1177
672
Infinite Craft
https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/
a year ago
712
149
Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/
526
446
Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming-42-million-gb-of-data-per-day
523
613
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports
https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/
501
172
Google search drops cache link from search results
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-drops-cache-link-from-search-results-36787.html
445
153
The Far Side – By Gary Larson
https://www.thefarside.com/
358
255
Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ceo-confirms-leak-of-new-open-source-ai-model-nearing-gpt-4-performance/
337
273
Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/microsoft_edge_tabs/
330
166
I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
https://neimanslab.org/2024-01-31/why-i-moved-my-blog-ipfs-to-server.html
318
55
Sega AI
https://www.smspower.org/SegaAI/Index
302
267
23andMe's Fall
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/23andme-anne-wojcicki-healthcare-stock-913468f4
280
106
Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder
https://mitenmit.github.io/gpt/
60
Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite
https://github.com/dgllghr/stanchion
263
Macaroons Escalated Quickly
https://fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly/
261
62
MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
https://blog.research.google/2024/01/mobilediffusion-rapid-text-to-image.html
257
474
Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews
235
333
I don't want anything your AI generates
https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/i-dont-want-anything-your-ai-generates/
232
Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_pub/
228
230
Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/adobe-gives-up-on-xd-after-figma-deal-collapse
225
73
Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator
https://mkremins.github.io/epitaph/
223
47
Visual Analysis of Binary Files
http://binvis.io/#/
215
43
LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge
https://llava-vl.github.io/blog/2024-01-30-llava-1-6/
210
133
Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/comcast-to-stop-calling-entire-network-10g-as-name-is-ruled-misleading/
208
61
DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself
https://deepseekcoder.github.io/
204
165
Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
https://www.science.org/content/article/citation-cartels-help-some-mathematicians-and-their-universities-climb-rankings
201
40
Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally
https://2mb.codes/~cmb/ollama-bot/
195
69
RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
https://jepsen.io/analyses/ravendb-6.0.2
194
75
XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta
https://www.micahlerner.com/2024/01/23/xfaas-hyperscale-and-low-cost-serverless-functions-at-meta.html
187
80
Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins
https://moveit.substack.com/p/why-custom-gpts-are-better-than-plugins
180
59
Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph
https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree
175
24
Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)
http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/
56
Hearing aids slow cognitive decline in people at high risk
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/hearing-aids-slow-cognitive-decline-people-high-risk
164
52
Constructing a Four-Point Egg
https://dotat.at/@/2024-01-29-four-point-egg.html
151
15
Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data-update-windows/
148
139
Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
https://neovide.dev
144
66
Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu
https://github.com/kando-menu/kando
137
116
Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD
https://reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1aesrm3/dont_use_namecheap_for_the_fr_tld/
134
71
Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
https://github.com/msasikanth/twine
103
In Praise of Buttons
https://www.nubero.ch/blog/009/
58
The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-data-purchases-wyden-letter/
132
198
Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-cellphone-starlink
122
Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/30/getting-fitter-can-reduce-prostate-cancer-risk-by-35-study-finds
120
8
Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/31/introducing-differ-a-new-tool-for-testing-and-validating-transformed-programs/
118
176
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation
The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors
http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-burial-of-william-conqueror-comedy.html
117
FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/volt_typhoon_botnet/
113
147
There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless
https://gizmodo.com/more-proof-that-return-to-office-is-pointless-1851209231
104
9
The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)
http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html
98
Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)
https://www.nateliason.com/blog/infomania
119
165 m private submersible superyacht
https://www.migaloo-submarines.com/m5-1-of-1/
99
17
Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display
https://hardfault.life/p/big-seven-segment
96
30
Godot 4.3 Game Engine to Feature Native Wayland Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.3-Wayland-Support
91
16
Launch HN: Encord (YC W21) – Unit testing for computer vision models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205725
89
1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFm1dS6myqq7psBKttP7CVYN4jO66lOp7ZMA829c_hc/edit
37
Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-technica-used-in-malware-campaign-with-never-before-seen-obfuscation/
88
29
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/hobbes_os2_archive_shut_down/
82
Spatial Computing
https://hypercritical.co/2024/01/30/spatial-computing
87
25
DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought
https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/dns-over-https/
11
Redeployment Part Three
https://brr.fyi/posts/redeployment-part-three
84
85
Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/instagram-threads-triples-downloads-in-december-reaching-the-top-10-x-falls-to-no-36/
83
Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents
https://www.engadget.com/japan-will-no-longer-require-floppy-disks-for-submitting-some-official-documents-212048844.html
76
Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game
https://www.arctic81.com
97
Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018)
https://qz.com/1366484/give-ai-curiosity-and-it-will-watch-tv-forever
