412
526
California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-11-18/special-education-schools-gifted
2 years ago
389
204
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/y-combinator-often-backs-startups-that-duplicate-other-yc-companies-data-shows-its-not-just-ai-code-editors/
376
151
A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
https://medium.com/@drspoulsen/a-solution-to-the-onion-problem-of-j-kenji-l%C3%B3pez-alt-c3c4ab22e67c
361
198
The Borgo Programming Language
https://borgo-lang.github.io/
354
196
Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247368
342
511
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang
329
68
Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal
https://www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathematicians-tie-knots-through-a-mind-blowing-fractal-20241126/
301
141
ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser
https://zetaoffice.net/
277
429
Cybertruck's Many Recalls
https://www.wired.com/story/cybertrucks-many-recalls-make-it-worse-than-91-percent-of-all-2024-vehicles/
269
235
GenChess
https://labs.google/genchess
267
170
D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/d-link-says-it-wont-patch-60-000-older-modems-as-theyre-not-worth-saving
245
10
LLVM-powered devirtualization
https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/
243
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Fly.io outage – resolved
https://status.flyio.net
231
132
What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
https://neuralmagic.com/blog/24-sparse-llama-smaller-models-for-efficient-gpu-inference/
227
65
Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll
https://github.com/captn3m0/jekyll-sqlite
225
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/11/setelinleikkaus-when-finns-snipped.html
220
428
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/11/25/scientists-are-learning-why-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-for-you
214
I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever
https://blog.stackademic.com/i-stopped-using-kubernetes-our-devops-team-is-happier-than-ever-a5519f916ec0
206
DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of rights violations
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dea-passenger-searches-halted-watchdog-finds-signs-civil-rights-violat-rcna181262
60
LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
https://latex.vercel.app/
171
147
Learn perfect pitch in 15 years
https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/perfect_pitch/
168
202
We can mine asteroids for space food
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/how-we-can-mine-asteroids-for-space-food/9EF3C4FA6F32368D09994EB7910C7035
159
127
The industry structure of LLM makers
https://calpaterson.com/porter.html
142
44
The Slang Shading Language
https://shader-slang.com
137
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Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-gets-up-to-7-9-billion-award-for-u-s-chip-plant-construction-6c6818a1
26
Prioritize work at the task level
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/power_efficiency_guidelines_osx/PrioritizeWorkAtTheTaskLevel.html
129
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A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/arts/john-jacobs-slavery-discovery.html
126
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Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/usps-new-mail-trucks.html
121
27
Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts
https://silentpoems.net/
119
52
Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git
https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/
110
Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6290285/
118
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Functional Programming Self-Affirmations
https://norikitech.com/posts/functional-affirmations/
114
Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser
112
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Ask HN: Has anyone tried adapting a court reporter keyboard for writing code?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251040
50
Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-word-and-excel-ai-data-scraping-slyly-switched-to-opt-in-by-default-the-opt-out-toggle-is-not-that-easy-to-find
102
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William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018)
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/winter/feature/the-thinker-who-believed-in-doing-0
100
101
1B nested loop iterations
https://benjdd.com/languages/
99
The Crime Messenger
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/the-crime-messenger
83
'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexmchale/merc-mud/refs/heads/master/doc/hacker.txt
95
63
Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
https://saasprices.net/blog/aws-price-rise
94
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How fast does Java compile?
https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/java-compile.html
93
11
Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking
https://yangchris11.github.io/samurai/
87
Float Self-Tagging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16544
86
25
USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3612364/uspto-petitioned-to-cancel-oracles-javascript-trademark.html
84
Show HN: My party game where AI decides if you’re funny
https://playsnatched.com
40
The GNU make jobserver Implementation (2015)
https://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/jobserver-implementation/
82
21
A Revolution in How Robots Learn
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn
79
64
Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42242051
74
47
Nvidia Fugatto: "World's Most Flexible Sound Machine"
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/fugatto-gen-ai-sound-model/
107
Warp terminal – no more login required
https://www.warp.dev/blog/lifting-login-requirement
72
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Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis
https://www.reuters.com/technology/northvolt-goes-europe-battery-promise-crisis-2024-11-21/
70
Agile Is Dead
https://www.agilepilled.com/
67
Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go to Search
https://9to5google.com/2024/11/25/google-ios-app-link-annotations-search/
35
Oldest US firearm unearthed in Arizona, a bronze cannon linked to Coronado
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-oldest-firearm-unearthed-arizona-bronze.html
2
Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-137
Henry James and H.G. Wells (1958)
https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/james-wells.htm
62
46
Show HN: I created a lightweight JavaScript library to visualize JSON as a graph
https://github.com/xzitlou/jsontr.ee
61
Guix/Hurd on a ThinkPad X60
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/
59
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Rust: Tools (early access edition)
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/books/rust-tools
