525
132
Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
https://phoboslab.org/log/2024/08/high_impact
2 years ago
471
73
Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming
https://shi-yan.github.io/webgpuunleashed/
462
180
How I Use "AI"
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html
421
139
Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e0c
355
76
WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System
https://github.com/lvkv/whenfs
289
121
Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
282
444
Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
https://viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are-running-out-of-flight-numbers-and-they-dont-know-what-to-do-about-it/
233
57
Self-Compressing Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13142
232
202
Making your own hot sauce
https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/08/04/making-your-own-hot-sauce/
215
Praise My GitHub Profile
https://praise-me.fly.dev/
79
Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work
https://github.com/hackclub/RAM-a-thon
201
35
Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md
191
31
Jerk
https://ivanish.ca/jerk/
186
211
Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood
https://www.croatiaweek.com/tomatoes-croatian-island-taste/
183
51
Cortex A73's Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/04/cortex-a73s-not-so-infinite-reordering-capacity/
181
91
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2024/08/02/puget-systems-perspective-on-intel-cpu-instability-issues/
301
Belenios: Verifiable online voting system
https://www.belenios.org/
179
124
A primer on the current state of longevity research
https://www.owlposting.com/p/some-questions-and-answers-i-had
178
90
The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/04/us-spies-soviet-technology-00164126
169
The introverts are winning
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6306/the-introverts-are-winning
162
177
Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
https://www.techspot.com/news/102871-zero-regrets-firefox-power-user-kept-7500-tabs.html
160
34
Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/08/03/polylog/
154
Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
https://github.com/dessant/buster
149
USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040
https://github.com/ataradov/usb-sniffer-lite
98
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/3/24212518/nvidia-ai-chip-delay-blackwell-b200-microsoft-amazon-google-openai-meta-artificial-intelligence
137
97
Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket
https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html
4
Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor
129
Dispatches from the farm upstate
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-farm-upstate
119
38
Qub – a framework for building websites with QBasic
https://github.com/jamonholmgren/qub
118
LLM as Database Administrator (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01454
111
67
Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)
https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2018/01/10/apprentice-journeyman-and-master-the-medieval-guild/
110
24
You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code
https://rabbitictranslator.com/contribute-to-kde-without-cpp/
103
117
Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23
https://www.cppstories.com/2024/enum-improvements/
99
2
Writing a system call tracer using eBPF
https://sh4dy.com/2024/08/03/beetracer/
95
Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time
https://fortune.com/2024/08/02/tech-ceos-return-to-office-mandate/
83
53
ICPP – Run C++ anywhere like a script
https://github.com/vpand/icpp
7
I Wasn't the First Person to Find the NJ Coca-Cola Cocaine Factory (2016)
https://rmcortes.medium.com/i-wasnt-the-first-to-find-the-nj-cocaine-factory-5f37aed74776
15
The Internet Is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a GNU Network [pdf] (2014)
https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/65.pdf
78
9
HamClock – a real time space weather dashboard
https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/
71
45
World of Goo 2: now available
https://worldofgoo2.com/
96
Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/berkshires-cash-hits-277-bln-buffett-slashes-apple-stake-operating-profit-sets-2024-08-03/
6
Nvidia's Blackwell Reworked – Shipment Delays and GB200A Reworked Platforms
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/nvidias-blackwell-reworked-shipment
65
Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides – and farm workers – obsolete?
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-22/are-robots-the-answer-to-harmful-agricultural-herbicides
12
DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard
https://liliputing.com/diy-raspberry-pi-1000-turns-a-raspberry-pi-5-into-a-pc-in-a-keyboard/
64
21
Romram: Using QSPI RAM with RP2040's SSI in read-write mode
http://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=10.%20RomRam
63
47
Show HN: Candix, a confidential, reverse recruiting platform
https://candix.com