784
169
Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time
https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/fire.html
2 years ago
695
281
James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-150
498
133
Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702783
493
383
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/unbricking-my-macbook-took-an-email-to-tim-cook
397
324
Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars
https://insideevs.com/news/701296/vw-physical-controls-to-return/
364
140
Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34
https://jepsen.io/analyses/mysql-8.0.34
354
572
Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
https://blobstreaming.org/why-do-programmers-need-private-offices-with-doors-do-not-disturb/
336
303
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/12/19/spicy-usb-adapter/
307
59
Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7
https://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/
302
Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/internet-information-trends-virality-tracking/676888/
295
183
Perplexity Labs Playground
https://labs.perplexity.ai/
274
94
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/
273
167
All code is technical debt
https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/all-code-is-technical-debt
262
101
Gokrazy – Go Appliances
https://gokrazy.org/
248
398
A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
https://onemileatatime.com/news/lufthansa-a350-oakland-diversion/
247
219
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier
245
104
Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode
https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-finalizes-vulkan-video-extensions-for-accelerated-h.264-and-h.265-encode
279
My failed attempt at using a closet as an office
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/my-failed-attempt-at-using-closet-as.html
237
85
Making my own bed sensor
https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/making-my-own-bed-sensor
229
81
Fedora Asahi Remix
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/
224
36
Tsdocs.dev: Type docs for any JavaScript library
https://tsdocs.dev
218
87
Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive
https://floppy.cafe/
216
145
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/
214
86
Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps
https://www.plasmic.app/
213
5
The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (2019)
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/
193
254
Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/firefox-121-released-now-defaults-to-wayland-on-linux
186
102
No star, No fix
https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/368
184
The Inner Ring (1944)
https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
176
185
Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states
https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-antitrust-settlement-e4e2f422baa846c66deac90c7866c5fd
165
207
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/18/ministry-of-justice-plan-to-destroy-historical-wills-is-insane-say-experts
161
78
CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study
https://shihab-shahriar.github.io//blog/2023/Cuda-vs-Rocm-A-Case-Study-Through-Random-Number-Libraries/
160
76
FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/
156
64
Improving Emacs Isearch Usability with Transient
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/improving-emacs-isearch-usability-with-transient.html
155
258
The day I started believing in unit tests
https://mental-reverb.com/blog.php?id=42
151
122
JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove-Jetbrains-AI-Assistant-plugin-completely
150
80
At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion
https://medium.com/collapsenews/new-study-at-least-15-of-all-reddit-content-is-corporate-trolls-trying-to-manipulate-public-b249bd42ab42
148
353
The changing face of post-pandemic New York City
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/12/changing-face-post-pandemic-new-york-city
139
How to unit test code that depends on time
https://playfulprogramming.blogspot.com/2023/12/about-time.html
62
National Engineering Handbook
https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/RollupViewer.aspx?hid=17092
141
22
SVD Image Compression
https://dmicz.github.io/machine-learning/svd-image-compression/
44
Hardware Intrinsics in .NET 8
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-hardware-intrinsics/
134
C++ Should Be C++
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p3023r1.html
128
45
The first experimental support for LK99-type superconductivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10391
126
40
VideoPoet A large language model for zero-shot video generation
https://sites.research.google/videopoet/
125
105
Qt 6.6 and 6.7 Make QML Faster Than Ever: A New Benchmark and Analysis
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.6-and-6.7-make-qml-faster-than-ever-a-new-benchmark-and-analysis
121
48
NASA’s tech demo streams first video from deep space via laser
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-from-deep-space-via-laser
118
70
An In-depth Look at Gemini's Language Abilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11444
113
75
Humans progressively feel agency over events triggered before their actions
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.01.569449v1
112
39
TuneNN: A transformer-based network model for pitch detection
https://github.com/TuneNN/TuneNN
46
Neumann Drive: A Pulsed Cathodic Arc Thruster for Spacecrafts
https://neumannspace.com/neumann-drive/
110
95
Development slowness in big and legacy applications
https://michaelscodingspot.com/slow-development-in-big-companies/
35
Quint: A specification language based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA)
https://github.com/informalsystems/quint
108
RFC 9518 – What can internet standards do about centralisation?
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization
88
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble Is AI?
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
100
41
Performance of llama.cpp on Apple Silicon A-series
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4508
99
Google podcasts is shutting down
https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/14151168?hl=en
315
The housing shortage is larger than you think
https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/the-housing-shortage-is-larger-than-c65
98
29
Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation
https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.020161
The Marvin Attack
https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
96
189
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-19/750-a-month-no-questions-asked-improved-the-lives-of-homeless-people
6
Common Lisp interface to the pigpio Raspberry Pi hardware library
https://github.com/jetmonk/cl-pigpio
Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c6uTNm5erRrmyJvvD/mapping-the-semantic-void-strange-goings-on-in-gpt-embedding
42
Show HN: Interactive ECS Systems/Component Explorer for Cities: Skylines 2
https://captain-of-coit.github.io/cs2-ecs-explorer/#system/Game.Simulation.ServiceFeeSystem
19
Application Traffic with eBPF
https://thebsdbox.co.uk/2023/12/08/Application-traffic-with-eBPF/
93
3D Printer Auto Bed Leveling Mesh Visualizer
https://i.chillrain.com/index.php/3d-printer-auto-bed-leveling-mesh-visualizer/
92
175
Does quantum theory imply the universe is preordained?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04024-z
91
38
Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)
https://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker
89
53
Borges and AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01425
A better Mastodon client?
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2023/12/19/fossil
111
Mercedes adds a new car light color: Blue for self-driving
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/mercedes-adds-new-light-color-blue-for-self-driving/index.html
20
Show HN: Chrome Reaper
https://github.com/usnistgov/Metrology/tree/master/Reaper
84
9
PowerInfer: Fast Large Language Model Serving with a Consumer-Grade GPU [pdf]
https://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/_media/publications/powerinfer-20231219.pdf
82
90
Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)
https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm
A Mathematical Perspective on Transformers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10794
Lisa Emulator Project
https://lisa.sunder.net/
61
TC39: Add Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/3176
37
XetCache: Improve Jupyter notebook reruns by caching cells
https://github.com/xetdata/xetcache
79
27
The art of slide design: Maximise signal, minimise noise
https://www.seckington.com/the-art-of-slide-design-maximise-signal-minimise-noise/
77
57
Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range
https://carnewschina.com/2023/12/17/nio-et7-with-150-kwh-semi-solid-state-battery-achieves-a-1044-km-range/
73
Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/
It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/cell-phones-student-test-scores-dropping/676889/
