993
287
Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
2 years ago
952
348
A forged Apple employee badge
https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/
784
401
Slack AI Training with Customer Data
https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles?nojsmode=1
553
374
VCs aren’t your friends
https://www.openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent-your-friends
476
50
Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
https://docs.likejazz.com/llama3.np/
390
49
Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms
385
103
Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/21/the-higher-states-of-bromine
380
81
D3 in Depth
https://www.d3indepth.com/
365
220
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/15/utah-locals-are-getting-cheap-10-gbps-fiber-thanks-to-local-governments/
357
145
Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/312681.html
354
404
Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y
344
163
Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code
334
444
Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
https://www.railtarget.eu/technologies-and-infrastructure/deutsche-bahn-introduces-metawindow-a-gamechanger-in-noise-reduction-for-railways-8449.html
302
170
ChatGPT-4o vs. Math
https://www.sabrina.dev/p/chatgpt4o-vs-math
299
250
Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/16/report-sprint-t-mobile-merger-immediately-killed-wireless-price-competition-in-u-s/
291
131
What's New in Neovim 0.10
https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0.10/
286
237
The Downfall of DeviantArt
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
280
419
Students invent quieter leaf blower
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/14/quieter-leaf-blower/
279
68
Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
https://github.com/google/wuffs
236
102
F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language
https://www.fstar-lang.org/
222
69
Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
212
224
I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
https://aftermath.site/google-ai-search-god-no-why
203
124
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/improvements-to-data-analysis-in-chatgpt/
198
46
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Germany-STF-For-FFmpeg
62
Growing sodium chloride crystals at home
https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/
180
23
Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia
https://domluna.com/blog/tiny-binary-rag
173
186
Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/wind-farms-can-offset-their-emissions-within-two-years-new-study-shows/
166
105
Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)
https://thecentercolumn.com/2020/01/17/earths-rotation-limits-ibis-performance-to-6-3-stops/
164
135
Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
https://restofworld.org/2023/china-tech-workers-investors-founders-app/
149
Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
https://easel.hackclub.com/orpheus-finds-easel
148
43
A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations
https://github.com/lydiahallie/javascript-questions
147
Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas
https://blog.playcanvas.com/build-webgpu-apps-today-with-playcanvas/
35
Smart Pointers in (GNU) C
https://snai.pe/posts/c-smart-pointers
146
84
Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
https://wadetregaskis.com/swift-sucks-at-web-serving-or-does-it/
95
EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/eu-opens-child-safety-probes-of-facebook-and-instagram-citing-addictive-design-concerns/
142
53
Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
https://www.ibiblio.org/shadow/docs/port_numbers
141
Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications
https://future.mozilla.org/news/llamafiles-for-embeddings-in-local-rag-applications/
140
94
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16880-exit-strategy-the-case-for-single-stair-egress
139
11
Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/ssh-backdoor-has-infected-400000-linux-servers-over-15-years-and-keeps-on-spreading/
101
Online censorship's institutional power
https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional
98
The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00644-1
82
History of the Italian electrical system
https://samuele963.github.io/electrics/history.html
123
54
Third Time: a better way to work (2022)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWu8eZqbwgB9zaerh/third-time-a-better-way-to-work
122
87
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900
119
Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-69016405
52
Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40376857
118
169
Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
https://www.the-express.com/finance/business/137709/tesla-self-driving-elon-musk-china
116
Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
https://scottberkun.com/2021/why-bad-ceos-fear-remote-work/
112
93
Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-16/crypto-brothers-front-ran-the-front-runners
21
Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editor
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/features/pdf-editor/
111
76
Elicit – AI Research Assistant
https://elicit.com/
109
17
You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/StephaneP/diary/390290
104
157
State of the Terminal
https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal/
99
72
97
MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
91
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html
30
Show HN: Drivr – VR with real vehicles [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76X0cnSGHk
61
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916241252085
92
39
Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexity, but for HN comments
https://hackersearch.net/ask
36
Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone
https://www.photobox.dev/
90
7
Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf]
https://pok.acm.org/meetings/foils/McGrew18paper.pdf
89
D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf]
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/Projects/dexprs.pdf
22
JEP Draft: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8291976
88
31
Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/05/john-miltons-handwritten-notes-make-this-16th-century-history-book-a-rare-find/
86
My Sony HB-F1XV
https://thefoggiest.dev/2024/05/16/my-sony-hb-f1xv
85
73
America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/17/in-numbers-americas-dramatic-shift-from-gas-power-plants-to-batteries/
83
70
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/
15
On hoot, on boot
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/16/on-hoot-on-boot
80
Intel's Thunderbolt Share lets two PCs control each other over a USB cable
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24156519/intel-thunderbolt-share-app
78
100
You probably don't need to validate UTF-8 strings
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/utf8/
77
42
How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in a running inter (2017)
https://gist.github.com/simonw/8aa492e59265c1a021f5c5618f9e6b12
0
Show HN: Spin up populated test databases in seconds
https://docs.tonic.ai/ephemeral
NetBSD bans use of Copilot-generated code
https://www.osnews.com/story/139698/netbsd-bans-use-of-copilot-generated-code/
143
The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world