689
295
What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxOuc9Qwk
2 years ago
599
127
My Colleague Julius
https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html
421
317
Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-commercial-tea-bags-millions-microplastics.html
390
350
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/can-ai-do-maths-yet-thoughts-from-a-mathematician/
385
240
'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/12/united-healthcare-using-dmca-against-luigi-mangione-images-which-is-bizarre-wildly-inappropriate/
355
631
Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508
311
368
C++ is an absolute blast
https://learncodethehardway.com/blog/31-c-plus-plus-is-an-absolute-blast/
306
139
Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241
301
156
Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?
https://seangeiger.substack.com/p/why-are-cancer-guidelines-stuck-in
286
588
Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490343
280
111
On the nature of computing science (1984)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD896.html
278
165
Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/20/ugandan-runner-deo-kato-cape-town-london-hope-racism-europe-africa
263
214
Xerox to acquire Lexmark
https://newsroom.lexmark.com/2024-12-23-Xerox-to-Acquire-Lexmark
259
44
Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
https://blog.fogus.me/2024/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2024/
251
32
Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island
https://github.com/isledecomp/isle
228
48
Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker
https://supersnowflakemaker.com
222
69
Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys
https://keypub.sh/
219
238
Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?
https://linuxblog.io/immutable-linux-distros-are-they-right-for-you-take-the-test/
215
50
A new learning experience on MDN
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/curriculum-learn-web-development/
211
101
The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/swedish-cabin-frontline-possible-hybrid-war-undersea-cables-sabotage
209
61
The software you need for holiday overdecoration
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/ezrgb-dbos-light-shows
201
51
Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access
https://www.goodfire.ai/papers/mapping-latent-spaces-llama/
188
88
New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups
https://imgur.com/a/NQskWzI
169
132
WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States
https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-and-media-relations/news-releases?article=41658
166
15
Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning
https://medium.com/inspiredbrilliance/exploring-lora-part-1-the-idea-behind-parameter-efficient-fine-tuning-and-lora-ec469d176c26
160
22
Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem
https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack
157
39
Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3296
138
64
Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical
https://blog.pgvecto.rs/why-hnsw-is-not-the-answer
136
94
What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?
https://yoric.github.io/post/rust-refinement-types/
65
I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections
https://webextension.net/collections
130
70
The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby
https://denisdefreyne.com/articles/2024-memoization/
116
99
Nordstrom family to take company private
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-23/nordstrom-family-to-take-company-private-in-6-25-billion-deal
9
Offline Reinforcement Learning for LLM Multi-Step Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16145
107
74
Supernovae Evidence for Foundational Change to Cosmological Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15143
106
52
llms.txt directory
https://directory.llmstxt.cloud/
105
123
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/12/23/will-that-hub-or-dock-slow-your-ssds-or-even-make-them-faster/
27
Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/12/23/jailbreaking
83
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/journal-that-published-faulty-black-plastic-study-removed-from-science-index/
104
76
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492405
103
80
Ten Years of JMAP
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/ten-years-of-jmap/
100
35
Navtive FlameGraphViewer
https://laladrik.xyz/blog/flameGraphViewer/
98
16
Manx – a catalog of manuals for old computers
https://manx-docs.org/about.php
91
56
A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events
https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-practitioners-guide-to-wide-events/
89
A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
7
Phrack 72 "40th Anniversary Edition" Call for Papers
https://phrack.org
82
10
EU bans BPA in food materials
https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety-news-0/commission-adopts-ban-bisphenol-food-contact-materials-2024-12-19_en
