764
86
Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/
2 years ago
450
214
Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc
448
339
25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-website-show-clips-library/
432
266
ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/
425
225
200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-health-care-fraud-garland-24948b951896d0f265c29ba3fcacf858
403
79
A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
https://www.valve.computer/
365
659
Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-bankruptcy/
347
282
The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player
341
88
Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf
328
172
Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/gemma-2-report.pdf
325
41
Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal
https://imbue.com/research/70b-infrastructure/
301
204
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-claude-35-sonnet
278
111
Entrust Certificate Distrust
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/06/sustaining-digital-certificate-security.html
257
228
CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
https://openai.com/index/finding-gpt4s-mistakes-with-gpt-4/
254
43
Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/06/26/a-new-package-for-making-charts-in-emacs-eplot/
110
Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/979671/4fb7c1827536d1ae/
247
147
A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/
245
95
Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810986
237
196
6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/6-months-ago,-i-left-the-bullshit-industrial-complex
219
58
Making the Kinopio source code public
https://pketh.org/open-sourcing-kinopio.html
216
168
Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/06/review-moaan-inkpalm-plus-is-weird-cheap-small-and-my-kind-of-e-reader/
142
DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
188
158
Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-lawyers-held-secret-meeting-with-judge-to-stop-disclosure/5119593.article
176
85
FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/fcc-rule-would-make-carriers-unlock-all-phones-after-60-days/
175
128
Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715702/maker-of-rstudio-launches-new-r-and-python-ide.html
166
182
Misconceptions about loops in C
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652588.3663324
163
66
Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning
https://coryrylan.com/blog/flow-charts-with-css-anchor-positioning
155
The greatest social media site is Craigslist
https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/craigslist-craig-newmark-best-social-media-site-facebook-tiktok-instagram.html
1
Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-rcna139066
139
7
How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation
https://mlops.systems/posts/2024-06-25-evaluation-finetuning-manual-dataset.html
130
Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup
https://www.space.com/iss-astronauts-shelter-return-spacecraft-satellite-breakup
120
37
The Life Of Lithium
https://www.noemamag.com/the-secret-magical-life-of-lithium/
119
Identity Verification Used by X, TikTok, and Uber Exposed Driver's Licenses
https://gizmodo.com/identity-verification-firm-used-by-x-tiktok-and-uber-1851562934
112
How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux)
https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=336
109
129
Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs
https://backprop.co/environments/open-sora
108
Not everything is behavioral science
https://behavioralscientist.org/is-everything-bs/
107
36
AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/
47
TeamViewer Security Breach
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/trust-center/statement/
53
A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/developer-productivity-thoughts
91
31
Princeton engineers create new oyster-inspired cement 17X more crack-resistant
https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2024/06/11/seashells-cement-nature-inspires-tougher-building-material
310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
https://newatlas.com/transport/cargo-conveyor-auto-logistics/
72
US sanctions Boeing for sharing information about 737 MAX 9 investigation
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-ntsb-alaska-airlines-737-max-89e5655184516b4c54a9378414fe4cea
77
76
Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities
https://slimsag.com/2024/slack-to-destroy-history-of-free-communities/
32
Show HN: Gosax – A high-performance SAX XML parser for Go
https://github.com/orisano/gosax
3
Redis Alternative at Apache Software Foundation Now Supports RediSearch and SQL
https://kvrocks.apache.org/blog/kqir-query-engine/
74
Debugging hardware is hard
https://blog.supermechanical.com/2024/06/27/debugging-hardware-is-hard/
70
The End of an Era: MTV News Shuts Down… Or why archives are important
https://crazyonclassicrock.com/2024/06/26/the-end-of-an-era-mtv-news-shuts-down-or-why-archives-are-important/
65
25
Fuggerei: the world’s first public housing (2022)
https://www.karlsnotes.com/fuggerei-the-worlds-first-public-housing/
64
4
Bing censors mentions of Xi Jinping more than Chinese competitors
https://restofworld.org/2024/microsoft-bing-chinese-censorship/
60
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w
24
110 new languages are coming to Google Translate
https://blog.google/products/translate/google-translate-new-languages-2024/