815
314
Show HN: I automated half of my typing
https://github.com/eschluntz/compress
a year ago
554
396
My Caste
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~meel/opinions/caste.html
457
170
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9
431
365
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851902/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-malware
427
353
Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/08/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-23531-dev-channel/
384
236
FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-says-too-bad-to-isps-complaining-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard/
382
150
Fomos: Experimental OS, built with Rust
https://github.com/Ruddle/Fomos
377
354
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
https://lwn.net/Articles/939842/
360
185
Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/08/hundreds-thousands-trafficked-work-online-scammers-se-asia-says-un-report
326
110
Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/
323
142
Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
https://gist.github.com/kj800x/be3001c07c49fdb36970633b0bc6defb
289
179
High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Drone-race.html
287
95
Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
https://www.figma.com/blog/keeping-figma-fast/
253
258
Fairphone 5
https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5
241
117
New Map APIs from Google
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/going-beyond-map-introducing-environment-apis
234
38
Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
https://leifgehrmann.com/2021/09/05/photogrammetry-on-a-plane/
231
Weight-based motor vehicle tax
https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/weight-based-motor-vehicle-tax/
228
96
2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map
https://windscribe.com/vpnmap
186
Authentication on meet.jit.si
https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/
218
278
The End of the Googleverse
https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords
201
93
How to get transactions between almost any data stores
https://petereliaskraft.net/blog/epoxy
37
DevTools Tips
https://devtoolstips.org/
198
190
Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf
187
19
I wrote, “Scrum is a cancer,” and the Internet had thoughts about it
https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1696869327335571833
2
iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23850595/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machines-ifixit
177
62
Bad Apple Font
https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/
34
Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ahead-of-ai-11-new-foundation-models
165
240
The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/decoupling-isnt-phoney
138
Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies
https://petapixel.com/2023/08/23/this-giant-fake-town-was-built-exclusively-for-filming-tv-and-movies/
163
134
Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28878/how-is-it-legal-for-a-hospital-to-put-two-patients-together-in-the-same-room-in
156
Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-kills-two-year-pixel-pass-subscription-after-just-22-months/
151
46
Keisan Casio is shutting down
https://keisan.casio.com/keisan/abolition.php
59
DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
https://github.com/ESP32-COOP/ESP32-COOP-DOC
144
108
Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/roadmap-for-age-verification-online-pornographic-material-adult-websites-australia-law
133
49
Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-sites-from-users-privately-saved-links-230830/
130
102
File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images
https://xata.io/blog/file-attachments
128
106
Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
https://samiramly.com/chess
127
65
Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD
https://buildkite.com/blog/applying-sre-principles-to-cicd
74
At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/axon-taser-exposures/
122
18
ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression
http://pepijndevos.nl/2023/07/15/chatlmza.html
121
82
N guilty men (1997)
https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm
OpenAI predicted to generate over $1B
https://the-decoder.com/openai-shatters-revenue-expectations-predicted-to-generate-over-1-billion/
116
111
Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/30/microsoft-visual-studio-mac-discontinued/
414
How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s
https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00915/
105
31
The surprising impact of medium-size texts on PostgreSQL performance (2020)
https://hakibenita.com/sql-medium-text-performance
100
When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?
https://ottertune.com/blog/query-best-practices-when-should-you-use-the-in-instead-of-the-or-operator
132
Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees
https://www.wsj.com/finance/visa-mastercard-prepare-to-raise-credit-card-fees-ed779be1
99
51
Developing 120-year-old photos found in a time capsule [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDj4mXdqmc
188
The end of cool small cars
https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/the-end-of-cool-small-cars
92
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms/
91
54
Population.io
https://mobile.population.io/
88
Housing Is a Labor Issue: Land owners are taking all the wage gains
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/housing-is-a-labor-issue
27
OSM River Basins
https://amandasaurus.github.io/osm-river-basins/#map=2/0/0
87
30
Deno 1.36
https://deno.com/blog/v1.36
21
Show HN: Open Interpreter – CodeLlama in your terminal, executing code
https://openinterpreter.com/
230
Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/08/28/738095.htm
81
Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/security-update-august-2023
80
ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May
https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-millions-of-chatgpt-user-sessions-visits-are-down-29-since-may-programming-assistance-is-30-of-use/
78
How might life migrate through the universe?
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-might-life-migrate-through-the-universe/
15
ThirdAI Uses Ray for Parallel Training of Billion-Parameter NN on Commodity CPUs
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/how-thirdai-uses-ray-for-parallel-training-of-billion-parameter-neural-networks-on-commodity-cpus
183
A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration
https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-serious-case-for-dynamic-scoring
140
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-verizon-at-t-and-t-mobile-want-to-access-your-bank-account-e62449f3
76
39
Pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress (2017)
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/11/16458142/congress-alzheimers-pharmacist
Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries
https://www.thedrive.com/news/honda-solid-state-batteries-will-offer-same-energy-density-at-half-the-weight
66
People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up
https://text.npr.org/1196059950
73
52
Phind (code beating GPT4) seems to have used WizardLM's finetuned checkpoint
https://twitter.com/WizardLM_AI/status/1696527036804989171
70
86
Real-world ranges for Teslas 50-60% of EPA Range
https://www.recurrentauto.com/news/real-world-range-for-tesla
9
Designing deep networks to process other deep networks
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/designing-deep-networks-to-process-other-deep-networks/
26
Multiplix, operating system kernel for RISC-V and AArch64 SBCs
https://github.com/zyedidia/multiplix
69
48
Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-i-traded-my-smartphone-for-an-ax
