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Costs of running a macOS app studio business
https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Costs-of-running-a-macOS-app-studio-business
2 years ago
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426
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you
410
260
Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/738/can-microsoft-flight-simulator-help-me-learn-to-fly-or-make-me-a-better-pilot
336
161
The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close
https://bytecellar.com/2023/12/23/the-era-of-american-computer-magazines-has-drawn-to-a-close/
318
74
Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
https://generals.io/
300
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"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"
http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.html
280
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Study: TikTok Global Platform Anomalies Align with CCP Geostrategic Objectives [pdf]
https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
259
181
Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68
251
88
How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/114033/how-can-santa-keep-his-lists-when-the-gdpr-is-around
244
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America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/12/american-chestnut-perfect-tree-restoration/676927/
212
55
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (2022)
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~ed/x86.html
77
Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-19-irb-for-ruby-3-3/
207
82
If only someone told me this before my first startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38755180
195
53
Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)
https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html
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San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-rent-prices-18534829.php
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Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/11/medical-schools-idd-education-intellectual-developmental-disabilities-patients/
108
Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
https://nonnullish.pages.dev/posts/resetting-the-timer-in-my-toothbrush/
145
83
Show HN: Weeks of Your Life
https://www.weeksofyour.life/
137
61
Toyota's Daihatsu to halt all vehicle shipments as safety scandal widens
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/20/toyotas-daihatsu-to-halt-vehicle-shipments-as-safety-scandal-widens.html
127
54
Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/what-is-fm-synthesis
85
Chemical reactions fuel crises at LA County's two largest landfills
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-uncontrolled-chemical-reactions-fuel-crises.html
124
Time is encoded in the weights of finetuned language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13401
121
50
Enlightenment 0.26
https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2022-12-23-enlightenment-0.26.0
116
123
The Limits to Growth (1972)
https://donellameadows.org/the-limits-to-growth-now-available-to-read-online/
112
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Germany hits 80 GW milestone
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/12/21/germany-hits-80-gw-milestone/
111
43
Interview about Austral, a systems programming language with linear types
https://blog.lambdaclass.com/austral/
105
92
Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-is-now-the-12th-largest-economy-in-the-world/
95
102
Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/is-bach-the-greatest-achiever-of-all-time.html
87
8
When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/12/when-power-macintosh-ran-netware.html
120
Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII
https://www.filfre.net/2023/12/putting-the-j-in-the-rpg-part-3-playing-final-fantasy-vii-or-old-man-yells-at-jrpg/
86
2
North America: Hand-Drawn Portrait of a Continent
https://www.antonthomasart.com/the-north-american-continent.html
66
Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/21/philips_exploding_mri/
80
101
Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335
34
Let the terminal bells ring out
https://muxup.com/2023q4/let-the-terminal-bells-ring-out
78
35
How to survive in a Chinese company
https://jaapgrolleman.com/how-to-survive-in-a-chinese-company/
75
26
Meilisearch expands search power with Arroy's filtered disk ANN
https://blog.kerollmops.com/meilisearch-expands-search-power-with-arroy-s-filtered-disk-ann
46
Why isn't the new year on the winter solstice? (2018)
https://slj.ma/cal.html
31
Pixelating Live with SVG
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/12/21/pixelating-live-with-svg/
Neocities – Developers API
https://neocities.org/api
72
52
Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence but not dead yet
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intels-ceo-says-moores-law-is-slowing-to-a-three-year-cadence-but-its-not-dead-yet
71
Ask HN: What are you grateful for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757555
69
67
I Just Need a Programmer
https://blobstreaming.org/i-just-need-a-programmer/
Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima
68
7
Authors and copyright scholars back Internet Archive in landmark legal battle
https://torrentfreak.com/authors-and-copyright-scholars-back-internet-archive-in-landmark-legal-battle-231222/
73
You don't need analytics on your blog
https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog
64
65
Preparedness Framework
https://openai.com/safety/preparedness
9
Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C
https://hackaday.com/2023/12/21/displays-we-love-hacking-spi-and-i2c/
62
41
Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2023/heat-pumps-becoming-technology-future
122
Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
https://www.collapsemusings.com/should-we-tell-people-its-too-late-to-save-civilization/
59
A circular 3D-printed concrete bridge
https://www.designboom.com/technology/holcim-3d-prints-phoenix-reinforcement-free-concrete-bridge-12-14-2023/
Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Unify-usr-bin-sbin
60
How the weak win wars: A theory of asymmetric conflict [pdf] (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210827053020id_/https://watermark.silverchair.com/016228801753212868.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtAwggLMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK9MIICuQIBADCCArIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMsFx_L4GNlU2N202gAgEQgIICg0JcfB_c0FpMcWGV1VmX2fx4NNs5ndOi5wzFx9l8AWBAd_KVbp5AuElpYXEUZSE8F28zUGJJ_pUhQ4dEjJfL8dH2EjaBPxsbstLCOyMPeXUuRQmDLLAPu5_cFf_NlscYvuanjGvnS3TpcYzjA6FHJaP9Y9OnjKkDpejzsEQeFy_aBOGujlgKU94alIeBgxrvxgXAFpLfHYsk3F4LNvKuWPw-AFvADltfKSnF77-4hJFj2oJOUsKSWIiLYmGnPRbP_kvawXfdyhg5W_Rt8KogNPKq4oLodfOokuGEoVdzLEmaX0FcOv_0Zz5LTrbWVG0NufNTglqp6XG3bG29XcXq-Zn5h4QzCudPhaj0_wps0WCgzM5SUjeGevsbRmLtkRHAY2xYrQDivd8RmF7cw3tucjBDxt8l-11KEEp9j5UANFhn5lQDObRsQcbaBGdNXO1SrYRwblxUFzSqgz160x05gFfdfipS1-xxbq2appUBYwS72GmFFROzKRToZy4MbNliSX-KCqXhJW6a6wz4RaL9z-38Xp0pIeYWn1pibF7vj6WF6eLSAU6u-95ufNY7o4aL83JJuhPJLeaowmfWnF4TsOaPNcYr6CfYgh0WAd-SK7gjoAxkZXWV9QpgOInzhgT9DNiD6CxK3UjJRQPxCyQrGUehvwRKmIwMbLrwViTGU60fJcCJxl-ZYbCsUAD8LqRnsDeMY40DE0h9pBQ-AlS5GEfwHmsKXiPgx04LEBz97wt-bEjL6RKBTrzGftTNlHPWpRXQ2QNGMVTtzSyUNUU-3Ci43zjcila8kT298HrAc8wGbX3gWzPMiEGBD8h4bCxToe8xLBH2NZ1jlsETYAsUqWJc9Ds
58
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I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions
https://mastodon.cyborch.com/@anders/111630551621669604
57
My first Z80 assembly language program
https://nanochess.org/notebook.html
11
2024 Quadrantid meteor shower to peak January 3-4
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-quadrantid-meteor-shower/
56
22
Dolphin-2_6-Phi-2
https://huggingface.co/cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2_6-phi-2
47
People aren't posting on social media as much
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/social-media-nobody-posting-f6c2fd3e
Many prehistoric handprints show missing finger. What if this wasn't accidental?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed
The end of retirement
https://thewalrus.ca/the-end-of-retirement/
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"