529
146
A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley-pow-lathe/
6 months ago
362
71
Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone
https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon
357
80
Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
https://postgres.ai/blog/20220525-common-db-schema-change-mistakes
352
447
The Myth of the Second Chance
https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282557318242321
264
494
Did we lose our way in making efficient software?
https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4
225
100
Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility
https://github.com/gyf304/dotenv
215
34
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
https://nhigham.com/the-princeton-companion-to-applied-mathematics/
209
251
TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-tfls-simple-pop-up-message-led-to-a-significant-drop-in-paper-ticket-sales-71920/
206
92
Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA'
https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/williams-sonoma-fined-3-18-million-dollars-for-falsely-labeling-products-as-made-in-usa
197
41
Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-sumtree
193
51
Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-55/
192
64
Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.33-rc5
187
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Google Quantum AI
https://quantumai.google/
181
46
LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12354
176
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The unstallable plane that stalled
https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/the-unstallable-plane-that-stalled/
175
39
Pdf.tocgen
https://krasjet.com/voice/pdf.tocgen/
165
27
Flow Field Pathfinding
https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-04-27-flow-field-pathfinding/
164
36
Mise: a polyglot tool version manager
https://mise.jdx.dev/
162
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How to improve the RISC-V specification
https://alastairreid.github.io/riscv-spec-issues/
156
Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
https://reentrygame.com/
148
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Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
https://www.affuture.org/post/9-context/
147
Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
https://curingaddiction.substack.com/p/growing-concerns-that-ozempic-will
144
115
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
139
50
Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
https://iss.matteason.co.uk
132
11
Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%C3%89mile_Jean-Baptiste_Litre
131
127
Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
https://jdsalaro.com/tutorial/asdf-single-package-manager-multiple-dev-environments
128
167
Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/support/eaton-answers/daisy-chain-ups.html
123
6
6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf]
https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Electronics/Reverse%20Engineering/6502%20-%20Guideline%20to%20Reverse%20Engineering%20v1.0.pdf
122
152
Jimmy Carter UFO Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_UFO_incident
89
Google layoffs hit Flutter team
https://old.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1cduhra/more_layoffs_for_the_flutter_team/
121
20
The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve (2022)
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
120
Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187881
108
22
The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/the-seven-lies-of-the-ai-expert-who-cited-himself-thousands-of-times-on-scientific-papers.html
9
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine
http://www.righto.com/2024/04/intel-8088-bus-state-machine.html
107
75
44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers
https://twitter.com/IlyaStrebulaev/status/1481662020659257349
105
43
DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/index.html
96
104
Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022)
https://anniecherkaev.com/principles-for-keyboard-layouts
10
The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf]
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/173262.155113
How to Write Computer Programs (2015) [pdf]
https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/documents/Papers/declarative_prog.pdf
91
Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-new-use-for-wegovy-opens-the-door-to-medicare-coverage-for-millions-of-people-with-obesity/
30
Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap
https://github.com/remorses/docker-phobia
90
38
Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023)
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming
85
42
My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/on_call/
79
Google surpasses $2T market cap
https://qz.com/google-alphabet-stock-market-cap-ai-earnings-1851439308
45
Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering
https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/members/blog/2024-04-23/microsoft-must-stop-selling-security-premium-offering
77
OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers
https://os-world.github.io/
73
15
Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7r76V_gWQ8
49
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/life-and-land-anglo-saxon-england
68
FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (2016)
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/05/06/fc8-faster-68k-decompression/
13
Show HN: LazyVim for Ambitious Developers
https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/
66
Three ways of handling user input (2022)
https://dubroy.com/blog/three-ways-of-handling-user-input/
18
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo
