1419
455
Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/
9 months ago
762
343
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/
718
390
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847
10 months ago
675
174
Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
https://bawolf.substack.com/p/embeddings-are-a-good-starting-point
620
275
Stop Acting Like You're Famous
https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous
543
230
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/how-many-bathrooms-have-neandertals-in-the-tile/
533
242
Mixtral 8x22B
https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/
529
116
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation/blob/master/README.md
473
425
An electric new era for Atlas
https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/
426
201
ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/
419
114
Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
https://asciinema.org/a/piP22yYwcaohu5cA2gyuv1W61
410
255
Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-feathers-are-one-of-evolutions-cleverest-inventions/
310
173
How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/
299
63
Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer
https://rmarcus.info/blog/2024/04/12/pg-over-time.html
294
247
The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-271-the-biggest-untapped-opportunity
289
32
libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop
https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev
287
141
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai-project
276
386
The forgotten war on beepers
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-beepers
272
270
Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-covid-brain-1.7171918
262
38
The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
https://yosefk.com/blog/the-state-of-ai-for-hand-drawn-animation-inbetweening.html
260
334
Reddit is taking over Google
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-is-taking-over-google-right-now-2024-4
267
Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/
246
61
Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available
https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-api
217
166
I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/i-cant-use-my-number-pad-for-2fa-codes/
214
36
Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs
https://research.google/blog/solving-the-minimum-cut-problem-for-undirected-graphs/
212
92
Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-ssh-ga
210
56
LXQt 2.0.0
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/04/15/release-lxqt-2-0-0/
208
AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112287515017810339
207
163
I nearly died drowning
https://longreads.com/2024/04/02/i-nearly-died-drowning-maggie-slepian/
291
Future of Humanity Institute shuts down
https://www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org
197
215
MKBHDs for Everything
https://stratechery.com/2024/mkbhds-for-everything/
186
5
Math Puzzles
https://jrmf.org/puzzle/
178
146
Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming
https://nautil.us/the-part-time-climate-scientist-542351/
113
Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240415-47/?p=109663
176
16
Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool
https://github.com/WINSDK/bite
165
101
Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019)
https://neverwasmag.com/2019/08/flying-aircraft-carriers/
160
53
How Antithesis finds bugs
https://antithesis.com/blog/sdtalk/
157
130
Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/linus-torvalds-reiterates-his-tabs-versus-spaces-stance-with-a-kernel-trap/
149
87
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070566
148
85
Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
https://github.com/EasyFrontend-com/html-tailwindcss-components
147
48
The Acid Test Clause (2017)
https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/story-2-acid-test-clause
142
35
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1
https://csvbase.com/blog/8
51
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
https://fosscomics.com/8.%20The%20Origins%20of%20Unix%20and%20the%20C%20Language/
140
74
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build
https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-121225/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/cloudflare-billionaire-matthew-prince-fights-utah-locals-over-house-dogs-wall
4
Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference
https://kolinko.github.io/effort/
128
44
Collection of notebooks showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude
https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook
120
216
Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/16/google-sit-in-employee-protest-nimbus-israel/
119
3
New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M
117
13
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows/
153
How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/food-industry-influencers
112
Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing (2022)
http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html
109
11
Tell the U.S. Senate: Stop Risaa, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion
107
55
Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.32
106
47
NetBSD 10: Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/
104
28
Boeing whistleblower says 787 fleet should be grounded
https://thehill.com/homenews/4598076-boeing-whistleblower-says-787-fleet-should-be-grounded/
49
Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU
https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/media-service/singleview/article/sicherheitsluecke-in-browser-schnittstelle-erlaubt-rechnerzugriff-ueber-grafikkarte
88
Quantum mechanics is the operating system other physical theories run on (2007)
https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
99
20
Why SQLite Performance Tuning Made Bencher 1200x Faster
https://bencher.dev/learn/engineering/sqlite-performance-tuning/
30
Collapse of self-trained language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02305
24
The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10002
