2108
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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/
2 years ago
774
254
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750225562281632048
607
149
Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
https://ollama.ai/blog/python-javascript-libraries
546
397
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
https://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/
515
201
Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
426
396
Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brains-are-not-required-when-it-comes-to-thinking-and-solving-problems-simple-cells-can-do-it/
423
175
Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/01/24/fail/
350
174
Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative
https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/introducing-faircamp/
336
313
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs
256
108
CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
https://github.com/rhboot/shim/commit/0226b56513b2b8bd5fd281bce77c40c9bf07c66d
248
21
Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor
https://github.com/placemark/placemark
240
139
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
231
96
Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures
https://www.improbableisland.com
230
98
NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/nsa-internet-privacy-warrant.html
223
32
CRDTs Turned Inside Out
https://interjectedfuture.com/crdts-turned-inside-out/
221
83
We build X.509 chains so you don't have to
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/25/we-build-x-509-chains-so-you-dont-have-to/
220
79
New embedding models and API updates
https://openai.com/blog/new-embedding-models-and-api-updates
215
133
HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated <14
https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-vaccine-prevent-cervical-cancer-cervarix-gardasil-study/
213
Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-japan-craft-successful-pin-moon.html
207
63
Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/proposed-windows-nt-sync-driver-brings-big-wine-proton-performance-improvements/
187
144
Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(23)00820-9/fulltext
176
50
Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
https://www.windytan.com/2024/01/smoother-sailing-steamboat-willie-flutter.html
155
Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
https://starship.rs/
171
61
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/eff-and-more-100-ngos-set-non-negotiable-redlines-ahead-un-cybercrime-treaty
167
76
Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070309014113/http://www.amontobin.com/field/
163
58
The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
https://www.theuncomfortable.com/
157
26
Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Capturing_the_ripples_of_spacetime_LISA_gets_go-ahead
53
Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/schepers
152
57
Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration
https://huggingface.co/blog/gcp-partnership
148
147
Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
https://www.coldbike.com/2019/02/13/heat-exchanger-masks-a-love-story/
146
39
Show HN: Lumos, a local LLM Chrome extension
https://github.com/andrewnguonly/Lumos
145
30
Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: Self-Rewarding Language Model from MetaAI
https://github.com/lucidrains/self-rewarding-lm-pytorch
141
42
Crusty, the Indestructible Mac
https://geocities.ws/rehasoft/crusty.html
135
23
A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exiles-cookbook
131
An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM
https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-text2sql-llm/
128
43
Ruby on Rails load testing habits
https://www.rorvswild.com/blog/2024/ruby-on-rails-load-testing-habits
123
Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/24/sports-illustrated-implosion-perfectly-encapsulates-the-ugly-ongoing-collapse-of-u-s-journalism/
121
Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit
https://susam.net/blog/jenkins-quicksort.html
116
94
Some strange Macintosh computers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/macintosh-at-40-the-oddest-and-rarest-macs-ever-built/
111
How AI is changing gymnastics judging
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/16/1086498/ai-gymnastics-judging-jss-world-championships-antwerp-paris-olympics/
129
Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5074044/shouldnt-from-come-before-select-in-sql
106
Restoration of an IBM Thinkpad 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop
https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701c.html
105
47
PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
https://github.com/ywelsch/duckdb-prql
104
Mod_blog: A Blogging Engine in C
https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
103
Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game
https://qwertle.friedman.in
100
20
The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-01-25/column-the-lithium-revolution-has-arrived-at-californias-salton-sea-boiling-point
99
92
Framework: We don't want to have to make a printer, but wow
https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1750545558765519344
93
71
iPhone apps harvest data when they send you notifications, researchers find
https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-can-harvest-data-from-notifications-1851194537
89
65
The new architecture wars
https://aeon.co/essays/the-architectural-style-wars-have-started-all-over-again
82
24
On climbing the stat arb leaderboard, comparative advantage, and careers
https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2024/01/25/on-climbing-the-stat-arb-cex-dex-leaderboard-comparative-advantage-and-careers-and-my-future-in-crypto/
80
74
The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have been released and we have questions
https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-statistics-have-finally-been-release-and-we-have-questions/
59
Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain
https://proto.life/2023/12/social-media-artificial-intelligence-and-the-battle-for-your-brain/
75
36
The rise and fall of the standard user interface
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
4
GHC Steering Committee Retrospective
https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/811-GHC_Steering_Committee_Retrospective