562
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Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/974534021/remembering-allan-mcdonald-he-refused-to-approve-challenger-launch-exposed-cover
2 years ago
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544
Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
421
304
Ladybird browser spreads its wings
https://lwn.net/Articles/976822/
384
114
Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code
https://lemmy.world/post/16763534
353
168
Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
https://blog.jitx.com/jitx-corporate-blog/testing-generative-ai-for-circuit-board-design
348
166
Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
https://steveblank.substack.com/p/why-innovation-heroes-are-a-sign
303
69
MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes
https://buaacyw.github.io/mesh-anything/
302
435
Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/self-driving-cars-waymo-sf-19523750.php
276
90
Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion
https://github.com/mayneyao/eidos
254
363
Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/06/21/breaking-barcelona-will-remove-all-tourist-apartments-in-2028-in-huge-win-for-anti-tourism-activists/
249
86
OpenAI Acquires Rockset
https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-rockset/
245
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Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112653640999819867
235
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/
229
73
Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
https://navyhistory.au/aster-shootdown-over-sydney-in-1955/
208
CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux
https://criu.org/Main_Page
206
74
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/
179
149
Formal methods: Just good engineering practice?
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/17/formal.html
178
How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?
https://zachartrand.github.io/SoME-3-Living/
161
70
Test firing of a 3D-printed rocket engine designed through computational model
https://leap71.com/2024/06/18/leap-71-hot-fires-3d-printed-liquid-fuel-rocket-engine-designed-through-noyron-computational-model/
154
72
The plan-execute pattern
https://mmapped.blog/posts/29-plan-execute
148
Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples
https://github.com/nkaz001/hftbacktest/tree/master/rust
144
111
How to prolong lithium based batteries
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries
141
36
Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers
https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/lady-deirdre
136
106
How the square root of 2 became a number
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/
131
101
TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-explores-radical-new-chip-packaging-approach-to-feed-AI-boom
129
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Exploring How Cache Memory Works
https://pikuma.com/blog/understanding-computer-cache
127
14
Simple ways to find exposed sensitive information
https://www.trickster.dev/post/simple-ways-to-find-exposed-sensitive-information/
125
223
A Rant about Front-end Development
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a-rant-about-front-end-development/
119
22
Bomb Jack display hardware
https://github.com/martinpiper/BombJack/blob/master/README.md
115
13
Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge
https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/twitter-and-the-spread-of-academic
113
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Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, parts monopoly
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/tesla-class-action-lawsuite-parts-repairs-monopoly
What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?
https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/
105
42
Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible
https://biggieblog.com/solving-puzzles-faster-than-humanly-possible/
41
Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio
https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio
181
Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/apple-won-t-roll-out-ai-tech-in-eu-market-over-regulatory-concerns
85
59
SVG: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2021)
https://www.eisfunke.com/posts/2021/svg-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html
11
Show HN: Online OPML editor to manage subscription lists
https://github.com/imdj/opml-editor
84
23
Google Search is indexing has halted
https://twitter.com/rustybrick/status/1803925912720642536
83
26
Climate Zones
https://pudding.cool/2024/06/climate-zones/
28
Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/lifelong-learning-stanford-gse-student-collects-her-master-s-degree-after-80-years-education
18
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
https://lichess.org/@/jk_182/blog/using-stockfish-to-identify-ideal-squares/x3U2g3NP
82
46
Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history
https://snackstack.net/2024/05/25/uh-oh-a-story-of-spaghettios-and-forgotten-history/
78
More evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/we-now-have-even-more-evidence-against-the-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island/
50
Documentation Driven Development (2022)
https://unicorn-utterances.com/posts/documentation-driven-development
1
Amazon retaliated after employee walkout over the return-to-office policyholders
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183203/amazon-nlrb-alleged-retaliation-return-to-work
15
Babylon's Mystery Goddess
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/babylons-mystery-goddess
71
US Bans Kaspersky Software
https://www.wired.com/story/us-bans-kaspersky-software/
FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in Food Packaging
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-industry-actions-end-sales-pfas-used-us-food-packaging
68
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NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16
https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system
67
9
Advanced text features and PDF
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2024/06/advanced-text-features-and-pdf.html
66
Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features
https://igorstechnoclub.com/upgrading-to-java-17-a-comprehensive-guide-to-new-features/
64
34
Ontario Science Centre to close immediately due to risk of roof collapse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-science-centre-closing-roof-1.7242810
19
Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022)
https://gist.github.com/owulveryck/4ac8c96c16f5a48de24f8a0e949ad9a5
54
Daylight Computer tablet review
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1804217931557171612
62
2
The Pre-Scheme Restoration project is now underway
https://prescheme.org/posts/announcing-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html
61
7
GitHub – Karpathy/LLM101n: LLM101n: Let's Build a Storyteller
https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n
Do not confuse a random variable with its distribution
https://bookdown.org/kevin_davisross/probsim-book/distribution.html
58
Show HN: A collection of front end Learning Resources
https://github.com/requestly/awesome-frontend-resources
57
29
Run the strongest open-source LLM model: Llama3 70B with just a single 4GB GPU
https://ai.gopubby.com/run-the-strongest-open-source-llm-model-llama3-70b-with-just-a-single-4gb-gpu-7e0ea2ad8ba2
Walking to combat back pain
https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/june-2024/walking-away-from-pain-world-first-study-shows-dramatic-improvement-in-lower-back-trouble
21
Nickel Modules
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-06-20-nickel-modules/
56
Seven Conversation Hacks
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/seven-conversation-hacks/
55
Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/adult-sites-blocking-more-states-this-summer-to-protest-age-verification-laws/
Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24182970/starlink-mini-usb-power-specs-price
Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746826
53
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Reference Counting with Linear Types
https://github.com/alt-romes/reference-counting
500k Books Have Been Deleted from the Internet Archive's Lending Library
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/
51
Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce994dv9q4eo
Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)