389
334
Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
https://torrentfreak.com/napster-sparked-a-file-sharing-revolution-25-years-ago-250601/
2 years ago
356
93
ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically
https://root.cern/
317
319
Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news
https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-number-supersharers-spread-vast-majority-fake-news
309
72
Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024%2F5%2F29%2Ffast-inverse-sqrt.md
301
127
L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer
https://loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong
294
227
Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
https://shakti.com/k
275
141
Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/
250
150
60 kHz (2022)
https://ben.page/wwvb
244
85
Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/27/goldfish-memories/
52
Lisp: Icing or Cake?
https://dthompson.us/posts/lisp-icing-or-cake.html
197
83
Space secrets leak disclosure
https://huggingface.co/blog/space-secrets-disclosure
193
109
LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore
https://allenpike.com/2024/llms-trained-on-internet
104
Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
https://unit.nginx.org/
165
22
Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/1/stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed/#atom-everything
154
33
Seeing Like a Data Structure
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/seeing-data-structure
151
20
Show HN: Open-source load balancer for llama.cpp
https://github.com/distantmagic/paddler
148
18
Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)
https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/year-end-remembrances-part-3-the
145
65
Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing
https://stackdiary.com/ticketmaster-confirms-data-breach-with-a-sec-filing/
142
171
Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/neuroscience/can-ketones-enhance-cognitive-function-and-protect-brain-networks
139
32
The Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac (2019)
https://www.fastcompany.com/90380553/meet-the-canon-cat-the-forgotten-1987-alternate-reality-mac
133
34
Why is Snapshot Isolation not enough?
http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2023/12/why-is-snapshot-isolation-not-enough.html
130
5
Ticketmaster confirms data hack which could affect 560M globally
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99ql0239wo
129
15
How to Distribute Postgres Geographically
https://xata.io/blog/geo-distributed-postgres
124
37
Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive
https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/lessons-learned-from-6-months-of-operating-a-teensy-tiny-news-archive/
122
137
Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-024-09396-9
115
199
X is justifiably slow (2022)
https://zeux.io/2024/05/31/justifiably-slow/
102
73
Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file
https://manifest.build
98
14
Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021)
https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/scientific-glassblower-continues-century-old-campus-tradition
95
48
Hermann Grassmann and the nature of abstractions
https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/grassman_article
86
75
California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar
https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/05/california-community-solar-incentives/
126
Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
https://www.lifewire.com/install-linux-avoid-ai-8655664
19
Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gTZ2SxesbHckJ3CkF/transformers-represent-belief-state-geometry-in-their
84
The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force"
https://www.twz.com/news-features/the-fascinating-story-of-the-usafs-upside-down-air-force
31
Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547855
80
82
Loyalty at work no longer pays – and it's employers who are to blame
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-loyalty-between-employers-employees-2024-5
76
4
Spring Forth, My Creation
https://wondermark.com/c/1548/
88
Boeing's largest plant in 'panic mode' amid safety crisis, say workers and union
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/01/boeing-safety-crisis-response-union-busting
40
Call Your Local Wizard
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/witches-wizards-magic-middle-ages-cunning-folk-book.html
71
49
What autoconf got right
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/04/what-autoconf-got-right.html
70
Helldivers 2 has caused over 20k Steam accounts to be banned
https://www.videogamer.com/news/helldivers-2-has-caused-over-20000-steam-accounts-to-be-banned/
69
54
Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
https://github.com/kirill-markin/chrome-auto-image-blocker
68
99
The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-revolution-is-already-losing-steam-a93478b1
64
The big lie about sleep
https://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-loss-deprivation-america-reasons-health-inequality-economic-stress-money-2024-5
63
SF tech company Okta, worth $14B, accused of retaliatory layoffs
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/okta-lawsuit-gender-retaliatory-layoffs-19489065.php
60
David Hilbert's 1930 Radio Address [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLFqgx2Pec
59
21
Horseshoe crab counting with New York’s citizen scientists
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/29/horseshoe-crab-jamaica-bay-festival/
55
35
Routers cyber security best practices
https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/routers-cyber-security-best-practices-itsap80019
7
History Of Window Systems (2021)
https://blog.dshr.org/2021/03/history-of-window-systems.html
Apple downgrades new M2 iPad Air, 9-core GPU instead of 10-core
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/01/m2-ipad-air-gpu-core-count/
117
Survival of the richest: Inside the short-lived fallout shelter bubble
https://thehustle.co/originals/survival-of-the-richest-inside-the-short-lived-fallout-shelter-bubble
