1147
455
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones/
2 years ago
963
640
Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steam-games-will-now-need-to-fully-disclose-kernel-level-anti-cheat-on-store-pages/
920
1327
M4 MacBook Pro
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/new-macbook-pro-features-m4-family-of-chips-and-apple-intelligence/
608
990
Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-q3-2024-new-code-created-by-ai-2024-10
518
1048
Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/an-update-from-drew
475
842
Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
454
243
OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2024-10-27-openzfs-dedup-is-good-dont-use-it/
403
293
Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]
https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/0814a460-fe8f-42ef-9e82-cf94f952eb28/1/doc/23-6181_opn.pdf
371
250
Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21333
353
51
NandGame – Build a computer from scratch
https://www.nandgame.com
348
69
Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques
https://30fps.net/pages/videogame-shadows/
296
358
Jaywalking legalized in New York City
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/new-york-jaywalking-legal
259
158
It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
https://www.quantamagazine.org/it-might-be-possible-to-detect-gravitons-after-all-20241030/
258
236
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause
https://scitechdaily.com/15-billion-miles-away-nasas-voyager-1-breaks-its-silence/
256
Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
https://build.shepherd.com/p/hi-google-please-stop-the-bed-a-desperate
252
Gross Apple Marketing
https://jonathanbuys.com/Gross_Apple_Marketing/
245
21
Crafting Painterly Shaders
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/
96
Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell
https://github.com/Gandalf-/coreutils
240
214
The inventor of the automatic rice cooker
https://spectrum.ieee.org/toshiba-rice-cooker
237
107
Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/pushing-the-frontiers-of-audio-generation/
91
Thunderbird for Android Now Available
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/
233
215
Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7IPm7f1vI
229
84
SimpleQA
https://openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa/
212
147
Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
https://tonbo.io/blog/async-rust-is-not-safe-with-io-uring
197
47
Generative AI Scripting
https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/
193
75
DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive
https://www.deepseek.com/
186
130
The carefulness knob
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/10/29/the-carefulness-knob/
177
1
AI Flame Graphs
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-10-29/ai-flame-graphs.html
174
50
Democratising publishing
https://john.onolan.org/democratising-publishing/
169
49
Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals
https://aiomnigen.com
104
EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies
https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/10/epa-cancels-pesticide-shown-to-be-harmful-to-unborn-babies/
167
1BRC Coding Challenge: Nerd Sniping the Java Community
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/1brc/
166
64
Eighteen Years of ABI Stability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/30/eighteen-years-of-abi-stability/
164
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
https://sophiebits.com/2024/10/30/everyone-is-wrong-about-that-slack-flowchart
154
43
The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store
https://palant.info/2024/10/30/the-karma-connection-in-chrome-web-store/
146
42
Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite
https://gaultier.github.io/blog/lessons_learned_from_a_successful_rust_rewrite.html
143
15
Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation
https://adsknews.autodesk.com/en/news/autodesk-launches-wonder-animation-video-to-3d-scene-technology/
140
168
The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
https://thecookscook.com/features/the-almost-lost-art-of-rosin-potatoes/
138
68
CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/no-matter-what-bank-says-its-your-money-your-data-and-your-choice
137
LLMs know more than they show: On the intrinsic representation of hallucinations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02707
135
63
Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/math-and-puzzle-fans-find-magic-in-martin-gardners-legacy/
126
18
Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly
https://garethx.com/posts/cart-pole-mpc/
118
33
Sets, types and type checking
https://kaleidawave.github.io/posts/sets-types-and-type-checking/
117
Cheap solar panels are changing the world
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/10/solar-power-energy-revolution-global-south/680351/
116
192
Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42000626
103
57
Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling
https://astral.sh/
66
Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994658
102
Show HN: LlamaPReview – AI GitHub PR reviewer that learns your codebase
https://github.com/marketplace/llamapreview
98
122
BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time
https://www.ft.com/content/fcc2db63-fb5a-4ae3-ab05-b8136b5193f4
41
Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-m4-pro-and-m4-max/
90
29
Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/supermicro_audit_ey_quit/
87
ThunderKittens: Simple, fast, and adorable AI kernels
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-10-29-tk2
85
Algorithmic Music Generation with Python
https://github.com/atiriko/Music
9
Representing web applications as knowledge graphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17258
Google is getting even worse for independent sites
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147152/google-search-seo-publishing-housefresh-product-reviews
82
10
Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results
https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/llm-judge/
76
45
Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry (2023)
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
72
56
INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause (2009)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1018822/inner-join-on-vs-where-clause
The eukaryote, the first cell to get organized
https://www.quantamagazine.org/meet-the-eukaryote-the-first-cell-to-get-organized-20241028/
13
Pg_analytics has switched to PostgreSQL license
https://github.com/paradedb/pg_analytics