655
87
Reading QR codes without a computer
https://qr.blinry.org/
a year ago
582
83
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/modder-recreates-game-boy-advance-games-using-the-audio-from-crash-sounds/
554
382
Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/kb3WBpHMFL
533
117
My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/my-toddler-still-loves-planes-so
483
241
Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts
https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/
465
151
GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
https://iter.ca/post/gpt-crash/
410
191
U.S. National Park Service API
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-data-api.htm
367
359
Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
https://konecipv4.cz/en/
363
124
Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
https://winlator.org/
341
210
Should I open source my company? (2022)
https://supabase.com/blog/should-i-open-source-my-company
339
79
LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning
https://lightning.ai/lightning-ai/studios/code-lora-from-scratch?view=public§ion=all
308
Forging signed commits on GitHub
https://iter.ca/post/gh-sig-pwn/
280
422
Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088551
259
63
An RNG that runs in your brain
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/randomness/
221
What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/
233
96
RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
https://rubyflow.com/p/pb1tu2-rubywm-an-x11-window-manager-in-pure-ruby
222
105
Too much serendipity
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oA23zoEjPnzqfHiCt/there-is-way-too-much-serendipity
204
161
Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p
192
Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
https://tuananh.net/2024/01/21/cloud-cost-optimization-at-scale-part-1/
176
171
Helium is essential but nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
https://theconversation.com/helium-is-an-essential-material-for-research-and-medical-equipment-but-its-nonrenewable-and-difficult-to-recycle-218668
57
Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
https://www.inngest.com/blog/building-the-inngest-queue-pt-i-fairness-multi-tenancy
172
Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
https://repair.eu/news/the-price-is-not-right/
169
14
CSS3D Clouds
https://spite.github.io/CSS3DClouds/
162
207
Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
https://www.ft.com/content/a84327c6-f939-480c-925d-19d3f41062bf
155
Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?
https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
154
Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/google-and-att-invest-in-starlink-rival-for-satellite-to-smartphone-service/
146
When America first dropped acid
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review
144
193
Self-driving as a case study for AGI
https://karpathy.github.io/2024/01/21/selfdriving-agi/
139
165
Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-player-update
134
58
Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 MAX 9 blowout
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68052160
130
148
NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing
https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/news/nyc-bound-flight-canceled-when-passenger-notices-missing-bolts-on-plane-wing/
126
109
Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-planning-1600-core-chips-that-use-an-entire-wafer-similar-to-american-company-cerebras-wafer-scale-design
119
149
Riot Games laying off 11%
https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update
82
Haier Europe Eases Off on Legal Threat and Seeks Dialogue
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/22/haier-europe-eases-off-on-legal-threat-and-seeks-dialogue/
118
133
Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3eG8ZbeXeQ
112
46
Cervical Cancer incidence drops 65% in women who benefited from HPV vaccine
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/hpv-vaccine-cervical-cancer-rising-women-research-rcna134224
182
Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/consumer/expensive-fridges-dying-fraud-claims/3428989/
111
75
Jazelle DBX: Allow ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
65
Two File Descriptors for Sockets
http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/twofd.html
102
The absurdity of the return-to-office movement
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/opinions/remote-work-jobs-bergen/index.html
108
76
Monster Hunter Rise adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/monster-hunter-rise-adds-new-drm-that-breaks-it-on-steam-deck/
92
Performance Analysis of Python's Dict() and {}
https://madebyme.today/blog/python-dict-vs-curly-brackets/
107
40
Scientists discovered perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg
https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/dinosaur-egg-embryo-fossil-213524-20231107
106
53
Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers
https://www.wsj.com/health/dana-farber-harvard-retractions-corrections-ceo-laurie-glimcher-935636f5
101
41
Battery-free self-powered sensor harvests magnetic energy
https://news.mit.edu/2024/self-powered-sensor-harvests-magnetic-energy-0118
98
30
Boulder VC firm Foundry to shutter after 18 years, 200 investments
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2024/01/19/boulder-vc-firm-foundry-to-close.html
131
CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA
97
The Downward Spiral of Technology
https://www.creativedestruction.club/p/the-downward-spiral-of-technology
81
Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/28-sunsetting-strict-fingerprinting-mode/
34
Show HN: Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development
https://vxdev.pages.dev
95
British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421
26
An introduction to temporal logic and how it can be used to analyze concurrency
https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/introduction_to_temporal_logic
Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014)
https://danluu.com/2choices-eviction/
90
Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs
https://nypost.com/2024/01/22/business/google-cites-durable-cost-savings-as-2024-goal-amid-layoffs/
88
20
Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data
https://github.com/LiheYoung/Depth-Anything
The building blocks of offline support
https://pketh.org/building-offline.html
80
129
Trello Allegedly Breached
https://twitter.com/H4ckManac/status/1747527579559411959
New theory suggests LLMs can understand text
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/
115
Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend
https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/vision-pro%E9%A6%96%E9%80%B1%E6%9C%AB%E9%A0%90%E8%B3%BC%E6%AA%A2%E8%A6%96-%E7%AC%A6%E5%90%88%E9%A0%90%E6%9C%9F%E4%BD%86%E9%9A%B1%E6%86%82%E6%B5%AE%E7%8F%BE-vision-pros-first-weekend-pre-order-review-expectations-in-line-0450c1effe66
78
25
Clickr, or a young man's Flickr clonejure
https://jmglov.net/blog/2024-01-17-clickr.html
77
55
Ask HN: Is Apple's R1 a Discrete GPU?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094181
27
Fair Cake-Cutting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
73
69
Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups
https://chris-haarburger.com/posts/security_startups.html
