483
528
Character amnesia in China
https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/
2 years ago
444
130
A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-discovery.html
411
1152
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41966114
397
147
You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
https://github.com/soimort/you-get
355
427
Crossing the USA by Train
https://blinry.org/coast-to-coast/
344
139
Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-finds
334
213
We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
https://www.jonathancreamer.com/how-we-shrunk-our-git-repo-size-by-94-percent/
333
323
A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
https://em-tg.github.io/csborrow/
322
72
NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/tree/main/recipes/quickstart/NotebookLlama
314
96
NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer
https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe
273
126
Using SQLite as storage for web server static content
https://clace.io/blog/sqlite/
67
I discovered mysterious hidden signals on a public radio channel (2013) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5588_-_en_-_saal_g_-_201312281600_-_my_journey_into_fm-rds_-_oona_raisanen
212
131
School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
https://map.simonsarris.com/p/school-is-not-enough
209
149
Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative
https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,_the_federated_Wikipedia_Alternative
83
34x34x34 Rubik's Cube
https://ruwix.com/blog/34x34x34-rubiks-cube-record/
194
153
Writes and Write-Nots
https://paulgraham.com/writes.html
188
170
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
179
21
Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
99
Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web
https://freenet.org/
172
36
Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text
https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/
166
192
Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-for-big-tech/
143
57
Typeset: An HTML pre-processor for web typography
https://typeset.lllllllllllllllll.com/
137
41
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/27/asn-ip-address-memory/
120
38
Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960003
115
50
RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws
https://gcaptain.com/saving-rv-flip-from-the-wreckers-clawsand-its-story-is-mind-blowing/
105
66
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/
101
85
Inside the Transport for London cyberattack
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/an-utter-shitshow-inside-the-transport
75
In some scientific papers, words expressing uncertainty have decreased (2023)
https://www.science.org/content/article/some-scientific-papers-words-expressing-uncertainty-have-decreased
92
2
Amphion: An open-source audio, music, and speech generation toolkit
https://github.com/open-mmlab/Amphion
53
Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism
https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/axiomatics-mathematical-thought-and-high-modernism
90
28
The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of (2022)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-mips-thinkpad-kind-of.html
89
47
Scythe Works Without Borders
https://scytheworks.ca/scythe-works-without-borders/
73
7
The Universal Relation
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/on-the-universal-relation/
71
15
The Prophet of Cyberspace (2016)
https://www.filfre.net/2016/11/the-prophet-of-cyberspace/
94
'Fandom has toxified the world': Watchmen author Alan Moore
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump
65
52
Nothing left to solve
https://lmnt.me/blog/nothing-left-to-solve.html
5
The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/oct/24/rollercoaster-designer-john-burton-thorpe-park-hyperia
62
26
What is the first American graphic novel?
https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/what-is-the-first-american-graphic
60
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purchasing-power-parity/country-comparison/
