1273
608
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/13/world/voyager-1-computer-issue-scn/index.html
2 years ago
719
185
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp
655
233
Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/
551
239
Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-love-now-available-on-firefox-for-android/
437
132
Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)
https://ezali.substack.com/p/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe
433
270
Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
https://davidkcaudill.medium.com/maybe-getting-rid-of-your-qa-team-was-bad-actually-52c408bd048b
388
100
FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-discoveries-in-mathematical-sciences-using-large-language-models/
375
156
Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/bsc-presents-sargantana-the-new-generation-the-first-open-source-chips-designed-spain
366
130
Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38638373
317
276
The AI Trust Crisis
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
315
Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market
297
630
Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/apple-partly-halts-beepers-imessage-app-again-suggesting-a-long-fight-ahead/
295
304
Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
https://community.ui.com/questions/Security-Issue-Cloud-Site-Manager-presented-me-your-consoles-not-mine/376ec514-572d-476d-b089-030c4313888c
287
92
Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/benefits-moderna-merck-melanoma-vaccine-plus-keytruda-extend-three-years-2023-12-14/
273
146
Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/
269
46
Show HN: Airdraw
https://www.airdraw.io/
256
Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqZA_KmygKw
248
118
Ledger's NPM account has been hacked
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/connect-kit/issues/29
240
Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/12/the-most-dangerous-canadian-internet-bill-youve-never-heard-of-is-a-step-closer-to-becoming-law/
224
107
Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/open-and-portable-managed-postgresql-avail-hetzner
221
180
First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot
https://paulrobichaux.com/2023/12/14/first-look-at-microsoft-365-copilot/
214
225
Police have undermined the promise of body cameras
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras
204
68
Windows AI Studio Preview
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-ai-studio
192
95
Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)
https://janezhang.ca/work/tekken/
60
Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
https://deno.com/blog/v1.39
190
64
JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-telescope-captures-image-of-supernova-that-absolutely-shattered-a-star-180983421/
187
LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/14/linkedin-shelved-plan-to-migrate-to-microsoft-azure-cloud.html
183
The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (2018)
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication
20
Reverse Engineering an LCD Display
https://sudhir.nl/lcd?al=projects
167
122
Should you add screenshots to documentation?
https://thisisimportant.net/posts/screenshots-in-documentation/
33
'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03968-6
164
Intel launches Core Ultra processors
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/intel-launches-core-ultra-processors-to-power-up-your-next-laptop-with-ai
158
26
FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/13/fcc-votes-to-ban-termination-fees-for-cable-and-satellite-services.html
77
I Can't Sleep
https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
153
149
Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/28141/why-did-older-computers-and-oses-use-upper-case-instead-of-lower-case
201
Weak-to-Strong Generalization
https://openai.com/research/weak-to-strong-generalization
139
215
Do black holes have singularities?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841
137
177
Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
https://glasskube.eu/en/r/knowledge/5-helm-shortcomings/
136
176
Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving
https://today.tamu.edu/2023/12/13/drinking-prior-to-conceiving/
135
70
Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828
89
What's Going on with Language Rankings?
https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/12/14/language-rankings-update/
263
Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-driving-car-workforce-in-sweeping-layoffs/
126
31
After getting $824M in state aid, GM to cut 900 jobs at Orion Assembly
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/after-getting-824m-in-state-aid-gm-to-cut-900-jobs-at-orion-assembly
56
Ex-Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to bilking $4M from company
https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/business/ex-facebook-diversity-manager-pleads-guilty-to-bilking-4m-from-company-in-kickback-scheme-feds/
124
150
The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/ibm-greatest-capitalist-tom-watson/676147/
48
Link's Awakening DX HD
https://linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io/links-awakening-dx-hd
119
16
The Journal of Universal Rejection
https://universalrejection.org/
117
Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic
https://montyanderson.net/writing/embeddings
113
86
Google's response to Reptar CPU vulnerability
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6084781186613248/the-tale-of-google-s-response-to-reptar-cpu-vulnerability
24
Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/metalens-2660294513
90
Programs are games, programming is a game
https://blog.charliemeyer.co/programs-are-games-programming-is-a-game/
112
34
Postfix 25 years old today
https://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=170256002601828&w=2
110
84
QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices
https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios
19
DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04043-w
109
87
OnnxStream: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2
https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/c0cb4b3d7b419e4b10129904fbe16b850ca5d385
38
Ruby's private keyword is weird
https://blog.jez.io/ruby-private/
106
Beginner's guide to arguing constructively (2020)
https://liamrosen.com/arguments.html
102
How to clean chemistry glassware
https://www.chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/pages/how_to.php?page=clean_glassware
101
Turing awardees republished key methods and ideas without credit
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-priority-disputes.html
45
The UX of delivering parcels
https://builtformars.com/case-studies/ux-of-parcels
97
Unattractive funds managers outperform funds with attractive managers by over 2%
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4322134
Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
https://popular.info/p/coinbase-targets-financially-vulnerable
93
9
Stable Zero123: Quality 3D Object Generation from Single Images
https://stability.ai/news/stable-zero123-3d-generation
98
Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24000696/proton-mail-desktop-app-mac-windows-encrypted
82
Mark Zuckerberg's Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/
27
In Indonesia, humanity's oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-03818-5/index.html
85
Mohammad Alotol (From YC S22 Cohort) Killed in Gaza
https://twitter.com/teammanara/status/1734966168262148511?s=46
47
Show HN: Octopus – a directed acyclic graph for app development
https://github.com/bbsimonbb/octopus-turbo
Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html
42
Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648725
AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/amds-new-threadripper-chips-have-a-hidden-fuse-that-blows-when-overclocking
79
49
Europe inches closer to insisting gig workers are treated as employees
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/europe_gig_workers_employees/
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (2017)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610/
54
Qt Widgets Rendering Pipeline
https://felipefarinon.com/articles/qt-widgets-rendering-pipeline
10
Google ad chief stepping down weeks after antitrust trial testimony
https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/business/google-ad-chief-jerry-dischler-stepping-down-weeks-after-antitrust-trial-testimony/
75
13
Diffusion Models for Robotics Control
https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/
