1524
419
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up/
2 months ago
985
679
Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/
574
626
Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]
https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Complaint-WP-Engine-v-Automattic-et-al-with-Exhibit.pdf
520
260
Were RNNs all we needed?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01201
440
212
Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
https://htmx.org/essays/why-gumroad-didnt-choose-htmx/
371
142
Terminal colours are tricky
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/01/terminal-colours/
349
29
Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-memoriam-oct-2024
334
224
Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
325
195
Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196636
315
138
ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/robot-vacuum-hacked-photos-camera-audio/104414020
281
290
Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/google-recommits-to-hybrid-work-schedule-unlike-amazon/480683
270
191
What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-excessive-screen-time-does-to-the-adult-brain/
250
205
Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526
248
58
Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00531
245
Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/cox-slows-internet-speeds-in-entire-neighborhoods-to-punish-any-heavy-users/
237
352
Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
https://www.starlink.com/support/article/58126733-e4d2-db62-b919-9da261a4e096
233
60
Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting
https://www.unite.ai/image-editing-with-gaussian-splatting/
228
141
FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs
https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-1.1-pro
86
MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone
https://mikrophone.net/
221
63
Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/ants-fungus-agriculture-traced-back-to-dinosaur-killing-impact/
89
An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes
https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2024/09/28/black-scholes/
199
282
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
197
171
Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/9/6/why-my-apps-will-soon-be-gone-from-google-play/
193
38
France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved
https://goldenowlhunt.com/
176
82
Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library
https://flyonui.com/
Most gamers prefer single-player games
https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/most-gamers-prefer-single-player-games
166
124
Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-amount-variety-gamma-large-tropical.html
156
101
The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
https://dynomight.substack.com/p/data-wall
155
EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/october/eu-definition-of-potential-terrorists-opens-door-to-broad-information-sharing/
153
US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/10/03/energy-department-electric-grid-investment/3631727969828/
150
103
The Heart of Unix (2018)
https://ericnormand.me/article/the-heart-of-unix
54
Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown
https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-data-is-missing-scientists-guess-then-guess-again-20241002/
139
Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line
https://www.space.com/most-powerful-solar-flare-this-solar-cycle-x-9-earth-firing-line
136
37
HTTrack Website Copier
https://github.com/xroche/httrack
320
Who Pays for the Arts?
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a62394281/who-pays-for-the-arts/
129
OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
https://www.tanayj.com/p/openai-and-anthropic-revenue-breakdown
127
20
Solving methane mysteries with satellite imagery
https://blog.datadesk.eco/p/methane-mysteries
119
NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade
https://spectrum.ieee.org/hubble-space-telescope-re-invention
21
Show HN: Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui)
https://github.com/cxreiff/ttysvr
42
Matt Mullenweg cries foul and threatens me with legal action
https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/nice-guy-matt-mullenweg-ceo-of-wordpress-com-cries-foul-and-threatens-me-with-legal-action-f116ac57d862
102
34
Biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/science/biblical-tree-ancient-seed-tsori/index.html
99
95
Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-era-as-britains-last-coal-fired-power-plant-shuts-down
41
DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x
You Can't Opt-Out of A.I. Online
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-to-opt-out-of-ai-online
87
91
AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/ai_agent_trashes_pc/
85
61
What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/what-kind-of-writer-is-chatgpt
84
25
IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41
https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28841.html
47
Update on Reflection-70B
https://glaive.ai/blog/post/reflection-postmortem
81
Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
80
14
Ever: Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-Time View Synthesis
https://half-potato.gitlab.io/posts/ever/
