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newsfeed for busy web developers
Happy New Year 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562750

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Jimmy Carter has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/

1183
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Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html

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They have not been trained for this

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist

645
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Merry Christmas Everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506577

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US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-judge-finds-israels-nso-group-liable-hacking-whatsapp-lawsuit-2024-12-21/

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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/introducing-timecapsule

709
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Moon

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

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OpenERV

https://www.openerv.ca

849
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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/

1014
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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

1041
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Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions

1306
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Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/

1015
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Willow, Our Quantum Chip

https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

1410
528
ChatGPT Pro

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pro/

813
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IMG_0001

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001/

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Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-ceo-news-dec-2024.html

913
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Advent of Code 2024

https://adventofcode.com/2024/about

1388
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What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch

https://blog.koenvh.nl/what-does-this-button-do-cm42u2oi7000a09l42f54g2pr

712
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California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-11-18/special-education-schools-gifted

412
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Model Context Protocol

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol

872
258
Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-the-highest-resolution-images-ever-captured-of-the-suns-entire-surface-180985518/

518
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Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazon-to-invest-another-4-billion-in-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival.html

666
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ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges

890
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tuition-undergraduates-family-income-1120

737
459
OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

https://tech.marksblogg.com/osm-mvt-vector-tiles.html

497
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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly

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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

https://michaelcharl.es/aubrey/en/code/new-rebeccapurple-css-logo

908
184
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th

574
266
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard

2106
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Leaving and Waving

https://deannadikeman.com/leaving-and-waving

634
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IMG_0416

https://ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416

2310
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Trump wins presidency for second time

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4969061-trump-wins-presidential-election/

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Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts

https://battleda.sh/blog/ea-account-takeover

902
154
New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/04/new-york-times-tech-strike-walkout/

717
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Apple acquires Pixelmator

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pixelmator/

1184
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ChatGPT Search

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search/

1485
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Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones/

1147
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GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/microsoft-s-github-unit-cuts-ai-deals-with-google-anthropic

897
702
We're forking Flutter

https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/

853
713
Character amnesia in China

https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/

483
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How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me

https://www.ft.com/content/b9e419c6-acf1-420b-8ae6-908feb52c94e

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We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

https://www.ifixit.com/News/102368/victory-is-sweet-we-can-now-fix-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines

1112
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Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85878e9cce03283694d01d878481f6b

1014
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Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/

637
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

1454
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First images from Euclid are in

https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/10/023/orig-2410_023_AR_EN.mp4

1413
396
Accountability sinks

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks

517
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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/secret-3d-scans-in-the-french-supreme

776
303
Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/adobes-new-image-rotation-tool-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-ai-concepts-weve-seen

912
268
FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

1747
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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1845152255944819015

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1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e52

1637
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Working from home is powering productivity

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom

623
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Helping wikis move away from Fandom

https://weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-helping-more-wikis-move-away-from-fandom

1176
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Internet Archive: Security breach alert

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message

1091
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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf

943
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Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores

787
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It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

703
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Meta Movie Gen

https://ai.meta.com/research/movie-gen/?_fb_noscript=1

1107
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A $1k Wheelchair

https://newmobility.com/not-a-wheelchair/

965
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Bop Spotter

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

2433
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Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html

917
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Fraud, so much fraud

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fraud-so-much-fraud

1528
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Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925/

1371
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/

1227
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Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/

1003
467
I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

https://arslan.io/2024/09/23/dieter-rams-inspired-iphone-dock/

1509
356
Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions

593
144
Sanding UI

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/sanding-ui/

1300
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Why wordfreq will not be updated

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

1707
510
Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/

1076
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Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazon-jassy-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week.html

1498
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How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbeast-production/

2115
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Learning to Reason with LLMs

https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

1654
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We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/

1624
367
An NFC movie library for my kids

https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/

1384
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The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf

995
793
1M Users

https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1245177

787
184
Founder Mode

https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html

1330
735
Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-llms-from-the-ground-up

970
136
AnandTech Farewell

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

3025
598
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

2365
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NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture

https://www.nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa-foia/declassification-transparency-initiatives/historical-releases/view/article/3880193/capt-grace-hopper-on-future-possibilities-data-hardware-software-and-people-1982/

946
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Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

https://decripto.org/en/arrest-of-pavel-durov-charges-of-terrorism-fraud-and-child-pornography-he-did-not-cooperate-with-the-authorities-he-risks-20-years-in-prison/

733
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport

1175
1038
Did you lose your AirPods?

https://alexyancey.com/lost-airpods/

1115
383
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

https://switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it/

1492
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Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/

840
464
Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-extradition-to-the-u-s-given-green-light-by-new-zealand-240815/

853
1150
All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere

753
275
Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

1168
1018
Susan Wojcicki has died

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588

721
452
Jake Seliger has died

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/08/jake-seliger-is-dead.html

960
193
I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=11.%20RP2350

700
341
Medieval

https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320

880
321
Starting Hospice

https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/

1209
145
"We ran out of columns"

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase

1641
571
Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious-data-pattern-in-recent-venezuelan-election/

903
470
Our audit of Homebrew

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/07/30/our-audit-of-homebrew/

845
184
How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?

https://doubleagent.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/

503
209
A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/zurich-bern-consider-billboard-bans-after-vernier-outlaws-visual-pollution

