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Archives for 21 Aug 2024
  1. SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring
    (189 points | Comments)

  2. I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code
    (541 points | Comments)

  3. Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016)
    (142 points | Comments)

  4. Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps
    (138 points | Comments)

  5. Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
    (131 points | Comments)

  6. Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years
    (111 points | Comments)

  7. Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020)
    (174 points | Comments)

  8. Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational
    (172 points | Comments)

  9. US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died
    (405 points | Comments)

  10. Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid
    (209 points | Comments)

  11. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
    (358 points | Comments)

  12. Accident Forgiveness
    (310 points | Comments)

  13. Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language
    (141 points | Comments)

  14. GPU utilization can be a misleading metric
    (144 points | Comments)

  15. Kill the Newsletter: Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
    (114 points | Comments)

  16. Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
    (342 points | Comments)

  17. Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO
    (106 points | Comments)

  18. Code review antipatterns
    (131 points | Comments)

  19. Show HN: Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service
    (154 points | Comments)

  20. Make Firefox Private Again
    (445 points | Comments)

  21. Techniques for safe garbage collection in Rust
    (125 points | Comments)

  22. We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad
    (407 points | Comments)

  23. Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust)
    (136 points | Comments)

  24. The UX of HTML (2023)
    (183 points | Comments)

  25. Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes
    (148 points | Comments)

  26. Peng – A minimal Rust-based quadrotor simulation pipeline
    (130 points | Comments)

  27. How to build a 50k ton forging press
    (451 points | Comments)

  28. “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction
    (140 points | Comments)

  29. Degas: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars
    (150 points | Comments)

  30. ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
    (134 points | Comments)

  31. Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale
    (128 points | Comments)

  32. Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
    (254 points | Comments)

  33. Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby
    (101 points | Comments)

  34. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
    (1492 points | Comments)

  35. Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
    (191 points | Comments)

  36. Random Thoughts about Unity
    (107 points | Comments)

  37. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
    (364 points | Comments)

  38. Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore
    (168 points | Comments)

  39. The semantic web is now widely adopted
    (455 points | Comments)

  40. Calling All Hackers
    (674 points | Comments)

  41. Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
    (136 points | Comments)

  42. US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements
    (320 points | Comments)