879
253
FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/business/ftc-turbotax-free-services/index.html
a year ago
594
447
Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-line-has-enormous-volume-of-defects-bolts-on-max-9-werent-installed/
555
374
Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099065
482
243
Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/health/deaf-gene-therapy.html
451
380
Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514
434
151
Waterway Map
https://waterwaymap.org
433
653
Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019/02/07/why-are-we-templating-yaml
424
390
Framework Laptop 16 Review
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16
410
180
Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment
https://reason.com/2024/01/23/appeals-court-fbis-safe-deposit-box-seizures-violated-fourth-amendment/
398
223
Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
https://www.rawrlab.com/godot_nintendo_switch_free_port.html
349
36
ML Engineering Online Book
https://github.com/stas00/ml-engineering
331
167
Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/4-reasons-to-try-mozillas-new-firefox-linux-package-for-ubuntu-and-debian-derivatives/
316
75
scrapscript.py
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/scrapscript/
309
622
Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/apple-car-ev-set-to-debut-in-2028-with-limited-autonomous-driving
302
345
Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/higher-vehicle-hoods-significantly-increase-pedestrian-deaths-study-finds/
287
136
Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html
283
140
Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
https://ai.stanford.edu/~zayd/why-is-machine-learning-hard.html
280
47
Direct pixel-space megapixel image generation with diffusion models
https://crowsonkb.github.io/hourglass-diffusion-transformers/
272
252
The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-coffee-moka-pot
262
154
2023 Letter
https://danwang.co/2023-letter/
254
104
From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/slow-to-simd
248
118
The NSA Furby Documents
https://www.404media.co/these-are-the-notorious-nsa-furby-documents-showing-spy-agency-freaking-out-about-childrens-toy/
247
381
Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-of-ancient-romes-mysterious-12-sided-objects-has-been-found-in-england-180983632/
230
338
Responses to unicycling
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151169/
221
Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
https://forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/dana-farberications-at-harvard-university/
215
56
Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off
https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962
210
142
Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches
https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/
207
220
United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-ceo-boeing-manufacturing-problems-4090ea6176ef59e382dd18e9522596bc
Loro's rich text CRDT
https://www.loro.dev/blog/loro-richtext
193
99
Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the internet
https://retriever.corgea.io/
187
39
Open Infrastructure Map
https://openinframap.org
51
Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries
https://github.com/rajnandan1/kener
184
45
Hair sample that put a man in prison turned out to be dog hair
https://reason.com/2024/01/18/center-for-integrity-in-forensic-sciences-junk-hair-arson-bite/
161
48
Show HN: Atlas – GIS and interactive maps in the browser
https://atlas.co
Spotting LLMs with Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12070
160
SimSIMD: Hardware-accelerated similarity metrics and distance functions
https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD
159
147
Oh My Zsh
https://ohmyz.sh/
149
80
Mr. Rogers' music was intricate (2020) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z40SZ77CHK0
148
212
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110194
143
24
The Beirut Port Explosion Forensic Investigation (2020)
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion
137
131
Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-efficiency-asymmetry-scientists-fundamental-cooling.html
135
18
SaberVM
https://ryanbrewer.dev/posts/announcing-svm.html
133
76
The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions
https://zverok.substack.com/p/the-end-of-useless-ruby-sugar-on
Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
https://qdrant.tech/blog/series-a-funding-round/
116
The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands
https://www.hawaiiseaglider.org/
A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=107966
127
63
Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify
https://everynoise.com/#updates
150
Brex Layoffs
https://www.brex.com/journal/a-message-from-our-founder
123
8
Trello leaked 15M email addresses
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Trello
120
4
Boeing internal whistleblower RE: MAX DOOR
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/146074-boeing-internal-whistleblower-re-max-door.html
What if serverless meant no backend servers?
https://subzero.cloud/blog/serverfree-architecture/
119
35
Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-pro-into-the-ultimate-classic-macintosh/
117
105
Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers
https://www.nyckel.com/blog/machine-learning-difficulties/
114
20
Self-contained Linux applications with lone Lisp
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-lisp-applications
14
Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221154
112
30
Unbloating the buffers
https://dgroshev.com/blog/bufferbloat/
58
Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go
https://go.dev/blog/deadcode
107
Nicholas Saunders and "Alternative London" changed British food
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food
106
Chrome experimental AI features
https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-generative-ai-features-january-2024/
73
Show HN: Bernard – a link checker for your website
https://bernard.app
97
91
macOS Sonoma Forced Installs
https://www.macintouch.com/post/37381/macos-sonoma-forced-installs/
Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/23/samsung-expands-diy-repair-program-galaxy-s23-fold-5/
211
Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/21/1225882007/tens-of-thousands-protest-in-germany-against-the-rise-of-the-far-right
92
Reasons medieval people slept in cupboards
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-the-strange-reasons-medieval-people-slept-in-cupboards
88
46
Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/scientists-discover-near-earth-asteroid-hours-before-it-exploded-over-berlin
87
Ode to Internet – V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra (1996) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuN-bW_zS0Q
83
22
Show HN: Sendenv, a CLI tool to share environment variables
https://github.com/viraniaman94/sendenv
