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Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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464
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/wcc-2024-round-14-gukesh-becomes-the-youngest-world-champion-in-history/cDggdNZw
505
824
Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po
460
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BlenderGPT
https://www.blendergpt.org/
443
210
Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-theorem-how-its-going/
354
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Android XR
https://blog.google/products/android/android-xr/
350
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A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2023/chat-gpt-2-in-c.html
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/terminal-rules/
279
50
Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
https://quantus.finance/
271
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Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard
https://mouseless.click/
255
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Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/parkinsons-law-its-real-so-use-it
230
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Conversations are better with four people
https://www.thetimes.com/article/why-conversations-are-better-with-four-people-zhxbsg06s
225
112
Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)
https://kennyballou.com/blog/2016/12/elixir-hot-swapping/index.html
221
111
Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled
216
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Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer
https://kubespec.dev/
214
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Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/carta-is-making-it-too-difficult-to-cancel-subscriptions-some-founders-say/
25
Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
https://www.keacher.com/xmas24/
196
102
What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf]
https://assets.bitbashing.io/papers/concurrency-primer.pdf
168
Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software
https://www.souzatharsis.com/tamingLLMs/markdown/toc.html
162
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The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-oversight
141
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A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/black-plastic
140
29
Programming Language Memory Models (2021)
https://research.swtch.com/plmm
133
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Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio
131
69
A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1347
117
45
Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)
https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/02/21/converting-untrusted-pdfs-into-trusted.html
109
103
CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer
https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/12/11/cading-and-3d-printing-like-a-software-engineer-part1/
108
75
Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans
https://www.uaf.edu/news/study-reveals-mammoth-as-key-food-source-for-ancient-americans.php
107
24
Majora's Mask decompilation project reaches 100% completion
https://gbatemp.net/threads/majoras-mask-decompilation-project-reaches-100-completion.664380/
105
The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-ashton-tate
99
85
Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis
https://thewallanalysis.com/
98
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Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/102424-doctor-who-theme-ron-grainer-composer-and-delia-derbyshire-musician
97
22
Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata
https://richiejp.com/1d-reversible-automata
42
Idiomatic Errors in Clojure
https://www.daveliepmann.com/articles/idiomatic-clojure-errors.html
95
15
The secret life of DNS packets (2019)
https://stripe.com/blog/secret-life-of-dns
94
56
The humble for loop in Rust
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/humble-for-loop-rust/
89
33
Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
87
Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)
https://www.lionsroar.com/learning-tibetan/
83
Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi
https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8
77
Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf]
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nakul/assets/papers/litefoot_sensys2024_nakul.pdf
55
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision
https://spectrum.ieee.org/fei-fei-li-world-labs
74
Program Synthesis and Large Language Models
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/on-program-synthesis-and-large-language-models/
Show HN: Bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing HN posts with LLMs
https://github.com/ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension
72
Run Database in GitHub Actions, Persisting Data to S3, and Access It Publicly
https://wesql.io/blog/use-github-actions-as-database
71
46
Consider Negotiating with Infringers
https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/why-you-should-consider-negotiating-with-infringers
70
A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/12/a-new-timeline-for-neanderthal-interbreeding-with-modern-humans/
67
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American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/aclu_ai_police_report/
66
11
Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging
https://www.owlposting.com/p/why-recursion-pharmaceuticals-abandoned
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How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force
https://restofworld.org/2024/how-whatsapp-became-a-global-cultural-force/
62
8
The Errors of TeX [pdf] (1989)
https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf
60
3
A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/a-second-tree-of-life-could-wreak-havoc-scientists-warn.html
0
Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/11/pregnant-hospital-drug-test-medicine/76804299007/
27
Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/12/pompeii-experts-back-plinys-account-of-mount-vesuvius-eruption-date
2
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/
Show HN: Credit reports about German companies
https://bonscore.org/
A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)