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403
Niklaus Wirth has died
https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347
2 years ago
745
351
Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
https://blog.lenot.re/a/introduction
729
318
Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00999
536
257
Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
https://swizec.com/blog/the-3-budgets/
482
350
The One Billion Row Challenge
https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/
474
112
Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames
https://frameos.net/
470
137
Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them
https://osanseviero.github.io/hackerllama/blog/posts/random_transformer/
469
163
Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/
424
83
Making small games, which is fun in itself
https://abagames.github.io/joys-of-small-game-development-en/fun_to_make_small_games.html
384
292
With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/
370
2127
Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-ev-sales-prices-problem-transportation-2024-1
357
129
Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise
https://ambiph.one?hn
355
374
Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858075
325
200
Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2024/bitwarden-heist/
302
305
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
287
183
Sieve is simpler than LRU
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
280
156
The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-drive-stats-of-backblaze-storage-pods/
261
368
23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/
252
70
Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm
244
345
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-hits-nearly-4-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/
237
37
TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
https://github.com/DLYuanGod/TinyGPT-V
230
164
The Curious Case of MD5
https://katelynsills.com/law/the-curious-case-of-md5/
207
410
U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1221366173/u-s-cities-drop-parking-space-minimums-development
193
98
C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding
https://liveplusplus.tech/
185
158
Airtable acquires Airplane
https://www.airplane.dev/blog/airtable
104
Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216573120
186
Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
https://github.com/attractivechaos/plb2
117
Terminal Smooth Scrolling
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/terminal-smooth-scrolling
155
99
Block cookie banners on Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction
153
111
UK 2022 rail station flow images
https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/station.md
149
81
OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-12-31-hardened-openbsd-workstation.html
147
58
Making the Micropipette
https://press.asimov.com/resources/making-the-micropipette
145
66
Organ pipe physics
https://www.modartt.com/organteq_physical_modeling
131
Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?
https://ryanblakeley.net/p/are-roads-the-biggest-driver-of-ecological
56
Show HN: A Who is Hiring app with AI filters
https://bernawil.github.io/hn-who-is-hiring/
128
20
GCC Specs: An Introduction
https://wozniak.ca/blog/2024/01/02/1/index.html
127
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Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
https://todaypurpose.com/posts/big-muscles/
123
46
Someone was breaking into Orange Spain RIPE account (and break their /12)
https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/r1zj333N4L6cF7P1xv
121
160
Xerox to cut 15% of its workforce
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/03/xerox-layoffs-company-to-cut-15percent-of-workforce.html
120
119
My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/digital-nomad/
Emacs commands I got by with for years
https://macadie.info/2023/12/30/emacs-commands-i-got-by-with-for-years/
118
30
Amber: Smalltalk for the Web
https://amber-lang.net/
116
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Most states start school too early in the morning
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-school-start-times
114
A lightweight Lisp interpreter in Malbolge
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/malbolge-lisp
Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/social-media-addiction-teenagers-study-phones
113
1
uBlock Origin – 1.55.0
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.55.0
107
87
The Aha Stack
https://ahastack.dev/
105
Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid reminder of life's value
https://github.com/accessd/the-last-sunday
102
Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bulking-up-spying-regime-breakneck-speed/
55
Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46374-23/aa46374-23.html
96
61
More Americans can now get insulin for $35
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html
91
Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund Hyperverse does not appear to exist
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/04/chief-executive-of-collapsed-crypto-fund-hyperverse-does-not-appear-to-exist
90
Fastest autograd in the West
https://arogozhnikov.github.io/2023/12/28/fastest-autograd.html
51
Porsche Design System v3
https://designsystem.porsche.com/v3/
89
122
Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-first-starlink-satellites-that-will-work-with-t-mobile-phones/
Retrieval Augmented Generation for New Orleans City Council Transparency
https://eyeonsurveillance.org/blog/rag-for-new-orleans-city-council-transparency
Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/anglo-teen-suicide
84
151
Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/pawpaw-fruit-taste-history/671646/
19
Libwa: WhatsApp C Library
https://github.com/rodarima/libwa
14
30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1
https://mahaloz.re/dec-history-pt1
13
A new way to see the activity inside a living cell
https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-fluorescent-labels-living-cell-1128
77
11
Solomon Shereshevsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky
76
Asian Arowana: The most expensive pet fish
https://thehustle.co/asian-arowana-most-expensive-fish/
75
32
A Visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (2023)
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/museo-nacional-de-antropologia-visit/
74
23
What should we know about APFS special files?
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/03/what-should-we-know-about-apfs-special-files/
73
Glitch Exhibition in Munich: The Art of Interference
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/glitch-artists-explore-the-potential-in-imperfection-in-munich