436
332
PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key
https://maciejwalkowiak.com/blog/postgres-uuid-primary-key/
2 years ago
415
79
Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
https://eieio.games/game-diary/game-6-get-the-dvd-logo-into-the-corner/
410
421
Let's stop counting centuries
https://dynomight.net/centuries/
406
201
Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
https://ente.io/auth/
325
226
I have no constructor, and I must initialize
https://consteval.ca/2024/07/03/initialization/
324
171
Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/starcraft-a-history-in-two-acts/
273
129
Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool
https://withtelescope.com
262
118
Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md
199
67
Space Age release date
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-418
192
106
How I turned seemingly 'failed' experiments into a successful PhD
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-i-turned-seemingly-failed-experiments-into-a-successful-phd
185
195
The Software Crisis
https://wryl.tech/log/2024/the-software-crisis.html
183
130
I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs
https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1809135345683841050
177
111
Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
https://blog.brixit.nl/moving-to-a-rtos-on-the-rp2040/
174
108
YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/05/youtubes-updated-eraser-tool-removes-copyrighted-music-without-impacting-other-audio/
152
43
Detect Migrating Birds with a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone
https://spectrum.ieee.org/detect-migrating-birds-with-sound
144
94
Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863246
143
19
DuckDB Community Extensions
https://duckdb.org/2024/07/05/community-extensions.html
128
Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you/
126
74
VPN ban is strangling communication in Myanmar
https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/war-on-citizens-how-juntas-vpn-ban-is-strangling-communication-in-myanmar.html
170
Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/07/research-into-homeopathy-data-falsification-fabrication-and-manipulation/
117
58
Mimicking the cells that carry hemoglobin as a blood substitute
https://www.science.org/content/article/ultimate-blood-substitute-us-military-betting-46-million
115
109
“Technical” Skills
https://sashalaundy.com/writing/technical-skills/
114
Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/xona2024.htm
105
7-Eleven is reinventing its food business to be more Japanese [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATHbP1bAhI
104
Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
https://newatlas.com/technology/water-harvester-arid-air-mit/
103
17
Programming in Unison
https://lwn.net/Articles/978955/
100
107
Volcanoes can affect climate
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate
93
47
Goldman on Generative AI: doesn't justify costs or solve complex problems [pdf]
https://web.archive.org/web/20240629140307/http://goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf
91
10
Tiny robots with a big impact: microrobots for single-cell handling
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/tiny-robots-with-a-big-impact-scientists-develop-microrobots-for-single-cell-handling/
89
31
Trackmania Nightmares
https://hallofdreams.org/posts/trackmania-2/
87
39
The magic of small engineering teams
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/the-magic-of-small-engineering-teams
38
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1111-incident-on-june-27-2024
82
70
General Electric HTRE-3 Nuclear Jet Engine
https://planehistoria.com/general-electric-htre-3-nuclear-jet-engine/
Debian GNU/Hurd now can compile 71% of the packages from the Debian archive
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2024-q2.html
80
110
ChatGPT just (accidentally) shared all of its secret rules
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-just-accidentally-shared-all-of-its-secret-rules-heres-what-we-learned
33
Philip Morris International has funded Japanese academics
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/philip-morris-international-has-secretly-funded-japanese-academics/
3
Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/better-than-a-pound-of-sorrow/
73
65
Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/04/roku-update-turns-on-hated-motion-smoothing-feature-with-no-off-switch.html
68
81
How I swapped my ivory tower for the world of science fiction
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02211-0
Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/02/welsh-government-commits-to-making-lying-in-politics
64
2
Refined Input, Degraded Output: The Counterintuitive World of Compiler Behavior
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3656404
63
7
UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties
https://blog.cloudflare.com/uk-election-day-2024-traffic-trends-and-attacks-on-political-parties
62
4
Fresh wind blows from historical supernova
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00361.html
48
Adderall Shortage Caused by DEA Quotas on Controlled Substances
https://www.additudemag.com/adderall-shortage-dea-stimulants-adhd-medication/
57
The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/07/04/the-eu-should-be-the-worlds-heat-pump-pioneer
Five common English words we don't know the origins of–including 'boy' and 'dog'
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-common-english-words-dont-boy.html
56
Gardeners can grow a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/06/1228868005/purple-tomato-gmo-gardeners
21
The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer
https://blog.bruchez.name/posts/ibm-mt-sc-1/
55
Deactivating an API, one step at a time
https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/deactivating-an-api-one-step-at-a
54
Why Michigan Still Uses a Ford Model T for Official Government Business
https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-michigan-still-uses-a-ford-model-t-for-official-government-business/
Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flags of the world
https://flagmatch.com/
53
Sony Is Killing the Blu-ray, but Physical Media Isn't Dead Yet
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2024/07/sony-is-killing-the-blu-ray-but-physical-media-isnt-dead-yet/
52
37
Samsung launches 61.44TB SSD, talks about a 122.88TB model
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/samsung-quietly-launches-6144tb-ssd-talks-about-12288tb-model
A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/louisiana-sea-wall-gas-facility-flooding/
51
Vertical-Align: All You Need to Know (CSS) (2014)
https://christopheraue.net/design/vertical-align
11
Russia behind fake news bot campaign to empower French far right
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russia-fake-news-bot-campaign-french-far-right-3149163
Desalinating Water Is Becoming "Absurdly Cheap"
https://humanprogress.org/desalinating-water-is-becoming-absurdly-cheap/