1089
367
Bun v1.0.0
https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0
3 years ago
837
228
Touch Pianist
http://touchpianist.com/
704
613
Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
https://bitbashing.io/async-rust.html
505
170
Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
https://mtlynch.io/aardvarkd/
449
151
Procreate Dreams
https://procreate.com/dreams
423
526
Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1700092765798048093
407
61
I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17
https://www.macstories.net/stories/i-used-a-game-boy-camera-for-facetime-video-calls-in-ipados-17-and-it-was-glorious/
393
347
Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy
https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy
366
154
Emoji Generator with AI
https://emoji.fly.dev
344
101
FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/8/23864538/turbotax-intuit-ftc-deceptive-practices-free-tax-filing
265
39
Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/bees-struggle-to-find-flowers-because-of-air-pollution
261
123
Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)
https://maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/
241
107
Safety inspector fired for finding 'too many defects'
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/a-track-inspector-claimed-he-was-fired-for-reporting-too-many-defects-his-secret-recordings-may-cost-bnsf-millions/
231
150
Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/snoop-unto-them/
229
73
PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html
227
37
LogoScale – A method for vectorizing small, crappy logos
https://msprout.notion.site/LogoScale-A-Method-for-Vectorizing-Small-Crappy-Logos-dc0035b7473c44f8b94ffc4026d286c0
223
276
California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-07/california-magic-mushrooms-psychedelics-scott-wiener-psilocybin
211
133
NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/08/new-york-police-tracking-voyager-labs-meta-contract
204
Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/forwarding_based_spoofing
202
108
Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs
https://rafalcieslak.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/dynamic-linker-tricks-using-ld_preload-to-cheat-inject-features-and-investigate-programs/
200
LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
https://librewolf.net/
186
45
Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system
https://github.com/RuyiLi/cursed-typescript/blob/master/random/game-of-life.ts
183
134
Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09637214221121570
176
30
Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications
https://rivet.ironcladapp.com/
168
153
The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines
https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/08/dennis-austin-software-developer-powerpoint-dies/
164
187
FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-accident-faa-a8d6cec63de579af4b6d5f040e51825d
160
100
TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/tsmc_ai_chip_crunch/
157
29
Unpacking Elixir: Real-Time and Latency
https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-realtime-latency.html
155
77
Cerabyte: ceramic storage poised to usher in 'yottabyte era'
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerabyte-ceramic-storage-poised-to-usher-in-yottabyte-era
143
125
Zinc-air batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion: study
https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/move-over-lithium-ion-zinc-air-batteries-a-cheaper-and-safer-alternative
141
67
Towards a new SymPy
https://oscarbenjamin.github.io/blog/czi/post1.html
140
52
The rxv64 Operating System: MIT's xv6, in Rust, for SMP x86_64 machines
https://github.com/dancrossnyc/rxv64
138
84
A small-town police officer took down a large match-fixing ring in tennis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/tennis-match-fixing-gambling-investigation-belgium/
114
How to make a synthetic diamond (2009)
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-a-Synthetic-Diamond/
131
116
Why isn't chess popular in Japan?
https://lichess.org/@/datajunkie/blog/27-why-isnt-chess-popular-in-japan/UoEDbXUU
130
87
We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator
https://txt.cohere.com/urzas-ai/
161
Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force RTO
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/business/grindr-return-to-office-union/index.html
91
Lean 4.0
https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/releases/tag/v4.0.0
124
53
GitHubGuessr
https://github-guessr.vercel.app/
48
Unpacking Elixir: Syntax
https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-syntax.html
120
103
Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/09/08/constexpr-string-firewall/
119
97
Consumers defrauded on Zelle are left high and dry by the banks that created it [pdf]
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ZELLE%20REPORT%20OCTOBER%202022.pdf
104
IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024
https://www.cio.com/article/651215/price-shock-ibm-to-increase-cloud-costs-by-up-to-26-from-2024.html
28
The Le Guin Precepts
https://seths.blog/2023/09/the-leguin-precepts/
102
167
AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/ai-girlfriend-ads-instagram-tiktok-chat-pics-chatgpt-dose-rcna97547
69
What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/11/what-is-an-emotion-william-james/
111
Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-didnt-get-a-malaria-vaccine-sooner
99
88
Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02477-w
98
FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Companies Will Likely Ignore
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/08/fcc-proposes-voluntary-security-labels-for-internet-of-things-devices-most-companies-will-probably-ignore/
Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks
https://heatmap.news/economy/heirloom-carbon-microsoft-removal
The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications
https://acoup.blog/2023/09/08/michael-taylor-on-the-development-of-the-m1-garand-and-its-implications/
95
33
Large Language Models as Optimizers. +50% on Big Bench Hard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409
94
Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/our-climate-change-debates-are-out
92
14
Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706123003324
Texas paid Bitcoin miner more than $31M to cut energy usage
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/
90
4
SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu
89
Why walking helps us think
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think
8
The Servo project is joining Linux Foundation Europe
https://www.igalia.com/2023/09/07/The-Servo-project-is-joining-Linux-Foundation-Europe.html
81
X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
https://stackdiary.com/x-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-crawling-scraping-of-its-data/
80
46
How to Learn Emacs (2012)
https://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html
83
Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861763/apple-ai-language-models-ajax-gpt-training-spending
3
BMW ends heated seat subscriptions because people hated them
https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-is-giving-up-on-heated-seat-subscriptions-because-people-hated-them
79
iOS 17 sideloading support is coming, and Apple can’t stop it
https://bgr.com/tech/ios-17-sideloading-support-is-coming-and-apple-cant-stop-it/
76
TPM provides zero practical security
https://gist.github.com/osy/45e612345376a65c56d0678834535166
75
Did you know Git was originally created in 10 days?
https://community.appsmith.com/content/blog/evolution-git-dive-tech-history
72
FreeBSD pf bypass when using IPv6
https://www.enricobassetti.it/2023/09/cve-2023-4809-freebsd-pf-bypass-when-using-ipv6/
70
6
The Absence of Data Privacy Law Is a National Security Threat
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/absence-data-privacy-law-national-security-threat-206773
21
NVIDIA introduces TensorRT-LLM for accelerating LLM inference on H100/A100 GPUs
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-tensorrt-llm-supercharges-large-language-model-inference-on-nvidia-h100-gpus/
25
Math.Round opens the browser print dialog (2019)
https://github.com/dotnet/try/issues/290
ASMesh: Anonymous, Secure Messaging in Mesh Networks
https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1053
66
9
Drowning Machine: The Dangers of Low Head Dams
https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machine-the-dangers-of-low-head-dams
13
A Teen Celebrity in 1804
https://daily.jstor.org/a-teen-celebrity-in-1804/
64
Linux on the Arm-Based ThinkPad X13S: Getting There
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/linux_on_the_thinkpad_x13s/
