1347
440
I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
https://dropofahat.zone/
a year ago
930
508
The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
http://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nfc.html
608
154
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
524
53
Liquid Layers
https://grantkot.com/ll/
442
353
Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-06-17-ruby-shellscript/
411
165
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
371
247
I've stopped using box plots (2021)
https://nightingaledvs.com/ive-stopped-using-box-plots-should-you/
308
130
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
https://www.linqpad.net/
254
179
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0
224
209
Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC
https://quic.video/blog/never-use-datagrams/
223
40
Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv58aPvIonw
193
234
Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data
https://theconversation.com/traffic-engineers-build-roads-that-invite-crashes-because-they-rely-on-outdated-research-and-faulty-data-223710
191
74
B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees
http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/06/b-trees-require-fewer-comparisons-than.html
190
352
The economics of the Birkin handbag
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-031c215c
180
50
Remembering the LAN (2020)
https://tailscale.com/blog/remembering-the-lan
174
81
Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)
https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt
172
18
Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06707
171
Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
https://restofworld.org/2024/lab-grown-meat-singapore/
60
Of Psion and Symbian
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian
170
205
Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls-and-what-to-do-instead
136
Traffic noise hurts children's brains
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240621-how-traffic-noise-pollution-harms-childrens-health-and-development
169
71
A railroad simulation using discrete event simulation
https://picolisp-explored.com/a-railroad-simulation-with-des
58
The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-first-animal-ever-found-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive
164
141
US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/22/us-forest-service-old-growth-tree-protections-proposal/
163
113
Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022)
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2822%2900459-4
162
Three ways to think about Go channels
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-06-21-channel-three-ways/
158
206
Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
https://grski.pl/vdb
157
46
Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography
https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/677
150
133
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability
https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/06/21/chatgpt-ai-bias-ableism-disability-resume-cv/
99
TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop
https://github.com/i365dev/LetterDrop
134
Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves
https://www.propublica.org/article/political-nonprofits-fundraising-ftc-irs-527s-pacs
129
35
Y combinator codex (2021)
https://phoe.github.io/codex.html
127
Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/22/24171581/netflix-bet-advanced-encoding-anne-aaron
114
The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/02/explained-the-secret-city-of-london-which-is-not-part-of-london/
124
34
I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg
https://trace.yshui.dev/2024-06-xorg-bug.html
119
26
Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org Mode (GNU Emacs)
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q2/296
49
visionOS thermally throttles based on how much it hears the fans in the mics
https://twitter.com/ShinyQuagsire/status/1804688365905756564
77
Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet
https://mudkip.me/2024/04/14/A-Brief-Review-of-the-Minisforum-V3-AMD-Tablet/
94
OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software
https://www.open-emr.org/
112
Nano DIP: the smallest complete Arduino board 33 x 10mm
https://avdweb.nl/arduino/attiny3217/nano-dip
106
38
My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey
https://blog.znote.io/2024/side-hustle-journey/
105
Elixir Gotchas
https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/10-elixir-gotchas/
104
10
SquirrelFS: Using the Rust compiler to check file-system crash consistency
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09649
100
31
Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/22/does-a-cave-beneath-pembroke-castle-hold-key-to-fate-of-early-britons
98
32
First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022)
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then
57
How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects
https://www.viksnewsletter.com/p/how-automotive-radar-measures-velocity
91
The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2024/06/21/the-manager-s-unbearable-lack-of-endorphins
88
43
Interface Upgrades in Go (2014)
http://avtok.com/2014/11/05/interface-upgrades.html
86
Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769953
85
62
Coffee: Never Surprise Your Customers
https://caseysoftware.com/blog/coffee-never-surprise-your-customers
82
61
A website where you write a message to the next visitor
https://www.dearnextvisitor.com/
78
103
How to do the jhanas
https://nadia.xyz/jhanas