1623
378
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/
2 years ago
1143
320
Jim Simons has died
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/simons-foundation-co-founder-mathematician-and-investor-jim-simons-dies-at-86/
886
233
Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318542
523
402
Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/533/20240510-cme-impact-imminent-two-more-earth-directed-cmes.html
413
204
Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile
389
101
100k Stars
https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
385
158
Popover API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Popover_API
312
349
KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720
252
200
Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/science/whale-song-alphabet.html
225
24
One Minute Park
https://oneminutepark.tv/
223
99
Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjje132jvygo
219
147
So We've Got a Memory Leak
https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak
206
146
Why you can hear the temperature of water
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/science/hot-water-sound-cold.html
203
121
Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/470951/is-the-largest-root-of-a-random-polynomial-more-likely-to-be-real-than-complex
178
10
CS388: Natural Language Processing
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/courses/online-course/materials.html
177
114
Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell
https://elv.sh
170
74
Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell
https://github.com/noisysockets/nsh
159
69
Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics
https://davekilian.com/acquire-release.html
145
110
The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/
141
130
OpenBSD Desktop
https://x61.ar/log/2024/05/06052024135732-openbsd_desktop.html
274
Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before
135
76
Unix and Multics (2019)
https://www.multicians.org/unix.html
127
29
An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240510-00/?p=109742
125
7
Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)
https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/
118
122
Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17027
113
35
Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024
https://krystalgamer.github.io/spidey-decomp-status-may/
111
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb (2019)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb
14
Tine Text Editor
https://github.com/travisdoor/tine
107
90
Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59387182
96
196
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1249930674/california-restaurants-fees
94
Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00738
27
Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation
https://sel4.systems/news/#member-apple
93
164
The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
https://www.fabianzeindl.com/posts/the-api-database-architecture
89
82
When Is a Counter-Strike Player Good?
https://two-wrongs.com/when-is-counter-strike-player-good
Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apple-m4-scores-suggest-it-is-the-new-single-core-performance-champ-beating-intels-core-i9-14900ks-incredible-results-of-3800-posted
88
161
A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space
https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-based-solar-power-2667878868
87
NOAA Forecasts Solar Storm (G4)
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/media-advisory-noaa-forecasts-severe-solar-storm-media-availability-scheduled-friday-may-10
84
49
Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5770/Weapons-in-SpaceTechnology-Politics-and-the-Rise
30
SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/swpc-issues-its-first-g4-watch-2005
83
62
Unbearable hours, threats of being fired: The abuse of migrant interns in Japan
https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220419-unbearable-hours-threats-of-being-fired-the-abuse-of-migrant-interns-in-japan
81
12
Show HN: Jacinda, a functional Awk (text stream processing on the comamnd-line)
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/jacinda
80
Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/10/is-ai-lying-to-me-scientists-warn-of-growing-capacity-for-deception
34
'Vampire drone' can leech electricity from power lines to live forever
https://bgr.com/tech/revolutionary-new-drone-feeds-on-electricity-from-power-lines-and-flies-forever/
77
18
ENIAC Simulator
http://zuse-z1.zib.de/simulations/eniac/
53
Trip C++Now 2024 – think-cell
https://www.think-cell.com/en/career/devblog/trip-report-cpp-now-2024
11
Experience with SQLite as a Store of Files and Images
https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e18c43fc797fcdb7?t=h
67
37
Swipos-GIS/GEO, nationwide GNSS RTK correction for centimeter accurate location
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swipos-gisgeo-for-rtk-and-postprocessing-applications
65
Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/stack_overflow_banning_users_who/
52
100 Years of IBM
http://www.tikalon.com/blog/blog.php?article=2024/IBM_100
63
8
Elon Musk's X can't invent its own copyright law, judge says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/elon-musks-x-tried-and-failed-to-make-its-own-copyright-system-judge-says/
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 turns on Device Encryption by default
https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/05/08/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-turns-on-device-encryption-by-default/
Chips and Cheese State of the Union
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/09/chips-and-cheese-state-of-the-union/
61
16
Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/atrazine/
DKIM, SPF, SpamAssassin Email Validator
https://dkimvalidator.com/
60
92
Richest Americans Now Pay Less Tax Than Working Class in Historical First
https://www.newsweek.com/richest-americans-pay-less-tax-working-class-1897047