769
128
Database Fundamentals
https://tontinton.com/posts/database-fundementals/
a year ago
692
82
I bricked my Christmas lights
https://www.whizzy.org/2023-12-14-bricked-xmas/
585
401
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/
417
305
More product, fewer product managers
https://kitemaker.co/blog/more_product_fewer_pms
407
226
How Lego builds a new Lego set
https://www.theverge.com/c/23991049/lego-ideas-polaroid-onestep-behind-the-scenes-price
398
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
https://retool.com/pipes
299
206
Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust
https://oxc-project.github.io/blog/2023-12-12-announcing-oxlint.html
292
117
Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-on-fly-by-supabase
286
198
Google Groups ending support for Usenet
https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en
282
393
WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/2021/10/webp-is-so-great-except-its-not/
281
173
Prompt engineering
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering
280
29
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
https://mitxela.com/projects/smsc
245
146
Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/delta-dental-says-data-breach-exposed-info-of-7-million-people/
244
104
Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/simple-software-engineering-habits
235
97
Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-writercom
234
58
Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite-bench
222
49
Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652736
221
74
An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)
https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
214
75
Open source rules engine for Magic: The Gathering
https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/wiki
211
45
Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cambridge-photographer-daily-photo-challenge-13-years-180983428/
205
141
Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)
https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
204
230
McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun'
https://www.wired.com/story/kytch-taylor-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-smoking-gun/
196
What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-brain-while-daydreaming
195
71
Let it snow in your terminal
https://github.com/sontek/snowmachine
193
277
Fastmail Employees Form a Union
https://union.place/@fastmailunited/111563614375789166
183
124
AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amd-mi300
48
Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser
https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-in-scheme-on-wasm-in-the-browser.html
33
ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux
https://www.binwang.me/2023-12-14-ZFS-Profiling-on-Arch-Linux.html
182
105
Swift was always going to be part of the OS (2022)
https://belkadan.com/blog/2022/10/Swift-in-the-OS/
178
Do large language models need all those layers?
https://www.amazon.science/blog/do-large-language-models-really-need-all-those-layers
168
51
Jurassic Systems
https://www.jurassicsystems.com/
163
36
WWII code breaker Mary Ratcliffe has died
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12867531/code-breaker-Alan-Turing-Nazi-secrets-dies-aged-98.html
157
52
Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge
https://godotengine.org/article/collaboration-with-google-forge-2023/
142
81
Risk management is not project management
https://mattrucker.com/risk-management-is-not-project-management/
90
Windows Protected Print Mode
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/a-new-modern-and-secure-print-experience-from-windows/ba-p/4002645
138
September 11th That You Have Never Seen
https://medium.com/@jeremiahjw/31-photos-from-september-11th-that-you-have-never-seen-9514aaac2d54
137
127
New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
https://blog.zulip.com/2023/12/15/new-plans-for-self-hosted-customers/
132
1
Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/linkedin_abandons_migration_to_microsoft/
27
Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/12/14/prompt/
118
21
Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation
https://github.com/threestudio-project/threestudio
46
Double-mirror illusion
https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/view/9839/16407
113
61
Breakthrough in 'detonating' hypersonic propulsion
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ges-breakthrough-in-detonating-hypersonic-propulsion-is-a-big-deal
111
37
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-want-media-law-carve-out-to-spy-on-reporters/
66
Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking
https://www.leadingsapiens.com/cognitive-distortions-leaders/
110
67
First look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03978-4
Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-defends-edges-predatory-practices-with-cringe-and-audacious-reply-on-x/
103
60
The emergence of full-body Gaussian Splat deepfake humans
https://blog.metaphysic.ai/the-emergence-of-full-body-gaussian-splat-deepfake-humans/
101
53
'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
https://e360.yale.edu/features/green-roads
100
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks
https://www.tradewindsnews.com/containers/maersk-and-hapag-lloyd-to-avoid-red-sea-after-surge-in-attacks/2-1-1572369?zephr_sso_ott=4vVG4P
99
26
Calculation before we went digital [pdf]
https://www.nicolamarras.it/Was-There-Life-Before-Computer-en.pdf
24
How to Lose a Library
https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-a-library/
96
Secureblue: Hardened Immutable Fedora Images
https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue
89
11
Merriam-Webster's 404 Page
https://www.merriam-webster.com/notfound
87
23
Cautionary tale about letting big companies on federated communication protocols
https://cloudisland.nz/@fincham/111581381415456989
A close look at a spinlock (2021)
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2173
