955
182
Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484135
a year ago
778
541
Credit card debt collection
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-consumer-finance/
749
1981
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-debuts-iphone-15-and-iphone-15-plus/
520
376
Death by a Thousand Microservices
https://renegadeotter.com/2023/09/10/death-by-a-thousand-microservices.html
501
526
Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
474
256
Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet
450
296
We built the fastest CI and it failed
https://earthly.dev/blog/shutting-down-earthly-ci/
368
290
New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/09/from-zero-to-one-hundred-in-0-956-seconds.html
333
262
Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html
310
247
Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
https://apnews.com/article/sweden-digital-education-backlash-reading-writing-1dd964c628f76361c43dbf3964f7dbf4
236
The Death of Unity
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity
280
78
How long it took different companies to find product-market fit
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/finding-product-market-fit
274
142
Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482216
251
498
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/
239
106
Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise
https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2023/2023090701.html
235
174
The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s
https://twitter.com/danhockenmaier/status/1701608618087571787
233
95
The New Godot Development Fund
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-developer-fund/
218
93
Category Theory Illustrated – Sets
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/01_set/
214
136
Notes from building a blog in Django
https://til.simonwillison.net/django/building-a-blog-in-django
177
Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-reveals-x-account-hack-was-caused-by-sim-swap-attack
195
75
How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?
https://thepalindrome.org/p/how-large-that-number-in-the-law
190
89
Some notes on local-first development
https://bricolage.io/some-notes-on-local-first-development/
175
79
Simulating History with ChatGPT
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/simulating-history-with-chatgpt
28
Birb: Programming with bird emojis
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Birb
171
183
‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23911027/mystery-blue-lights-morocco-earthquake/
161
Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default
https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https
157
115
Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/09/12/phoenix-1-7-for-elixir-edit-a-form-in-a-modal.html
152
127
Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux
https://securelist.com/backdoored-free-download-manager-linux-malware/110465/
149
What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition
https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2023/
147
Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)
https://foodtolive.com/healthy-blog/black-currants-banned-usa/
143
19
Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/09/hacking-book8088-for-better-accuracy.html
102
You're barely managing
https://barely-managing.bearblog.dev/youre-barely-managing/
173
I think I kind of hate lazy loading
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/i-think-i-kind-of-hate-lazy-loading/
134
31
The Rules of Margin Collapse
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/rules-of-margin-collapse/
128
105
WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
222
Reasons to not use your own domain for email
https://www.bautista.dev/reasons-to-not-use-your-own-domain-for-email
124
The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
123
44
Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/09/11/arxiv-org-is-experiencing-a-ddos-attack/
122
141
NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/11/nasa-planet-ocean-life-james-webb-telescope
60
QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs
http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/
120
68
Ask HN: How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477205
119
83
Show HN: Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all
https://www.howmuchrent.com/
114
59
Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.10/
86Box v4.0
https://86box.net/2023/08/26/86box-v4-0.html
109
A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis
https://www.today.com/health/mom-chatgpt-diagnosis-pain-rcna101843
Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/11/news/oxford-study-proves-heat-pumps-triumph-over-fossil-fuels-cold
103
126
Fixing Penn Station
https://commonedge.org/whats-to-become-of-the-mess-that-is-penn-station/
51
FM radio wave-based early earthquake detection (2021)
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/FM-Radio-Wave-Based-Early-Earthquake-Detection-S.-A./9c16db904623d7aa794ea90ae7d0067d6ea71d96
27
Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-elusive-particles-that-remember-their-pasts-20230509/
98
Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/12/bye-lightning-hello-usb-c/
97
100
For the first time in years, I’m excited by my computer purchase
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10564-for-the-first-time-in-years-im-excited-by-my-computer-purchase
90
Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)
https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=1796
169
Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/09/covid-patients-exhale-up-to-1000-copies-of-virus-per-minute-during-first-eight-days-of-symptoms/
84
186
Steam turns 20 today: “We had to try a lot of different things over the years”
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-turns-20-today-weve-had-to-try-a-lot-of-different-things-over-the-years
3
Steam is 20 Years Old
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam20
264
Why not punish families? A challenge for consequentialists
https://betonit.substack.com/p/why-not-punish-families
82
33
Control USB power on a port by port basis on some USB hubs
https://github.com/codazoda/hub-ctrl.c
81
Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/08/gmail-instagram-facebook-trains-ai/
Breaking Through Depression
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/10/breaking-through-depression-new-treatments-discoveries-for-healing-the-balanced-brain-science-of-mental-health-philip-gold-camilla-nord-reviews
57
How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/do-not-suffer-him-become-bigot
I2c-USB-hub: An i2C Controllable USB 2.0 Hub
https://github.com/JimHeaney/i2c-usb-hub
77
On Robots Killing People
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/on-robots-killing-people.html
Fandom can't decide if leaked songs are real or AI-generated
https://www.404media.co/harry-styles-one-direction-ai-leaked-songs/
The Lindy Effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09045
74
15
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1971) [pdf]
https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf
72
87
$2.70 supermarket wine wins gold medal at international wine contest
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/2-70-supermarket-wine-wins-gold-medal-at-international-wine-contest.html
29
Compile time regular expression in C++
https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions
71
The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111048777391239744
Statistical significance on a shoestring budget
https://alexeymk.com/2023/09/11/statistical-significance-on-a-shoestring-budget.html
JEP 454: Foreign Function and Memory API
https://openjdk.org/jeps/454