653
279
A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md
2 years ago
580
320
Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-down-on-Apple-and-Google-app-store-monopolies
573
332
Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html
424
225
Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
https://www.freethink.com/health/cancer-vaccine
367
193
Website search hurts my feelings
https://www.openmymind.net/Your-Website-Search-Hurts-My-Feelings/
280
40
Game Boy / Color Architecture
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/
242
Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg
270
68
A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113465
269
89
Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math
https://www.wect.com/2023/12/20/federal-court-decides-favor-retired-engineer-told-by-state-not-talk-about-math-public/
268
79
Text Editor: Data Structures
https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2017/09/30/the-piece-table.html
267
67
Black Triangles (2014)
https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
259
507
Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
https://9to5google.com/2023/12/26/amazon-prime-video-ads-january-2024/
235
93
Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break
https://www.whataaabout.com/
233
202
The life and death of open source companies
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/12/25/life-and-death-of-open-source/
228
163
Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-quality-declines-private-equity-hospitals.html
220
111
A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?
https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2023-12-25-openzfs-data-corruption-bug/
217
196
Using Make – writing less Makefile
https://text.causal.agency/001-make.txt
214
282
UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/uk-becomes-first-g20-country-to-halve-its-carbon-emissions/
213
FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFSv4
https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t
204
Learn Modern C++
https://learnmoderncpp.com/
199
Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-12-26-desktop-v1.5.3/
118
Positive news from 2023
https://www.gapminder.org/news/100-positive-news-from-2023/
187
165
US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2023/12/no-last-minute-reprieve-us-ban-on-some-apple-watch-sales-now-in-effect/
186
Simple Made Easy (2011) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
179
16
Schedule 37th Chaos Communication Congress
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/timeline.html
177
52
Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole
https://torrentfreak.com/reckless-dmca-deindexing-pushes-nasas-artemis-towards-black-hole-231226/
169
116
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/26/thermal_management_is_changing/
205
What are farm animals thinking?
https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds/?src=longreads
150
18
Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231225.html
148
69
Lab Notebooks (2020)
https://sambleckley.com/writing/lab-notebooks.html
139
BASIC was not just a programming language
https://gcher.com/posts/2023-12-24-basic/
138
226
Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-colorado-wolf-reintroduction-ranchers-legal.html
137
7
Let it snow()
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/let-it-snow/72950
136
21
Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware
https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega
128
The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display
https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar
135
38
Show HN: I made a GPU VRAM calculator for transformer-based models
https://vram.asmirnov.xyz/
129
44
Electronic soil boosts crop growth
https://www.earth.com/news/electronic-soil-boosts-crop-growth-by-over-50/
10
30 years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' are online – including 2023's
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/12/23/0516244/30-years-of-donald-knuths-christmas-lectures-go-online---including-2023s
126
76
Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/23/croquet_for_unity/
90
With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/with-1-sentence-patagonia-just-gave-a-masterclass-on-how-to-treat-your-people.html
124
15
Let's Build a Compiler (1988)
https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
122
86
Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language
https://buzz-lang.dev/
115
43
Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs
https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
112
109
High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones
https://www.arlnow.com/2023/12/19/__trashed-8/
107
197
All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed annually
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/12/25/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-one-terawatt-of-solar-deployed-annually/
106
75
Nintendo Switch's iGPU: Maxwell Nerfed Edition
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/12/23/nintendo-switchs-igpu-maxwell-nerfed-edition/
103
156
Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate
https://drewdevault.com/2023/12/26/2023-12-26-Prusa-is-floundering.html
101
Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1183551603/gas-stove-utility-tobacco
100
Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/apple-watch-ban/index.html
99
34
History of Alice and Bob (2017)
http://cryptocouple.com/
8
37C3 Unlocked (37th Chaos Communication Congress)
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/infos/startpage.html
94
Evolving the Infinite Canvas
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/evolving-the-infinite-canvas
92
12
Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences
https://16colo.rs/pack/badapple/BADAPPLE.ANS
91
50
Clanging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanging
Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543
Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115
84
It's All Bullshit
https://thebaffler.com/latest/its-all-bullshit-tan
83
DreamCoder: Growing Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381
82
11
Crafting Interpreters
https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
14
XPath Scraping with FreshRSS
https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/
77
12VO power standard appears to be gaining steam, will reduce PC cabling, costs
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/the-12vo-power-standard-appears-to-be-gaining-steam-new-standard-will-reduce-pc-cabling-and-costs