714
398
My favourite Git commit (2019)
https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit
a year ago
643
322
Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
https://blog.cloudflare.com/thanksgiving-2023-security-incident
418
541
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217310
399
179
Damn Small Linux 2024
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
329
20
Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/01/sorry-appin-were-not-taking-down-our-article-about-your-attempts-to-silence-reporters/
315
97
Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/mlkem768/
284
129
Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
https://github.com/riverscuomo
268
66
The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed
https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1ag5h5s/the_vae_used_for_stable_diffusion_1x2x_and_other/
267
197
The web just gets better with Interop 2024
https://webkit.org/blog/14955/the-web-just-gets-better-with-interop/
261
21
Origami Simulator
https://origamisimulator.org/
251
170
Markov Chains are the Original Language Models
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models
234
126
We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
https://tembo.io/blog/tembo-data-warehouse
223
259
Bard's latest updates: Access Gemini Pro globally and generate images
https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-gemini-pro-image-generation/
208
101
The Undercover Generalist
https://ochagavia.nl/blog/the-undercover-generalist/
98
How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-01-31/Disinformation_report
195
68
A startup allegedly 'hacked the world', then came censorship, and now backlash
https://www.wired.com/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship/
192
58
Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/check-out-these-amazing-self-soldering-sleeves-from-world-war-ii/
185
539
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217308
174
57
CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army Knife
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
171
63
Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marlon-brando-was-a-secret-tech-geek-and-photoshop-124061824672.html
164
Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265
https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode
162
45
Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
153
38
Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation
https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/sat-supercompilation.html
150
46
Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust
https://github.com/n7space/aerugo
143
65
FreeBSD 4 Bug may be present in Playstation 4/5
https://wololo.net/2024/02/01/is-an-18-year-old-vulnerability-the-key-to-the-next-ps5-ps4-jailbreak/
140
110
A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-man-who-invented-vr-goggles-50-years-too-soon
137
31
Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls
https://github.com/mkjt2/lockbox
135
32
Show HN: An open source performance monitoring tool
https://github.com/highlight/highlight/blob/3cc29388f99716833055d1aaa4a53d938d9e786e/README.md
125
44
The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)
https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4df
124
27
Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990
https://and0uille.net/misc/debug90.html
122
114
Artificial Intelligence and Peace
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/20231208-messaggio-57giornatamondiale-pace2024.html
120
240-Gbit/s sub-THz wireless communications using ultra-low phase noise receiver
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/elex/advpub/0/advpub_20.20230584/_article
117
307
EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/eu-chip-goal-totally-unrealistic-2024-01/
Compiling a Lisp (2020)
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-0/
14
Apprise: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, Push Notifications
https://github.com/caronc/apprise
112
4
Stanchion: Column-oriented tables in SQLite
https://github.com/dgllghr/stanchion
Show HN: ML Blocks – Deploy multimodal AI workflows without code
https://www.mlblocks.com/
156
'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-29/i-should-not-have-written-a-clockwork-orange-how-anthony-burgess-came-to-disown-his-own-novel.html
111
91
SI Units for Request Rate
https://two-wrongs.com/si-units-for-request-rate
Gary Bowser and gaming's most infamous piracy case
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/01/the-man-who-owes-nintendo-14m-gary-bowser-and-gamings-most-infamous-piracy-case
106
33
Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00125-1
103
50
Stop KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)
https://www.stopkosa.com/
Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2023-Results-Initiates-Quarterly-Dividend/default.aspx
49
CISA directs federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti products by Friday midnight
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/supplemental-direction-v1-ed-24-01-mitigate-ivanti-connect-secure-and-ivanti-policy-secure
96
225
Nassim Taleb says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt
https://fortune.com/2024/01/31/nassim-nicholas-taleb-black-swan-author-national-debt-death-spiral/
34
Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215779
94
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening to Trains
https://www.wired.com/story/fiber-optics-bring-you-internet-now-theyre-also-listening-to-trains/
93
Nasopharyngeal Lymphatics Found to Be Crucial for Cerebrospinal Fluid Outflow
https://www.ibs.re.kr/cop/bbs/BBSMSTR_000000000738/selectBoardArticle.do?nttId=24483&pageIndex=1&searchCnd=&searchWrd=
47
Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011)
https://reactormag.com/weird-amazing-psychotic-life-in-technicolor-farscape-and-hensons-lasting-legacy/
87
51
Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
https://pdx.su/blog/2024-01-19-fixing-a-broken-smart-cat-feeder-with-esp32/
83
11
Matryoshka Representation Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147
25
Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
82
Ask HN: Guide for Implementing Common Lisp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39213261
77
The End of My Childhood
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/31/end.html
81
145
Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says New Mexico AG
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/31/meta-worlds-single-largest-marketplace-for-paedophiles-new-mexico-attorney-general-facebook-instagram
80
54
Pivotal Mental States (2020)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269881120959637
37
The Thundering Herd Problem
https://encore.dev/blog/thundering-herd-problem
78
79
Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Gnuplotlib: A gnuplot-based plotting backend for NumPy
https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib
76
13
Security Program Is Shit
https://crankysec.com/blog/shite/
74
16
Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional SSM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09417
72
19
A little closer to finding what became Moses Schönfinkel (2021)
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03/a-little-closer-to-finding-what-became-of-moses-schonfinkel-inventor-of-combinators/
71
42
The FCC wants to make robocalls that use AI-generated voices illegal
https://www.engadget.com/the-fcc-wants-to-make-robocalls-that-use-ai-generated-voices-illegal-105628839.html
Computer and Network Security
https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/
67
29
Campfire
https://once.com/campfire
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
Analysts estimate Nvidia owns 98% of the data center GPU market
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/analysts-estimate-nvidia-owns-98-of-the-data-center-gpu-market
89
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-neanderthals-humans-side-northern-europe.html
2
Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/31/tesla-hazardous-waste-lawsuit-california-counties/
64
36
Chromecast Google TV now has full-screen auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads
https://www.androidauthority.com/chromecast-with-google-tv-full-screen-auto-playing-ads-3409326/
US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/01/us_china_military_collaborators/
