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Archives for 18 Aug 2024
  1. Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
    (525 points | Comments)

  2. EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public
    (102 points | Comments)

  3. Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M
    (360 points | Comments)

  4. Mike Mageek is dead
    (344 points | Comments)

  5. Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
    (111 points | Comments)

  6. NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
    (314 points | Comments)

  7. The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep
    (196 points | Comments)

  8. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue
    (376 points | Comments)

  9. Prompt Caching
    (173 points | Comments)

  10. Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil
    (114 points | Comments)

  11. Algorithms we develop software by
    (270 points | Comments)

  12. Micro-libraries should never be used
    (180 points | Comments)

  13. Leaving Neovim for Zed
    (350 points | Comments)

  14. Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]
    (145 points | Comments)

  15. Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
    (108 points | Comments)

  16. Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
    (205 points | Comments)

  17. Show HN: I Made a Website for Problems
    (107 points | Comments)

  18. Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more
    (129 points | Comments)

  19. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
    (840 points | Comments)

  20. Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again
    (120 points | Comments)

  21. Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry
    (150 points | Comments)

  22. A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other
    (127 points | Comments)

  23. CSS adds vertical centering in 2024
    (136 points | Comments)

  24. Bug squash: An underrated interview question
    (434 points | Comments)

  25. Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it
    (118 points | Comments)

  26. The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006)
    (185 points | Comments)

  27. Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
    (492 points | Comments)

  28. I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs
    (125 points | Comments)

  29. Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1
    (293 points | Comments)

  30. On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)
    (155 points | Comments)

  31. Getting back into C programming for CP/M
    (213 points | Comments)

  32. How the OCaml type checker works (2022)
    (219 points | Comments)

  33. UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite
    (142 points | Comments)

  34. Alain Delon has died
    (107 points | Comments)