423
430
How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
https://www.ft.com/content/b9e419c6-acf1-420b-8ae6-908feb52c94e
a month ago
394
123
Understanding Round Robin DNS
https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/understanding-round-robin-dns
305
231
New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-driver-signature-bypass-allows-kernel-rootkit-installs/
275
80
How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? (2021) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SioCwvR_PYY
246
316
We Can Terraform the American West
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-can-terraform-the-american-west/
218
194
Bluesky Is Not Decentralized
https://beige.party/@possibledog/113367977656537478
211
58
Do hard things carefully
https://blog.depthsofrepair.com/p/do-hard-things-carefully
186
44
Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange
https://tristanrhodes.com/blog/Adventures-in-Algorithmic-Trading-on-the-Runescape-Grand-Exchange
184
424
Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2023/02000/a_short_history_of_saturated_fat__the_making_and.10.aspx
166
69
James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation
https://scitechdaily.com/james-webb-telescope-discovers-quasars-where-they-shouldnt-exist/
84
ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/claude-computer-use-c2-the-zombais-are-coming/
147
30
Olivetti’s Ivrea
https://medium.com/@danielstone/olivettis-ivrea-how-an-italian-tech-giant-built-the-world-s-most-progressive-company-town-557cb035c383
24
Fruits (2020)
https://graphallthethings.com/posts/fruits
142
312
Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/
140
81
Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)
https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/
88
Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/opinion_open_washing/
137
Debugging my wife's alarm clock
https://ntietz.com/blog/debugging-my-wifes-alarm-clock/
132
131
ADHD and managing your professional reputation
https://www.optimaloutliers.com/p/adhd-and-managing-your-reputation
127
56
Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go
https://github.com/dim0x69/mdx
119
35
Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action
https://bullenweg.com/
117
33
Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades
https://m4xc.dev/articles/fundamental-rc/
31
Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]
https://vision.unipv.it/IA1/ProgrammingaComputerforPlayingChess.pdf
OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/995159/a37fb9817a00ebcb/
115
46
SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea
https://github.com/antirez/load81
104
The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/
Deep dive: the instability of op-amps
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/deep-dive-the-instability-of-op-amps
98
Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books
https://gizmodo.com/feds-say-you-dont-have-a-right-to-check-out-retro-video-games-like-library-books-2000516767
112
162
NixOS is not reproducible
https://linderud.dev/blog/nixos-is-not-reproducible/
108
MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy
https://unherd.com/2024/10/mrbeasts-faux-philanthropy/
107
40
RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector
https://rebrickable.com/rebricknet/submit/
105
64
Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart
https://abc7chicago.com/post/russia-amplified-hurricane-disinformation-drive-americans-apart-researchers-find/15463309/
103
49
Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store
https://github.com/jonfraser/simpletext
101
Canvas Fingerprinting
https://browserleaks.com/canvas
96
The weak science behind psychedelics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/psychedelics-medicine-science/680286/
95
39
How to configure an Ethernet connection between iPad and RaspberryPi with USB-C
https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/howto-configure-ethernet-connection-ipad-raspberrypi-usbc/
94
79
Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ion-solar-gravitational-lens-years.html
92
22
Fitting a Forth in 512 bytes (2021)
https://compilercrim.es/bootstrap/miniforth/
86
State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11687
85
51
Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/microsoft-fires-employees-who-organized-vigil-for-palestinians-killed-in-gaza/ar-AA1sX4Tf
62
Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18379
83
PineNote Community Edition: Preorder coming soon
https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-community-edition-coming-soon/
82
23
On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"
https://old.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1fv9ti6/on_friday_21st_march_2025_at_0250_utc_the_sun/
47
Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock-price-market-cap-apple-most-valuable-company-nvda-2024-10
14
First scientific study of the Paris catacombs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/bodies-quarry-shafts-millions-buried-paris-catacombs
43
Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66644709
76
126
All the electricity you'll need for 40 years
https://www.innerpathing.com/p/all-the-electricity-youll-need-for
75
10
Serious fun
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/serious-fun/
Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches
https://www.reuters.com/legal/masimo-smartwatches-infringe-apple-patents-us-jury-says-2024-10-25/
37
Why those particular integer multiplies?
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/why-those-particular-integer-multiplies/
74
89
How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/
73
California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?
https://unherd.com/2024/10/californias-woes-were-born-in-england/
72
Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41953063
68
18
Evaluate Markdown code blocks within Vim
https://github.com/gpanders/vim-medieval
"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo
Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy
https://pen.org/press-release/cancellation-of-naval-academy-lecture-by-ruth-ben-ghiat-at-behest-of-republican-politicians-threatens-institutional-autonomy/
63
Cerebras Trains Llama Models to Leap over GPUs
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/25/cerebras-trains-llama-models-to-leap-over-gpus/
