1134
197
Making Hard Things Easy
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/
2 years ago
551
302
AMD may get across the CUDA moat
https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/10/05/how-amd-may-get-across-the-cuda-moat/
365
173
Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792690
362
190
We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/03/how-were-opening-up-access-to-gov-uk-forms/
341
298
23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/
294
130
Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
https://rolepad.com
283
127
The Economics of Programming Languages [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8
281
135
Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor
https://github.com/alex028502/extra-screen
271
188
Thread-per-core
https://without.boats/blog/thread-per-core/
269
121
Show HN: DotBigBang – Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time
https://dotbigbang.com/game/1af877e9bfdb47088611f55982b7570f/prestons-diamond-wars?mp=playdw
41
What is in that .git directory?
https://blog.meain.io/2023/what-is-in-dot-git/
265
240
Rails 7.1 Released
https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.1.0
255
136
CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2023/37C3
235
57
Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes
https://shortbread.ai/
232
242
Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-2023-latest-news-intl/index.html
225
219
Half a million kinksters can't be wrong
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/half-a-million-kinksters-can-t-be-wrong
215
147
Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
https://clojure.org/news/2023/10/06/deref
204
248
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27722/why-did-the-motorola-68000-processor-family-fall-out-of-use-in-personal-computer
202
34
Gboard Hat Version
https://landing.google.co.jp/caps/
47
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
https://ollama.ai/blog/ollama-is-now-available-as-an-official-docker-image
189
108
Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2023/10/04/
177
40
Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
https://awk.dev/eda.html
174
78
Tiny Language Models Come of Age
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-language-models-thrive-with-gpt-4-as-a-teacher-20231005/
169
32
How we manage 200 open-source repos
https://turbot.com/blog/2023/10/repo-management
166
29
Lasers deflected using air
https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=2951&two_columns=0
160
115
Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/epic-games-unreal-engine-charge
128
Fail2Ban
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
159
4
23andMe scraping incident leaked data on 1.3M users
https://therecord.media/scraping-incident-genetic-testing-site
157
312
Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/10/04/productivity-has-grown-faster-in-western-europe-than-in-america
156
54
SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization
https://github.com/okuvshynov/slowllama
155
72
Android devices with backdoored firmware found in US schools
https://www.securityweek.com/android-devices-with-backdoored-firmware-found-in-us-schools/
154
110
EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer
https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/10/04/eu-grabs-arm-for-first-exaflop-supercomputer-x86-misses-out/
145
Braid is dead, long live Braid
https://amandapeyton.com/blog/2023/10/braid-is-dead-long-live-braid/
143
Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/long-gone-dec-is-still-powering-the-world-of-computing/
138
52
NSA publishes ten most common misconfigurations in networks
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-278a
92
Google's agreement with Samsung prevented Branch from launching: testimony
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-its-way
19
Looking back on SaaS product strategy
https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-saas-product-strategy
63
A 20MP Sensor in a Film Canister Reinvigorates Vintage Analog Cameras
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/06/a-20mp-sensor-in-a-film-canister-reinvigorates-vintage-analog-cameras/
124
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Chicago independently abolishes subminimum wage for tipped workers
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-council-votes-eliminate-lower-tipped-minimum-wage-20231006-xg5vpkqcxnfqhe5fqogxrpbcua-story.html
122
126
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format
117
88
The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil
https://www.space.com/ozone-hole-antarctica-three-times-size-of-brazil
116
94
OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-owner-openai-is-exploring-making-its-own-ai-chips-sources-2023-10-06/
89
Reversing 'France Identité': The New French Digital ID
https://www.reversemode.com/2023/10/reversing-france-identite-new-french.html
114
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Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN
https://here.news/post/93c46bbd-ea0d-48e2-bba6-135e58887f81/chinese-netizen-fined-over-1-million-yua
113
26
The White Gold of Turda, Romania
https://holeinthedonut.com/2013/11/21/salina-turda-salt-mine-in-romania/
21
Show HN: Decorate Java stack traces with source code snippets
https://github.com/laech/java-stacksrc
22
How to add documentation to your product life cycle
https://thisisimportant.net/posts/process-models-for-documentation/
107
65
A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hedge-funds-skirt-california-noncompete-ban-what-means-ny-2023-9
106
28
Emacs and shellcheck
https://amitp.blogspot.com/2023/10/emacs-and-shellcheck.html
When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?
https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/when-does-an-old-iphone-become-unsafe-to-use/
105
12
Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo
https://jimbo.itch.io/petscii-side-scrolling-platformer
104
153
Kentucky made child care free for child care workers
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1203182131/kentucky-free-child-care-day-care-workers
103
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/06/signs-of-undeclared-chatgpt-use-in-papers-mounting/
102
15
Ash: A Gentle Primer
https://jon.hk/elixir/ash/a-gentle-primer-to-ash/
99
84
Addictive cheap and controversial: the rise of China’s Temu app
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/addictive-absurdly-cheap-and-controversial-the-rise-of-chinas-temu-app
Could we make C arrays memory safe? Probably not, but let's try
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/10/could-we-make-c-arrays-memory.html
97
25
Open-ribbon – A Project to reverse engineer the PS1 music game Vib-Ribbon
https://github.com/open-ribbon/open-ribbon
59
When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (2021)
https://www.algolia.com/blog/engineering/when-allocators-are-hoarding-your-precious-memory/
17
India's banks are making $64B from free cashless payments
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/india-s-banks-make-64-billion-from-free-cashless-payments
93
OpenPubKey and Sigstore
https://blog.sigstore.dev/openpubkey-and-sigstore/
91
Tell HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375
90
MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach
https://www.reuters.com/business/mgm-expects-cybersecurity-issue-negatively-impact-third-quarter-earnings-2023-10-05/
125
ASP.NET Core Blazor
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/?view=aspnetcore-7.0
11
Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey (2020)
https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/#
83
64
You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/06/miku_baby_monitor/
24
Tell HN: Fastmail is leaking internal routing email address/username with teams
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791500
51
Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/28/up-to-tenth-of-amazon-shoppers-in-great-britain-bribed-by-sellers-to-offer-good-review-poll-finds
13
Bus Sniffing the IBM 5150
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/10/bus-sniffing-ibm-5150.html
80
45
Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792300
77
America's Steam Empire
https://technicshistory.com/2023/10/06/americas-steam-empire/
76
38
Ring Is Cashing in on the UFO Craze to Promote Its Surveillance Dystopia
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y8m3/ring-is-cashing-in-on-the-ufo-craze-to-promote-its-surveillance-dystopia
75
100
Dear Spotify, stop treating your users like testers
https://anandtyagi.medium.com/dear-spotify-stop-treating-your-users-like-testers-361836b1b6cc
74
2
Airbnb guest stays at LA rental for 500 days without paying, refuses to leave
https://www.foxla.com/news/airbnb-guest-refuses-to-leave-brentwood-rental-home-after-500-days-without-paying
73
Humans are biased. Generative AI is even worse
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/
50
US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03135-x
5
Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models with Dictionary Learning
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/monosemantic-features/index.html
69
Oh-My-God Particle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
68
35
One in five Silicon Valley office buildings is vacant
https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/06/silicon-valley-office-space-real-estate-vacancy-rate-great-recession-record/
49
Neobrutalism components – A collection of react-tailwind components
https://github.com/ekmas/neobrutalism-components
7
Redox OS Development Priorities for 2023/24
https://www.redox-os.org/news/development-priorities-2023-09/
9
Go JSON/v2 Package
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/63397
