712
509
What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
https://blog.koenvh.nl/what-does-this-button-do-cm42u2oi7000a09l42f54g2pr
2 years ago
580
349
Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
https://www.nullpt.rs/breaking-the-4chan-captcha
486
53
Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/15/rhythmical-lines/
392
146
Don't Fuck with Scroll
https://dontfuckwithscroll.com
391
103
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/29/why-pipes-get-stuck-buffering/
378
321
The deterioration of Google
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deterioration-of-google/
368
87
Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch
https://steelph0enix.github.io/posts/llama-cpp-guide/
307
365
Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/copyright-claim-moves-ahead-in-the-intercepts-lawsuit-against-openai/
295
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-car-quarter-microplastics-environment-urgent.html
283
86
Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics
https://github.com/vinceanalytics/vince
264
196
How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?
https://hez2010.github.io/async-runtimes-benchmarks-2024/
263
197
GIMP 3.0 is on the way
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/998793/6c8d00bd1b2a7948/
234
68
Glojure: Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support
https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure
231
133
The Influence of Bell Labs
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-influence-of-bell-labs
219
Show HN: Screen Sharing in the Browser
https://github.com/tonghohin/screen-sharing
206
42
Prometheus 3.0
https://prometheus.io/blog/2024/11/14/prometheus-3-0/
202
80
Nodezator is a generalist Python node editor
https://github.com/IndiePython/nodezator
192
331
Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s
https://apnews.com/article/australia-social-media-children-ban-safeguarding-harm-accounts-d0cde2603bdbc7167801da1d00ecd056
175
84
Buy Nothing Day
https://buynothingday.co.uk/
165
61
NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-millions-of-miles-down-instruments-deploying/
164
95
RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that noncoding RNAs are not 'junk'
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-rna-crispr-reveals-hundreds-noncoding.html
145
216
PR process killing morale and productivity
https://blackentropy.com/your-pr-process-is-killing-morale-and-productivity/
142
89
Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test
https://www.ans.org/news/article-6241/china-pebblebed-reactor-passes-meltdown-test/
139
150
BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product
https://www.energy-storage.news/byd-launches-sodium-ion-grid-scale-bess-product/
135
232
US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation
https://brilliantmaps.com/us-houses-prices-1950-2024/
134
76
Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276995
128
Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/ofcom_online_nation/
127
191
Performance improvement plans are on the rise
https://www.wsj.com/business/firing-someone-performance-improvement-plans-more-popular-the-pip-7cac7062
123
39
Making a parallel Rust workload 10x faster with (or without) Rayon
https://gendignoux.com/blog/2024/11/18/rust-rayon-optimized.html
121
6
Alibaba releases an 'open' challenger to OpenAI's O1 reasoning model
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/alibaba-releases-an-open-challenger-to-openais-o1-reasoning-model/
64
Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century – Specific Suggestions
https://specificsuggestions.com
112
19
Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2024/pandoc-typst-tutorial/
154
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-29-2024-engagement
109
195
Vintage digicams are an artistic statement
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/vintage-digicams-arent-just-a-fad-theyre-an-artistic-statement/
Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo
https://lukas-prokop.at/articles/2024-11-29-move-semantics-in-rust-cpp-and-hylo
96
56
The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array
https://lwn.net/Articles/997094/
40
Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads
https://www.canada.ca/en/competition-bureau/news/2024/11/competition-bureau-sues-google-for-anti-competitive-conduct-in-online-advertising-in-canada.html
30
ASML Twinscan EXE:5000 Lego Set
https://asmlstore.com/products/twinscan-exe-5000-lego-set
16
Jank is now running on LLVM IR
https://jank-lang.org/blog/2024-11-29-llvm-ir/
Triangle fraud in brick and mortar retail
https://getcho.app/blog/triangle-fraud-brick-mortar/
83
111
Finland, Sweden complete repairs on Baltic Sea cables
https://yle.fi/a/74-20128140
26
How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got-the-lithium-ion-battery
78
33
Weak pointers in Go: why they matter now
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-weak-pointer/index.html
18
Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Nebra Sky Disc
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80545-5
73
32
Better Auth – Authentication library for TypeScript
https://www.better-auth.com/
69
23
EstyJS 2.0 (emulator for the Atari ST, written in 100% pure JavaScript)
https://kaiec.github.io/EstyJS/
67
75
Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/11/28/javier-milei-my-contempt-for-the-state-is-infinite
66
Bevy 0.15 released
https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-15/
65
122
UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/uk/uk-assisted-dying-vote-gbr-intl/index.html
25
Someone just won $50k by convincing an AI Agent to send all funds to them
https://twitter.com/jarrodwattsdev/status/1862299845710757980