639
57
Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-11-flappy-bird-finder/
2 years ago
524
468
Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/your-organization-probably-doesnt-want-to-improve-things/
445
62
Decomposing language models into understandable components
https://www.anthropic.com/index/decomposing-language-models-into-understandable-components
387
90
Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
https://www.applevis.com/blog/we-deserve-better-apple-why-i-can-no-longer-recommend-mac-fellow-blind-computer-users
363
59
OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera
https://github.com/OpenIPC
312
188
Why is Debian the way it is?
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2023/debian-reasons/
293
172
Forty years of programming
https://fabiensanglard.net/40/index.html
265
223
How to compete with Patreon
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html
262
102
Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538
253
202
A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/28/a-raspberry-pi-5-is-better-than-two-pi-4s/
245
60
The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
https://tailscale.dev/blog/docker-mod-tailscale
230
190
Extreme parkour with legged robots
https://extreme-parkour.github.io/
210
161
Zen 5's Leaked Slides
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/08/zen-5s-leaked-slides/
206
71
Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres
https://docs.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_bm25
193
79
Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/know-yourself-better-by-writing-what-pops-into-your-head/
192
204
Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023004014
184
74
Metals Fuse Together in Space
https://www.spacecentre.nz/resources/facts/physics/metals-fuse.html
181
191
Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour
179
91
Fastest sailboat: Two wild designs
https://newatlas.com/marine/syroco-sp80-testing/
177
100
Before Skynet and The Matrix, there was Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://www.ign.com/articles/colossus-the-forbin-project-ai-sci-fi-movie
175
43
500 Lines or Less (2016)
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html#500lines
171
How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puksg4iD3RY
164
280
Does Market Timing Work?
https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/does-market-timing-work
152
An implantable device could enable injection-free control of diabetes
https://news.mit.edu/2023/implantable-device-enable-injection-free-control-diabetes-0918
149
45
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-7/
142
68
Fury – Fast multi-language serialization framework powered by JIT and Zero-copy
https://github.com/alipay/fury
141
31
Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps
https://render.com/blog/knative
133
39
Oil-Canning
http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2023/08/dude-wheres-my-cybertruck.html
36
Mitigations=off considered harmful or spurious SIGILL on AMD Zen4
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/mitigations-off-considered-harmful-or-spurious-sigill-on-amd-zen4/202049
128
64
MiniDisc Hacking
https://www.sharoma.com/minidisc/hacking.htm
123
Show HN: This is what social media could be
https://bloom.tendtoyourgarden.xyz/
117
55
Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/
114
65
Email Steve Jobs sent to himself 1 year before his passing
https://officechai.com/stories/steve-jobs-email-to-self/
113
32
Calling Rust from Python
https://blog.frankel.ch/rust-from-python/
103
Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/07/newsom-veto-caste-discrimination-00120495
101
The anatomy of a smart bulb
https://cheriches.com/smart-home/2023-10-07-the-anatomy-of-a-smart-bulb.html
99
A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders (2000)
https://www.minidisc.org/repair_info.html
33
Lessons from bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/lessons-from-bootstrapped-companies
Demo-driven development (2021)
https://www.rubick.com/demo-driven-development/
93
67
New study confirms gulf stream weakening
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-definitively-gulf-stream-weakening.html
29
Workloads on Arm-based AWS instances
https://bignacio.github.io/soc/docs/articles/arm64-x86_64-on-aws/
89
84
Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-are-perfect-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains-why/
88
18
What is a "document"? (1997) [pdf]
https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Buckland_Michael_K_1997_What_is_a_Document.pdf
86
69
Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/07/10-questions-to-ask-a-teenager-to-start-an-important-conversation
23
How far did my post go on the Fediverse?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/how-far-did-my-post-go-on-the-fediverse/
83
87
Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths
https://www.thejusticegap.com/experts-warn-letby-inquiry-about-misinterpreting-stats-to-explain-suspicious-clusters-of-hospitals-deaths/
80
108
The NYC's MTA 20 year needs assessment reminds us they can't build
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/10/06/the-mta-20-year-needs-assessment-reminds-us-they-cant-build/
Ferrocene – Rust for Critical Systems
https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/
78
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/empires-steppes-kenneth-w-harl-review
30
CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months
https://www.eurogamer.net/cd-projekt-red-devs-unionise-after-its-third-round-of-layoffs-in-three-months
77
A more mature take on stateless Terraform
https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-stateless-critique/
Projects Innovating Around RISC-V
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/seven-projects-innovating-around
75
Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellite internet prototypes
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/06/amazon-launch-project-kuiper-satellite-internet-prototypes.html
CancelQuora
https://interestingauthors.com/blog/experience/quora/
CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-gov-gavin-newsom-vetoes-bill-decriminalized-psychedelic-103810533
72
47
California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/07/california-governor-vetoes-bill-to-decriminalize-natural-psychedelic-drugs
4
Fast and Clean: Auditable high-performance assembly via constraint solving [pdf]
https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1303.pdf
14
The Algorithm for Precision Medicine, talk by Matthew Might [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRt1Rxru3T0#t=7h29m55s
The three modern formats for email forwarded by people
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EmailThreeForwardingFormats
96
Life course patterns of prescription drug use in the United States
https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/60/5/1549/382305/Life-Course-Patterns-of-Prescription-Drug-Use-in
116
Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto – economists say city will suffer
https://www.thestar.com/business/thousands-of-young-people-are-fleeing-toronto-economists-say-the-city-will-suffer-because-of/article_1bd938b4-246d-5b24-b0ac-20960d216f30.html
