884
268
It's always TCP_NODELAY
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
2 years ago
704
335
Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/deaf-cure-girl-gene-therapy-b2541735.html
667
1518
Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153113/apple-ipad-ad-crushing-apology
520
159
Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse/
201
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01387-9
508
389
The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
https://GrumpyOldDev.com/post/the-one-where-i-lie-to-the-cto/
376
225
Algebraic Data Types for C99
https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99
336
111
Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
303
281
Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-program-deck/
285
24
Life-like particle system
https://ventrella.com/Clusters/
278
356
The world has probably passed peak pollution
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/peak-pollution
252
Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309342
241
109
Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres
https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq
237
265
Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
228
Libyear
https://libyear.com/
41
ESP32 Drum Synth Machine
https://github.com/zircothc/DRUM_2004_V1
187
118
No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125
186
44
UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access
182
168
Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/May/5
180
71
Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs
164
80
Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-fbi-email-warrantless-wiretaps-section-702-1851464520
142
141
UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)
https://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
140
76
Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/how-nasas-roman-mission-will-hunt-for-primordial-black-holes/
135
29
Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software
https://github.com/alefore/knit
103
What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready
https://cigrainger.com/elixirconf-eu-2024-keynote/
128
32
Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/unisuper_google_cloud_outage_caused/
127
177
Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7ygp6
121
64
Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes
https://www.ellipsis.dev/
112
82
Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce5ljpnggp4o
110
96
The history of 'OK' (2023)
https://people.howstuffworks.com/history-ok.htm
30
Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/shell-greenpeace-quest-1.7196792
108
189
How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
https://www.leonarddavid.com/blinded-by-the-light-megaconstellation-clash-with-astronomical-peer-groups/
106
23
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
https://research.google/blog/videoprism-a-foundational-visual-encoder-for-video-understanding/
102
120
Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hiring-freeze-job-postings-elon-musk-layoffs-1851464758
94
54
Sony Wearable Thermal Device
https://www.sony.com.hk/reonpocket/en/
88
92
Nasa’s proposed plasma rocket would get us to Mars in 2 months
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-pulsed-plasma-rocket-advanced-concept-mars-1851463831
85
20
Xilinx HBM2 Internals (2023)
https://lovehindpa.ws/posts/xilinx-hbm2/
105
FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152633/fda-recall-tandem-diabetes-care-insulin-pump-mobile-app
34
No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/no-country-should-be-making-speech-rules-world
77
Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/teslas-self-driving-claims-subject-to-federal-securities-and-wire-fraud-probe/
21
Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features
https://github.com/meetbryce/open-source-slack-ai
65
Hertz Charged Member $277 for Not Filling Gas Tank on a Tesla, Won't Remove Fees
https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-charged-presidents-circle-member-277-for-not-filling-gas-tank-on-a-tesla-wont-remove-fees/
75
56
Stack Overflow Community Is Not Happy with the OpenAI Deal
https://favtutor.com/articles/stack-overflow-community-not-happy-openai/
72
Cylindrical Slide Rules
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/slide-rules/cylindrical-slide-rules
70
33
New UUID formats have been approved
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format-01.html
67
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/dell-to-monitor-worker-vpn-use-badge-swipes-to-enforce-office-policy/
9
A Record of Old Kashgar
https://chinabooksreview.com/2024/05/09/a-record-of-old-kashgar/
62
Blade Runner
https://www.filfre.net/2024/05/blade-runner/
Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andrew-huberman-cannabis-misinformation-slammed-by-experts-1235016613/
46
How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount
https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-gets-a-billion-dollar-worth-infrastructure-with-a-90-discount-5edd473b2399
99
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties
https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-years-fighting-the-tech-giants-oil-ties-now-theyre-speaking-out/
60
27
Shane Legg: Machine Super Intelligence (2008) [pdf]
https://www.vetta.org/documents/Machine_Super_Intelligence.pdf
11
Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/light-eaters-zoe-schlanger-book-plant-intelligence.html
59
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty
14
DNSecure – a configuration tool of DoT and DoH for iOS and iPadOS
https://github.com/kkebo/DNSecure
58
40
Microsoft's $1M Vote of Confidence in Rust's Future
https://thenewstack.io/microsofts-1m-vote-of-confidence-in-rusts-future/
4
Dont have F-You money? Build an F-You Network
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/05/08/build-an-f-you-network
19
Most to least common 4-digit PIN numbers from an analysis of 3.4M
https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1cn7l7r/oc_most_common_4_digit_pin_numbers_from_an/
Ask HN: Would you send a photo holding your drivers license to rent a VPS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304191
78
A dystopian iPad commercial has X ripping Apple for crushing instruments and art
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/05/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-bad
the US is propping up gas while the world moves to renewable energy
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151375/renewable-energy-global-electricity-report-us-gas