510
165
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
https://vgel.me/posts/c500/
3 years ago
486
251
VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode
https://vscodium.com
406
326
Tidal energy is not renewable
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/tide.html
405
214
Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old
https://torrentfreak.com/tv-museum-will-die-in-48-hours-unless-sony-retracts-youtube-copyright-strikes-230904/
385
121
Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64
314
223
Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oscilloscope-watch-ships-after-10-years
306
224
Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2023-09-03-Glove80.html
296
83
Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot
https://twitter.com/georainbolt/status/1698553197684777069
285
150
The curl-wget Venn diagram
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/04/the-curl-wget-venn-diagram/
271
135
Plastic Money
https://computer.rip/2023-09-03-plastic-money.html
263
129
Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
https://sr.ht/~ashton314/emacs-bedrock/
238
96
Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs
235
199
I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
https://louison.substack.com/p/i-built-a-plane-spotter-for-my-son
328
When tech says ‘no’
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/8/24/when-tech-says-no
213
65
Bintracker: A chiptune audio workstation for the 21st century
https://bintracker.org/
211
79
Everything I know about floppy disks
https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2023-08-28/
202
123
“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/x-twitter-severance-pay-arbitration-cases-fees/
201
60
TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens
https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama
195
24
Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U
https://pretendo.network/
182
198
Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
https://kaviisuri.com/you-dont-need-to-learn-svelte
181
100
Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval
https://refact.ai/blog/2023/introducing-refact-code-llm/
Show HN: Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools
https://github.com/keephq/keep
172
157
Can we talk to whales?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales
169
42
Chinchilla’s death
https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/chinchilla-s-death.html
166
28
Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily
https://spectrolite.app
164
19
Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020)
https://kowainik.github.io/posts/haskell-mini-patterns
161
An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/04/ban-caste-discrimination-california-bill-00113817
46
LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
155
82
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/08/29/conical-intersection-simulation-slowed-by-quantum-computer-100-billion-times.html
84
Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
https://news.ki.se/antioxidants-stimulate-blood-flow-in-tumours
143
140
SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/09/03/hot-chips-2023-sifives-p870-takes-risc-v-further/
141
90
How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgoBRbfkUA
130
43
Man, Myth and Magic
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/09/04/the-most-unusual-magazine-ever-published-man-myth-and-magic/
128
20
The usefulness of a memory guides where the brain saves it?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-usefulness-of-a-memory-guides-where-the-brain-saves-it-20230830/
125
132
What’s wrong with billable hours
https://daedtech.com/every-billable-hour-is-amateur-hour/
205
Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/07/dining/cooking-videos-tiktok.html
122
14
WiiLink – Japanese Wii channels revived
https://www.wiilink24.com/
The Battle over Books3
https://www.wired.com/story/battle-over-books3/
160
Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-04/look-inside-huawei-mate-60-pro-phone-powered-by-made-in-china-chip
119
145
Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-disaster-climate-insurance/
115
230
WASM: Big deal or little deal?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/web_assembly_wasm_column/
114
.KKRIEGER – Fully Functional Sci-Fi FPS into Just 96kb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg
113
87
The History of Windows 95
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-95
44
Four Lectures on Standard ML (1989) [pdf]
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/mads-tofte/four-lectures.pdf
Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02741-z
110
12
Dennis Ritchie Home Page
http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/
106
70
The Ones We Sent Away
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/disabled-children-institutionalization-history/674763/
104
3
A Test Suite for the Intel 8088
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-test-suite-for-intel-8088.html
103
73
Researchers have found that micro-spikes etched into titanium rupture microbes
https://newatlas.com/medical/titanium-spikes-effective-drug-free-kill-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs/
102
37
Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environment/news/article/5391/extreme-el-ni-o-weather-switched-off-south-american-s-carbon-sink
112
A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-11/the-plot-to-steal-the-secret-coke-can-liner-formula
32
Astro 3.0
https://astro.build/blog/astro-3/
The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug23/airbnb-bubble8-23.html
99
17
History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (1987)
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
69
The Gimmicks of Food Labeling
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/the-lies-in-your-grocery-store
95
162
DSLs are a waste of time
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2023/09/04/dsl
93
Hardware Random Bit Generator
https://web.jfet.org/hw-rng.html
92
Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/09/04/is-macoss-new-xprotect-behavioural-security-preparing-to-go-live/
34
Paul Buchheit interview (2018)
https://dev.to/triplebyte/gmail-creator-and-yc-partner-paul-buchheit-on-joining-google-how-to-become-a-great-engineer-and-happiness-599o
91
89
Pad kaphrao contest seeks true taste of Thai dish
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/27/competition-seeks-true-taste-of-thailands-national-dish
Cuber: Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily
https://github.com/cuber-cloud/cuber-gem
49
Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campus when Azure went out
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-had-three-staff-at-australian-data-centre-campus-when-azure-went-out-599849
35
Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep
https://github.com/BurntSushi/rg-cratesio-typosquat
41
Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381377
215
Google was founded 25 years ago today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
How to level up beyond ETLs
https://www.ezzeriesa.com/index/Writing%20efa7772a3ae64a8193c7ef981ac619fc/How%20to%20level%20up%20beyond%20ETLs%200987988358654751a8538a05bde18f96.html
39
Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
https://cybersecuritynews.com/multiple-notepad-flaw/
80
Jitsi Meet abandons anonimity promise
https://reclaimthenet.org/private-zoom-alternative-jitsi-meet-abandons-anonymity-promise
Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub
https://github.com/georgian-io/LLM-Finetuning-Hub
72
The Apple $2T Economy
http://www.asymco.com/2023/09/04/the-2-trillion-economy/
Secret government telephone numbers
https://computer.rip/2023-02-07-secret-government-telephone-numbers.html
68
How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago?
https://themessenger.com/tech/forty-years-ago-scientists-warned-about-climate-change-how-accurate-were-their-predictions
67
23
Show HN: uDSV.js – A faster CSV parser
https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV
57
A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework
https://notgull.github.io/async-gui/
66
4
Show HN: Comgra: A library for debugging and understanding neural networks
https://github.com/FlorianDietz/comgra
11
Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents
https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/
I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/04/prison-labor-exploitation-america/
