2437
396
Losing my son
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/i-lost-my-son/
a year ago
848
579
Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/remote-work-doesn-t-seem-to-affect-productivity-fed-study-finds
589
198
We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2024/01/17/how-we-migrated-our-postgresql-database-with-11-seconds-downtime/
503
254
The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/
464
114
WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech
453
256
Relearning math as an adult
https://gmays.com/how-im-relearning-math-as-an-adult/
417
438
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
https://ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Letters/№2%20Hans→Fred/reiser_response.html
387
378
Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035650
351
550
The case for single-stair multifamily
https://www.thesisdriven.com/p/the-case-for-single-stair-multifamily
325
246
German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app
https://infosec.exchange/@WPalant/111776937550399546
307
122
AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00130-8
294
140
Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/
278
My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
https://twitter.com/wenquai/status/1748016021808595242
260
214
Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/
134
New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67793887
257
179
Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-components-a-perfect-match.html
242
98
A million ways to die on the web
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/A_Million_Ways_to_Die_on_the_Web
218
Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/noisy-brain-may-underlie-some-of-autisms-sensory-features/
240
72
WebGPU is now available on Android
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-webgpu-121
230
211
What happened to the US machine tool industry?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-happened-to-the-us-machine-tool
223
Flattr is closing down (2023)
https://flattr.com/
170
Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation
https://spectrum.ieee.org/micro-wind-power-kitepower
209
338
Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview
206
146
Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-extends-android-and-security-updates-to-7-years/
205
66
Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/hospitals-slash-staff-services-quality-of-care-when-private-equity-takes-over/
193
153
Queues don't fix overload (2014)
https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html
185
155
Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/17/study-field-drug-tests-generate-nearly-30000-bogus-arrests-a-year/
180
38
Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/
Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/01/17/identifying-the-collect-vec-memory-leak-footgun.html
175
169
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/
166
152
I made a website to share rejection letters
https://rejectedagain.lol
163
271
YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps
156
108
DJGPP
https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
137
159
Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)
https://getpolarized.io/2019/05/11/portable-web-documents.html
202
Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News
https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
136
Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/64831/environmental-youth-groups-win-climate-court-case-against-norwegian-state/
135
2
Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/71-million-passwords-for-facebook-coinbase-and-others-found-for-sale/
120
A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal
https://www.westerninvestor.com/national-business/a-drought-has-forced-authorities-to-further-slash-traffic-in-panama-canal-disrupting-global-trade-8126368
132
47
Launch HN: Talc AI (YC S23) – Test Sets for AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042093
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/ibm_inventor_reward_program/
139
EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
https://taler.net/en/news/2024-02.html
131
28
Cracking the code of Linear B
https://antigonejournal.com/2024/01/decipherment-linear-b/
125
6
PostgreSQL Operations Cheat Sheet: featuring security, scaling, structure, etc.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Operations_cheat_sheet
124
23
Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html
'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More
https://reason.com/2024/01/17/ai-fraud-act-could-outlaw-parodies-political-cartoons-and-more/
43
Carta: When Your Company Tries to Cancel You
https://medium.com/@jerrytalton/when-your-company-tries-to-cancel-you-a93a9a8e5d86
117
92
VMware Kills Off 56 Products
https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/
10 Second Teleportation
https://upollo.ai/blog/10-second-teleportation
116
22
Linear transformers are faster after all
https://manifestai.com/blogposts/faster-after-all/
115
75
Corporations are not to be loved
https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved
109
26
Teller: Universal secret manager, never leave your terminal to use secrets
https://github.com/tellerops/teller
104
106
Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
https://shubhamjain.co/2023/01/18/ditching-paas-why-i-went-back-to-self-hosting/
79
Automatic class sorting with Prettier (2022)
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/automatic-class-sorting-with-prettier
Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-market-share-chatgpt-36751.html
97
17
Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)
https://folklore.org/Scrooge_McDuck.html?sort=date
90
4
The geometry of other people
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-other-people-form-imaginary-shapes-in-our-minds
89
91
Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68018618
88
42
Running Open Genera 2.0 on Linux
https://archives.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html
