1257
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Gordon Bell has died
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/
2 years ago
767
387
What UI density means and how to design for it
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/
669
241
CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium
531
193
The curious case of the missing period
https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
463
314
Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
https://amber-lang.com/
444
397
Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
https://plsfix.co/
421
216
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark
393
456
Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html
358
200
Shipbreaking
https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbreaking
346
168
Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654
340
342
The OpenAI board was right
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right
325
266
NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
321
62
Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures
https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/
320
120
Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file
https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html
304
40
Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818
287
297
Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio
261
267
Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/business-booms-depressions-since-1775-145
256
64
Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder
https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski
244
99
Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel
https://github.com/Openpanel-dev/openpanel
239
A Road to Common Lisp (2018)
https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
238
74
Bento3D
https://polar-tadpole-97b.notion.site/Bento3D-e40483712b304d389d7c2da26196e113#d7f452d3ffd94cd1a0a9e70e361efb63
237
153
I want flexible queries, not RAG
https://win-vector.com/2024/05/21/i-want-flexible-queries-not-rag/
225
79
How Might We Learn?
https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/
222
161
Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/
85
Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsStories
220
49
Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
https://www.erlang.org/blog/highlights-otp-27/
218
48
Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images
https://ificl.github.io/images-that-sound/
209
293
Taking Risk
https://tomblomfield.com/post/750852175114174464/taking-risk
206
54
Fast real time fluid simulator based on MPM algorithm
https://kotsoft.github.io/
204
105
Why Are Sloths So Slow?
https://slothconservation.org/sloths-move-slow/
203
195
The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
https://www.allanschore.com/pdf/SchoreIMHJTrauma01.pdf
198
1
Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model
196
43
Reversing Choplifter
https://blondihacks.com/reversing-choplifter/
192
75
The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013)
http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-stanford-startup-and-mit-startup.html
178
324
One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8889d7x8j4o
175
307
iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/
173
160
How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
https://tenbluelinks.org/
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)
https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst
124
Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/
157
101
Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
https://support.stripe.com/questions/june-2024-pricing-update-for-instant-payouts-for-businesses-in-the-united-states
155
151
“Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/how-dark-money-groups-help-private-isps-lobby-against-municipal-broadband/
152
37
Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply
https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor-pre-launch-on-crowd-supply
57
Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook
https://github.com/microsoft/Phi-3CookBook
142
39
We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM
https://www.codium.ai/blog/we-created-the-first-open-source-implementation-of-metas-testgen-llm/
141
56
Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution
https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/escape-sequences/iterm2/hyper/url-handlers/code-execution/2024/05/21/arbitrary-url-schemes-terminal-emulators.html
Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)
https://swtch.com/%7Ersc/regexp/regexp1.html
128
86
Regular expression functions in Excel
https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/new-regular-expression-regex-functions-in-excel
32
What's New in Kotlin 2.0.0
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew20.html
121
The Engineering of Duct Tape [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-F2QQuZZGk
114
Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/
111
167
Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/microsoft-chatbot-assistant-pc
18
Sam Altman Is Full of Shit
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/
108
33
Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-README-Linux-6.10
31
'Satoshi' impersonation 'a serious abuse of court's process' judge concludes
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/satoshi-impersonation-a-serious-abuse-of-courts-process-judge-concludes/5119771.article
52
Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/designed-to-crash-the-bizarre-story-of-antonov-an-28-ha-laj-and-its-demise-169b3720d924
106
50
New Windows AI feature records everything you've done on your PC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
30
mactop
https://github.com/context-labs/mactop
47
Rare things become common at scale (2014)
https://longform.asmartbear.com/scale-rare/
104
iTerm2 3.5.0
https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_0.changelog
102
How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online
Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
https://ollama.com/blog/firebase-genkit
36
40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching
https://github.com/norton120/educator-tools-87
96
21
Underwater acoustic analysis reveals unique pressure signals – Revisiting MH370
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60529-1
95
26
Response Filter Denial of Service: shut down a website by triggering WAF rule
https://blog.sicuranext.com/response-filter-denial-of-service-a-new-way-to-shutdown-a-website/
93
vu128: Efficient variable-length integers
https://john-millikin.com/vu128-efficient-variable-length-integers
Backblaze Scales Storage Cloud
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-scales-our-storage-cloud/
92
6
A designer's guide to documenting accessibility and user interactions (2022)
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/a-designers-guide-to-documenting-accessibility-user-interactions/
90
27
Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file
https://github.com/dtonon/oracolo
89
How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security
https://doublepulsar.com/how-the-new-microsoft-recall-feature-fundamentally-undermines-windows-security-aa072829f218
71
Degoogled Android – My Experience
https://lilysthings.org/blog/degoogled-android/
83
Israel seizes Associated Press equipment, shuts down Gaza video feed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/21/israel-seizes-associated-press/
82
Windows Copilot Runtime
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/05/21/unlock-a-new-era-of-innovation-with-windows-copilot-runtime-and-copilot-pcs/
81
How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field (2019)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190301-00/?p=101076
Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/20/microsoft-surface-pro-faster-macbook-air/
94
Ask HN: Which LLMs can run locally on most consumer computers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40424519
28
How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy
https://proton.me/blog/how-to-de-google
