1044
226
Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-fully-operational
2 years ago
626
533
Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/
366
222
French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy
https://torrentfreak.com/google-cloudflare-cisco-will-poison-dns-to-stop-piracy-block-circumvention-240613/
355
55
ESASky
https://sky.esa.int/esasky/
327
173
Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)
https://www.georgefairbanks.com/book/
254
362
Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
https://tomverbeure.github.io/2024/05/20/Tesla-FSD-First-and-Last-Impressions.html
251
124
Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/sales-happen-when-buyers-fear-missing
234
74
A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
https://thoughtforms.life/a-most-profound-video-game-a-good-cognitive-aid-for-research-at-the-frontier-of-life-and-mind/
230
280
Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-panels-breaking-efficiency-records
156
Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/the-story-of-reformatting-100k-files-at-google-in-2011
216
100
You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/youve-read-your-last-free-article-such-is-the-nature-of-mortality
200
43
Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub
https://github.com/jthlim/impulse-tracker
199
24
Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js
https://github.com/meliharvey/threescaper
198
134
London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/london-underground-quantum-compass-gps-subatomic-instrument-locations
192
31
Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system
https://k3xec.com/td158/
189
38
Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)
https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/
167
322
'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/15/the-big-problem-is-water-uk-ebike-owners-plagued-by-failing-motors
160
35
AI for math resources, and erdosproblems.com
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/two-announcements-ai-for-math-resources-and-erdosproblems-com/
153
29
Address Sanitizer Internals
https://blog.gistre.epita.fr/posts/benjamin.peter-2022-10-28-address_sanitizer_internals/
133
Syzygy: An open standard for low cost, compact and high-performance peripherals
https://syzygyfpga.io/
131
78
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined
https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
129
64
VVVV – A hybrid visual/textual development environment for .NET
https://visualprogramming.net/
122
16
Making my local LLM voice assistant faster and more scalable with RAG
https://johnthenerd.com/blog/faster-local-llm-assistant/
112
41
Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale
https://www.autodidacts.io/holistic-perfectionism/
111
Ollama v0.1.45
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.45-rc1
108
14
Fifty Years of Diff
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/06/14/fifty-years-of-diff-and-merge/
Django SQLite Production Config
https://blog.pecar.me/sqlite-django-config
104
Good code is rarely read
https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/06/06/good-code.html
102
21
PaperTapeReader: A DIY reader for vintage 8-bit paper tapes
https://github.com/dhansel/PaperTapeReader
61
Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/15/us/southwest-flight-hawaii-federal-investigation/index.html
97
Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
https://github.com/jarusll/keydogger
96
33
Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, discovered off the coast of Canada
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ernest-shackletons-last-ship-quest-discovered-off-the-coast-of-canada-180984545/
83
Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
95
54
Topological Problems in Voting
https://www.ryantolsma.com/thoughts/2024/06/14/topological-voting.html
65
Can language models serve as text-based world simulators?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06485
94
An Introduction to CSS-Doodle
https://yuanchuan.github.io/intro-to-css-doodle/
49
Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
93
59
Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/june/face-ancient-australian-giga-goose-revealed-after-fossil-skull-found.html
90
Unveiling URI, URL, and URN
https://blog.logto.io/unveiling-uri-url-and-urn/
88
60
Introduction to the Odin Programming Language
https://zylinski.se/posts/introduction-to-odin/
77
Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To"
https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/06/14/information-security-we-can-do-it-right-we-choose-not-to.html
50
Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/japan-new-banknotes-great-wave/index.html
87
143
The state of carbon dioxide removal
https://www.stateofcdr.org
79
DARPA Shows Concepts for the Future of VTOL Uncrewed Aerial Systems
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-05-22
Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/tesla-in-self-drive-mode-slams-into-police-car-in-orange-county/
75
28
Show HN: An open source extension to block large media brands from Google search
https://github.com/hp27596/secondpage
26
Sonos changes terms and conditions and may now pass on data to third parties
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sonos-changes-terms-and-conditions-and-may-now-pass-on-data-to-third-parties.848124.0.html
6
Building an O2 concentrator for welding and vacuum tube work
https://www.nickpoole.me/2024/06/01/building-an-oxikit-o2-concentrator-part-2/
25
A judge ordered us to turn over privileged documents
https://mississippitoday.org/2024/06/06/mississippi-today-supreme-court-appeal/
72
17
Ask HN: Do You Have a Copy of IBM "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691792
70
20
Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/cancer-fighting-radiopharmaceuticals-are-taking-off
69
Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06826
66
Useful and Overlooked Skills
https://collabfund.com/blog/useful-and-overlooked-skills/
Amazon has a way to scrape GitHub and feed its AI model
https://dataconomy.com/2024/06/14/amazon-has-a-secret-way-to-scrape-microsofts-github-and-feed-its-ai-model/
15
How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II
https://acoup.blog/2024/06/14/collections-how-to-raise-a-tribal-army-in-pre-roman-europe-part-ii-government-without-states/
Acorn Computer Systems catalogue circa 1983
https://blog.jgc.org/2024/06/acorn-computer-systems-catalogue-circa.html
