1039
658
Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
https://twitter.com/parmy/status/1732811357068615969
2 years ago
499
90
Making noisy SVGs
https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/
486
477
Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
https://www.ifixit.com/News/87664/fairphone-5-keeping-it-10-10
484
110
SVG Tutorial
https://svg-tutorial.com/
455
170
A lost X-Files song
https://twitter.com/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459
405
Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-calls-drive-data-loss-fixed-locks-forum-threads-saying-otherwise/
382
150
A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/defying-cavity-lantern-bioworks-faq
374
244
23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration
https://stackdiary.com/23andme-updates-tos-to-force-binding-arbitration/
362
302
He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
https://www.ft.com/content/de5fea12-2938-4c20-b394-10ca258a5fa1
346
262
Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/study-why-a-spritz-of-water-before-grinding-coffee-yields-less-waste-tastier-espresso/
338
219
Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/
337
320
Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
https://ai.meta.com/blog/purple-llama-open-trust-safety-generative-ai/
334
48
Data Engineering Design Patterns
https://www.dedp.online/
326
179
Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/11/23/lithium-shortage-bubble-implodes-once-again-as-demand-and-production-both-surged/
316
Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers
https://electrek.co/2023/12/07/tesla-shares-48v-architecture-with-other-automakers-to-move-the-industry/
307
156
Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67635851
173
Choose your own IP
https://tailscale.com/blog/choose-your-ip/
289
385
Building end-to-end security for Messenger
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/
285
186
Fake chips, I got stung
https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2023/12/01/fake-chips-i-got-stung/
273
258
OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12
268
234
Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556188
84
Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox-generating-audio-voice-natural-language-prompts/
261
501
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/
249
130
Things I learned from teaching
https://claytonwramsey.github.io/blog/learned-from-teaching.html
237
120
CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG
https://richg42.blogspot.com/2023/12/announcing-cpng-compatible-network.html
232
Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/07/greedflation-corporate-profiteering-boosted-global-prices-study
199
32
Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles
https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/
196
21
Memray: Python memory profiler
https://bloomberg.github.io/memray/index.html
180
9
A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates”
https://blog.pgpkeys.eu/critique-critique.html
44
User Interface Typography
https://imperavi.com/books/ui-typography/
168
57
Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals
https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2023/12/20231207-01.html
166
19
WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program
https://internet-janitor.itch.io/wigglypaint
157
58
How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554
119
How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth
https://medium.com/@lymanstone/how-many-hobbits-a-demographic-analysis-of-middle-earth-cd53b91d141f
153
51
Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware
https://cdm.link/2023/12/chipsynth-c64/
Helen Toner shares her side
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef
149
Standard Webhooks: open-source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks
https://github.com/standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks
143
40
Three Decades of HTML
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/06/three-decades-of-html/
138
271
A Schism in the OpenPGP World
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953797/7222cd75661fb888/
134
80
The diminishing half-life of knowledge
https://rednafi.com/zephyr/diminishing_half_life_of_knowledge/
132
Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers
https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2023/everyday-performance-rules-for-ruby-on-rails-developers
128
126
Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html
123
38
StableLM Zephyr 3B
https://stability.ai/news/stablelm-zephyr-3b-stability-llm
112
Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications
https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance-3392252/
181
95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
109
88
Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553008
107
41
MIDI Editor
http://www.midieditor.org/index.php?category=intro
100
Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/07/spotify-cfo-cashes-in-72m-in-shares-after-value-surges-on-news-of-job-cuts
95
64
Milk-V Pioneer – native RISC-V computer
https://milkv.io/pioneer
93
2
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/fairphone_5_repairability/
89
33
Efficient parallelization of an ubiquitous sequential computation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06281
87
45
Ayllu: Hackable Code Forge Built on Open Standards
https://ayllu-forge.org/
86
62
The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy
https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology/2023/12/06/the-extremely-telescope-will-trasform-astronomy
85
Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009)
https://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/
Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023
https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/
81
65
Nanoplastics Likely Worse Than Microplastics; We Know Almost Nothing About Them
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zkm3/nanoplastics-could-be-worse-than-microplastics-and-we-know-almost-nothing-about-them
Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38557327
79
27
Mistral LLM on Apple Silicon Using Apple's MLX Framework Runs Instantaneously
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/tree/main/mistral
78
A slightly longer Lean 4 proof tour
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/a-slightly-longer-lean-4-proof-tour/
77
70
Terminal graphics protocol
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
76
31
White House warns it might break patents of high-priced drugs
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-threatening-patents-high-141610644.html
30
The Qatargate Files
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-qatargate-corruption-scandal-leaked-documents-pier-antonio-panzeri-francesco-giorgi-eva-kaili/
75
Programming Bottom-Up (1993)
http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html
73
Bungie Devs Atmosphere 'Soul-Crushing' Amid Layoffs, Cuts, Fear of Sony Takeover
https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-devs-say-atmosphere-is-soul-crushing-amid-layoffs-cuts-and-fear-of-total-sony-takeover
72
46
Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries
https://www.videogist.co/
55% of workers say their pay isn't keeping up with inflation
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/14/half-of-working-americans-say-their-pay-isnt-keeping-up-with-inflation.html
