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Advent of Code 2024
https://adventofcode.com/2024/about
2 years ago
912
98
Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
https://markwhen.com
577
298
Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42289955
426
246
Sitters and Standers
https://pudding.cool/2024/11/sitters-standers/
405
341
What will enter the public domain in 2025?
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
375
220
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
https://bilbof.com/posts/kubernetes-on-hetzner
294
47
Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana
https://www.tokyocowboy.co/articles/uy1r8j003qdvb4ozr4qgplhd3yujyn
289
141
OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/
264
103
How to Study Mathematics (2017)
https://www.math.uh.edu/~dblecher/pf2.html
248
101
Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12580
211
Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1858540085794451906
221
131
Gene behind orange fur in cats
https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-behind-orange-fur-cats-found-last
216
97
Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-rarest-mineral-is-so-rare-its-only-ever-been-found-once
214
124
Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain
https://www.openread.academy/en/paper/reading?corpusId=503252214
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Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/30/beekeepers-halt-honey-awards
188
37
Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code
https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-visual-studio-code/
184
49
Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images
https://news.utexas.edu/2024/11/27/researchers-use-ai-to-turn-sound-recordings-into-accurate-street-images/
174
45
Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291246
161
72
Category Theory in Programming
https://docs.racket-lang.org/ctp/index.html
158
67
Map UI – Ghost in the Shell
https://ilikeinterfaces.com/2015/03/09/map-ui-ghost-in-the-shell/
153
28
Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)
http://cadlag.org/posts/a-review-of-freedman-pisani-purves-statistics.html
140
15
OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks
https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks
137
22
Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres
https://oscilloscopemusic.com/watch/n-spheres
135
231
1/0 = 0 (2018)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/
Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
https://jeremycarterau.substack.com/p/thinking-in-actors-part-1
128
31
DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01747
125
167
Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
66
Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood
https://www.asimov.press/p/crick
122
107
The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493
109
18
'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/12/1/maya-blue-the-mystery-dye-recreated-two-centuries-after-it-was-lost
64
Fucking Tired of AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286049
132
RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama
https://kristoff.it/blog/raii-rust-linux/
115
Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons
https://betterschooling.in/collection/education-and-healthcare-suck-here-s-how-we-can-change-that
88
166
Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/police-bust-pirate-streaming-service-making-250-million-per-month/
83
Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)
https://deadreckonings.com/2007/12/07/heavisides-operator-calculus/
80
12
The Color of Noise (2014)
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0010
Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/steam-deck-hits-17000-games-playable-and-verified/
77
3
A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft)
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-book.html
34
The Sperry Rand Corporation
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-sperry-rand-corporation
71
6
Ampere WS-1 Japanese APL Clamtop
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ampere-ws-1
69
26
2M MPH galaxy smash-up seen in unprecedented detail
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-million-mph-galaxy-unprecedented.html
68
21
First-Hand Account of "The Undefined Behavior Question" Incident [pdf]
http://tomazos.com/ub_question_incident.pdf
52
IBM RISC System/6000 Family
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ibm-risc-system6000-family
38
Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/canon-ships-its-first-nanoprint-lithography-machine-rivals-asml/
2
A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective
https://kokoscript.com/2024/015.html
51
iOS 18 is the worst software Apple has ever released
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-18-is-the-worst-software-apple-has-ever-released-i-wish-so-bad-i-had-stayed-on-17-7.2440548/
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The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M
https://lanoticiasv.com/el-bitcoin-esta-por-alcanzar-los-100000-y-el-salvador-ha-alcanzado-los-582-millones-en-la-reserva-estatal-de-bitcoin/
63
Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)
https://avi.im/blag/2024/s3-log/