1583
177
Mario meets Pareto
https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
2 years ago
1271
733
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-card-rewards-programs/
748
273
AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1775713487529922702
594
384
German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
508
323
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/
504
92
The design philosophy of Great Tables
https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/blog/design-philosophy/
438
116
Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar
https://hforsten.com/homemade-6-ghz-pulse-compression-radar.html
382
234
A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/a-disk-so-full-it-couldnt-be-restored/
337
136
Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/
335
94
Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
https://www.vincit.com/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute
296
32
HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details
https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood-technical-details/
292
101
The Great American Rail-Trail
https://www.railstotrails.org/site/greatamericanrailtrail/content/route/
289
59
Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
279
104
The V8 Sandbox
https://v8.dev/blog/sandbox
274
230
Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/keeping-your-data-from-apple-is-harder-than-expected
272
90
JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
https://research.myshell.ai/jetmoe
249
130
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/fake-ai-law-firms-are-sending-fake-dmca-threats-to-generate-fake-seo-gains/
232
50
Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
https://oeis.org/
222
99
Tool Use (function calling)
https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/tool-use
221
125
US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/04/04/us-government-funds-pilot-project-for-heated-sand-energy-storage/
216
326
Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/deaths-california-lodi-skydiving-center-19361603.php
214
113
Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240403-dark-star-at-50-how-a-micro-budget-student-film-changed-sci-fi-forever
213
553
How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/hertz-htz-selling-electric-cars-ends-its-failed-tesla-bet
211
160
Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
https://hivekit.io/blog/how-weve-saved-5000-percent-in-cloud-costs-by-writing-our-own-database/
208
246
Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user
https://mynorthwest.com/3956403/rantz-washingtons-lottery-ai-porn-user/
202
Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/
201
Runtipi: Docker-based home server management
https://runtipi.io
200
169
Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928950
178
187
Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)
https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory
170
52
Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode execution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02575
US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers
https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/03/us-court-blocks-epa-order-to-eliminate-pfas-in-plastic-containers/
16
Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)
https://zilliz.com/learn/introduction-to-natural-language-processing-tokens-ngrams-bag-of-words-models
155
62
Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/06/01/advice-to-young-people/
152
9
ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADvyZOxlBu4
150
61
Browse Self-Hosted Software
https://selfh.st/apps/
144
Xr0: C but Safe
https://xr0.dev/
142
58
Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/03/build-images-with-uv/
141
PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21335/full-draft-of-pcie-70-spec-available-512-gbs-over-pcie-x16-incoming
140
29
How to send progress updates
https://www.spakhm.com/updates-howto
138
36
Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web
https://www.w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/
69
Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925316
134
33
A podcast about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it
https://risky.biz/RB743/
132
257
Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230388589A1/en
Slowroads
https://slowroads.io/
120
26
Microsoft blamed for "a cascade of security failures" in Exchange breach report
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsoft-blamed-for-a-cascade-of-security-failures-in-exchange-breach-report/
19
Rule-based NLP system beats LLM for analysis of psychiatric clinical notes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17199
117
57
Show HN: Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930908
114
30
SableDb – Fast, persistent database supporting Redis API
https://github.com/sabledb-io/sabledb
48
Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934480
109
88
XDP for game programmers
https://mas-bandwidth.com/xdp-for-game-programmers/
107
24
DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
https://medium.com/logspace/langflow-datastax-better-together-1b7462cebc4d
103
87
65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/65_years_ago_mercury_7/
12
Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined
https://unikraft.io/blog/containers-and-unikernels/
49
PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging No Longer Sold
https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-announces-pfas-used-grease-proofing-agents-food-packaging-no-longer-being-sold-us
35
Rejuvenating the blood cell population
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rejuvenating-blood-cell-population
13
The Software Architecture of Palia
https://www.singularity6.com/news/software-architecture-of-palia
43
Bringing back the Somali shilling (2017)
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html
55
Seattle shuts down gifted program for having too many white and Asian students
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/seattle-public-schools-shuts-down-gifted-and-talented-program/
84
47
Washington State judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-state-judge-blocks-use-ai-enhanced-video-evidence-rcna141932
82
78
Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea's Internet. Now He's Taking Off His Mask
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-identity-reveal/
80
Bringing GPU acceleration to Polars DataFrames in the near future
https://pola.rs/posts/polars-on-gpu/
