1435
514
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
https://naya.lol
2 years ago
435
105
Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features
https://github.com/quackduck/devzat
427
276
Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994552
418
162
Mistral NeMo
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-nemo/
405
206
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/usps-shared-customer-postal-addresses-with-meta-linkedin-and-snap/
335
259
What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to-recreate-bell
296
146
Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/want-spot-deepfake-look-stars-their-eyes
288
119
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992654
284
The Objects of Our Life (1983)
https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/objects-of-our-life
254
45
Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes
https://research.swtch.com/bisect
222
78
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/
203
142
Polychromatic Pixels
https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/119170/Polychromatic_pixels
190
71
Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
https://hallofshame.design/collection/
186
91
Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems
https://www.redthreatsec.com/blog/greenlightspart1
185
Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000844
182
114
Premature Abstraction
https://arendjr.nl/blog/2024/07/post-architecture-premature-abstraction-is-the-root-of-all-evil/
169
32
60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20240718-seventh-person-likely-cured-of-hiv-doctors-announce
168
106
Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
https://www.kb6nu.com/back-to-the-future-are-hackers-the-future-of-amateur-radio/
165
60
Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text
https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro
55
Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map'
https://twitter.com/mutableai/status/1813815706783490055
155
21
Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Double_trouble_Gaia_hit_by_micrometeoroid_and_solar_storm
151
93
Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-18/sparrows-lead-poisoning-children-blood-levels-health-mining/104075894
145
49
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
137
108
Elephants use namelike calls
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/animal-naming-elephant-consciousness-language/679075/
123
216
Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
https://lithub.com/americans-confidence-in-higher-education-has-taken-a-nosedive/
Overcoming the limits of current LLMs
https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/overcoming-llm-limits
100
Azure DevOps is down globally
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000822
92
He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/nx-s1-4985981/oculus-ai-weapons-ukraine-palmer-luckey
88
89
Who Killed the World?
https://pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/
110
Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation
https://happiness-science.org/money-happiness-satiation/
86
41
The Erie Canal: The man-made waterway that transformed the US
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240715-the-erie-canal-the-manmade-waterway-that-transformed-the-us
84
81
OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-mini/
83
8
A Journey into Rebel-Held Myanmar
https://www.noemamag.com/a-journey-into-rebel-held-myanmar/
79
51
How far should a programming language aware diff go?
https://semanticdiff.com/blog/language-aware-diff-how-far/
65
Forewarn gives realtors access to buyers' histories with a phone number
https://therecord.media/forewarn-app-real-estate-homebuyer-data
77
1
SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/microsoft_research_llms_grok_spreadsheets/
75
42
What Materials Are Magnetic?
https://sciencenotes.org/list-of-magnetic-metals/
68
20
OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom
https://scottsexton.co/post/opencv_wild_kingdom/
67
63
GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose
https://www.thedrive.com/news/culture/gmc-made-a-motorhome-that-pumped-sewage-through-its-exhaust-on-purpose
Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands
https://github.com/randombk/llm2sh
95
SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSHOurUniversalAccessProtocol
66
82
Evolving the ASF Brand
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/evolving-the-asf-brand
64
Proton Mail Adds an Open-Source AI Writing Assistant to Take on Gmail
https://news.itsfoss.com/proton-mail-ai-assistant/
62
25
ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/
Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All
https://www.sciencealert.com/self-awareness-might-not-have-evolved-to-benefit-the-self-after-all
59
22
FCC closes "final loopholes" that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/fcc-closes-final-loopholes-that-keep-prison-phone-prices-exorbitantly-high/
58
Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/modern-luddites-on-being-a-digital
57
14
What to do if you don't want a default constructor?
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2024/07/17/what-should-be-a-default-value
NASA Spent $450M on a Moon Rover. Now It's Canceling the Mission
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/science/nasa-viper-moon-rover-canceled.html
54
Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why
https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/history-of-the-gros-michel-banana