911
1300
US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternative-purchase-option/
a year ago
757
908
On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
https://catandgirl.com/4000-of-my-closest-friends/
511
102
6174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6174
385
331
How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/13/business/uk-post-office-fujitsu-horizon-scandal/index.html
390
Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI
https://1a3orn.com/sub/machine-learning-bans.html
371
472
OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/16/2024/openai-is-working-with-the-pentagon-on-cybersecurity-projects
370
97
TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning
https://www.ikkaro.net/what-tinyml-is/
346
181
Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
https://status.kagi.com/issues/2024-01-12-kagi-down-on-some-regions/
334
117
Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
https://global.canon/en/c-museum/special/exhibition2.html
324
189
Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds
322
367
Modeless Vim
https://github.com/SebastianMuskalla/ModelessVim
319
79
Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39012544
316
58
Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
https://github.com/kffl/speedbump
315
140
Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
https://stability.ai/news/stable-code-2024-llm-code-completion-release
280
243
We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
https://blog.ydb.tech/how-we-switched-to-java-21-virtual-threads-and-got-deadlock-in-tpc-c-for-postgresql-cca2fe08d70b
276
274
Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]
https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
259
72
Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
https://nashby.github.io/2024/01/15/ruby-3-on-rails-1/
235
64
OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun
234
156
Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues
https://3.14.by/en/read/RISC-V-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-Alibaba-T-Head-TH1520-review
233
442
Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008165
217
379
Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/315/passwordless-a-different-kind-of-hell
199
46
Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/supercharge-web-ai-testing
197
212
US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/
194
109
Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023
https://blog.ryujinx.org/progress-report-december-2023/
180
70
Passing nothing is surprisingly difficult
https://davidben.net/2024/01/15/empty-slices.html
178
187
Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
https://bloomberry.com/why-new-hires-often-get-paid-more-than-existing-employees/
177
605
The failure of self-checkout technology
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240111-it-hasnt-delivered-the-spectacular-failure-of-self-checkout-technology
174
142
Std: Clamp generates less efficient assembly than std:min(max,std:max(min,v))
https://1f6042.blogspot.com/2024/01/stdclamp-still-generates-less-efficient.html
112
"Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240116-the-dark-earth-revealing-the-amazons-secrets
172
211
Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop
166
25
Understanding x86_64 Paging
https://zolutal.github.io/understanding-paging/
165
209
Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
https://fil.org/blog/filecoin-foundation-successfully-deploys-interplanetary-file-system-ipfs-in-space/
155
47
Bug Thread
https://xkcd.com/2881/
152
Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers
https://artificialanalysis.ai
139
105
Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged
136
39
LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/16/leftoverlocals-listening-to-llm-responses-through-leaked-gpu-local-memory/
128
37
5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Caching-Time-Block-IO
127
65
Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)
https://museumcrush.org/the-beauty-and-danger-in-victorian-glass-fire-grenades/
126
Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
https://github.com/outline/outline
124
89
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/patrick-mckenzie/
121
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
https://www.techslang.com/definition/what-is-wirths-law/
43
Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)
https://greenrosechemistry.com/how-scientists-proved-that-bees-can-perceive-time/
115
49
Open-Source Detector of CISA's Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities
https://github.com/Ostorlab/KEV
32
A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms
https://old.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/197vfmq/a_netbsdamd64_guest_can_now_boot_in_40ms_details/
111
110
A Theory of Grift
https://www.thediff.co/archive/a-theory-of-grift/
107
40
Mad Scientists' Club: The Books
http://www.madscientistsclub.com/books.html
98
Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results for Gaming Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Scheduler-Experiment
26
Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly
https://barkeywolf.consulting/posts/barcode-scanner-webassembly/#meet-zbar
94
48
Why is everything an orchid?
https://worldsensorium.com/why-is-everything-an-orchid/
88
44
PID Controllers in Unity3D (2021)
https://vazgriz.com/621/pid-controllers/
86
54
What SoundCloud created can never die
https://www.wired.com/story/what-soundcloud-created-can-never-die/
83
16
Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)
http://web.archive.org/web/20061108010907/http://www.rano.org/bcompiler.html
81
22
86-DOS Revisited
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/86-dos-revisited/
2
John Carmack on Inlined Code
http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html
