962
720
MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/05/04/mit-abandons-use-of-dei-statements/
2 years ago
822
361
Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/
783
1353
Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/israel-shuts-down-local-al-jazeera-offices-in-dark-day-for-the-media
535
47
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
https://github.com/alessiodm/drl-zh
504
464
Bollards: Why and What
https://josh.works/bollards
388
260
Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
https://j6b72.de/article/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-traefik/
376
256
Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/simplicity/
354
186
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/05/02/smartplugs/
328
94
Machine Unlearning in 2024
https://ai.stanford.edu/~kzliu/blog/unlearning
323
158
Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019)
https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1787176471146156193
318
306
“Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1786213463456448900
123
A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
https://yosefk.com/blog/a-100x-speedup-with-unsafe-python.html
284
64
Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
https://pomax.github.io/are-we-flying/
272
42
Automated integer hash function discovery
https://github.com/skeeto/hash-prospector
650
Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
https://darrenkopp.com/posts/2024/05/01/coding-interviews-are-stupid
254
493
Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
251
87
Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/ames-science/ames-space-biosciences/multi-drug-resistant-bacteria-found-on-iss-mutating-to-become-functionally-distinct/
245
237
Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
https://www.thegamer.com/helldivers-2-delisted-on-steam-100-plus-countries-without-psn-due-to-psn-sign-in-requirement-controversy/
242
84
Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair
https://arslan.io/2024/05/05/braun-borse-2024/
241
46
Time-Based CSS Animations
https://yuanchuan.dev/time-based-css-animations
90
First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240503/p2a/00m/0sc/012000c
227
238
Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-mulls-sanctions-over-googles-shocking-destruction-of-internal-chats/
220
44
A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption
https://www.jeremykun.com/2024/05/04/fhe-overview/
218
119
I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/orson-welles-drunk-wine-commercial
193
122
Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake
189
58
ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions
https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2024/01/surprise-esp32-s3-has-few-simd.html
180
109
A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/a-history-of-c-compilers-part-1-performance
177
Small Things
https://rishad.substack.com/p/small-things
169
29
Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)
https://alnvdl.github.io/2023/01/07/designing-furniture-using-the-css-grid.html
166
221
North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the
162
135
A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/21/stanley-kubrick-director-book-block-flaws-films-published
157
71
Debian 64-bit-time transition
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
145
147
A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback
https://www.wired.com/story/hydrostor-compressed-air-battery-california-australia-energy-climate/
142
Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17377
141
115
Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
https://wadetregaskis.com/swifts-native-clocks-are-very-inefficient/
132
105
Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server
https://neighbor-share.vercel.app/
131
61
SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
https://infini-ai-lab.github.io/Sequoia-Page/
TheDesk desktop environment
https://github.com/theCheeseboard/thedesk
126
16
Dick Rutan, pilot of the first nonstop around-the-world flight, has died
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-voyager-ronald-reagan-california-idaho-b2539832.html
124
167
Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20
https://github.com/Jaysmito101/rusty.hpp
118
28
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone's a WiiN-Er
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/with-powerpc-windows-ce-and-wiin-pad.html
117
38
Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
81
They Live
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
113
21
The Bloody History of 'Deadline'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/your-deadline-wont-kill-you
111
20
Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/utf8-pext
Flags Are Not Languages
https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/
103
48
Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
https://joe-antognini.github.io/machine-learning/steins-paradox
99
136
US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR
https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-prepares-to-scrap-itar-for-aukus-nations/
98
73
The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-sam-altman-playbook
96
5
Comprehensive Rust: free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google
https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/
51
Cylon: JavaScript framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things
https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon
89
13
Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database
https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
86
34
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law with union comments, NLRB rules
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-violated-labor-law-with-union-comments-nlrb-rules/
82
107
Let insects eat your plants
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-why-you-should-let-insects-eat-your-plants
80
Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut down channel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/5/netanyahu-government-votes-to-close-al-jazeera-channel-in-israel
