1460
1256
ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it
3 years ago
586
255
Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230829051257
578
828
Ask HN: Why did Python win?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308747
496
199
Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
https://www.servethehome.com/intel-shows-8-core-528-thread-processor-with-silicon-photonics/
402
219
Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
https://www.juxt.pro/blog/clojure-in-griffin/
396
462
Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
https://paraxial.io/blog/elixir-savings
345
84
Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video
https://co-tracker.github.io/
323
115
Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
https://wildbit.com/blog/accessible-palette-stop-using-hsl-for-color-systems
320
301
iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
https://www.404media.co/activists-petition-government-for-right-to-hack-mcdonalds-mcflurry-machines-to-repair-them/
318
102
A note to young folks: download the things you love
https://birchtree.me/blog/a-note-to-young-folks-download-the-videos-you-love/
294
120
Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-path-attributes-grave-error-handling
292
373
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
https://www.sustainableplastics.com/news/microplastics-found-pass-blood-brain-barrier-even-though-ingested-drinking-water
280
156
Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader
https://github.com/btpf/Alexandria
279
254
AI Crap
https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html
263
95
Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck
https://www.pcgamer.com/linux-overtakes-mac-as-steams-second-most-used-os-and-its-all-thanks-to-the-steam-deck/
261
98
MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing
https://magic-edit.github.io/
256
121
Abandoned and little-known airfields
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/
253
96
DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230829-00/?p=108661
252
38
Gallery – Making Molecules
https://www.makingmolecules.com/handouts
234
97
How far can you jump from a swing?
https://www.alexmolas.com/2023/08/18/how-far-can-you-jump.html
229
13
Visualization of Common Algorithms (2011)
https://visualgo.net/en
171
FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-partners-dismantle-qakbot-infrastructure-in-multinational-cyber-takedown
213
40
Starlink's User Terminal Firmware
https://blog.quarkslab.com/starlink.html
207
743
Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v
200
50
Analysis of Obfuscation Techniques Found in Apple FairPlay
https://nicolo.dev/en/blog/fairplay-apple-obfuscation/
192
105
Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/marine-sarah-feinberg-whistleblower-booz-allen-69-million-rcna102098
175
53
Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics with LLMs
https://microsoft.github.io/lida/
65
Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness
https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/rustc_codegen_clr_v0_0_1.html
100
A cheap radio hack disrupted Poland's railway system
https://www.wired.com/story/poland-train-radio-stop-attack/
165
94
I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss
158
17
C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
https://bhavana.org.in/c-r-rao-a-life-in-statistics/
Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/67402.html
152
136
We always end up with waterfall
https://www.amazingcto.com/why-we-always-endup-with-waterfall-even-scrum/
145
I don’t buy “duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” (2021)
https://www.codewithjason.com/duplication-cheaper-wrong-abstraction/
143
54
Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-accurate-as-gpt-4-for-summaries-and-is-30x-cheaper
35
Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps
https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse
141
133
I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop
https://wimpysworld.com/posts/why-i-chose-the-thinkpad-z13-as-my-linux-laptop/
140
69
Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai-in-workspace-now-available
139
86
MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI
https://www.supervised.news/p/mapreduce-tensorflow-bard-also-hello
137
Hacking GTA V RP Servers Using Web Exploitation Techniques
https://www.nullpt.rs/hacking-gta-servers-using-web-exploitation
135
9
Baby's first WASM compiler
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/babys-first-wasm-compiler/
134
70
Neutrons prove ‘Bond villain’ did not cause Arecibo telescope collapse
https://www.ornl.gov/news/neutrons-prove-bond-villain-did-not-cause-arecibo-telescope-collapse
132
79
Announcing the Pollen API
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/announcing-pollen-api-providing-actionable-info-about-airborne-pollen-levels-worldwide
128
68
The FBI Has Collected DNA Profiles for 21M People
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/29/fbi-dna-collection-surveillance/
126
43
Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)
https://play.elevatorsaga.com/index.html
125
2
Amazon CEO tells staff to work in office 3 days a week or look for another job
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/29/amazon-ceo-staff-work-in-office-job-workers
124
59
Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
https://webstudio.is/radix
123
Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/28/1016867/lunik-cia-heist-steal-russian-satellite-space-us-ussr/
37
Installing Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXQ8rcmF48
112
47
Inertial HSMs thwart advanced physical attacks
https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9290/8856
108
55
How Correlated Are You?
https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/08/20/how-correlated-are-you/
107
91
Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
https://ntietz.com/blog/changing-my-relationship-with-github-copilot/
The case for Nushell
https://www.jntrnr.com/case-for-nushell/
104
18
Stringzilla: Fastest string sort, search, split, and shuffle using SIMD
https://github.com/ashvardanian/Stringzilla
Show HN: Query your database using plain English, fully on-premises
https://www.vizly.fyi/
103
StarCitizen Server Meshing Architecture
https://sc-server-meshing.info/wiki
14
Lesser Known Postgres Features (2021)
https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unknown-features
8
Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos
https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/pgvector-overview-0.5.0/
101
22
World’s Oldest Cat Door Has Let Working Cats Enter the Cathedral Since 14c
https://mymodernmet.com/exeter-cathedral-cat-flap/
Film Review: BlackBerry
https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/review-blackberry
25
The brain connections between our hands and tongues
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-brain-connections-between-our-hands-and-tongues-20230828/
64
How Mojo gets a speedup over Python – Part 2
https://www.modular.com/blog/how-mojo-gets-a-35-000x-speedup-over-python-part-2
87
Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/
92
29
Observability in WebAssembly
https://dev.dylibso.com/docs/observe/overview/
57
Random Load Balancing Is Unevenly Distributed
https://www.evanjones.ca/random-load-balancing-is-uneven.html
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
89
63
Never Ending September Date
https://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
16
Home – Database of Databases
https://dbdb.io/
88
34
Simplifying GPU Application Development with HMM
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/simplifying-gpu-application-development-with-heterogeneous-memory-management/
28
Detective Who Arrested Man for Satirical Facebook Post Denied Immunity by 5th C
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/29/fifth-circuit-denies-immunity-to-detective-who-arrested-a-man-for-a-satirical-facebook-post/
30
AlloyDB AI: Generative AI applications with PostgreSQL
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/helping-developers-build-gen-ai-apps-with-google-cloud-databases
83
41
Doas – dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas
The Colonel’s Bequest – Case Cracked (2020)
https://www.benshoof.org/blog/case-cracked
118
Embracing sabbaticals, sunsetting retirement age
https://jacek.migdal.pl/2023/08/16/sabbaticals.html
82
5
1Password Open Sources Rust Passkey Library
https://blog.1password.com/passkey-crates/
81
12
Google thinks opt-in is something you need to opt out of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314981
80
31
Drumscript: A simple MIDI drum machine scripting language
https://github.com/tepreece/drumscript
Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-air-pollution-greatest-global-threat.html
78
142
She paid husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money
https://text.npr.org/1194289492
76
Lego Ideas: Insect Collection – Botanicals meets animals
https://www.brothers-brick.com/2023/08/28/lego-ideas-21342-the-insect-collection-botanicals-meets-animals-review/
74
66
Toyota to restart Japan production on Wednesday after system failure
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-halts-operations-12-japan-factories-due-system-failure-nhk-2023-08-29/
23
Grumpy Website
https://grumpy.website/
73
24
Show HN: Mu – A Micro App Platform
https://mu.app
72
32
Grayscale was unreasonably denied its Bitcoin ETF, court rules
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1696544309699363201
71
ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes
https://www.todesktop.com/
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-projects-oil-gas-be-54-worlds-energy-needs-2050-2023-08-28/
3
The geometry of diffusion guidance
https://sander.ai/2023/08/28/geometry.html
67
How to share a NumPy array between processes
https://superfastpython.com/numpy-share-array-processes/
Secure Boot on ESP32 Platforms
https://thistle.tech/blog/esp32-secure-boot-v2-enablement-2
11
The open source saxophone project (2017)
https://www.stohrermusic.com/2017/10/the-open-source-saxophone-project/
ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable
https://status.openai.com/incidents/5l07rfcr5fyn