1248
1437
DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
2 years ago
597
1045
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/undersea-cable-disrupted-germany-finland-intl/index.html
587
320
Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204
499
994
Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
https://reason.com/2024/11/18/how-scientific-americans-departing-editor-helped-degrade-science/
457
119
Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank
https://github.com/circlemind-ai/fast-graphrag
419
186
20 years of Google Scholar
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-scholar-20-years/
410
269
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)
https://michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-banned-from-the-hcaptcha-accessibility-account-for-not-being-blind/
361
54
Reactive HTML Notebooks
https://maxbo.me/a-html-file-is-all-you-need.html
317
184
We are shutting down Ondsel
https://ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/
298
90
MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server
https://mailcatcher.me/
294
120
A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2024-11-08-how-a-bbc-navigation-bar-component-broke-depending-on-which-external-monitor-it-was-on/
291
62
Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming
https://tips.io
280
208
Against Best Practices
https://www.arp242.net/best-practices.html
272
403
The tragedy of running an old Node project
https://abdisalan.com/posts/tragedy-running-old-node-project/
271
366
Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bhutan-emigration-crisis-60-minutes/
259
Bayesian Neural Networks
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/distill_bayes_net/public/
242
387
Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges
https://www.wired.com/story/alan-filion-torswats-guilty-plea-federal-charges-swatting/
241
Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
223
55
The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles
https://jvernay.fr/en/blog/skyline-2d-packer/implementation/
207
138
Museum of Bad Art
https://museumofbadart.org/
198
134
AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/18/amd-now-has-more-compute-on-the-top500-than-nvidia/
189
156
It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00714
185
73
Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/islet-diabetes/id6453168642
180
14
Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)
https://iximiuz.com/en/series/computer-networking-fundamentals/
179
230
How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-black-companies/
177
32
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10440
175
1
Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/finland-says-subsea-germany-link-serving-data-centers-is-severed
171
97
Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/threads-beat-async-await/
170
142
Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies
https://metropolisjapan.com/resignation-agencies/
169
63
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data
https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind
168
50
Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-optimizations-part-1
31
Interactive Visual Sorting
https://mszula.github.io/visual-sorting/
149
40
Linux kernel 6.12 has been released
https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/
148
108
Writes large correct programs (2008)
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/09/19/writes-large-correct-programs/
133
87
Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/illegally-logged-wood-from-cambodia-likely-ending-up-in-u-s-homes/
130
58
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/11/18/foster-stevens-wwi-armistice-belleau-wood-meuse-argonne-offensive/
125
68
Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcmUZpdChhA
124
6
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/roots-of-bird-intelligence
121
101
Traits are a local maximum
https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/traits-are-a-local-maxima/
116
107
Extending the context length to 1M tokens
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/
115
150
Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
114
DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/11/dna-testing-company-vanishes-along-with-its-customers-genetic-data
109
41
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/11/18/a-function-to-approximate-raising-small-numbers-to-small-irrational-powers
104
ChibiHash: Small, Fast 64 bit hash function
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/chibihash
98
Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
https://twitter.com/jorilallo/status/1858211286066073922
96
18
Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-clone-two-black-footed-ferrets-from-frozen-tissues-in-conservation-effort-180984203/
92
Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/peripherals/mechanical-keyboards-are-dead-heres-why-you-should-only-buy-a-magnetic-keyboard-for-gaming
47
Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API
https://github.com/Integuru-AI/Venmo-Unofficial-API
84
30
Removing global state from LLD, the LLVM linker
https://maskray.me/blog/2024-11-17-removing-global-state-from-lld
83
10
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation
https://nirvanalan.github.io/projects/GA/
The Fastest Redis Ever
https://redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m02-the-fastest-redis-ever/
82
Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/newell-says-he-was-stumped-on-how-to-finish-half-life-2-episode-3/
The shrimp welfare project
https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-best-charity-isnt-what-you-think
81
20
Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web
https://wiby.me/
79
8
Fortran II Hypersource
https://texdraft.github.io/fortran/fortran.html
Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year
https://substack.com/@richholmes/note/c-77466623
77
36
Phonetic Matching
https://smoores.dev/post/phonetic_matching/
35
Farmers' Suicide in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States
76
65
Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP
https://github.com/notrab/dumbo
17
M4 chips: E and P cores
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/11/18/inside-m4-chips-e-and-p-cores/
74
38
Apple Intelligence notification summaries are pretty bad
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-notification-summaries-are-honestly-pretty-bad/
72
Open-interpreter: A natural language interface for computers
https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter
28
Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet
https://nautil.us/your-datas-strange-undersea-voyage-1138554/
71
Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/opinion_piece_ai_tools/
70
Music as Language (2019) [pdf]
https://omelkonian.github.io/data/publications/music-grammars.pdf
69
2
Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dl4vxw501o