1667
328
Lynn Conway has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway
8 months ago
649
398
I like the RP2040
https://dgroshev.com/blog/rp2040/
588
337
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
https://arcprize.org/blog/launch
579
318
Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pprpd3x96o
468
423
Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/noam-chomsky-health-update-tributes-b2559831.html
390
127
Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
https://flameshot.org/
389
212
Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/112594910070716090
377
166
Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
https://twenty.com
339
262
Swift Static Linux SDK
https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/static-linux-getting-started.html
331
174
Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-become-mathematicians-co-pilot/
327
170
POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)
http://www.povray.org/
298
76
Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code
https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo
291
181
Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/some-people-with-insomnia-think-theyre-awake-when-theyre-asleep/
274
138
Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted
https://unforget.computing-den.com/demo
272
82
How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings
https://tembo.io/blog/optimizing-memory-usage
243
A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/style/ai-search-slop.html
259
86
Self-Serve Dashboards
https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/self-serve-bi-myth/
245
39
When Water Flows Uphill [video] (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKgnNGqxMw
255
Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/norway-discovers-europes-largest-deposit-of-rare-earth-metals.html
241
131
Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
https://lemire.me/blog/2024/06/08/scan-html-faster-with-simd-instructions-chrome-edition/
235
24
Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library
https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor
223
175
British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/two_arrested_in_uk_over/
156
How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)
https://twobithistory.org/2019/11/06/doom-bsp.html
208
98
Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/medieval-game-pieces-emerge-from-the-ruins-of-a-mysterious-german-castle-2497815
206
Author Clock: a novel way to tell time
https://www.authorclock.com/
205
233
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/elon-musk-drops-suit-against-openai-and-sam-altman.html
203
117
London–Calcutta Bus Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service
196
Ship Something Every Day
https://maxleiter.com/blog/ship-every-day
52
Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech
https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
193
92
Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM
https://christopher.engineering/en/blog/gleam-overview/
190
148
The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1225/5435538
179
172
Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/west-texas-orphan-wells-water-bursts/
15
Jgs Font
https://adelfaure.net/tools/jgs/
165
115
Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/science/mushroom-hunters-dna.html
164
81
Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240610-how-the-concrete-in-your-house-could-be-turned-into-a-battery
160
188
FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging
https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-responds-petition-phthalates-food-packaging-and-food-contact-applications
97
Firefox 127
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/127.0/releasenotes/
155
140
Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US
https://9to5google.com/2024/06/09/gpay-us/
144
57
Siberia's 'mammoth graveyard' reveals 800-year human interactions with mammoths
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-siberia-mammoth-graveyard-reveals-year.html
141
Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
https://clipbook.app/
44
Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
https://louisabraham.github.io/articles/probabilistic-tic-tac-toe
135
macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported
136
105
Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/11/1093465/battery-swap-gogoro-taiwan-earthquake/
119
Decade of the Battery
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/decade-of-the-battery-334
134
14
macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/using_icloud_with_macos_virtual_machines?language=objc
Gruen transfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer
132
26
Borges on Chaos Theory
https://aethermug.com/posts/borges-on-chaos-theory
23
Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba2578
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing
https://mrd0x.com/progressive-web-apps-pwa-phishing/
129
10
Meta Open-Sources Megalodon LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/06/meta-llm-megalodon/
9
Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost
https://www.timescale.com/blog/pgvector-is-now-as-fast-as-pinecone-at-75-less-cost/
154
All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24175932/nintendo-switch-console-x-twitter-integration-removed
125
The Titan Submersible Disaster. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing
https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/
124
18
Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers
https://nautil.us/the-boy-who-was-king-of-vanilla-522772/
116
114
US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-proposes-banning-medical-debt-credit-reports-vp-harris-says-2024-06-11/
78
The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html
60
Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation
https://www.generalcatalyst.com/perspectives/tripling-down-on-mistral-ai
21
NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTs
https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
112
102
Designing a website without 404s
https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-06-10-website-without-404s
111
37
DuckDB Isn't Just Fast
https://csvbase.com/blog/6
Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data
5
Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/edward-stone-1936-2024
79
Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye
https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/10/blackmagic-ursa-cine-immersive-capture-content-for-apple-vision-pro-with-8160-x-7200-resolution-per-eye/
101
Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/spotify-droppin-some-fake-beats
96
80
Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias
93
38
Making iron gall ink from oak galls
https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/iron-gall-ink/
89
66
Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/stoke-space-ignites-its-ambitious-main-engine-for-the-first-time/
88
Metaflora
https://flora.metazooa.com
84
42
Centuries of Childhood
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/centuries-of-childhood
