1436
478
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
https://www.mono-project.com/
2 years ago
639
1267
Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399
612
152
The Monospace Web
https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/
602
122
A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
https://www.freepublicapis.com/
432
278
Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/
366
141
Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
https://box86.org/2024/08/box64-and-risc-v-in-2024/
359
114
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/27/sainsbury-wing-contractors-find-1990-letter-from-donor-anticipating-their-demolition-of-false-columns
332
134
Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php
326
144
Faster CRDTs (2021)
https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
287
197
Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-08-13-crowds-vs-friends/
268
237
Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
https://twitter.com/emergetools/status/1828490449881047401
259
38
ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor
https://chartdb.io/
248
179
The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
https://www.classcentral.com/report/2u-edx-bankruptcy/
245
186
Marketing to Engineers (2001)
https://www.bly.com/Pages/documents/STIKFS.html
347
U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
https://thehub.ca/2024/08/27/hub-exclusive-u-s-ambassador-says-canadians-are-consuming-an-unhealthy-amount-of-american-news/
206
48
New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China's 'Volt Typhoon'
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/new-0-day-attacks-linked-to-chinas-volt-typhoon/
128
"Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/1828197925874463166
174
34
Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-infiltrates-pidgin-messengers-official-plugin-repository/
72
Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed
https://cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed
173
47
Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
https://blog.colinbreck.com/predicting-the-future-of-distributed-systems/
70
Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management
https://taskwarrior.org/
169
180
Just use fucking paper, man
https://andy-bell.co.uk/just-fucking-use-paper-man/
163
149
80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report
https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2024/08/19/ai-apocalypse/
158
94
Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/
153
451
Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
https://newatlas.com/energy/underground-nuclear-reactors/
148
36
Building Bubbletea Programs
https://leg100.github.io/en/posts/building-bubbletea-programs/
147
65
Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel
145
27
Splatt3R: Zero-Shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs
https://splatt3r.active.vision/
142
177
Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240823/p2a/00m/0bu/024000c
131
81
The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz
127
219
Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/no-tax-on-tips-unlivable-minimum-wages
126
89
Notes on Buttondown.com
https://jmduke.com/posts/microblog/buttondown-dot-com/
115
66
MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/8/27/minijinja/
111
26
Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367750
107
121
Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/08/tattoo-ink-sold-on-amazon-has-high-levels-of-weird-and-rare-bacteria/
104
64
Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021)
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
103
6
Qualcomm Oryon CPU Core Design
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/26/hot-chips-2024-qualcomms-oryon-core/
101
41
FreeBSD-rustdate, a reimplementation of FreeBSD-update
https://rustdate.over-yonder.net/
97
44
GeoWorks: The Other Windows (2019)
https://tedium.co/2019/06/20/geoworks-geos-history/
96
25
Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses) (2023)
https://research.nccgroup.com/2023/02/06/rustproofing-linux-part-1-4-leaking-addresses/
95
42
Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8B
https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1828463912389402896
Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project
https://futurism.com/starliner-failure-embarrassment-boeing
93
8
Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 2: Ahead-of-Time vs. JIT
https://cfallin.org/blog/2024/08/27/aot-js/
91
Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps
https://liliputing.com/unlocking-the-pixel-9-bootloader-breaks-some-pixel-ai-apps/
88
DisTrO – a family of low latency distributed optimizers
https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO
19
KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine
https://github.com/klee/klee
33
A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming
https://spectrum.ieee.org/underwater-communication
Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41364798
87
60
AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy
https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-predicts-earthquakes-with-unprecedented-accuracy/
86
28
RISC-V CPU arrives on a tablet starting at $149
https://www.tomshardware.com/tablets/rsic-v-cpu-arrives-on-a-tablet-starting-at-dollar149-dc-roma-risc-v-pad-ii-features-an-octa-core-cpu-and-up-to-16gb-ram-and-128gb-emmc-storage
77
We can and should domesticate raccoons
https://www.oliviali.me/writing/raccoons
3
BaseX – a highly W3C compliant XQuery processor
https://docs.basex.org/12/Main_Page
79
29
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/microsoft_workplace_surveillance/
75
Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers' credentials
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/hackers-infect-isps-with-malware-that-steals-customers-credentials/
74
55
The Thin Purple Line
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/the-thin-purple-line-jasper-craven-private-security-guard/
73
71
NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1828458852586525075
UltimateAntiCheat
https://github.com/AlSch092/UltimateAntiCheat
17
Show HN: Supertree – interactive visualization of decision trees in Python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41369231
78
The Google Fit APIs will no longer be available after June 30, 2025
https://developers.google.com/fit
Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development
https://github.com/morris/vanilla-prime
161
Intelligence is not like height
https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-intelligence-is-not-like-height
63
49
2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/73/12/841/7319571