1092
98
Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900
2 years ago
770
437
AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163
708
228
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/making-tiny-no-code-webapps-out-of-spreadsheets-is-a-weirdly-fulfilling-hobby/
476
134
'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system
https://www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-entirely-new-class-of-life-has-been-found-in-the-human-digestive-system
425
111
Curl-Impersonate
https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate
393
191
Fun facts about SQLite
https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-facts/
384
154
From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-from-pegasus-to-predator-the-evolution-of-commercial-spyware-on-ios
377
361
Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/
334
142
I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig
https://jonot.me/posts/zig-gba/
317
97
“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38769/38769-pdf.pdf
310
176
Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11
https://noinitrd.github.io/Memory-Dump-UEFI/
305
398
Most people don't care about quality
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/most-people-dont-care-about-quality/
264
YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/youtuber-won-dmca-fight-with-fake-nintendo-lawyer-by-detecting-spoofed-email/
230
80
KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework
https://github.com/OpenSPG/KAG
227
64
Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
https://people.kernel.org/kees/colliding-with-the-sha-prefix-of-linuxs-initial-git-commit
213
44
Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2024/12/29/optimizing-ruby-json-part-4.html
67
MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones
https://github.com/KreitinnSoftware/MiceWine-Application
209
24
Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth
https://www.peterzimon.com/hog/
204
61
How AI is unlocking ancient texts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04161-z
196
162
US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010
https://www.ft.com/content/c755a34d-eb97-40d1-b780-ae2e2f0e7ad9
188
146
Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth
https://www.ft.com/content/7c3dafa8-ffb9-4ca8-b677-ab3cc2afbdcb
110
Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
https://www.obdev.at/en/products/littlesnitch/index.html
184
68
Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
https://bellard.org/ts_zip/
183
52
RWKV Language Model
https://www.rwkv.com/
180
3
Linux Context Switching Internals: Process State and Memory
https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/linux-context-switching-internals
178
262
Database mocks are not worth it
https://www.shayon.dev/post/2024/365/database-mocks-are-just-not-worth-it/
167
246
Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-unitedhealthcare-cigna-doctors
157
Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/apple-and-meta-go-to-war-over-interoperability-vs-privacy/
148
133
China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-thorium-molten-salt-reactor
VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data
https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1873315392082334150
128
FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/30/ftc-orders-gun-detection-tech-maker-evolv-to-stop-overstating-effectiveness-of-its-glorified-metal-detectors/
19
Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2024-12-03-minimalistic-ruby-compiler/
137
201
Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549145
135
92
Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024
https://www.jerpint.io/blog/advent-of-code-llms/
Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mvynnxzzmo
132
75
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2006) [pdf]
https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf
126
28
Lucy: A concise language for describing Finite State Machines
https://pkg.spooky.click/lucylang/
125
25
JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/
123
13
A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app
https://github.com/panel-extensions/panel-graphic-walker
Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/section_1/artc4A.html
122
460
Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.final.html
118
79
Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-Pro-Max-and-Ultra-could-ditch-much-vaunted-unified-memory-architecture-for-split-CPU-and-GPU-designs-fabbed-on-TSMC-N3E.937047.0.html
115
16
The Homa Network Protocol
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1003059/41b1d2ea281b6779/
Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-beyond-ble-cracking-open-the-black-box-of-rf-microcontrollers
107
Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/30/bench-to-be-acquired-after-abruptly-shutting-down/
101
94
Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' court rules
https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/12/27/floridians-have-no-right-to-bodies-of-water-free-of-pollution-appeals-court-rules/
99
87
Limits to Growth (1972)
http://bit-player.org/extras/limits/
69
Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547867
38
86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines
https://github.com/86Box/86Box
96
41
Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18052
83
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
https://www.seangoedecke.com/staff-engineer-promotions/
India's food shortage filled American libraries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj80gld7do
7
I made a tiny library for switches and sum types in Lua
https://github.com/alurm/lua-match
81
31
US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/
Category Theory Illustrated
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/
How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18573
27
If I Could Wave a Magic Wand
https://wilsoniumite.com/2024/12/30/if-i-could-wave-a-magic-wand/
Show HN: Onramp Can Compile Doom
https://ludocode.com/blog/onramp-can-compile-doom
78
63
40+ JackOfManyTrades needs advice for job search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548572
76
49
The smallest Hello World program
https://blog.lohr.dev/smol-hello-world
56
Israel built an 'AI factory' for war. It unleashed it in Gaza
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/29/ai-israel-war-gaza-idf/
74
Curl with Partial Files
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/30/curl-with-partial-files/
73
What I learned reporting in cities that take belongings from homeless people
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeless-encampments-essay
72
What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996)
https://annakaharris.com/chalmers/