced search with filters
https://adamsilver.io/blog/7-reasons-to-replace-advanced-search-with-filters-so-users-can-easily-find-what-they-need/
128
This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
https://xeiaso.net/blog/serde-precompiled-stupid
116
105
Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
https://briansmith.org/rust-cryptography-should-be-written-in-rust-01
80
Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems
https://landmines.substack.com/p/earning-the-privilege-to-work-on
113
28
Airbnb allowing host to place cameras in the room where I would be sleeping
https://old.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1623v0b/airbnb_allowing_host_to_place_cameras_in_the_room/
111
Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com
https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/110956696765338181
110
18
Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages
https://gist.github.com/digikar99/b76964faf17b3a86739c001dc1b14a39
125
The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect
https://www.theverge.com/23845672/eu-digital-services-act-explained
109
32
Training immune cells to remove ‘trash’ helps resolve lung inflammation
https://today.uic.edu/immune-cells-acute-lung-injury/
124
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/25/spacex_discrimination_lawsuit/
104
“Autobesity”: More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces
102
20
Show HN: TRS-GPT – ChatGPT client/server for the TRS-80
https://druid77.github.io/trs-gpt/
98
UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/britains-infrastructure-is-too-expensive
Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y49VfddU-L4
The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick
http://hkopp.github.io/2023/08/the-ptrace-anti-re-trick
68
Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270747
96
26
Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems
https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi
95
74
Illegal shooting along power lines a leading cause of death for bald eagles
https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/illegal-shooting-along-power-lines-a-leading-cause-death-bald-eagles
48
Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF
https://fershad.com/writing/power-consumption-jpeg-webp-and-avif/
81
19
The Arab Dagger
https://www.fordemilitaryantiques.com/articles/2020/9/8/the-arab-dagger
DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers
https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2023/08/devtoysa-swiss-army-knife-for-developers.html
86
The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/albania-tiktok-migration-uk/
77
5
Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08945
76
115
The WordPress 100 Year Plan
https://wordpress.com/100-year/
131
Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/24/21035628/new-york-paid-time-off
29
Llama2.c L2E LLM – Multi OS Binary and Unikernel Release
https://github.com/trholding/llama2.c/releases/tag/L2E_v0.1
121
Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?
https://www.softwareplatform.net/2023/04/16/apple-pay-later-what-are-the-crazy-ones-up-to/
75
3
Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun
https://www.datagubbe.se/scenearch/
11
How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013)
https://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/how-to-search-on-encrypted-data-introduction-part-1/
17
Entropy in Engineering Processes
https://logical.li/blog/entropy/
73
35
FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer
https://github.com/facefusion/facefusion
70
52
Misidentifying Talent (2022)
https://danluu.com/talent/
4
Initial impressions of Microsoft Olive
https://zhenghaotan.com/blog/initial-impressions-of-msft-olive
47
A clock where the time is in a song title
https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/
Modernizing compiler design for Carbon's toolchain [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI198eFghJk
10
Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4
https://cobbpg.github.io/articles/stunt-car-racer-plus4-port.html
64
0
Datapen.io – A Curation of Free Data Science Resources
https://www.datapen.io/
59
SwiftUI is convenient, but slow (2022)
https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/SwiftUI-is-convenient,-but-slow
62
23
Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks a Pay to Play Strategy Exposed
https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to-play-model
12
Newly discovered black hole 'speed limit' hints at new laws of physics
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/newly-discovered-black-hole-speed-limit-hints-at-new-laws-of-physics
