1413
396
First images from Euclid are in
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/10/023/orig-2410_023_AR_EN.mp4
a month ago
826
414
Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/
635
73
Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o
378
212
Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1g8xrub/microsoft_is_introducing_hidden_apis_to_vs_code/
362
325
Please do not write below the line
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Please%20do%20not%20write%20below%20the%20line.htm
323
126
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo
319
429
A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html
305
53
Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging
https://github.com/konstin/sudoku-in-python-packaging
290
43
Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading
https://github.com/maoserr/epublifier
226
239
ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v62gg49zro
34
Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research
https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator
205
163
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swebok-v4.pdf
188
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-i-got-a-digital-nomad-visa-for-japan
204
209
T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/t-mobile-att-oppose-unlocking-rule-claim-locked-phones-are-good-for-users/
189
85
Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/upl-people-counter/
186
78
A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-team-takes-major-step-toward-fully-3d-printed-active-electronics-1015
183
23
Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python
https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene
173
178
Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925/
168
137
Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit
https://spacenews.com/intelsat-33e-loses-power-in-geostationary-orbit/
166
151
Scientists working to decode birdsong
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
165
25
IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)
https://blog.aerojockey.com/iocccsim/
148
134
Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/software-engineer-titles-have-almost-lost-all-their-meaning
143
288
OOP is not that bad
https://osa1.net/posts/2024-10-09-oop-good.html
141
79
Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
https://torrentfreak.com/google-drive-blackout-in-italy-after-another-major-anti-piracy-blunder-241020/
139
164
Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?
https://theshamblog.com/can-spacex-land-a-rocket-with-1-2-cm-accuracy/
131
138
AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
https://learn.umh.app/course/aws-and-azure-are-at-least-4x-10x-more-expensive-than-hetzner/
127
U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/us-border-surveillance-towers-have-always-been-broken
Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results
http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2410.12043
121
84
Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
https://github.com/philc/vimium
120
118
Is it better to fail spectacularly?
https://danielmangum.com/posts/better-to-fail-spectacularly/
119
51
Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
https://github.com/will-moss/erin
Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/senior-walmart-wmt-executive-to-leave-company-due-to-relocation-policy
115
New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/New-discovery-reveals-how-diatoms-capture-CO2-so-effectively-.html
110
18
Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
https://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
109
33
Brain endurance training improves older adults' cognitive, physical performance
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029224001687
106
Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview
103
20
David Lynch Interview Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_vbYmPm_zU
102
60
Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bitwarden-Open-Source-Concerns#google_vignette
100
42
Memory safety without lifetime parameters
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3444r0.html
97
37
Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths
https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/131/a/r3/ipd
96
38
My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out
https://leanpub.com/rustprojects-redis
94
36
Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way
https://castro.fm/blog/making-castros-feeds-update-faster-the-lazy-way
93
55
Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued
https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-Store/discussions/3260
72
Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/378593/cop16-united-nations-cali-columbia-convention-bioligical-diversity-nature-conservation
83
Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/four-day-workweek-experiment-in-germany-has-surprising-results
7
Bulk optimization of queries in Postgres
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150506520
74
Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market
https://www.zdnet.com/article/perplexity-ais-new-tool-makes-researching-the-stock-market-delightful-heres-how/
71
132
AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office
https://www.techradar.com/pro/aws-ceo-tells-workers-to-quit-if-they-dont-want-to-come-back-to-the-office
Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
https://blog.godfreyai.com/p/dear-cto-its-not-2015-anymore
2
ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/bytedance-intern-fired-for-planting-malicious-code-in-ai-models/
70
30
Waking up science's sleeping beauties (2023)
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/waking-up-sciences-sleeping-beauties/
67
India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/21/india-airline-industry-in-chaos-after-90-hoax-bomb-threats-in-a-week
69
13
Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG
https://www.chrisdalke.com/doom.svg
68
16
“The Secret History of the Mongols”: A digital history approach
https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/Gqh2Bf5W4TdK
