722
112
The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/01/the-backrooms-of-the-internet-archive/
2 years ago
508
217
Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-to-children-with-inherited-deafness/
430
245
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/william-anders-wa-plane-crash
395
271
Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-07-sildenafil-viagra-improves-brain-blood-flow-and-could-help-prevent-dementia
388
61
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
310
82
Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
https://fobes.dev/ps2/detecting-emu-vu-floats
300
83
An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon
263
146
Claude's Character
https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
251
55
LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance
https://github.com/SilasMarvin/lsp-ai
249
63
South Pole Water Infrastructure
https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-water-infrastructure
243
163
Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
https://codeopinion.com/beware-anti-patterns-in-event-driven-architecture/
210
66
My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
https://omarshehata.substack.com/p/my-favorite-1980s-canadian-tv-show
205
126
Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-tiny-fern-largest-genome-earth.html
195
17
WARC-GPT: An open-source tool for exploring web archives using AI
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2024/02/12/warc-gpt-an-open-source-tool-for-exploring-web-archives-with-ai/
192
114
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
179
313
What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38905963
168
57
Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found
https://theconversation.com/records-of-pompeiis-survivors-have-been-found-and-archaeologists-are-starting-to-understand-how-they-rebuilt-their-lives-230641
161
65
Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/tui-boeing-flight-bristol-disaster-avoided-b2558536.html
158
49
Content Injection Attack on GitHub
https://github.com/younesbram/younesbram
143
43
Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/06/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-chunking-in-rag-applications/
140
19
Chebyshev approximation and how it can help (2012)
https://www.EmbeddedRelated.com/showarticle/152.php
137
16
Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace
https://abstractexpr.com/2024/06/08/finding-out-where-syscalls-are-called-from-stack-traces-with-strace/
136
89
Garbage collect your technical debt (2021)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9520328
127
220
Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617786
76
Compilers are too smart
http://msinilo.pl/blog2/post/compilers-are-too-smart/
110
53
Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
https://mas-bandwidth.com/creating-a-matchmaker-for-your-multiplayer-game/
91
20
Show HN: I wrote a partial re-implementation of DirectMusic
https://github.com/GothicKit/dmusic
90
34
Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of most MLB stadiums (2017)
https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2017/08/31/baseball-infield-dirt-mix-prices-duraedge-pnc-park-wrigley-field-duraedge-slippery-rock-soil-pennsylvania/stories/201708310111
87
67
Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620764
84
What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023)
https://mathewsachin.github.io/blog/2023/04/09/captura-unmaintained.html
79
Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?
https://www.chatterpulseai.com/blog/building-a-saas-product-with-htmx/
78
39
Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3M check to US Government
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/google-avoids-jury-trial-by-sending-2-3-million-check-to-us-government/
71
18
Moving CHERIoT RTOS to a tickless model
https://cheriot.org/scheduler/2024/06/07/tickless-scheduler.html
70
EU Plans Major Expansion of Mass Surveillance
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-plans-mass-surveillance-data-collection-device-monitoring-encryption-backdoors
69
29
Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported (2022)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
26
How the transatlantic telegraph cable changed finance (2019)
https://tontinecoffeehouse.com/2019/10/14/how-a-cable-changed-finance/
60
1
Tools for Better Thinking
https://untools.co/
AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-running-out-data-smarter
Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates
https://time.com/6986142/japan-tokyo-government-dating-app-marriage/
58
56
What does it feel like to read RSS feeds?
https://hamatti.org/posts/what-does-it-feel-like-to-read-rss-feeds/
By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/21/a-new-age-of-sail-begins
35
Sid Meier's Civilization VII – Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygcgE3a_uY
9
BES – OSS Windows software to control per-process CPU usage
https://mion.yosei.fi/BES/
32
Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications
https://mashable.com/article/adobe-users-outaged-new-policy-trains-ai-their-work
54
Ventoy – Bootable USB Solution
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
I Open-Sourced KeyEcho: Fast-Responsive Keyboard Sounds with Every Keystroke
https://webdeveloper.beehiiv.com/p/opensourced-keyecho-fastresponsive-keyboard-sounds-every-keystroke-using-tauri
6
A Scheme Primer
https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html