1441
445
Why is Chile so long?
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-chile-so-long
2 years ago
1077
744
Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5812560/ladybird-web-browser-becomes-a-non-profit-with-1-million-from-github-founder
589
80
Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs
https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf
570
2
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
https://ladybird.org/index.html
550
137
With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702/
477
136
Meta 3D Gen
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/meta-3d-gen/
463
184
Booting Linux off of Google Drive
https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
358
114
Why Bridges Don't Sink
https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/7/2/why-bridges-dont-sink
340
107
Should this be a map or 500 maps?
https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/should-this-be-a-map-or-500-maps
304
278
Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-aboriginal-ritual-years-cave.html
299
138
Engine Sound Simulator
https://markeasting.github.io/engine/
292
81
Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2024/jun/17/bruce-bastian-byu-alum-turned-tech-pioneer-and-equality-advocate-dies-at-76/
282
49
GraphRAG is now on GitHub
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-new-tool-for-complex-data-discovery-now-on-github/
269
74
Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks
https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/blob/main/README.md
249
199
Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
https://makojs.dev/blog/mako-open-sourced
216
67
Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/02/ants-emergency-amputations-injured-nest-mates-study
215
52
Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works
https://github.com/explorerhq/django-sql-explorer
211
83
Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
https://hackernews.demo.vectara.com/
196
244
Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/cxxx568grlwo
257
All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
https://qntm.org/leap
188
47
Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop
https://sdomi.pl/weblog/20-pwning-a-labelmaker/
180
39
GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00127
177
104
How random are TOTP codes?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/07/how-random-are-totp-codes/
171
69
The Sphere
https://mssv.net/2024/07/02/the-sphere/
169
94
The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/Five-things-to-know-about-diamond-sutra-worlds-oldest-dated-printed-book-180959052/
162
24
8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler
https://github.com/rhysd/8cc.vim
11
The Illustrated Transformer (2018)
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
153
122
Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/googles-carbon-emissions-surge-nearly-50percent-due-to-ai-energy-demand.html
146
22
Trying Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Practice
https://cprimozic.net/blog/trying-out-kans/
139
48
Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-tech-meta-privacy-data-93e00b2e0e26f7cc98795dd052aea8e1
133
Apple poised to get OpenAI board observer role as part of AI pact
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/apple-to-get-openai-board-observer-role-as-part-of-ai-agreement
129
16
An epigenetic editor to silence genes
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334
125
78
Exploring biphasic programming: a new approach in language design
https://rybicki.io/blog/2024/06/30/biphasic-programming.html
123
23
The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania
https://hallofdreams.org/posts/trackmania-1/
121
158
What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)
https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html
Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonar-is-destroying-my-job-and-its-driving-me-to-despair/92438
120
62
The history of Alt+number sequences
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240702-00/?p=109951
116
75
Cutting Board Designer
https://www.cuttingboarddesigner.com/designer/id/7bf4dff3-9b10-8c86-9e4c-bc2722f7487f
Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)
https://www.locksmithledger.com/keys-tools/article/10229247/unlocking-a-gary-tl-15-round-door-safe
113
102
Figma disables AI app design tool after it copied Apple's weather app
https://www.404media.co/figma-disables-ai-app-design-tool-after-it-copied-apples-weather-app/
The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/10x-work-versus-1x-work
112
Python Modern Practices
https://www.stuartellis.name/articles/python-modern-practices/
108
35
Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture
https://github.com/mikaku/Fiwix
103
64
The asymmetry of nudges
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-asymmetry-of-nudges
100
91
What makes e natural? (2004)
https://www.komal.hu/cikkek/2004-ang/e.e.shtml
0
Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reefs
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14313
97
60
Htmx does not play well with content security policy
https://www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl/2024/06/26/htmx-content-security-policy/
95
40
A British clergyman who predicted black holes in 1783
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240626-the-priest-who-predicted-black-holes-in-1783
90
Nuclear spectroscopy breakthrough could rewrite fundamental constants of nature
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/nuclear-spectroscopy-breakthrough-could-rewrite-fundamental-constants-of-nature
88
13
Show HN: I Made an Open Source Platform for Structuring Any Unstructured Data
https://github.com/adithya-s-k/omniparse
17
Alzheimer's scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/alzheimers-scientist-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-data-in-16m-scheme/
84
92
Creatine improves physical function and body composition in older adults
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38417175/
105
Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00680
77
4
DIY RFID Business Card and Badge Holder with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Tools
https://mcuoneclipse.com/2024/06/30/customizable-diy-rfid-business-card-and-badge-holder-with-victorinox-swiss-army-knife-tools/
73
Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine
https://daoudclarke.net/search%20engines/2024/07/02/google-rejected-me
72
38
Babies babble with acquired accents
https://www.rawstory.com/the-science-of-baby-babbling-and-why-it-can-take-on-accents/
71
14
GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome
https://frguthmann.github.io/posts/profiling_webgpu/
66
Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/does-gas-rich-australia-really-need-to-start-importing-it-20240702-p5jqi4.html
70
10
Solving a math problem with planner programming
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/solving-a-math-problem-with-planner-programming/
3
BusyBeaver(5) is now known to be 47,176,870
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
18
US to pay Moderna $176M to develop pandemic flu vaccine
https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-moderna-vaccine-mrna-pandemic-7f15d8d274a24d89fa86e2f57e13cbff
51
Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?
https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit.html