979
648
Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/12/google-promises-unlimited-cloud-storage-then-cancels-plan-then-tells-journalist-his-lifes-work-will-be-deleted-without-enough-time-to-transfer-the-data/
2 years ago
630
143
SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
https://smerf-3d.github.io/
480
142
Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company
https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/
391
82
Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
https://olano.dev/2023-12-12-reclaiming-the-web-with-a-personal-reader/
374
766
Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623695
370
102
Bash one-liners for LLMs
https://justine.lol/oneliners/
343
149
Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
https://owehrens.com/whisper-nvidia-rtx-4090-vs-m1pro-with-mlx/
341
300
You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2020/07/30/the-price-of-potatoes-and-the-value-of-compassion/
336
524
Australia to ban engineered stone
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-13/engineered-stone-ban-discussed-at-ministers-meeting/103224362
332
733
US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/
326
262
Adfree Cities
https://adfreecities.org.uk/
324
157
Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734890651378975007
317
268
Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
https://www.searchagora.com/
312
358
Tesla FSD Timeline
https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
297
185
Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
https://plane.so/blog/how-we-got-to-20k-github-stars
271
166
Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects
https://github.com/rochus-keller/CspChan
248
113
Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch's CPU
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/12/12/cortex-a57-nintendo-switchs-cpu/
244
181
Google Imagen 2
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/imagen-2-on-vertex-ai-is-now-generally-available
239
138
Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-now-requires-judges-consent-hand-over-push-notification-data-2023-12-12/
222
117
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will enable frame pointers by default
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-performance-engineering-with-frame-pointers-by-default
194
116
Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince
https://fortune.com/2023/12/12/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-prince-companies-lighting-money-fire-with-ai/
192
60
I benchmarked six Go SQLite drivers
https://github.com/cvilsmeier/go-sqlite-bench
188
323
Welcome to the ad-free internet
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/12/11/welcome-to-the-ad-free-internet
Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/etsy-laying-off-11percent-of-staff-citing-competitive-environment.html
109
Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio
https://ai.google.dev/
183
422
GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
https://jalopnik.com/gm-drops-apple-carplay-android-auto-unsafe-phone-1851093013
Ask HN: Netflix doing mass layoffs today?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38630098
180
62
Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06937
112
Biscuit authorization
https://www.biscuitsec.org/
174
66
The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) [pdf]
https://people.ece.ubc.ca/sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf
27
Remembering things that haven't happened yet
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/remembering-things-that-havent-happened
My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/dec/12/my-doomed-career-as-a-north-korean-novelist
155
Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/business/tesla-autopilot-recall.html
146
230
Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/tesla-autopilot-recall-2-million-cars-need-software-fix
140
114
It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
https://quinnkeast.com/writing/its-weird-how-design-systems-are-so-rote-yet-so-difficult
136
71
Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta
219
Vertical farming company raised $500M, and then it all but disappeared
https://sifted.eu/articles/infarm-raised-500m-and-disappeared
133
OpenCola
https://github.com/cognitom/OpenCola
123
90
E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance
https://www.fastcompany.com/90996547/e-books-are-fast-becoming-tools-of-corporate-surveillance
122
35
Q&A With Bill Mensch, co-creator of the 6502
https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor
120
Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-artificial-intelligence-excel-imitation.html
The Long Shadow of Checks
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow-of-checks/
118
Rare half female, half male bird spotted by University of Otago zoologist
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/extremely-rare-bird-captured-on-film
87
Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring
48
Carcinogens that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/all-the-carcinogens-we-cannot-see
65
Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231212-the-sound-that-warns-a-tornado-is-coming
111
139
Interview: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney after Google antitrust win
https://www.theverge.com/23996474/epic-tim-sweeney-interview-win-google-antitrust-lawsuit-district-court
44
Show HN: PyApp – runtime installer for Python applications
https://github.com/ofek/pyapp
108
1
FCC upholds denial of Starlink's $900M rural broadband subsidies
https://spacenews.com/fcc-upholds-denial-of-starlinks-900-million-rural-broadband-subsidies/
29
New insights into neural end-of-life
https://neurosciencenews.com/death-brain-neuroscience-25356/
Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-fights-autopilot-false-advertising-claim-with-free-speech-argument/
106
52
Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)
https://jawj.github.io/fliptiles/
104
18
Origin of mysterious green 'ghosts' in the sky has been discovered
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-12-12/the-origin-of-mysterious-green-ghosts-in-the-sky-has-been-discovered.html
103
3
US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit
100
46
Show HN: Django Ninja CRUD – Rethinking CRUD Operations in Django
https://github.com/hbakri/django-ninja-crud
98
11
Professor in Jordan sues sleuth who exposed citation anomalies
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/11/29/professor-in-jordan-sues-sleuth-who-exposed-citation-anomalies/
57
Stop Hiding the Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03858
97
131
Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/tech-predictions-for-2024-and-beyond.html
16
A triplet tree forms one of the most beautiful structures in math
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-triplet-tree-forms-one-of-the-most-beautiful-structures-in-math-20231212/
96
40
Seeing how fast people will probe you after you get a new TLS certificate
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebProbeSpeedNewTLSCertificate
79
Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1734993768980402467
94
73
Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/ad_block_google/
89
31
A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal
https://andrewhuth.substack.com/p/a-read-through-the-original-worldwideweb
Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt Dies Aged 61
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67700088
88
36
Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38634020
86
45
Blindsight by Peter Watts (full novel)
https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
83
25
First Impressions with Google Gemini
https://blog.roboflow.com/first-impressions-with-google-gemini/
70
39
The state of merging technology
https://bramcohen.com/p/the-state-of-merging-technology
Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-07/santa-cruz-plans-downtown-high-rises-to-fix-sky-high-housing-costs
9
Grap – Kernighan and Bentley's language for typesetting graphs (1984) [pdf]
https://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v8/grap.pdf
10
A human embryonic limb cell atlas resolved in space and time
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06806-x
54
Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website
https://noise.site