634
94
Leaving and Waving
https://deannadikeman.com/leaving-and-waving
2 years ago
591
193
Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
https://lagrangepoint.substack.com/p/airpods-hearing-aid-hacking
568
611
M4 Mac mini's efficiency
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/m4-mac-minis-efficiency-incredible
487
190
What I wish someone told me about Postgres
https://challahscript.com/what_i_wish_someone_told_me_about_postgres
358
174
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
https://stretchmytimeoff.com
346
511
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-edtech-revolution-has-failed
338
130
Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams
https://letsjelly.com/
314
108
Watermark Anything
https://github.com/facebookresearch/watermark-anything
309
319
$8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
https://jalopnik.com/this-8-000-suzuki-from-india-received-a-5-star-crash-t-1851696481
274
157
Unusual Raku Features
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-unusual-raku-features/
261
237
Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2024-11-12/vizualizing-13-million-bluesky-users
238
86
Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
231
97
When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
https://news.mit.edu/2024/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-1112
224
85
Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/bufstream-0.1.0
218
197
Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
https://reason.com/2024/11/11/mom-jailed-for-letting-10-year-old-walk-alone-to-town/
215
287
Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
https://www.wired.com/story/ecosia-qwant-eusp-take-on-google-search-index/
213
371
Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/11/waymo-one-open-to-all-in-los-angeles/
201
74
3600 MHz Raspberry Pi 5 with Liquid Nitrogen
https://skatterbencher.com/2024/11/11/3600-mhz-raspberry-pi-5-with-liquid-nitrogen/
189
20
The OpenFlexure 3D printable microscope
https://openflexure.org/
180
47
Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf]
https://aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innovation.pdf
176
22
This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats
https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113465421567555186
175
41
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
https://www.fermyon.com/blog/introducing-spin-v3
170
114
Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR
https://twitter.com/alexocheema/status/1856295635143524378
166
202
Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-russian-family-lived-alone-in-the-siberian-wilderness-for-40-years-unaware-of-world-war-ii-or-the-moon-landing-7354256/
162
168
Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24293920/bluesky-700000-new-users-week-x-threads
159
92
The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture
https://ankush.dev/p/neumann_architecture
144
44
The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
138
65
Defensive Communication (1961)
https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/conflict/media/gibb-defensive-communication.html
137
Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-750-000-dollars-to-open-source-maintainers/
133
19
Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX
https://gitlab.brokenpipe.de/stettberger/avremu/tree/master
132
Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/firmware-hacks-are-rejuvenating-spotifys-car-thing-before-the-company-bricks-it/
56
My Social Anxiety Cheatsheet for Mingling
https://www.adamgrant.info/my-social-anxiety-cheat-sheet-for-mingling
127
26
A Mathematician in a School of Art
https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/a-mathematician-in-a-school-of-art-an-interview-with-edmund-harriss
125
40
Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse
https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/tree/v2
115
2
A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/
110
A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals
https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/nursing-ai-hospitals-robots-capture/
126
Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/spanish-police-arrest-ex-fraud-chief-after-20m-found-in-walls-of-his-house
107
Voice acting in Space Quest V
https://github.com/cdb-boop/Space-Quest-V-Voice-Acting-Mod
Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/
59
Emit-C: A time travelling programming language
https://github.com/nimrag-b/emiT-C
99
AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey
https://slack.com/blog/news/the-fall-2024-workforce-index-shows-ai-hype-is-cooling?nojsmode=1
98
60
US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday
https://slashdot.org/submission/17329829/us-senate-to-revive-software-patents-with-pera-bill-vote-on-thursday
89
55
Large language models in national security applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03453
72
Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature
https://lottia.net/notes/0013-git-jujutsu-miniature.html
81
Dev Fonts
https://devfonts.gafi.dev/
78
28
Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network
https://hunsley.io/posts/2024/image-montage-is-resistor-network/
77
42
Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112266
76
Intel reinstates free coffee for employees after mass layoffs
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/intel-free-coffee-tea-morale-19906992.php
75
18
I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/
Unit Testing Numerical Routines
https://buchanan.one/blog/testing-numerical-algorithms/
70
The Wired Guide to Protecting Yourself from Government Surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/
Bribery is largely subject to circumstance: study
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-11-11/what-science-reveals-about-our-tendency-toward-corruption.html
73
Developing a D-20 Watch for Tabletop Roleplaying Games
https://timestoptech.com/blogs/super-twisted/dungeons-development-of-the-d-20-watch
58
Beating the bookies with their own numbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02824
71
Secret Service Says Users Agreed to Location Tracking in Terms and Conditions
https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/
69
178
Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
https://richarddingwall.name/2008/05/31/is-the-80-character-line-limit-still-relevant/
45
How we made a Ruby method 200x faster
https://www.campsite.com/blog/how-we-made-a-ruby-method-200x-faster
64
15
Don't Do This with PostgreSQL
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
63
Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/steam-drops-windows-7-and-8-support-with-the-latest-client-users-told-to-update-to-a-more-recent-version-of-windows-to-continue-gaming
Gmail AI Agent: Automate Your Inbox with AI-Powered Telegram Commands
https://github.com/olivierloverde/gmail-agent
30
FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf]
https://tangchq74.github.io/FBDetect-SOSP24.pdf
49
I Lost $210 to a Stripe Dispute Despite Proof
https://zarar.dev/how-i-lost-210-to-a-stripe-dispute-despite-proof/
Rust Needs an Official Specification
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/140/rust-needs-an-official-specification
54
105
Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London (2013)
https://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/cheaper-to-rent-in-barcelona-and-commute-to-london/
53
.NET 9
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-9/
9
The anomalous state of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02389-3
