1545
628
The worst programmer I know
https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/
3 years ago
1028
264
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
502
170
PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364605
443
231
Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/tax-prep-companies-lobbying-against-free-file-face-scrutiny-from-lawmakers/
326
126
How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VOnKMJqIL0
273
152
Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15022
205
Tesla, Rivian Put on Fake Show of Support for ‘Right to Repair’
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/01/tesla-rivian-put-on-fake-show-of-support-for-right-to-repair/
272
59
Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996)
https://archive.org/details/build-your-own-flight-sim-in-c-dos-game-dev-michael-radtke-chris-lampton
271
33
On Craft
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
238
122
I mirrored all the code from PyPI to GitHub and analysed it
https://py-code.org/stats
226
354
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-killing-wordpad-in-windows-after-28-years/
125
A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/llm-forecast/question/Capital-of-Paris
191
60
Semantic Zoom
https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/038/
188
227
No way in or out of Burning Man after storm
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/no-access-after-burning-man-rain-storm-18344393.php
178
90
Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/08/426056/can-artificial-kidney-finally-free-patients-dialysis
174
72
How to edit your own lousy writing (2017)
https://stingingfly.org/2017/10/24/edit-lousy-writing/
171
34
Index of Aesthetics
https://cari.institute/aesthetics
169
91
Calibre replacement considerations (2019)
https://anarc.at/software/desktop/calibre/
168
65
A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit
https://splice.com/blog/amen-break/
145
A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16025
164
22
Bézier Curves and the logic behind them
https://blog.richardekwonye.com/bezier-curves
160
Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-scientist-mushroom-poison/
159
278
Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2023/08/29/for-to-withhold-is-to-perish/
155
63
ForgeFed
https://forgefed.org/
35
Show HN: Shaq, a CLI for Shazam
https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/07/27/Introducing-shaq-a-CLI-for-shazam
150
21
LensLeech: Touch a camera to control your devices
https://volzo.de/thing/lensleech/
144
42
Show HN: XRss – RSS Reader and web stack demo
https://xrss.infogulch.com/
138
26
DOS Game Club
https://www.dosgameclub.com/
137
28
Time to preserve those floppy disks
https://www.patreon.com/posts/78074244
135
18
Lorapaper: A connected e-paper device that runs on light
https://github.com/RobPo/lorapaper
131
The B Lane Swimmer (2009)
https://holly.witteman.ca/the-b-lane-swimmer/
121
62
Csound
https://csound.com/get-started.html
120
67
Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)
https://research.swtch.com/sparse
119
103
Ask HN: How to Focus Again?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37362200
118
37
An intuition for logarithms
https://thasso.xyz/2023/09/02/an-intuition-for-logarithms/
113
27
Found in a Library Book (2022)
https://oaklandlibrary.org/found-in-a-library-book/
107
83
Show HN: Menu Bar Calendar on macOS
https://sindresorhus.com/menu-bar-calendar
104
97
Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/not-a-single-emperor-penguin-chick-survived-spring-in-parts-of-antarctica-20230822-p5dykw.html
102
Samsung Unveils Industry's First 32Gbit DDR5 Memory Die: 1TB Modules Incoming
https://www.anandtech.com/show/20039/samsung-unveils-industrys-first-32gbit-ddr5-die-1tb-modules-incoming
Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)
https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html
24
Open-sourcing SQX, a way to build flexible database models in Go
https://stytch.com/blog/open-sourcing-sqx-a-way-to-build-flexible-database-models-in-go/
100
20
GameRoy: JIT Compilation in High-Accuracy Game Boy Emulation
https://rodrigodd.github.io/2023/09/02/gameroy-jit.html
50
The game I've spent 3.5 years on has been rejected and retired by Steam today
https://sh.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/167iied/the_game_ive_spent_35_years_and_my_savings_on_has/
94
31
The tensor product, demystified (2018)
https://www.math3ma.com/blog/the-tensor-product-demystified
66
Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare
https://www.wired.com/story/paper-cups-toxic/
88
56
A Company of One
https://rishad.substack.com/p/a-company-of-one
85
101
Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai
https://github.com/focus-editor/focus
84
48
Invariants: A Better Debugger?
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/07/28/ds-testing.html
78
74
The History of Windows NT 3.1
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-nt-31
77
A little-known shipwreck that inspired ‘Dracula’
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/last-voyage-of-the-demeter-dracula-dmitry
7
Recursive Racks [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckrrQTkTqIo
12
A portrait of Tenochtitlan -3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/
41
Groundwater depletion in India may triple due to climate warming, study finds
https://news.umich.edu/groundwater-depletion-rates-in-india-could-triple-in-coming-decades-as-climate-warms-study-shows/