2360
887
Open source AI is the path forward
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/
2 years ago
562
307
Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/the_hole_scroll/video-biscuit-basin-geyser-explodes-sending-yellowstone-tourists-packing/article_6862fda2-4923-11ef-b5c4-abdc9bc8cd83.html
476
842
Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a
437
269
Llama 3.1
https://llama.meta.com/
415
143
Intent to end OCSP service
https://letsencrypt.org/2024/07/23/replacing-ocsp-with-crls.html
527
Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042123
293
100
Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/google-calendar/
287
259
You can opt out of airport face scans
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/360952/summer-travel-airport-facial-recognition-scan
270
41
The Unix Pipe Card Game
https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
265
74
Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs
https://briefer.cloud/launches/notebooks/
262
78
Button Stealer
https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer
249
486
How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/motor-doping-cycling
246
99
Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini
https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox
245
Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/google-wiz-deal-dead.html
229
38
Show HN: I built a tool to expand your network (that introverts will love)
https://www.moreoverlap.com/
221
22
From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only
https://cloudbsd.xyz/
217
131
A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017)
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#correcting-capacity-to-actual-size-with-f3fix
210
89
Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-350-year-old-paper-cuttings-from-a-london-girls-school-go-on-display-180984712/
206
165
Warsaw came close to never being rebuilt (2015)
https://culture.pl/en/article/how-warsaw-came-close-to-never-being-rebuilt
199
128
Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
https://lars-christian.com/re-do-people-irl-know-you-have-a-blog/
168
39
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/
159
194
Types as Interfaces
https://two-wrongs.com/types-as-interfaces
158
Chinese-born chemist cleared of last conviction under US’s espionage probe
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chinese-born-chemist-cleared-of-last-conviction-under-uss-espionage-probe/4019849.article
156
Dtui – TUI for introspecting the state of the system/session dbus
https://github.com/Troels51/dtui
155
Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/cure-male-pattern-baldness-given-boost-sugar-discovery
135
The Linux audio stack demystified (and more)
https://blog.rtrace.io/posts/the-linux-audio-stack-demystified/
154
31
Counting bytes faster than you'd think possible
https://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/07/21/fastest-memory-read.html
146
56
Show HN: Convert HTML DOM to semantic markdown for use in LLMs
https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown
144
67
Show HN: Lisp in C#
https://github.com/codr7/sharpl
138
114
Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
https://divisbyzero.com/2010/05/27/turings-topological-proof-that-every-written-alphabet-is-finite/
137
136
Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
https://tedium.co/2024/07/23/linkedin-complex-linking-schemes/
125
77
Google Drive scans files for copyright infringement
https://twitter.com/1littlecoder/status/1815830211612586255
119
ESA report shows unsustainable levels of orbital debris
https://payloadspace.com/esa-report-shows-unsustainable-levels-of-orbital-debris/
113
19
Trunk: Build, bundle and ship your Rust WASM application to the web
https://trunkrs.dev/
104
215
America’s Transit Exceptionalism
https://benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/americas-transit-exceptionalism
35
Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2024-07-23-rediscovering-transaction-processing-from-history-and-first-principles
94
17
SQLite-jiff: SQLite extension for timezones and complex durations
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-jiff
13
Median filtering (2022)
https://www.crisluengo.net/archives/1138/
93
23
Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/sutton-house-and-breakers-yard/lost-by-schoolgirls-a-display-of-17th-century-papercuts
91
A (not so) small library for terminal based game development
https://github.com/pygamelib/pygamelib
79
Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]
https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q2-2024-Update.pdf
U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/u-s-maternal-death-rate-increasing-at-an-alarming-rate/
47
Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pretty-markup
20
Congress Wants to Let Private Companies Own the Law
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/23/congress-wants-to-let-private-companies-own-the-law/
75
Alphabet to invest another $5B into Waymo
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/alphabet-to-invest-another-5b-into-waymo/
71
Show HN: SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications
https://github.com/swimos/swim-rust
70
25
Engage, don't show
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/engage-dont-show/
44
Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games
https://asvarga.github.io/blog/2024/06/22/fair-chess-and-simultaneous-games.html
69
58
Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Results
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/alphabet-set-to-report-q2-earnings-results-after-the-bell.html
66
Intel vPro CPUs have a web server open
https://mastodon.lilysthings.org/@i_lost_my_bagel/112228352384742242
64
29
Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone
https://tillcarlos.com/install-docmost/
Enhancing Your Elixir Codebase with Gleam
https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/07/23/enhancing-your-elixir-codebase-with-gleam.html
63
3
Wiz Rejects Alphabet's $23B Offer, Seeks IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-23/cyber-firm-wiz-rejects-alphabet-s-23-billion-offer-seeks-ipo