1227
323
As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code
https://dunfield.themindfactory.com/dnldsrc.htm
2 years ago
696
I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E
583
179
Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
https://www.portugaltheman.com/?frontpage=true
489
198
No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
https://shmck.substack.com/p/no-dogs-were-harmed-in-the-making
426
257
Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting
261
126
Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all Africans
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/leaders/from-barriers-to-unity-rwanda-joins-kenya-to-initiate-visa-free-travel-for-all/hhqe29q
255
244
Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial
https://fortune.com/2023/11/03/bayer-332-million-judgement-trial-man-cancer-decades-monsanto-roundup-weedkiller/
241
73
Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112515
240
86
Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way
https://asciinema.org/
233
72
First observation of a virus attaching to another virus
https://umbc.edu/stories/first-observed-virus-attaching-to-another/
41
Wooden Game Boy
https://there.oughta.be/a/wooden-game-boy
231
63
Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform
https://eidas-open-letter.org/
119
Audacity 3.4
https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/audacity-3-4/
220
400
M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/03/m3-macs-theres-more-to-performance-than-counting-cores/
209
118
Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.5
208
140
GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users
https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_system-prompts/all_tools.md
202
89
Okta hit by third-party breach, stealing employee data
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/okta-hit-by-another-breach-this-one-stealing-employee-data-from-3rd-party-vendor/
197
42
Surround sound test files for every audio format
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JxmeedtAtgmoafXv9rroiDOS2vEX7N4b
196
112
A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/a-new-fsharp-compiler-feature-graphbased-typechecking/
191
A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
https://github.com/lone-lang/lone
101
The Binder Linux driver is being rewritten in Rust
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/
187
131
Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
https://arne.me/articles/write-your-own-ssg
185
175
Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home
https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/
183
64
Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code
https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR
182
217
Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/what-young-people-would-give-up-for-a-4-day-workweek.html
39
Hidden manuals: gittutorial, giteveryday, gitglossary, gitworkflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38124845
180
MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model
https://blog.research.google/2023/11/metnet-3-state-of-art-neural-weather.html?m=1
174
68
GitHub 404 errors
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38133356
172
26
EU Tries to Slip in New Powers to Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/eu-tries-to-slip-in-new-powers-to-intercept-encrypted-web-traffic-without-anyone-noticing/
160
91
Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding
https://bitmovin.com/av1/av1-encoding-guide/
150
153
Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
Email.radio – Free Email Domain for Licensed Ham Radio Operators
https://email.radio/
139
151
Nuclear Conversion for Starship
http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2021/10/nuclear-conversion-for-starship.html
127
169
Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers
https://openjdk.org/jeps/461
If you plant milkweed, they will come
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/realestate/gardening-milkweed-plants-butterflies.html
51
Ken Mattingly, astronaut scrubbed from Apollo 13, has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/science/space/ken-mattingly-dead.html
121
Embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier (2017)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
29
Show HN: MicroLua – Lua for the RP2040 Microcontroller
https://github.com/MicroLua/MicroLua
117
40
GitHub was down
https://www.githubstatus.com/
116
141
We are investigating reports of degraded performance
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xb30mby9fs5x
115
25
Frink is a programming language designed to make physical calculations simple
https://frinklang.org/
35
The Sega Hitachi HiSaturn Navi Console
https://nfggames.com/games/hisaturn/
111
57
Enable ARMv9 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) on Pixel 8
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2023/10/26/enable-mte-on-pixel-8/
108
What we are doing today with CAR-T cell therapy against cancer seems like SciFi
https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-11-01/miguel-angel-perales-oncologist-what-we-are-doing-today-with-car-t-cell-therapy-against-cancer-seems-like-science-fiction.html
107
102
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/03/why-mozilla-is-betting-on-a-decentralized-social-networking-future/
100
Telnet BBS Guide
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
98
Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2023/11/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-king-effective-altruism
81
Jevons paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
54
The Anthropogenic Salt Cycle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00485-y
87
46
How to help someone use a computer (1996)
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html
85
18
First Handset with MTE on the Market
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/11/first-handset-with-mte-on-market.html
84
New BeagleV single board computer adopts Microchip's PolarFire SoC with FPGA
https://linuxgizmos.com/new-beaglev-single-board-computer-adopts-microchips-polarfire-soc/
83
50
Charm has raised $6M in funding
https://charm.sh/blog/the-next-generation/
11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/10/11-of-the-worlds-billionaires-have-held-or-sought-political-office/
47
Translations of Russ Cox's Thompson NFA C Program to Rust
https://github.com/BurntSushi/rsc-regexp
82
20
PCIe vs. CXL for Memory and Storage
https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/technical-bulletin/cxl2-3-storage-memory-applications.html
AMD Unveils Ryzen Mobile 7040U Series with Zen 4c Efficiency Cores
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21111/amd-unveils-ryzen-7040u-series-with-zen-4c-smaller-cores-bigger-efficiency
78
23
Clash, a tool to break China's Great Fire Wall, is Deleted in GitHub
https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash
77
Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over parody product
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/federal-reserve-threatens-to-sue-bitcoin-magazine
74
Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commercial
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/proxima-fusion-looks-to-take-stellarators-commercial/
32
Edison Bulb Night Mode
https://www.petemillspaugh.com/edison-bulb
Tell HN: Marcus.com' automated fraud detection locked me out of life savings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38135661
125
Oxide Hiring Process
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0003
70
24
Trusted third parties are security holes (2005)
http://web.archive.org/web/20160309161628/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ttps.html
69
YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/
Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too (2022)
https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/
2
Little tool can crash an iPhone running iOS 17
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/3/23944901/apple-iphone-ios-17-flipper-zero-attack-bluetooth
67
I couldn’t move for a postdoc and shouldn’t have been penalized for it
https://www.science.org/content/article/i-didn-t-want-relocate-postdoc-fellowship-reviewers-penalized-me-it
66
Apple: Android is a tracking device [pdf]
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417532.pdf
16
Extinct Species in Audubon's Birds of North America
https://www.audubonart.com/extinct-species-in-audubons-birds-of-america/
999 Request Denied
https://http.dev/999
