753
275
All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere
4 months ago
525
323
I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
https://jdstillwater.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-put-toaster-in-dishwasher.html
514
1170
Google Pixel 9 Pro
https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro?hl=en-US
469
92
Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/13/marion-county-police-newspaper-raid-charges
346
185
Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240379
343
305
Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/business/brands-avoid-term-customers/index.html
340
The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-telescope-further-deepens-the-biggest-controversy-in-cosmology-20240813/
311
106
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https://samcurry.net/points-com
298
82
"Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees
https://nautil.us/how-the-night-sky-speaks-to-us-772258/
263
61
Using a list to manage executive function
https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/using-a-list-to-manage-executive
255
37
Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker
https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddpoker
235
133
What you learn by making a new programming language
https://ntietz.com/blog/you-should-make-a-new-terrible-programming-language/
234
116
Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236273
233
47
Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone
https://osintteam.blog/mastering-osint-how-to-find-information-on-anyone-680e4086f17f
108
An open-source flow battery kit
https://dualpower.supply/posts/rfb-kit-workshop/
230
54
AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
https://github.com/libAudioFlux/audioFlux
218
127
DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/12/dune-scientists-observe-first-neutrinos-with-prototype-detector-at-fermilab/
209
49
Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)
https://marabos.nl/atomics/
206
69
The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist
http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2024/08/13/the-new-postgresql-17-make-dist
203
The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist/
182
Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI
https://github.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans
180
97
Go 1.23 Released
https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.23.0
179
68
Tell HN: Google OAuth consent screen issue could be costing you signups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236745
98
Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41235038
177
33
From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer
https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/from-object-transition-to-rce-in-the-chrome-renderer/
175
184
You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/opo.13351
169
103
The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass
165
34
Show HN: Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster
https://github.com/jbunke/stipple-effect
164
173
Gitlab is reportedly up for sale
https://www.developer-tech.com/news/gitlab-is-reportedly-up-for-sale/
163
58
Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers
https://github.com/dplanitzer/Serena
159
96
What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation
https://www.osar.fr/notes/justintonation/
157
86
Total War: Rome II and Creative Assembly – My Statement Ten Years On
https://medium.com/@julianmckinlay/total-war-rome-ii-and-creative-assembly-my-statement-ten-years-on-d964f65b0a8f
139
117
0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
http://radio-weblogs.com/0100490/2003/01/28.html
US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson
135
Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/30513/why-did-borland-ignore-the-macintosh-market
26
ARPA-H announces awards to develop novel technologies for precise tumor removal
https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-announces-awards-develop-novel-technologies-precise-tumor-removal
126
72
LLM-based sentiment analysis of Hacker News posts between Jan 2020 and June 2023
https://outerbounds.com/blog/hacker-news-sentiment/
121
32
Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations and Search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41235733
113
27
Emacs: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/contextual-interfaces-in-casual-calc.html
112
30
Reversing the AMD Secure Processor (PSP) – Part 2: Cryptographic Co-Processor
https://dayzerosec.com/blog/2023/04/22/reversing-the-amd-secure-processor-psp-part-2-cryptographic-co-processor-ccp.html
109
67
How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/
107
187
Pixel Watch 3
https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-3/
104
Core Python developer suspended for three months
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer_suspended_coc/
42
Printf Oriented Message Protocol
https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/libpomp
100
29
Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/self-driving-waymo-cars-keep-sf-residents-awake-all-night-by-honking-at-each-other/
64
The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)
https://blog.nishantsoni.com/p/the-myth-of-the-product-market-fit
99
17
Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II
https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/A2FPGA
93
78
VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks
https://www.businessinsider.com/startup-success-secret-vcs-founders-nate-silver-on-the-edge-2024-8
87
NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
https://spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum-cryptography-2668949802
84
94
DOJ may want to break up Google
https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-doj-may-want-to-break-up-google/
83
WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?
https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/wth-is-cerebrolysin-actually
81
118
Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/12/waymo-to-begin-testing-driverless-robotaxis-on-san-francisco-freeways/
80
12
A practitioner's guide to testing and running GPU clusters
https://www.together.ai/blog/a-practitioners-guide-to-testing-and-running-large-gpu-clusters-for-training-generative-ai-models
77
3
With shared software, landlords are teaming up to raise rents
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/realpage-software-housing-landlords/
76
16
Go Algorithms and Data Structures: Best Practices for Beginners
https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Go
75
Faster Docker builds using a remote BuildKit instance
https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/faster-docker-builds-using-a-remote-buildkit-instance
Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons
https://www.allure.com/story/ozempics-effects-on-skin
70
38
Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance
https://worldsensorium.com/albert-the-great-remembering-a-medieval-polymath-who-paved-the-way-for-the-renaissance-and-holistic-thinking/