881
490
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/lab-grown-diamonds/
2 months ago
670
182
James Earl Jones has died
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/james-earl-jones-dead-darth-vader-lion-king-1236138656/
664
326
QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645323
652
504
Why GitHub won
https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/
648
609
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design
614
1675
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-debuts-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max/
493
218
FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/09/ftc-pushed-to-crack-down-on-companies-that-ruin-hardware-via-software-updates-or-annoying-paywalls/
447
807
Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
https://www.matthewball.co/all/fansprofitandloss
421
54
Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod
361
241
Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/
351
79
B-Trees and Database Indexes
https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes
312
40
Transparenttextures.com
https://www.transparenttextures.com
281
159
AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/airpods-pro-2-adds-clinical-grade-hearing-aid-feature/
260
ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/alex-morgan-ai-generated-recap-mention.html
259
58
Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide
https://blog.intigriti.com/hacking-tools/hacking-misconfigured-aws-s3-buckets-a-complete-guide
258
161
Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-hearing-study-shares-preliminary-insights-on-tinnitus/
250
32
Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00087041.2024.2325761#abstract
65
Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/4Ly2yj78aM
214
456
Apple Watch Series 10
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-10/
203
39
DuckDB 1.1.0 Released
https://duckdb.org/2024/09/09/announcing-duckdb-110.html
200
60
ATProto for distributed system engineers
https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
189
Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41490196
177
MNT Reform Next
https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2024-09-09-introducing-mnt-reform-next.html
175
165
How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works
https://www.empirical.health/blog/apple-watch-sleep-apnea/
170
49
Sigrok – a portable, cross-platform, FOSS signal analysis software suite
https://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page
166
85
Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
https://fikku.com/111920
106
Study shows 'alarming' level of trust in AI for life and death decisions
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/study-shows-alarming-level-of-trust-in-ai-for-life-and-death-decisions/
139
53
F3 – Fight Flash Fraud
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
138
71
Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor
https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/
136
117
Cohost to shut down at end of 2024
https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down
133
172
Please stop inventing new software licences (2020)
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/please-stop-inventing-new-software-licences/
130
160
The Modern CLI Renaissance
https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/
129
Bitten by Unicode
https://pyatl.dev/2024/09/01/bitten-by-unicode/
126
50
Show HN: A whiteboard that writes math equations
https://whiteboard.lasky.io/
124
86
Nobody Cares About Security
https://www.adatosystems.com/2024/09/09/nobody-cares-about-security/
123
15
Why I Wrote Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python (2023)
https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2023/EarlyReleasePython
122
10
Transfusion: Predict the next token and diffuse images with one multimodal model
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.11039
121
The Future of European Competitiveness
https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3-412d-be4c-f152a8232961_en
115
31
What is the best pointer tagging method?
https://coredumped.dev/2024/09/09/what-is-the-best-pointer-tagging-method/
23
Exponential Rate Limiting
https://dotat.at/@/2024-09-02-ewma.html
Show HN: Io_uring for Ruby
https://github.com/digital-fabric/iou
110
134
America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/
62
Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever
https://ptrtojoel.dev/posts/design-patterns-are-temporary/
152
20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
https://www.oxfordpv.com/news/20-more-powerful-tandem-solar-panels-enter-commercial-use-first-time-us
109
145
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions
99
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
https://theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-can-be-cleaned-for-7-5-billion/
108
Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486565
100
26
Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and JavaScript
https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/concurrency-and-parallelism/
96
12
300μs typo detection for 1.3M words
https://trieve.ai/building-blazingly-fast-typo-correction-in-rust/
95
45
The Friendship that made Google huge (2018)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
91
Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be
https://tedium.co/2024/09/08/smartphone-tethering-cellular-modem-history/
88
67
TSMC's Arizona Trials Put Plant Productivity on Par with Taiwan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-06/tsmc-s-arizona-trials-put-plant-productivity-on-par-with-taiwan
87
13
Random access string compression with FSST and Rust
https://blog.spiraldb.com/compressing-strings-with-fsst/
154
Comfy, the 2D rust game engine, is now archived
https://github.com/darthdeus/comfy
78
The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-us-needs-to-pay-more-attention
81
Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02761-3
74
What I gave up to become an engineering manager
https://emdiary.substack.com/p/what-i-gave-up-to-become-an-em
