515
54
Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o
14 hours ago
327
183
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/
7 hours ago
272
226
Please do not write below the line
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Please%20do%20not%20write%20below%20the%20line.htm
8 hours ago
256
40
Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading
https://github.com/maoserr/epublifier
13 hours ago
229
89
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo
10 hours ago
221
71
First images from Euclid are in
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/10/023/orig-2410_023_AR_EN.mp4
6 hours ago
175
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/
182
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
a day ago
167
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/
3 hours ago
152
133
Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit
https://spacenews.com/intelsat-33e-loses-power-in-geostationary-orbit/
12 hours ago
147
22
IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)
https://blog.aerojockey.com/iocccsim/
139
132
Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/software-engineer-titles-have-almost-lost-all-their-meaning
138
123
Scientists working to decode birdsong
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
76
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swebok-v4.pdf
66
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/
20 hours ago
131
158
ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v62gg49zro
126
130
Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy?
https://theshamblog.com/can-spacex-land-a-rocket-with-1-2-cm-accuracy/
11 hours ago
135
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/
17 hours ago
112
U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/us-border-surveillance-towers-have-always-been-broken
9 hours ago
57
Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/upl-people-counter/
111
47
Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
https://github.com/will-moss/erin
106
16
Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
https://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
104
114
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
100
20
David Lynch Interview Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_vbYmPm_zU
99
102
Is it better to fail spectacularly?
https://danielmangum.com/posts/better-to-fail-spectacularly/
97
56
Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bitwarden-Open-Source-Concerns#google_vignette
96
33
Brain endurance training improves older adults' cognitive, physical performance
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029224001687
Memory safety without lifetime parameters
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3444r0.html
95
23
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
92
51
Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued
https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-Store/discussions/3260
88
67
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
87
Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way
https://castro.fm/blog/making-castros-feeds-update-faster-the-lazy-way
79
35
My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out
https://leanpub.com/rustprojects-redis
70
90
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
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/
69
115
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
21 hours ago
68
Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
https://blog.godfreyai.com/p/dear-cto-its-not-2015-anymore
13
Show HN: Doom Inside an SVG
https://www.chrisdalke.com/doom.svg
39
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/
65
61
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
63
Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925/
5 hours ago
62
27
Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1848020706082050500.html
60
21
Extinction of the Influenza B Yamagata line during the Covid pandemic (2022)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9414795/
59
25
Waking up science's sleeping beauties (2023)
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/waking-up-sciences-sleeping-beauties/
53
The 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
55
12
“The Secret History of the Mongols”: A digital history approach
https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/Gqh2Bf5W4TdK
4
Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python
https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene
52
5
Factorio: Space Age expansion has been released
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645390/Factorio_Space_Age/
16 hours ago
50
8
Introduction to Zig (a project-based book)
https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book/
120
OOP is not that bad, actually
https://osa1.net/posts/2024-10-09-oop-good.html
19 hours ago