765
162
Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium
2 years ago
704
277
Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38983067
699
186
Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
https://johnthenerd.com/blog/local-llm-assistant/
400
316
A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest
383
126
Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
https://betterstack.com/community/guides/scaling-docker/podman-vs-docker/
370
50
A decade-old Steam bug
https://blog.freudenjmp.com/posts/no-user-logon/
357
308
A math professor who objects to diversity statements
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/professor-american-academia-parallels-soviet-union/676305/
345
250
LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day
324
321
‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-manufacturing-737-max-alaska-door-plug-spirit-18f7e233
227
Inside the Steam Deck's APU
https://boilingsteam.com/an-in-depth-look-at-the-steam-deck-apu/.
300
152
Thinking in an array language
https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/12-thinking-in-k.md
293
201
How to Be More Agentic
https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic
280
127
AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
https://asmbb.org/what-is-asmbb.1/
274
64
What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con
244
311
Updates on Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/updates-grounding-boeing-737-max-9-aircraft
241
72
Tachiyomi – It's Joever
https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-13-goodbye
237
139
Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles
https://midlibrary.io/styles
229
204
Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/01/starlink-successfully-tests-space-direct-to-cell-mobile-service.html
217
20
Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser
https://wokwi.com/
216
118
Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-all-nippon-airways-flight-1182-boeing-737-cockpit-window-crack-4045796
214
Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200531386/compiler-frontend-engineer
212
95
My Knowledge Lakehouse
https://tabokie.github.io/non-fiction/2024/01/13/log-kb.html
205
120
Creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38978665
192
80
Generalized K-Means Clustering
https://github.com/derrickburns/generalized-kmeans-clustering
191
36
Decker – A HyperCard Replacement
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/viral-cloudflare-termination-video-masterclass-how-not-terminate.html
181
155
It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-nationalize-and-then
174
333
He spent his life building a $1M stereo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fritz-greatest-stereo-auction-cost/
172
107
YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution
https://github.com/YouTransfer/YouTransfer
170
161
What Was ISDN?
https://tedium.co/2024/01/12/isdn-history-retrospective/
150
68
Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps
https://ui.shadcn.com/
148
52
RAD Debugger
https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger
146
135
Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
https://lemire.me/blog/2008/08/21/peer-review-is-an-honor-based-system/
144
Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat
https://fortune.com/2024/01/13/managers-scapegoating-workers-return-to-office/
140
99
John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/john-michell-black-holes
132
11
Listening with LLM
https://paul.mou.dev/posts/2023-12-31-listening-with-llm/
124
61
Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/norway-to-allow-mining-waste-to-be-dumped-in-fjords
117
9
Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space
https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia
116
30
Exposed RSS
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/13/exposed-rss/
115
37
Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time
https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit
110
46
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
109
78
Scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (1995) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DThUr7bsY
103
21
Feynman Sprinkler [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ued2cEcfAio
100
18
Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust
https://rkyv.org/
3
ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving
https://archivebox.io/
97
105
Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/wisconsin-joe-gow-fired/677097/
93
27
Temperature-sensing stirbar with RFID
https://github.com/benkrasnow/Temperature_sensing_stirbar
91
25
Weather intelligence and cutting-edge tech is boosting grid capacity by 30%
https://electrek.co/2023/12/07/heimdall-power-meteomatics-grid-capacity-30-percent/
26
AWS Libcrypto for Rust
https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs
89
62
Compressing Text into Images
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/compressing-text-into-images/
87
17
Cosmic: The Road to Alpha
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha/
83
79
M1 Macs may lag behind
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/13/how-m1-macs-may-lag-behind/
48
Live record of being fired from Cloudflare during a redundancy plan [video]
https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1745971021654503778
31
People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/1224449631/mississippi-jail-graves-investigation
74
75
Show HN: I made a site to simplify recommending talented people to others
https://www.youshouldworkwith.com
71
34
Go is not an easy language (2021)
https://www.arp242.net/go-easy.html
42
Things I Learnt in 2023
https://drobinin.com/posts/things-i-learnt-in-2023/
70
The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain
https://spectrum.ieee.org/global-robotic-brain
Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet
69
Taiwan election: William Lai, who China sees as 'troublemaker', wins election
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-67954619
66
171
Austin takes a bet on tiny homes to ease homelessness
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/headway/homelessness-tiny-home-austin.html