778
1086
A coder considers the waning days of the craft
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
2 years ago
731
903
Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp
680
228
Blender 4.0 release notes
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/4.0
630
290
GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for-faster-and-more-accurate-global-weather-forecasting/
601
176
Reptar
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/reptar.html
560
214
EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231110IPR10118/child-sexual-abuse-online-effective-measures-no-mass-surveillance
390
181
Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition
https://torrentfreak.com/google-sues-men-who-weaponized-dmca-notices-to-crush-competition-231114/
324
408
Why do people still use VBA?
https://sancarn.github.io/vba-articles/why-do-people-use-vba.html
322
463
Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians
318
362
.NET 8
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-8/
308
154
A Lot of Damage in Grindavík
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2023/11/13/a_lot_of_damage_in_grindavik/
298
165
Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion
https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown?q=1700000000
288
139
A decade of developing a programming language
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-decade-of-developing-a-programming-language/
284
194
Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/google-play-tightens-up-rules-for-android-app-developers-to-require-testing-increased-app-review/
277
379
Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious
https://electrek.co/2023/11/14/rivian-software-update-bricks-infotainment-system-fix-not-obvious/
275
72
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/
252
236
Rust without crates.io
https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/11/14/rust-without-crates-io.html
248
112
Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
https://gwern.net/tla
239
136
I accidentally a scheme
https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/11/13/i-accidentally-a-scheme
29
YJIT is the most memory-efficient Ruby JIT
https://railsatscale.com/2023-11-07-yjit-is-the-most-memory-efficient-ruby-jit/
223
197
Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
https://andrewmayne.com/2023/11/14/is-the-reversal-curse-real/
222
98
Lapce Editor 0.3
https://github.com/lapce/lapce/releases/tag/v0.3.0
195
94
The Inko Programming Language
https://inko-lang.org
187
1
Happy 1700M Epoch Second
https://www.epochconverter.com/
184
334
The laptop that won't die
https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-laptop-that-wont-die-0c478c3fe46c
178
129
Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with high reflectivity
https://newatlas.com/materials/ultra-white-ceramic-cools-buildings-record-high-reflectivity/
173
38
Detexify: LaTeX Handwriting Symbol Recognition
https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
166
43
Insanely Fast Whisper
https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper
158
182
Quitting the full-time poker scene
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/273208-farewell-felt-quitting-full-time-poker-scene.html
15
Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths
https://github.com/github/scientist
150
91
Replacing HLS/Dash – Live Mass Fanout with Media over QUIC
https://quic.video/blog/replacing-hls-dash/
146
75
Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
https://til.simonwillison.net/duckdb/remote-parquet
137
22
PyPI has completed its first security audit
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-11-14-1-pypi-completes-first-security-audit/
97
YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI
https://9to5google.com/2023/11/14/youtube-ai-labels-videos-shorts/
130
55
How to write a cold email (2020)
https://sriramk.com/coldemail
53
Constraints on physical computers in holographic spacetimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09900
128
153
Hello, stranger – Talking to random people
https://willem.com/blog/2023-10-13_hello-stranger/
127
37
Announcing the MonoGame Foundation
https://community.monogame.net/t/announcing-the-monogame-foundation/19809
124
17
Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist (2022)
https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=8838
123
60
Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' makes clear the world is a fragile place
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-11-13/japanese-animation-master-hayao-miyazaki-boy-and-the-heron
7
'Reptar', a new CPU vulnerability
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-researchers-discover-reptar-a-new-cpu-vulnerability
120
56
Four Kinds of Optimisation
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/four_kinds_of_optimisation.html
88
Bring Back Webrings
https://arne.me/articles/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings
114
Astronauts drop tool bag into orbit that you can see with binoculars
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/10/nasa-tool-bag-dropped-by-astronauts-international-space-station/71536725007/
110
54
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores
https://thehftguy.com/2023/11/14/the-linux-kernel-has-been-accidentally-hardcoded-to-a-maximum-of-8-cores-for-nearly-20-years/
107
115
48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/carf_2027_adoption_set/
106
Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later
https://theconversation.com/music-painted-on-the-wall-of-a-venetian-orphanage-will-be-heard-again-nearly-250-years-later-211995
105
Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-truth-social-reports-73-mln-net-loss-since-launch-2023-11-14/
104
16
Photos of Roger Penrose’s journal
https://abakcus.com/directory/roger-penroses-beautiful-journal/
Julia Child's Culinary Notes
https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/julia-childs-culinary-notes
96
26
CacheWarp: A new software fault attack on AMD SEV-ES and SEV-SNP
https://cachewarpattack.com/
12
Bpftime: Userspace eBPF runtime for fast Uprobe and Syscall hook and Plugins
https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/bpftime
90
39
Prices aren't just about supply and demand, but control over supply and demand
https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/prices-arent-just-about-supply-and
89
23
Mechanism behind aspirin protective effect against colorectal cancer identified
https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/mechanism-behind-aspirins-protective-effect-against-colorectal-cancer-identified-380646
103
Please Don't Ask If an Open Source Project Is Dead
https://minimaxir.com/2023/11/open-source-dead-github/
86
49
Many popular houses in 1920s L.A. were part of a scam
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/los-angeles-home-scam
52
Thermal transistors handle heat with no moving parts
https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermal-transistor
83
67
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (2012)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2367376.2367378
81
America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/nature-avoidance-social-isolation-loneliness/675984/
80
77
Tuta (formerly Tutanota) denies claim it has intelligence ties
https://www.cp24.com/news/encrypted-email-service-denies-accused-rcmp-leaker-s-claim-it-has-intelligence-ties-1.6643794
21
ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
https://shadowtraffic.io/
Music ControlNet: Multiple Time-Varying Controls for Music Generation
https://musiccontrolnet.github.io/web/
50
How Caterpillars Gruesomely Transform into Butterflies
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/animals/invertebrates/how-caterpillar-turn-butterfly-0534534/
74
6
Around The World, Part 1: Continents
https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2023/11/2/around-the-world-1-continents/
73
27
Yes, Ubuntu is withholding security patches for some software
https://www.flu0r1ne.net/logs/ubuntu_withholding_universe_security_patches
71
14
A floating solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/solar-powered-device-produces-clean-water-and-clean-fuel-at-the-same-time
70
177
US Confidence in Higher Education Institutions Continues Long Decline
https://news.gallup.com/poll/508352/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx
69
117
Opal Tadpole – A webcam for laptops
https://opalcamera.com/opal-tadpole
4
Google is suing AI scammers and fake DMCA takedown submitters
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/taking-legal-action-to-protect-users-of-ai-and-small-businesses/