559
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A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/
2 years ago
491
113
How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
https://kottke.org/24/03/how-photos-were-transmitted-by-wire-in-the-1930s
1052
House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/technology/tiktok-ban-house-vote.html
485
131
JIT WireGuard
https://fly.io/blog/jit-wireguard-peers/
382
192
Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
https://github.com/flox/flox
378
95
LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing
https://github.com/lavague-ai/LaVague
315
232
Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68555051
295
17
A world from a sheet of paper (2023) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU
289
178
Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
https://newatlas.com/energy/sand-battery-finland/
269
144
Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files
https://marker.pages.dev/
261
114
IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/irs-free-tax-filing-service-now-available-but-most-people-dont-qualify/
245
141
Insult Passphrase Generator
https://cheswick.com/insults
224
130
Nanos – A Unikernel
https://nanos.org
213
15
BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar
https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-breaktime/
190
110
Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration
https://twitter.com/figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474
184
36
EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-ninth-circuit-theres-no-software-exception-traditional-copyright-limits
775
Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/mass-timber-is-great-but-it-will
183
43
IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible
https://research.ibm.com/blog/science-expert-LLM
179
80
Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers
https://portraitart.app/photo-to-coloring-page
139
Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-giant-sequoias-rapidly-feature-uk.html
171
195
Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/10/big-tech-companies-ai-research/
163
252
Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative
https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,[email protected]
157
83
Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
152
84
Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-05-ai-reveals-prostate-cancer-not-just-one-disease
151
189
Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban
148
23
The Myers diff algorithm: part 1
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/
136
96
Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/03/freenginx-ngnix-web-server/
135
86
OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API
https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/overview/step-4-create-a-run?context=with-streaming
198
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired
https://www.wired.com/story/ageism-haunts-tech-workers-layoffs-race-to-get-hired/
129
42
Lemonade Stand
https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/lemonade-stand/
128
71
Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL
https://sheetsql.io/
127
20
Auto Makers Are Selling Data on Your Driving Habits to Your Insurer
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/13/auto-makers-are-selling-data-on-your-driving-habits-to-your-insurer-without-properly-informing-you/
118
4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Dly8I8lMY
116
29
Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55084/55084-h/55084-h.htm
107
70
Simplicity of IRC (2022)
https://susam.net/simplicity-of-irc.html
106
44
Spinkube: Running WASM in Kubernetes
https://www.fermyon.com/blog/introducing-spinkube-fermyon-platform-for-k8s
104
41
Any Technology Indistinguishable from Magic Is Hiding Something
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
101
137
Nvidia founder tells Stanford students their high expectations is a hindrance
https://fortune.com/2024/03/13/nvidia-founder-ceo-jensen_huang-stanford-students-genz-grads-low-expectations-successful/
56
Pi 5 overclocking: Silicon Lottery
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/important-consideration-about-pi-5-overclocking
99
209
United Airlines tells Boeing to stop building Max 10s and to switch to max 9s
https://simpleflying.com/major-blow-united-airlines-tells-boeing-stop-building-max-10s-switch-max-9s/
91
14
More AR Glasses USB Protocols: The Worse, the Better and the Prettier
https://voidcomputing.hu/blog/worse-better-prettier/
Storybook 8
https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-8/
81
134
How the biggest plane would supersize wind energy
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-biggest-plane-would-supersize-wind-energy-2f116e9b
78
2
US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-house-vote-force-bytedance-divest-tiktok-or-face-ban-2024-03-13/
75
33
Marcel Grossmann and his contribution to the general theory of relativity
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1312.4068
March 14, 7:00 a.m. CT: Starship's third flight test
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768004039680426406
Give some new links a chance
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
53
What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240314052227/http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html
69
How Arnold Schoenberg changed Hollywood
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/how-arnold-schoenberg-changed-hollywood
21
Tor's new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tors-new-webtunnel-bridges-mimic-https-traffic-to-evade-censorship/#google_vignette
68
UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021)
https://www.dw.com/en/un-experts-find-no-harmful-effects-from-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/a-56820805
65
25
Show HN: FlakeHub Cache: Fast, secure, configurable. A new take on Nix caching
https://determinate.systems/posts/flakehub-cache-beta/
32
Warner Bros. Discovery Disappears Games People Already Purchased
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/12/warner-bros-discovery-disappears-games-people-already-purchased/
64
Giant Volcano Discovered on Mars
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-giant-volcano-mars.html
The New Audi A3 Is Amess with In-Car Subscriptions
https://www.motor1.com/news/711957/2025-audi-a3-in-car-subscriptions/
63
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Can We Survive Technology? (1955) [pdf]
https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf
62
30
Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic writing
https://github.com/oldherl/syllazh
59
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt law
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law
61
51
Show HN: I3wm Alt+Tab Workspace Switcher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690368
TeX Live 2024 released – ISO available for download via torrent file and magnet
https://www.texastim.dev/texlive/2024/03/12/texlive.html
60
49
Building an Arduino Car Gear Shifter Indicator Display [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixtxaAda18
10
Show HN: Phospho – Text Analytics for LLM Apps (Posthog for Prompts)
https://github.com/phospho-app/phospho
58
Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/family-dollar-closing-nearly-1000-stores-where-why-rcna143148
57
40
80 Level: AI Simulation Platform Where Characters Make Their Own Decisions
https://80.lv/articles/ai-simulation-platform-where-characters-make-their-own-decisions
140
So you want to abolish time zones (2015)
https://qntm.org/abolish
3
Ford shared driving data to insurance company via LexisNexis
https://old.reddit.com/r/F150Lightning/comments/1bds5x1/so_apparently_my_lightning_has_been_reporting/
55
Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/physical-intelligence-is-building-ai-for-robots-backed-by-openai
73
Apple cider vinegar for weight management
https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2024/01/18/bmjnph-2023-000823
