1014
679
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/school-smartphone-ban-better-sleep/
2 months ago
516
86
Making a watch from scratch
https://old.reddit.com/r/watchmaking/comments/1gvdmyo/i_made_a_watch_from_scratch_link_to_the_build/
439
225
They see your photos
https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
384
158
What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/
378
84
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transformer-patches-scale-better-than-tokens/?_fb_noscript=1
359
317
macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/youre_a_mean_one/
344
57
Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.html
327
172
Preferring throwaway code over design docs
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/14/throwaway-prs-not-design-docs
309
240
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBqasHLZs
280
60
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
https://veryfront.com/figma-kit
248
677
Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/13/microsoft-confirms-password-deletion-for-1-billion-users-attacks-up-200/
229
Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
https://github.com/gsidhu/buzee-tauri
218
59
IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts
https://irata.online/
215
56
Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions
https://chords.yottanami.com/
198
87
Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease
https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00897-3
196
129
Htmx 2.0.4 Released
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/v2.0.4/CHANGELOG.md
189
41
Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components
https://github.com/sockmaster27/svader
188
146
Uv, a fast Python package and project manager
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
175
155
Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/teaparty/
174
306
The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport
https://www.essesmag.com/articles/racings-deadliest-day
173
69
Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms
https://www.voxon.co
169
114
Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?
https://milescole.dev/data-engineering/2024/12/12/Should-You-Ditch-Spark-DuckDB-Polars.html
167
24
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust
https://github.com/ellenhp/farebox
163
Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666202724004518
159
301
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-elon-to-a-knife-fight
156
73
A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-12-13/0/POSTING-en.html
50
Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/10361
147
21
Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse
https://github.com/Surfer-Org/Protocol
46
Konwinski Prize
https://andykonwinski.com/2024/12/12/konwinski-prize.html
136
176
What Is Vim?
https://blog.jonas.foo/whats_vim.html
122
14
Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)
https://hapax.github.io/physics/teaching/hacks/napkin-hacks/
118
44
Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/11/11/occasional-paper-four-hidden-species-of-portuguese-man-o-war/
117
68
Computing Inside an AI
https://willwhitney.com/computing-inside-ai.html
106
13
Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)
http://www.appliedscience.studio/articles/array-programming-for-clojurists.html
102
28
PLATO: An educational computer system from the '60s shaped the future (2023)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/
98
Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-modder-successfully-adds-m2-slot-pi-500
96
53
YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24318124/youtube-player-cant-click-title-sigh
92
132
Should programming languages be safe or powerful?
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-11-21_powerful_or_safe_languages/
29
The saga of the color brown in the early years of the PC (2023)
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-saga-of-color-brown-in-early-years.html
67
Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag
https://ewpratten.com/blog/iphone-mifare-magic
91
48
Isomorphic Web Components
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-components/
89
31
Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9NG1Ke5Y
135
Problems with Python dependency management
https://nielscautaerts.xyz/python-dependency-management-is-a-dumpster-fire.html
81
23
South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President over his martial law order
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-impeach-6432768aafc8b55be26215667e3c19d0
