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914
Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/
8 months ago
645
60
The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
https://computerwebsite.net/writing/gjk
495
163
Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/06/12/elixir-v1-17-0-released/
474
338
Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japan-enacts-law-to-curb-apple-googles-app-dominance.html#google_vignette
412
165
Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
https://staniks.github.io/articles/serious-engine-networking-analysis
404
194
How Meta trains large language models at scale
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/06/12/data-infrastructure/training-large-language-models-at-scale-meta/
335
110
Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww
325
465
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
https://blog.chromium.org/2024/06/building-faster-smarter-chromebook.html
288
118
My thoughts on Python in Excel
https://www.xlwings.org/blog/my-thoughts-on-python-in-excel
267
184
Group chats rule the world
https://sriramk.com/group-chats-rule-the-world
266
221
The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/why-swift-is-slow/
250
67
Diffractive Chocolate
https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/oscoutreach/diffractive-chocolate/
248
236
Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-is-trucking-a-916000-pound-super-load-across-ohio-to-its-new-fab-spawning-road-closures-over-nine-days
241
91
Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
https://www.science.org/content/article/star-botanist-likely-made-data-about-nutritional-supplements-new-probe-finds
230
32
Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-strangest-hit-songwriter-in-history
220
140
The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas
https://www.theverge.com/c/24133822/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-competition-championship
203
170
T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/t-mobile-users-thought-they-had-a-lifetime-price-lock-guess-what-happened-next/
201
35
The borrow checker within
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/06/02/the-borrow-checker-within/
188
26
Drawing Machines
https://drawingmachines.org/
185
109
Show HN: Restate – Low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust
https://restate.dev/
180
213
How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system
https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/how-alexa-dropped-the-ball-conversational-ai/
169
219
Raspberry Pi is now a public company
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/raspberry-pi-is-now-a-public-company-as-its-shares-pops-after-ipo-pricing/
168
175
Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]
https://syntax.fm/show/779/why-sqlite-is-taking-over-with-brian-holt-and-marco-bambini
166
157
Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660270
164
89
Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659236
160
125
Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19
https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19
159
176
AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
https://gizmodo.com/ai-detectors-inaccurate-freelance-writers-fired-1851529820
141
63
AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse
https://frereit.de/aes_gcm/
40
A new map of medieval London
https://londonist.substack.com/p/a-new-map-of-medieval-london
42
Show HN: PDF to Podcast – Convert Any PDF into a Podcast Episode
https://pdf-to-podcast.com
30
"The Door Problem" (2014)
https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
114
49
Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments
https://app.airtrain.ai/dataset/eb91081f-2003-494f-bd5d-084104db01f1/null/1/0
107
31
Google Dataset Search Engine
https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
104
13
Faxes From the Far Side (2015)
https://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side/
103
29
Calm Company Fund Is Taking a Break
https://calmfund.com/writing/pause
100
9
Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07394
97
iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/12/ios-18-cracks-down-on-apps-asking-for-full-address-book-access/
95
Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum
https://jalopnik.com/here-s-how-honda-s-hidden-resonators-keep-tire-noise-to-1851535905
94
51
Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today
https://www.twz.com/air/martin-baker-ejection-seat-made-its-first-of-7722-saves-75-yeats-ago-today
93
88
YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection
https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/112603139898164385
ARM torpedoes Windows on ARM: Demands destruction of all PCs with Snapdragon X
https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARM-torpedoes-Windows-on-ARM-Demands-destruction-of-all-PCs-with-Snapdragon-X-9758434.html
90
11
Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization
https://stamen.com/designing-the-avocado-of-uncertainty/
80
Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob
https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/dont-refactor-like-uncle-bob-please/
83
75
Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System (2017)
https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay
82
Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo
https://petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photographer-disqualified-from-ai-image-contest-after-winning-with-real-photo/
81
Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service"
https://thebaffler.com/latest/spreadsheet-assassins-king
Remote Amazon tribe did not get addicted to porn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/no-a-remote-amazon-tribe-did-not-get-addicted-to-porn.html
76
Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter
https://bignerdranch.com/blog/finding-new-pastures-big-nerd-ranchs-next-chapter/
69
66
Debian is the greatest Linux distro of them all
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5740472/debian-is-imo-the-greatest-linux-distro-of-them-all-i-think-that-debian-is-the-last-step-in-the-l
