1016
316
I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
2 years ago
956
428
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/23/ai-headphones-noise-cancelling-target-speech-hearing/
866
364
Kino: Pro Video Camera
https://www.lux.camera/introducing-kino-pro-video-camera/
591
221
Donating forks to the dining hall
https://ben.page/forks
513
140
Vector indexing all of Wikipedia on a laptop
https://foojay.io/today/indexing-all-of-wikipedia-on-a-laptop/
457
214
Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
https://mistral.ai/news/codestral/
442
108
Gov. Polis Signs Bill Mandating That Consumers Have Options to Fix Electronics
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2024/05/gov-polis-signs-bill-mandating-that-consumers-have-more-options-to-fix-electronics/62156/
406
155
DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database
https://www.nikolasgoebel.com/2024/05/28/duckdb-doesnt-need-data.html
292
Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in networks for surveillance
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ottawa-wants-the-power-to-create-secret-backdoors-in-our-networks-to/
324
87
What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-part-i/
284
766
Google releases smart watch for kids
https://store.google.com/US/product/fitbit_ace_lte?hl=en-US
275
295
Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0521/1450272-return-to-office-mandates-employees-work-from-home/
75
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation
268
138
Three Laws of Software Complexity
https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2024/05/08/2024-ThreeLaws.html
260
63
Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-ml-s1-2024-mlir-arrow-instructor
237
25
IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/news/afnic-launches-ibdns-the-intentionally-broken-dns-server/
233
49
New attention mechanisms that outperform standard multi-head attention
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01643
229
43
Show HN: Slipshow – A presentation tool not based on slides
https://github.com/panglesd/slipshow
223
207
Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users
https://mashable.com/article/ticketmaster-data-breach-shinyhunters-hack
220
86
How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/
208
404
How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business
https://fortune.com/2024/05/29/waymo-self-driving-robo-taxi-uber-tesla-alphabet/
201
Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say
https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/29/training-not-chatting/
200
2
Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166713/openai-helen-toner-explains-why-sam-altman-was-fired
195
21
Qlock – A JavaScript Quine Clock
http://aem1k.com/qlock/
186
44
The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back
https://www.vogue.in/content/pen-hospital-in-kolkata-will-nurse-your-broken-fountain-pen-back-to-health
179
Caddy 2.8
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.8.0
178
258
Starlink's disruption of the space industry
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4801/1
3
Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
https://searchengineland.com/google-search-document-leak-ranking-442617
165
82
ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
https://github.com/2noise/ChatTTS
163
72
A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01518-2
162
145
Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yourself-be-monitored-eu-governments-to-agree-on-chat-control-with-user-consent/
160
47
Three.js Shading Language
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Three.js-Shading-Language
159
61
Show HN: Serverless Postgres
https://github.com/kiwicopple/serverless-postgres
143
90
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors
142
First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/worlds-first-bioprocessor-uses-16-human-brain-organoids-for-a-million-times-less-power-consumption-than-a-digital-chip
Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-happens-to-wolves-infected-by-an-infamous-mind-altering-parasite
133
94
The government is making it more difficult to track private aircraft travel
https://www.popsci.com/technology/tracking-private-jets/
128
148
Nvidia is about to pass Apple in market cap
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-darling-nvidias-market-value-surges-closer-apple-2024-05-28/
127
31
Why OpenAI CEO was ousted
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/29/former-openai-board-member-explains-why-ceo-sam-altman-was-fired.html
NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework
https://ghidra-sre.org/
122
Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code
http://angg.twu.net/miniforth-article.html
121
Fast Shadow Stacks for Go
https://blog.felixge.de/blazingly-fast-shadow-stacks-for-go/
114
USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux
https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/7a197233de3d60ff1e23ca90ed2f595a
113
9
Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion Using Efficient Row-Wise Attention
https://penghtyx.github.io/Era3D/
111
Ex-OpenAI board member provides her first detailed account of CEO ouster
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ex-openai-board-member-provides-her-first-detailed-account-ceo-ouster-2024-05-29/
Ultrasonic Coffee
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/29/ultrasonic-coffee-australia-scientists-unsw
78
The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351638/the-obscure-federal-intelligence-bureau-that-got-vietnam-iraq-and-ukraine-right
105
Webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++
https://github.com/webview/webview
99
259
The rise of the disposable car
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-23/more-cars-are-being-totaled-as-repair-costs-used-car-prices-bite
98
45
Ask HN: Is Stripe the new PayPal, cancelling user accounts without explanation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513782
93
62
Speedup of deletes on PostgreSQL
https://ivdl.co.za/2024/05/29/achieving-a-100x-speedup-of-deletes-on-postgresql/
83
Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506894
10
Google Algorithm Leaked
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-data-leak-37462.html
88
11
Kaplay – a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun
https://kaplayjs.com/kaplayjs.com
20
Rex Computing
http://rexcomputing.com/
Meta shuts down Israeli network pushing AI-generated propaganda in U.S.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjqswxh4r
91
Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/tesla-fatal-suit-trial
26
Show HN: Savvy – Create, Share and Run Runbooks from your Terminal
https://github.com/getsavvyinc/savvy-cli
81
50
The new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 CPUs
https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-13-with-intel-core-ultra-series-1-processors
77
8
Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/animal-patterns-spots-stripes-explained-turing-mechanism
73
If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/technology/ai-chief-executives.html
Johnny Cash – Strawberry Cake
https://playingintheworldgame.com/2015/04/21/johnny-cash-strawberry-cake/