953
919
Scrollbars are becoming a problem
https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
2 years ago
632
320
Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
https://newsletter.smallbets.co/p/why-you-shouldnt-join-y-combinator
583
209
Every app that adds AI looks like this
https://botharetrue.substack.com/p/every-app-that-adds-ai-looks-like
419
556
Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook
411
132
TimeGPT-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03589
364
81
The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online
https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-internet-archive/
335
576
Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/13/microsoft-deal-to-buy-call-of-duty-maker-activision-blizzard-cleared-by-uk
333
207
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2396510-mathematician-warns-us-spies-may-be-weakening-next-gen-encryption/
319
92
The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)
https://mprove.de/script/99/kai/
304
199
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-publicly-acknowledges-1953-coup-backed-iran-was-undemocratic-revis-rcna120154
280
54
Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU
http://litherum.blogspot.com/2023/10/implementing-gpus-programming-model-on.html
277
36
Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/How_browsers_work
273
115
iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
79
Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/10/13/removal-of-mazda-connected-services-integration/
258
39
Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA
https://lightning.ai/pages/community/lora-insights/
253
28
Signal Identification Wiki
https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide
251
266
Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database
https://blog.xot.nl/2023/10/11/tainting-the-csam-client-side-scanning-database/index.html
228
77
MathJax: Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
https://www.mathjax.org/
225
70
Scalar: Generate interactive API documentations from Swagger files
https://github.com/scalar/scalar
221
107
Cisco can't stop using hard-coded passwords
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/cisco-cant-stop-using-hard-coded-passwords.html
220
89
GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference
https://gpsjam.org/?lat=45.00000&lon=35.00000&z=3.0&date=2023-10-10
211
27
What I wish I knew when I got my ASN
https://quantum5.ca/2023/10/10/what-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-got-my-asn/
93
Jesus nut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut
205
83
OpenWrt 23.05
https://openwrt.org/releases/23.05/notes-23.05.0
196
Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/04/1080128/2023-climate-tech-companies-blue-frontier-air-conditioning-energy-storage-climate-technology/
183
80
Sodium ascorbate treatment for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials
https://florey.edu.au/news/2023/10/remarkable-medical-discovery-for-sepsis-moves-to-next-phase-of-human-trials/
76
Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting police tech in our communities
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
181
Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
https://davidlattimore.github.io/making-supply-chain-attacks-harder.html
188
Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
https://zach.codes/p/a-developers-review-framework-13
174
82
USPS is falsifying safety docs as its workers die of heat
https://www.texasobserver.org/usps-worker-heat-death-safety/
171
162
The Price-Fixing Economy
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-price-fixing-economy
169
69
Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
https://github.com/PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments
72
Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer
https://news.engin.umich.edu/2023/10/these-bubbles-kill-cancer/
100
Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)
https://phys.org/news/2009-11-extinct-goat-cold-blooded.html
Make Your Car Electric for 5K in Less Than a Day
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-AU/2023/project/revr/
165
42
Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816
161
114
Words that deserve wider use
https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/list
159
50
The Classic Super Star Trek Game
https://www.michaelburns.net/Software/Trek/
20
The Compact Calendar 2023-2024
https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
137
146
Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'
https://theconversation.com/cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-heres-how-they-get-away-with-collecting-and-sharing-your-data-214386
136
187
"Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hallucinating-ais-sound-creative-but-lets-not-celebrate-being-wrong/
134
123
Nature: Programming language to experience the joy of programming
https://nature-lang.org/
131
23
Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governments-set-to-approve-the-end-of-private-messaging-and-secure-encryption/
130
3
Microsoft Closes $69B Activision Deal, Overcoming Regulators' Objections
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/technology/microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal-closes.html
125
How to fit a large program into a small machine (1980)
https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm
122
17
Bounty to Recover NIST's Elliptic Curve Seeds
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/bounty-to-recover-nists-elliptic-curve-seeds.html
121
Would we still create Nebula today?
https://www.defined.net/blog/would-we-still-create-nebula-today/
118
31
The Thumb Calendar
http://thumbcalendar.com/
113
62
Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/protecting-customers-with-generative-ai-indemnification
112
84
LoRA Fine-Tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qmQFHCgCyEEjuy5a7/lora-fine-tuning-efficiently-undoes-safety-training-from
111
53
The Advice SaaS Startup Founders Would Give Their Younger Selves
https://www.justbeepit.com/post/saas-startup-founders-what-advice-would-you-give-your-younger-selves-here-s-what-they-said
We Were Wrong About the GPLs
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/10/13/Wrong-About-GPLs
106
40
"Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People", 7 Years Later
https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/building-machines-that-learn-and
58
Nineteenth century scientists set out to solve the "problem of American storms"
https://www.neh.gov/article/storm-patrol
105
64
OpenZFS 2.2: Block Cloning, Linux Containers, BLAKE3
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.0
102
FTX thief cashes out millions during Bankman-Fried trial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67090501
The Beatles’ collaborative notes: Three ways to write a song
https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/the-beatles-notes-3-ways-to-write
98
The Quest to Recreate a Lost and 'Terrifying' Medieval Mead
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-make-medieval-mead-bochet
97
108
Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870842
35
The History of Cover Flow
https://512pixels.net/2023/10/the-history-of-cover-flow/
94
128
Tesla is launching their developer APIs
https://developer.tesla.com/docs
Roughly 80% of Grades Given at Harvard Are in the 'A' Range
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/12/the-incredibles-roughly-80-percent-of-grades-given-at-harvard-are-as/
90
Reproducibility trial: Biologists get different results from same data sets
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03177-1
86
34
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' cars: Ex-employees
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars/102202382
85
Kenichi Shinohara's pixel art Ukiyo-e (1987)
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/10/13/kenichi-shinohara-pixel-art-ukiyo-e/
46
Higher Mushroom Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer Risk
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831322004641
22
The Rise and Reign of Japanese VCRs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMv5V-wxT8
14
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/13/equifax_fca_fine/
9
Ads on your phone can aid government surveillance
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/how-ads-on-your-phone-can-aid-government-surveillance-943bde04
74
99
Two years of raising a bilingual daughter
https://joeprevite.com/2-years-bilingual-journey/
7
Knife Sharpness Chart [pdf]
http://knifegrinders.com.au/Manuals/Sharpness_Chart.pdf
73
The MP3mobile (1998)
http://utter.chaos.org.uk/~altman/mp3mobile/
12
Scientists generate first single-cell atlas of the primate brain
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-generate-single-cell-atlas-primate.html
