1620
1125
Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/
2 years ago
1111
76
GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/
959
328
Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
354
73
Please make your table headings sticky
https://btxx.org/posts/Please_Make_Your_Table_Headings_Sticky/
313
53
Architecture.md (2021)
https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html
293
155
Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
https://notes.atomutek.org/power-metal-and-dragons.html
265
153
Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
https://minimaxir.com/2024/02/chatgpt-tips-analysis/
248
91
How Does Bluesky Work?
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work
238
183
Losing two jobs in one year
https://jbennetcodes.medium.com/how-to-lose-two-jobs-in-one-year-e8e428702b91
234
62
Frugly vs. Freemium
https://taylor.town/frugly
200
36
Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga
https://dansalva.to/coding-the-anime-woosh-screen-on-amiga/
190
160
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/big-tech-quality/
120
Ledger
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/ledger.html
181
164
The Earth is getting greener
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/7/24057308/earth-global-greening-climate-change-carbon
180
150
GenAI and erroneous medical references
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/generating-medical-errors-genai-and-erroneous-medical-references
176
102
V Language Review (2023)
https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/
174
Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240222-depaving-the-cities-replacing-concrete-with-earth-and-plants
170
37
Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU
https://github.com/Victormeriqui/Consol3
166
71
Chronic stress spreads cancer
https://www.cshl.edu/chronic-stress-spreads-cancer-heres-how/
165
38
Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-02-20-rarely-known-openbsd-features.html
U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-rice-exports-haiti-have-unhealthy-levels-arsenic-study-finds-2024-02-24/
158
31
A modest update to Qubes OS
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/962787/35f1ff3af9031437/
154
66
How to think about software quality (2022)
https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.html
146
46
We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
https://qdrant.tech/blog/qdrant-summer-of-code-24/
144
243
Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html
141
97
DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit
https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc
140
82
Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002)
http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/win31/slimwin.htm
137
25
The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking
https://exaspark.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-postgresql-data-change-tracking-c3fa88779572
135
16
Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program
https://maplibre.org/news/2024-02-20-msft-announcement/
131
Neat Parallel Output in Python
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/python-parallel-output/
128
45
Every single new Google product
https://twitter.com/MarcosBL/status/1761094858205229430
127
Notes from an Interviewer
https://devwithahammer.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/notes-from-an-interviewer/
126
65
A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/Frimkron/mud-pi
118
48
Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma
https://lightning.ai/lightning-ai/studios/understanding-using-and-finetuning-gemma
116
61
David Hahn, the 'radioactive boy scout' who tried to build a nuclear reactor (2022)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-hahn
114
59
Miracle of Wörgl
https://www.alexstonethinkingstrings.com/446414233
110
54
Mass Retraction of unethical Chinese Forensic Genetics Papers
https://www.science.org/content/article/ethics-not-checkbox-exercise-bioinformatician-yves-moreau-reacts-mass-retraction-papers
107
8
The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda
https://www.theverge.com/24078662/twin-peaks-zelda-links-awakening-influence
106
119
Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances
https://pudding.cool/2024/02/anthems/
105
21
Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today
https://geospatial-nix.today/
103
43
Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491889
72
TOTP Codes in the Terminal
https://jpmens.net/2024/02/23/totp-codes-in-the-terminal/
98
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
https://www.quantamagazine.org/never-repeating-tiles-can-safeguard-quantum-information-20240223/
96
39
A giant meteorite has been lost in the desert since 1916
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/a-meteorite-has-been-lost-in-the-sahara-since-1916-heres-how-we-might-find-it/
95
12
Almost an open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almost-a-fully-open-source-boot-chain-for-rockchips-rk3588/
93
80
Korea fines Twitch $327k for suspending service
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/02/129_369371.html
92
23
Archival Floppy Disk Preservation and Use [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxsRpMdmlGo
90
47
What DNS Is Not (2009)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302
52
Plasticity through patterned ultrasound-induced brainwave entrainment in mice
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3198
14
KiCad 8.0
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2024/02/Version-8.0.0-Released/
88
Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/
86
111
Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/24/1230188789/portugal-drug-overdose-opioid-treatment
84
Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495919
83
5
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-complete-history-of-gondar-africas
3
Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana
https://deepcuts.blog/2024/02/24/deeper-cut-lovecraftian-movie-posters-from-ghana/
22
U.S. workers are employed but unhappy and many need multiple jobs
https://financialpost.com/fp-work/us-workers-employed-unhappy-need-multiple-jobs
79
63
Candy – a minimalistic functional programming language
https://github.com/candy-lang/candy
26
Abusing Conda's Turing-Complete YAML Comments
https://astrid.tech/2024/02/24/0/conda-recipe-selector-abuse/
Show HN: Justpath – a simple utility to explore the PATH environment variable
https://github.com/epogrebnyak/justpath
78
Lawyer fined for legal filings that included 'hallucinated' AI citations
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/lawyer-learns-hard-way-ai-still-sucks-fined-legal
