1220
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-word-begins-with-y-and-looks-like-an-axe-in-this-picture
2 years ago
963
210
Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
https://sitinshade.com
545
170
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-ai-system-for-geometry/
497
190
Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-apple-built-icloud-to-store-billions
481
61
Random Animations
https://bleuje.com/randomanimations/
462
326
FAQ on Leaving Google
https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-10-GoogleExitLetter/
459
101
Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
https://eaton-works.com/2024/01/17/ttibi-email-hack/
440
96
John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo
https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-also-drew-bsd-daemon.html
429
121
Willow Protocol
https://willowprotocol.org/
419
364
Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1747408148799881390
333
113
The Hacker News Top books of 2023
https://hnreads.com/post/top40_2023/
293
368
Why I Like Obsidian
https://www.ddanieltan.com/posts/obsidian/
288
91
Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux
https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
236
86
K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
https://github.com/kparc/ksimple
235
240
The Rust project has a burnout problem
https://jyn.dev/2024/01/16/the-rust-project-has-a-burnout-problem.html
230
110
If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1747666962749284468
226
89
Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS
https://htmldocs.com
216
37
Doom Released Under GPLv2
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/commit/a77dfb96cb91780ca334d0d4cfd86957558007e0
207
63
Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)
https://computerengineeringforbabies.com/products/computer-engineering-for-babies
202
34
Browsh: The modern text-based web browser
https://www.brow.sh/
197
181
We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
194
BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters
https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/111762132859648345
185
Notion Calendar
https://www.notion.so/blog/introducing-notion-calendar
87
Cancer Alley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
179
56
Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier
https://shadeup.dev/
157
84
RSA is deceptively simple and fun
https://ntietz.com/blog/rsa-deceptively-simple/
156
146
The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List
https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-naz-api-credential-stuffing-list/
152
98
PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations
https://blog.quarkslab.com/pixiefail-nine-vulnerabilities-in-tianocores-edk-ii-ipv6-network-stack.html
149
115
Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/jetblue-spirit-airlines-ruling-merger.html
148
166
OpenAI is working with the US military now
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/openai-working-with-us-military-on-cybersecurity-tools-for-veterans
104
How to Design an ISA
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3639445
145
71
How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/from-0-to-1-mb-in-dos
129
116
Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/01/17/bad-stuff-going-down-at-the-american-sociological-association/
128
155
Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/coming_to_grips_with_apples_seemingly_unshakable_sense_of_app_store_entitlement
126
78
Systemd: Enable indefinite service restarts
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-01-17-systemd-indefinite-service-restarts/
125
90
ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry
https://venturebeat.com/automation/stanfords-mobile-aloha-robot-learns-from-humans-to-cook-clean-do-laundry/
82
Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security
https://technitium.com/dns/
Quake on an FPGA (MRISC32 CPU) [video]
https://vimeo.com/901506667
111
48
Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot
https://github.com/srikanth235/privy
108
21
Machine embroidery of light-emitting textiles with electroluminescent threads
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk4295
107
20
From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbad173/7517011
154
Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
https://jakeseliger.com/2024/01/16/why-dont-schools-teach-debugging-or-more-fundamentally-fundamentals/
103
52
White space does matter in C23
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/white-space-does-matter-in-c23/
153
I regret selling my startup
https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-startup/
100
297
Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/who-owns-this-sentence-a-history-of-copyrights-and-wrongs-david-bellos-alexandre-montagu-book-review
Get Out of Jail Cards, 2
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/01/get-out-of-jail-cards-2.html
93
66
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/google_search_results_spam/
Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io
https://lgug2z.com/articles/deploying-a-cloudflare-r2-backed-nix-binary-cache-attic-on-fly-io/
85
68
Htmx Is Composable?
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/01/17/htmx
ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/research-notes/research-note-arms-blackhawk-cpu-is-an-audacious-plan-to-have-the-best-smartphone-cpu-core-this-year/
16
Barcoding Bees (2020)
https://theapiarist.org/barcoding-bees/
8
JW Player suffers traffic loss after dynamic piracy blocking blunder
https://torrentfreak.com/jwplayer-suffers-severe-traffic-loss-after-dynamic-piracy-blocking-blunder-240116/
80
50
E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/e-crime-rapper-punchmade-dev-debuts-card-shop/
142
Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/01/17/did-you-know-that-most-stem-grads-dont-work-stem-jobs/
79
75
Use Plaintext Email (2019)
https://useplaintext.email/
4
Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/17/epic-plans-to-contest-apples-bad-faith-compliance-with-court-ruling-over-app-store/
77
102
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools
76
How Monopolists drive the power and wealth divide
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/taken-not-earned-how-monopolists-drive-the-worlds-power-and-wealth-divide/
59
Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting point, say historians
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/01/cerne-abbas-giant-is-hercules-and-was-army-meeting-point-say-historians
Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026521
139
Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39021805
Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth still so unreliable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028440
32
TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor
https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
70
My New Computer
https://blog.taoetc.org/
67
41
iPhone seemingly sends iOS keyboard data to an iCloud server
https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1747604112231776364
65
AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents"
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/ai-poisoning-could-turn-open-models-into-destructive-sleeper-agents-says-anthropic/
