709
503
Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-tiktok-ban-social-media-854846a42ef566fa296ddaacd0099447
a year ago
670
214
Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
https://matthew.science/posts/occupancy/
565
132
Placemark is going open source and shutting down
https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark
517
239
Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4
440
HTML Web Components
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/html-web-components/
422
153
Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-exfiltration/
351
248
Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf
327
81
Ship Shape
https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/ship-shape/
313
98
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
https://www.secondstate.io/articles/fast-llm-inference/
280
57
Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths
https://cdm.link/2023/11/black-goo-ferrofluid-synths/
279
143
Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said
https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/12/dont-waste-money-on-a-math-coprocessor-they-said/
274
160
Beg Bounties (2021)
https://www.troyhunt.com/beg-bounties/
260
250
Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line
https://fortune.com/2023/11/08/panama-canal-congestion-record-4-million-skip-line/
65
Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/reauthorizing-mass-surveillance-shouldnt-be-tied-funding-government
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-gets-36-of-google-revenue-from-search-deal-witness-says
247
43
Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs
https://www.loro.dev/blog/loro-now-open-source
243
96
Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code
https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith
240
119
Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
https://peergos.org/posts/blake3
138
The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
https://greekreporter.com/2023/11/09/best-timed-shot-tv-history/
234
39
Smarter summaries with finetuning GPT-3.5 and chain of density
https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/blog/2023/11/05/chain-of-density/
233
163
Diamonds Suck
https://diamondssuck.com/
231
142
Discouraging the use of web application firewalls
https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/wafs/
227
89
Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal
https://github.com/DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro
222
90
Low current around roots boosts plant growth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-023-00162-5
211
591
The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-11/diamond-prices-miners-take-radical-steps-to-support-the-market
197
372
Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD
https://www.nexttv.com/news/achtung-baby-netflix-loses-patent-dispute-to-broadcom-in-germany-told-to-stop-using-hevc-to-stream-4k
196
151
To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again
https://spectrum.ieee.org/baltic-power-grid
191
21
Maxar's Open Satellite Feed
https://tech.marksblogg.com/maxar-open-data-free-satellite-imagery.html
190
77
Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/researchers-identify-switch-to-activate-cancer-cell-death/2023/10
177
128
Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/zelle-finally-caves-after-years-of-refusing-to-refund-scam-victims/
164
294
Tragedy of return to hostile offices
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2023/11/12/tragedy-of-return-to-hostile-offices/
155
4
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-accidentally-blurts-out-that-apple-gets-36-cut-of-safari-deal/
145
42
Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds
https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-09-12-supersizing-transformers/supersizing-transformers.html
110
We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack
https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/solarwinds-hack-lessons-learned/
140
The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year
https://gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-is-using-drones-3-times-more-than-it-did-last-year
23
Algorithms (2019)
http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
My favorite coding question to give candidates
https://carloarg02.medium.com/my-favorite-coding-question-to-give-candidates-17ea4758880c
137
62
Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)
https://www.techemails.com/p/barry-diller-emails-google-exec
133
Bangladesh saved lives by getting lead out of turmeric spice
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/20/23881981/bangladesh-tumeric-lead-poisoning-contamination-public-health
123
Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/h200/
129
Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-announces-layoffs-despite-increased-revenue-and-reduced-losses
67
Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-multiple-tree-species-effective.html
126
73
Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal
https://uefi.org/blog/firmware-sbom-proposal
122
29
$1 Unistroke Recognizer
https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/index.html
118
116
Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans
https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/11/12/ubuntu-pro-shenanigans/
117
24
Slow-Scan Television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television
It's true. Your devices are listening to you
https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg-active-listening
109
16
Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store
https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
108
55
MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind
https://spectrum.ieee.org/generative-ai-training
102
97
Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/apec-news-crew-czech-robbery-city-lights-18488613.php
101
46
Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21129/micron-introduces-128-gb-ddr58000-rdimms-with-monolithic-32-gb-dice
100
71
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
https://nanowrimo.org/
10k Bounty for Rewriting Prettier in Rust
https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/1722733472522142022
74
Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
87
54
Vela incident (1979)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
84
78
YouTube may face criminal complaints in EU for using ad-block detection scripts
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-may-face-criminal-complaint-for-adblock-detecting
53
Technofeudalism
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/technofeudalism-9781847927286
79
18
Show HN: Easily Visualize Your SQLAlchemy Data Models in a Nice SVG Diagram
https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/sqlalchemy_data_model_visualizer
38
Principles are products of practice, not the reverse
https://alsado.ca/posts/principles-are-products-of-practice/
Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Pulse-14-Gen3.tuxedo
27
PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3
https://stablediffusionweb.com/PixArt-alpha#ai-art-generator
