725
167
CT scans of coffee-making equipment
https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/coffee
3 years ago
629
160
Absurd Success
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/
572
358
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/07/14/when-your-coworker-does-great-work-tell-their-manager/
564
204
RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
https://ryujinx.org/
482
271
RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601
https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
456
150
Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
https://ghostfol.io
452
312
Teaching with AI
https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai
370
360
Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-dead-instagram-tiktok-bereal-replaced-group-chats-messaging-2023-8
342
169
UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
308
232
USENET rises again?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
296
216
Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02712-4
294
132
The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated
https://github.com/opentffoundation/roadmap/issues/24#issuecomment-1699535216
291
307
Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-31/shell-silently-abandoned-its-100-million-a-year-plan-to-offset-co2-emissions
278
AWS Icon Quiz
https://awsiconquiz.com/
270
510
Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126
245
123
IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852955/ibm-uk-government-contract-biometric-facial-recognition
243
72
Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333596
223
24
Wii Architecture – A Practical Analysis
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/wii/
222
202
*@gmail.com
https://xkcd.com/2822/
214
134
NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/nasas-artemis-i-mission-nearly-broke-the-deep-space-network/
213
Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/30/2023-18624/artificial-intelligence-and-copyright
211
218
Docker Is Four Things
https://matthiasportzel.com/docker/
209
12
Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole
https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/31/isros-chandrayaan-3-confirms-presence-of-sulfur-and-other-elements-on-lunar-south-pole/
208
54
New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis
https://med.umn.edu/news/u-m-research-team-successfully-tests-new-antifungal-therapy-fungal-meningitis
75
Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
https://medium.com/dataherald/fine-tuning-gpt-3-5-turbo-for-natural-language-to-sql-4445c1d37f7c
205
Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it?
https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-terrible/
201
65
Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos
https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage
195
3
Elixir/Erlang Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines
https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/secure_coding_and_deployment_hardening/
190
94
The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article
1
X wants permission to start collecting your bio data and employment history
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history
179
Mathematical proof is a social compact
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematical-proof-is-a-social-compact-20230831/
161
45
Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7qUW0KPfsIIOPOKL84wK_Qj9N7gvJX6v
155
170
Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853517/microsoft-teams-unbundling-europe
151
96
Doom for 16-bit DOS computers
https://github.com/FrenkelS/Doom8088
115
Rare oxygen isotope detected
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02713-3
148
73
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-5-Million-Lines
137
78
Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
https://chrlschn.medium.com/mastodon-is-rewinding-the-clock-on-social-media-in-a-good-way-8998f6d9f1aa
136
210
Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2c4fad0w6irk838pca3gg/portfolio/money-is-pouring-into-ai-skeptics-say-its-a-grift-shift
125
93
The low, low cost of committing cybercrime
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/The+low+low+cost+of+committing+cybercrime/30176
121
9
Cool Science Tricks (2005)
https://daveroot.neocities.org/sciencetricks/
111
Evennia: MUD/MU* creation system
https://www.evennia.com/
108
164
State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/30/state-governments-cant-resist-the-siren-song-of-censorship/
83
LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface
https://www.isro.gov.in/LIBSResults.html
107
Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition
https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/
103
X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-violated-its-own-policy-by-blocking-first-amendment-groups-ads/
101
36
Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2022/03/16/Types_vs_Sets.html
99
158
VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2023/08/31/vanmoof-acquired-e-mobility-company-lavoie
98
Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)
https://www.worldsweeper.com/SweepingCoProfiles/BikeLaneSweeper/
53
Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS
https://macspot.net/
92
52
Microsoft to unbundle Teams software in Europe to abate EU antitrust concerns
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/31/microsoft-to-unbundle-teams-software-in-europe-in-bid-to-abate-eu-concerns.html
91
142
Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/young-climate-activist-tells-greenpeace-to-drop-old-fashioned-anti-nuclear-stance/
89
21
“Ansible for DevOps” eBook by Jeff Geerling Is Now Free
https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/CTVMPCbEeXd3
87
Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61116/why-did-old-phone-numbers-start-letters
85
71
Keep your files inside your VM
https://msimkunas.lt/2023/08/28/vm-file-sharing.html
81
19
Stripe Shutdown Our Nonprofit's Account, Holding $12k in Donations Hostage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341620
133
If you make less than $55K, the Labor Department wants you to get overtime pay
https://www.businessinsider.com/you-might-be-eligible-for-overtime-pay-2023-8
80
2
The Case for Nushell
https://www.jntrnr.com/case-for-nushell/
30
The physics of hand clapping
https://physicsworld.com/a/the-physics-of-hand-clapping-heres-how-to-do-it-best/
51
Hidden 3D
https://hidden-3d.com/
67
We Are Not Supporting OpenTF
https://medium.com/@hello_9187/why-we-are-not-supporting-opentf-a46855f52dc4
109
Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342013
Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/14/amazon-insisted-i-report-my-missing-package-to-the-police
32
Library of Ashurbanipal
https://www.worldhistory.org/Library_of_Ashurbanipal/
64
Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23852255/verizon-att-t-mobile-autopay-discount-debit-bank-credit-card
110
There have been several public library bomb threats this week
https://bookriot.com/there-have-been-several-public-library-bomb-threats-this-week/