1641
1541
Alexei Navalny has died
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/
2 years ago
1071
321
My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-6/
695
251
Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/magika-ai-powered-fast-and-efficient-file-type-identification.html
553
125
Think Python, 3rd Edition
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/
446
149
Popular Git config options
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/
432
347
If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240216-00/?p=109409
361
168
Video generation models as world simulators
https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators
454
Coding in Vision Pro
https://willem.com/blog/2024-02-16_vision-pro/
351
220
Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
https://kagi.com/changelog#3179
343
129
Paying people to work on open source is good
https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/
331
2
Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/16/plastic-industry-knew-recycling-was-a-farce-for-decades-yet-deceived-the-public-report-rev
304
260
German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation
303
4
Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit
276
65
Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
https://frenchie14.itch.io/driftmania
255
187
The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
247
188
Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/02/16/guix-on-the-framework-13-amd
246
94
Clean your codebase with basic information theory
https://taylor.town/compress-code
231
127
$5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study
https://studyfinds.org/device-breast-cancer-5-seconds/
217
172
How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?
https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-survive-alone-1000-years-desert-islands-off-africa
214
157
Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
https://www.firefly-iii.org/
205
302
I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
https://medium.com/@alex.suzuki/im-an-old-fart-and-ai-makes-me-sad-06003bfb6750
190
Why we stopped building cut and cover
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-stopped-building-cut-and-cover/
79
Findaway's new terms of service are unacceptable
https://mwl.io/archives/23448
104
The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/111942324712561452
185
52
No one cares about open-source, until
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/no-one-cares-intil/
170
46
Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf]
http://mgs.spatial-computing.org/PUBLICATIONS/umc02.pdf
34
Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04315
101
UI = f(statesⁿ)
https://daverupert.com/2024/02/ui-states/
161
36
LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window
https://github.com/LargeWorldModel/LWM
160
66
Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa
https://restofworld.org/2024/showmax-subscription-africa-netflix/
159
GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
https://godotengine.org/article/rendering-acyclic-graph/
239
Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-joins-companies-arguing-us-labor-board-is-unconstitutional-2024-02-16/
146
Hyrum's Law
https://www.hyrumslaw.com
140
153
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/
138
70
Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly
https://github.com/orgzly-revived/orgzly-android-revived
135
39
Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
https://stripe.com/blog/ledger-stripe-system-for-tracking-and-validating-money-movement
133
148
Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election
https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/pro-ccp-spamouflage-net-work-focuses-on-us-election/
132
105
Ancient Rome's failed building projects
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/ancient-romes-failed-building-projects
10
Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/amazon-and-spacex-are-quietly-trying-to-demolish-national-labor-law/
25
Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
https://www.erlang.org/news/167
3
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/
Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo
https://blog.ellenhp.me/host-a-planet-scale-geocoder-for-10-month
124
Trading trust
https://seths.blog/2024/02/trading-trust/
123
221
Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time
https://gizmodo.com/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-over-and-over-aga-1851255547
111
53
Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
http://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/02/16/counting-syscalls-in-python.html
106
22
FDA Approves First Medication to Treat Severe Frostbite
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-medication-treat-severe-frostbite
119
How much electricity does AI consume?
https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption
98
21
Show HN: I made a Pinterest clone using SigLIP image embeddings
https://mood-amber.vercel.app
EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade
https://jacobtomlinson.dev/effver/
97
Amazon Joins SpaceX in Mission to Destroy NLRB
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ake93/amazon-spacex-nlrb-unconstitutional
96
US safety regulations make it difficult to automakers to add adaptive headlights
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/headlights-tech-adaptable-high-beams-cars/index.html
78
Forgejo forks its own path forward
https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/
93
Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/
91
115
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-workshops-recondition-nvidias-old-flagship-gaming-gpu-for-ai-rtx-2080-ti-upgraded-to-22gb-for-dollar499
85
113
How to keep engineers out of meeting hell
https://morethancoding.com/2024/02/16/how-to-keep-engineers-out-of-meeting-hell/
LLM agents can autonomously hack websites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06664