1521
874
Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
https://www.beeper.com/
a year ago
1076
359
Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087
661
805
Firefox on the brink?
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
659
137
Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?
https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
622
152
iMessage, explained
https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
587
154
How does Shazam work? (2022)
https://www.cameronmacleod.com/blog/how-does-shazam-work
555
297
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/
504
171
I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
https://www.mayer.cool/writings/I-Hacked-Magic-the-Gathering/
400
328
AI and Mass Spying
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/the-internet-enabled-mass-surveillance-ai-will-enable-mass-spying.html
358
195
New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-theory-einstein-gravity-quantum-mechanics.html
356
100
Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft
https://generallyintelligent.substack.com/p/fine-tuning-mistral-7b-on-magic-the
355
41
All my favorite tracing tools
https://thume.ca/2023/12/02/tracing-methods/
323
78
Common Voice
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
295
92
Jets: Ruby Serverless Framework
https://docs.rubyonjets.com/
290
472
Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?
https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
279
183
Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
https://twitter.com/hbouammar/status/1731970658278469714
265
340
Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/12/pgad385/7457939
256
168
Mtn Dew Raid Q&A [pdf]
https://www.mountaindew.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MTN-DEW-RAID-QA.pdf
255
165
Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/virtual-machines-as-core-android-primitive.html
243
54
Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
https://davekiss.com/blog/12-lessons-from-5-years-of-running-a-tech-meetup
234
39
Eclipse: The Demo that Sold 3D to Nintendo
https://gamehistory.org/eclipse-the-demo-that-sold-3d-to-nintendo/
157
My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
https://tube.jeena.net/w/nivehRx8J7ZwujfS2oCoPC
225
526
Playstation is erasing seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasing-1318-seasons-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/
222
121
Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform
https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1732112446943269347?s=20
211
93
Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/
207
114
Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python
https://github.com/DropbaseHQ/dropbase
87
Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions (2020)
https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md
194
120
Rest in Peace, Optane
https://specbranch.com/posts/rip-optane/
193
111
Games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen (2022)
https://nicole.express/2022/the-center-point-can-not-hold.html
187
22
Maelstrom: A workbench for learning distributed systems
https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom
21
Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
https://termshark.io/
67
Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02120
166
According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates
https://www.britannica.com/story/the-time-julius-caesar-was-captured-by-pirates
158
57
Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web
https://www.bikobatanari.art/posts/2023/east-west-website-culture
81
Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide
https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-11-28/working-more-than-55-hours-a-week-kills-750000-people-a-year-worldwide.html
150
Untrusted Device Encryption
https://docs.syncthing.net/specs/untrusted.html
30
Infocom’s code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/
146
112
Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
https://github.com/rage-rb/rage
144
48
Lena (2021)
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
142
79
Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2782804-aspirin-and-treating-cancer
139
9
File Life
https://filelife.tours/
132
58
Sequential modeling enables scalable learning for large vision models
https://yutongbai.com/lvm.html
131
2
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying
https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/ai-mass-spying-internet-surveillance.html
3
How Beeper Mini Works
https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
130
26
Show HN: TSDiagram – Diagrams as Code with TypeScript
https://tsdiagram.com
118
When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019)
https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198
129
186
San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data
https://abc7news.com/downtown-san-francisco-office-vacancy-stores-closing-crime/14125753/
124
37
Inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield: study
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-inoculating-soil-mycorrhizal-fungi-yield.html
Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/30/windows_hp_software_uninvited/
52
How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF
https://medium.com/@happybits/how-hackerman-would-create-an-image-just-by-typing-zeros-and-ones-a-deep-dive-into-gif-file-32bada0926c0
119
74
Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-can-travel-backward-in-time-sort-of/
49
The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints
https://planetscale.com/blog/challenges-of-supporting-foreign-key-constraints
117
36
The Sheep Incident (2008)
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-sheep-incident/
55
A Brainfuck interpreter written in PostScript
https://github.com/nst/bfps
115
46
A chess TUI implementation
https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui
82
StyleX – Meta's styling library
https://stylexjs.com/
109
What it takes to save the axolotl
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/science/mexico-axolotl-biology.html
108
Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech
https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/
107
76
Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s
https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/
106
304
Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525825
104
Why does Gnome fingerprint unlock not unlock the keyring?
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68537.html
101
11
Show HN: Desert Atlas, a self-hosted OpenStreetMap app for Sandstorm
https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-12-05-osm-on-sandstorm
88
Cognitive ability and miscalibrated financial expectations
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672231209400
99
71
Coding4Fun Hardware Boneyard – Using the CueCat with .NET (2006)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/coding4fun-hardware-boneyard-using-the-cuecat-with-net
Formalizing the proof of PFR in Lean4 using Blueprint: a short tour
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/formalizing-the-proof-of-pfr-in-lean4-using-blueprint-a-short-tour/
97
153
Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530087
94
31
Launch HN: Openlayer (YC S21) – Testing and Evaluation for AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532593
66
When would you ever want bubblesort?
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
40
A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-mineral-plate-tectonics-global-cooling.html
