360
107
Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim
https://github.com/khaledh/fusion
2 years ago
354
217
How to Know When It's Time to Go
https://thecodist.com/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-go/
307
147
Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07909
284
69
Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
https://buzzinga.io/
267
The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
260
80
Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
https://thasso.xyz/2024/07/13/setting-up-an-x86-cpu.html
244
51
Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)
https://www.telesens.co/2017/07/17/calculating-position-from-raw-gps-data/
239
82
Building and scaling Notion's data lake
https://www.notion.so/de-de/blog/building-and-scaling-notions-data-lake
237
181
After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24198015/apple-utm-se-pc-os-emulator-for-ios
226
300
Just Be Rich (2021)
https://keenen.xyz/just-be-rich/
218
163
No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
https://fourthamendment.com/?p=58338
209
103
Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
https://pr.pico.sh/
167
189
Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study
https://www.infoq.com/articles/java-virtual-threads-a-case-study/
164
41
Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka
https://github.com/sauljabin/kaskade
154
23
Nvidia Warp: Python framework for high-performance simulation and graphics code
https://nvidia.github.io/warp/
151
49
Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/a-simple-firmware-update-completely-hides-a-devices-bluetooth-fingerprint
391
The only tourist in Moldova
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/moldova-europe-least-visited-country/
149
59
Building the Bell System
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-the-bell-system
140
109
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech
https://listenly.io/gutenberg
138
63
Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
https://longform.asmartbear.com/annual-prepay/
126
Soviet Calculator History (1998)
https://xnumber.com/xnumber/russian_calcs.htm
123
57
Disqualified (1954)
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30251/pg30251-images.html
115
25
On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)
http://larch-www.lcs.mit.edu:8001/~corbato/turing91/
111
California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries
https://thinc.blog/2024/07/14/california-grid-breezes-through-heat-wave-due-to-renewables-batteries/
How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)
https://chelseatroy.com/2018/04/05/how-do-we-make-remote-meetings-not-suck/
100
Does generative AI facilitate investor trading? Evidence from ChatGPT outages
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4872189
ULID: Like UUID but Sortable (2019)
https://github.com/ulid/spec
99
92
Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted
97
Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2508859.2516734
96
14
Giving Life to Æthelstan
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/giving-life-aethelstan
94
84
Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963612
19
Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card (1981) [pdf]
https://ballyalley.com/ml/z80_docs/Z80%20CPU%20Instant%20Reference%20Card%20(Color).pdf
90
55
A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It in Zambia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/climate/kobold-zambia-copper-ai-mining.html
87
Solving Path of Exile Item Crafting with Reinforcement Learning
https://dennybritz.com/posts/poe-crafting/
86
HIV breakthrough: Trial shows drug provides 100% protection
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240708145001437
16
OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-whistleblowers-ask-sec-investigate-restrictive-non-disclosure-agreements-2024-07-13/
68
12
Grind – An epic first person shooter for Amiga 500 gets another playable tease
https://www.indieretronews.com/2024/07/grind-epic-first-person-shooter-for.html
66
Go range iterators demystified
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-07-12-golang-range-iters-demystified/
36
What the decentralized nature of Anonymous tells us about its power
https://lithub.com/what-the-decentralized-nature-of-anonymous-tells-us-about-its-power/
22
Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959359
65
15
Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs (2022)
https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-is-easier-with-update-refs/
64
6
New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
https://type.cyhsu.xyz/2024/07/neges/
A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started (2020)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20201110-00/?p=104434
62
Show HN: Procedural Art –– 'Pulse'
https://soham-saha.github.io/ProceduralArt/Pulse/Pulse.html
9
CURLoRA: Stable LLM Fine-Tuning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation
https://zenodo.org/records/12740116
44
Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on human sleep?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962582
54
Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961842
71
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022)
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
2
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/07/pretty-pictures-bootable-floppy-disks.html
50
Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's Core i9 chips
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/warframe-devs-report-80-percent-of-game-crashes-happen-on-intel-overclockable-core-i9-chips
5
The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors (2006)
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-peculiar-phenomenon-of-megacryometeors/
27
Malloc() and free() are a bad API (2022)
https://www.foonathan.net/2022/08/malloc-interface/#content
17
Photo appears to capture path of bullet used in assassination attempt
https://archive.is/2024.07.14-064613/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/photo-path-trump-assassination.html
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370k to Delete Stolen Phone Records
https://www.wired.com/story/atandt-paid-hacker-300000-to-delete-stolen-call-records/
