731
79
Dave Mills has died
https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html
a year ago
590
678
Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
573
483
Culture Change at Google
https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
548
471
Mourning Google
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
522
270
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-bugs-that-sent-innocent-people-to-prison-were-known-from-the-start/
477
291
Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2024/01/19/thailand-discovers-nearly-15-million-tonnes-of-lithium/113414
443
168
Surf the web like it's 1999
https://billsworld.neocities.org/
428
258
Winding down Google Sync and Less Secure Apps support
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/winding-down-google-sync-and-less-secure-apps-support.html
411
210
Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2024/ceph-a-journey-to-1tibps/
407
648
Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
https://www.wsj.com/business/cancel-subscriptions-save-money-streaming-peacock-da7e6123
404
111
Platform Tilt
https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/
373
121
Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip
https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor
307
94
Building a USB SNES Controller
https://blog.chybby.com/posts/building-a-usb-snes-controller
286
Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/
283
279
Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/
280
188
Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/
273
98
Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yBlZplnKQ
271
132
Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057219
261
135
Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
https://tart.run/
254
219
French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/french-cheese-under-threat
243
162
Memory leak proof every C program
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/memory-leak-proof-every-C-program
228
344
Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-01-19/yann-lecun-chief-ai-scientist-at-meta-human-level-artificial-intelligence-is-going-to-take-a-long-time.html
207
60
LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders
https://www.loadership.com/
187
176
US government opens 22M acres of federal lands to solar
https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/us-govt-opens-22-million-acres-federal-lands-solar/
183
155
The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
https://nullderef.com/blog/rust-async-sync/
171
145
Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/instagram-facebook-child-sexual-harassment
170
24
Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Backprop/
166
Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/devops-dont-destroy-silos-transform
159
74
Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type
https://orthic.shorthand.fun/
181
SpaceX launches 4 people for private mission to the International Space Station
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225191541/spacex-nasa-axiom-space-ax-3-international-space-station-iss
90
Four Magic Words
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/
140
56
Surveillance-by-Design in Proposed Amendments to the UK Investigatory Powers Act
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/surveillance-by-design-in-proposed-amendments-to-the-u.k.-investigatory-powers-act
136
58
First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
https://digialps.com/the-first-ai-medical-device-that-can-detect-all-major-skin-cancers-just-received-fda-approval/
Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-vision/apple-vision-pro
128
38
New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
https://flowingdata.com/2024/01/10/nyt-flash-based-visualizations-work-again/
2
Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/19/haier-threatens-legal-action-against-home-assistant-plugin-developer/
127
55
Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/driver-hack-lets-you-run-linux-after-windows-bsods-no-reboot-required
126
57
Shots: Create Mockups
https://shots.so/
124
146
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/
123
50
Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant
https://gitlab.com/literally-useful/voxos
118
91
The 37signals Employee Handbook
https://basecamp.com/handbook
115
Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
https://scholar.social/@researchfairy/111778617625312456
157
HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/
106
30
Lamport's Bakery algorithm, demonstrated in Python
https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/bakery_algorithm
103
120
Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/make-america-rake-again-leaf-blower-bans/
100
101
Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels
https://www.statista.com/chart/2502/apples-r-and-d-expenditure/
95
61
Self-Rewarding Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10020
29
Gleam's New Interactive Language Tour
https://gleam.run/news/gleams-new-interactive-language-tour/
93
Comparing the 1970's Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi
https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/comparing-the-1970s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-raspberrypi-hacksterio/
87
16
Why holes at the bottom of the ocean disappear and reappear
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ocean-floor-holes-purposes-eels
86
System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-thelio-threadripper-2024
82
35
Wayfair CEO tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/19/wayfair-layoffs-2024/72280132007/
80
48
HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces
https://www.freethink.com/ar-vr/we-tested-the-most-advanced-haptic-gloves-in-the-world
43
How much memory bandwidth do large Amazon instances offer?
https://lemire.me/blog/2024/01/18/how-much-memory-bandwidth-do-large-amazon-instances-offer/
Mistral looks set to challenge AI frontrunners Google and OpenAI
https://www.ft.com/content/bc4cd6ff-446d-4a47-9382-bb622460a681
78
59
Knockoff Iranian drone sold on Alibaba was meant for war, documents show
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akeqk/knockoff-iranian-drone-sold-on-alibaba-was-meant-for-war-documents-show
76
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits
12
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS Deprecation
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/#u
