681
1066
Apple Vision Pro review
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-review-39f2d82e
2 years ago
569
401
Intel's Humbling
https://stratechery.com/2024/intels-humbling/
544
202
How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
https://12challenges.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-receiving-a-cease
523
179
I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
https://chadaustin.me/2024/01/truecolor-terminal-emacs/
475
124
Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/github-actions
452
133
Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
440
173
Why flying insects gather at artificial light
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3
427
216
Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/well-thats-everyone-senator-wyden-letter-confirms-the-nsa-is-buying-us-persons-data-from-data-brokers/
413
374
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not
https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price
318
382
Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
https://danrodricks.com/2024/01/29/tear-up-unused-parking-lots-plant-trees/
311
209
.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-domains
286
333
CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management
https://www.forbes.com/sites/qhamirani/2024/01/26/ceos-are-using-return-to-office-mandates-to-mask-poor-management/
330
Everyone hates the electronic medical record
https://logicmag.io/policy/why-everyone-hates-the-electronic-medical-record/
274
161
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-withdraws-bid-safety-exemption-boeing-737-max-7-2024-01-30/
215
323
The business of check cashing
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-business-of-check-cashing/
125
The C bounded model checker: criminally underused
https://www.philipzucker.com/cbmc_tut/
193
167
There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/flood-of-personal-data-makes-life-tough-for-nsa-cia
188
111
Crime rings trafficking sand
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/
172
129
Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online
https://www.vpnmentor.com/news/report-coronalab-breach/
163
71
Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters
https://github.com/wasp-lang/open-saas
159
67
A Plea for More Mikado
https://dmathieu.com/articles/opinions/mikado/
153
Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-seize-bitcoins-worth-2-billion/a-68121384
145
136
Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39188760
63
Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server
https://pub400.com/
144
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
132
182
Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]
https://abc.xyz/assets/95/eb/9cef90184e09bac553796896c633/2023q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
131
117
A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/mercedez-benz-token-exposed-source-code-github/
130
USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces-strengthened-integrity-measures-for-h-1b-program
128
169
What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/zirp-software-engineers
126
42
The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019)
https://akrl.sdf.org/#orgc15a10d
44
Finding the Air Cannon
https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html
123
64
Dynamouse: Mouse driver for Mac studios
https://github.com/projectstorm/dynamouse
121
41
Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP
https://github.com/bjesus/wren
119
4
Build a simple LSM-Tree storage engine in a week
https://skyzh.github.io/mini-lsm/
118
138
Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/27/1227062470/keto-ketogenic-diet-mental-illness-bipolar-depression
61
Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter
https://paperstack.com/adb_usb_converter/
114
82
Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/may/13/boring-python-dependencies/
106
Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ryzen-8000g-review-an-integrated-gpu-that-can-beat-a-graphics-card-for-a-price/
110
146
Safetyism killed playtime
https://unherd.com/2024/01/how-safetyism-killed-playtime/
108
32
Python HTTP library 'urllib3' now works in the browser
https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/releases/tag/2.2.0
105
Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident
https://danluu.com/cruise-report/
103
29
Why Certificate Lifecycle Automation Matters
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/01/30/why-certificate-automation-matters.html
Raspberry Pi Picks Banks for IPO, Choosing London over New York
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/raspberry-pi-picks-banks-for-ipo-choosing-london-over-new-york
102
97
'Do not drive': Toyota recalls some 50k older vehicles
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/do-not-drive-toyota-recalls-some-50-000-older-vehicles/
100
46
The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
https://www.cpushack.com/2021/11/04/the-soviet-1801vm2-lsi-11-processor/
99
Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether
https://www.cp24.com/world/small-biz-owners-scale-back-their-office-space-or-go-remote-altogether-some-move-to-the-suburbs-1.6747552
34
NASA's Webb depicts structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-105?news=true
93
109
JetBrains CEO Transition
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/01/30/jetbrains-ceo-transition/
92
45
The Vision Pro
https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_vision_pro#fnr2-2024-01-30
91
18
CVE-2023-6246: Heap-based buffer overflow in the glibc's syslog()
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/cve-2023-6246/syslog.txt
90
Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/movie2k-to-beschuldigter-uebergibt-bitcoins-im-wert-von-zwei-milliarden-euro-ans-bundeskriminalamt-a-66a34b4a-a01b-4edf-b622-cdbff14596dd
147
Elon Musk's $55B Tesla Pay Package Voided by Judge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/elon-musk-s-55-billion-tesla-pay-package-voided-by-judge
59
Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr
https://github.com/fiatjaf/gitstr
John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/john-deere-partnership-with-spacex/
88
33
Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/ska_skampi_first_light/
37
Show HN: Mailready – meet the new email deliverability standards
https://mailready.info
81
73
Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubl5BEuqzL8
78
Improving my Emacs experience with completion
https://martinfowler.com/articles/2024-emacs-completion.html
76
A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/us/rep-brandon-guffey-instagram-lawsuit-cec/index.html
75
Proton, a fast and lightweight alternative to Apache Flink
https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton
74
Hobbes OS/2 Archive is shutting down
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/after-32-years-one-of-the-nets-oldest-software-archives-is-shutting-down/
Chris Date and the Relational Model (2014)
https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/chris-date-and-the-relational-model/
72
BlockTube, a YouTube Content Blocker
https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube
22
Russian TLD .RU fails DNSSEC validation
https://dnsviz.net/d/cctld.ru/dnssec/
23
Profiling your Numba code
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numba-profiling/
65
The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/
60
Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04208.html
21
''Smoking gun proof'': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger by 1954
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial
30
The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering
https://thomasmansencal.substack.com/p/the-apparent-simplicity-of-rgb-rendering
15
How to Build an Origami Computer
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-an-origami-computer-20240130/
1
Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html
Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for likely more than $500M
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/raspberry-pi-is-preparing-for-an-ipo-in-london-for-likely-more-than-500m/
Hopes for Finding Mars Life After Rover's Ground-Penetrating Radar Discovery
https://scitechdaily.com/excitement-builds-for-finding-life-on-mars-after-perseverance-rovers-ground-penetrating-radar-discovery/
13
ASCII Theater
https://ascii.theater
25
A predicted quasicrystal is based on the 'einstein' tile known as the hat
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quasicrystal-einstein-tile-hat-shape
51
Show HN: TLD Squatting
https://captnemo.in/tld-squatting/
When did cold, carbonated beer become the standard, and was there pushback?
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1adzsfg/when_did_cold_carbonated_beer_become_the_standard/
6
__VA_OPT__ Minutiae
https://www.corsix.org/content/va-opt-minutiae
58
How Will the Golden Age of "Making It Worse" End?
https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end