671
590
AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/

1370
525
Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

1983
374
Open source AI is the path forward

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/

2360
887
Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/

749
215
Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933

990
1801
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/

4489
3859
Panic at the Job Market

https://matt.sh/panic-at-the-job-market

1717
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I am starting an AI+Education company

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301

915
539
Use a work journal

https://fev.al/posts/work-journal/

1083
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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/

1103
812
We need visual programming. No, not like that

https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/demand-for-visual-programming/

1178
494
How to think in writing

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think

424
120
PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key

https://maciejwalkowiak.com/blog/postgres-uuid-primary-key/

436
332
Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers

https://www.securityweek.com/twilio-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-leak-33m-authy-user-phone-numbers/

663
396
I Received an AI Email

https://timharek.no/blog/i-received-an-ai-email

716
574
Why is Chile so long?

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-chile-so-long

1441
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Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/navy-seals-brain-damage-suicide.html

663
575
Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling

760
1494
Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/

764
86
One Million Checkboxes

https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/

994
304
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/julian-assange-reached-plea-deal-us-allowing-go-free-rcna158695

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Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/974534021/remembering-allan-mcdonald-he-refused-to-approve-challenger-launch-exposed-cover

562
391
EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/

1213
533
Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/stop-chat-control

960
320
FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling

2587
847
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

https://axio.ms/projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html

844
177
Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

676
305
Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/

1811
914
Lynn Conway has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

1667
328
Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/06/introducing-apple-intelligence-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/

1092
1237
I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/

1183
162
The Backrooms of the Internet Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/01/the-backrooms-of-the-internet-archive/

722
112
Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html

827
355
How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/816698/how-many-photons-are-received-per-bit-transmitted-from-voyager-1

1027
195
Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

https://torrentfreak.com/napster-sparked-a-file-sharing-revolution-25-years-ago-250601/

389
334
Engineering for Slow Internet

https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet

1008
386
After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

1259
698
TTE: Terminal Text Effects

https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/

1830
266
Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-tour.html

971
261
Cloudflare took down our website

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

1044
466
Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees

1791
534
Gordon Bell has died

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

1257
70
Llama3 implemented from scratch

https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch

1041
269
Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/

593
278
OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

1254
961
Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

993
287
Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

631
219
Veo

https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/

1727
488
GPT-4o

https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

3138
2366
GPUs Go Brrr

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-05-12-tk

1104
263
Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

876
71
It's always TCP_NODELAY

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html

884
268
AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/

1100
487
Apple introduces M4 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/

1588
2061
MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/05/04/mit-abandons-use-of-dei-statements/

962
720
DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android

835
379
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/shapeup/

680
187
Printing Music with CSS Grid

https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

996
82
Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail

1078
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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

1484
972
FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet.html

1013
564
Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139036/biden-signs-tiktok-ban-bill-divest-foreign-aid-package

819
1694
The man who killed Google Search?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

1884
878
Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)

http://agileotter.blogspot.com/2014/09/programming-is-mostly-thinking.html

891
322
Why you should not apply to YC

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1781751108211511680

455
200
Daniel Dennett has died

https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/

952
630
Meta Llama 3

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/

2199
923
This is a teenager

https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/

1445
813
PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

558
212
Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/obituary-for-a-quiet-life

1416
293
The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

https://drericlevi.substack.com/p/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor

621
500
Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P

https://github.com/tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules

829
336
U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS

https://apnews.com/article/forever-chemicals-pfas-pollution-epa-drinking-water-1c8804288413a73bb7b99fc866c8fa51

631
427
Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epidemic

1164
1164
How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

https://eidel.io/how-to-found-a-company-in-germany-14-easy-steps-and-lots-of-pain/

633
998
Mario meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto

1583
177
Guess my RGB

https://susam.net/myrgb.html

618
144
XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

1323
810
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.html

1268
1431
Daniel Kahneman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

1002
309
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1772514015790477667

726
2
Radios, how do they work?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work

641
109
Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

675
192
U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html

2546
2569
Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/gps-jamming-map/

996
281
How to Start Google

https://paulgraham.com/google.html

737
652
YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/products/platforms/how-were-helping-creators-disclose-altered-or-synthetic-content/

882
485
Grok

https://github.com/xai-org/grok

1170
419
Spreadsheets are all you need

https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/index.html

1493
164
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/

559
310
Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/12/apple-announces-app-downloads-from-websites/

781
1390
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

1335
556
U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/boeing-criminal-inquiry-alaska-airlines-flight.html

639
544
Akira Toriyama has died

https://noisypixel.net/dragon-ball-creator-akira-toriyama-has-passed-away/

1065
207
OpenAI and Elon Musk

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

1037
977
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/

1025
638
CSS for printing to paper

https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing

615
137
Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/musk-v-altman-openai-complaint-sf.pdf

1462
1208
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963851/0c64b8038c62432c/

817
616
Airfoil

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

2544
296
Apache Superset

https://superset.apache.org/

696
189
Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

1723
564
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

1422
872
Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2023/12/Considerations-for-a-long-running-Raspberry-Pi.html

510
341
Alexei Navalny has died

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

1641
1541
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/european-court-of-human-rights-echr/2024/02/14/european-court-of-human-rights-bans-weakening-of-secure-end-to-endencryption-the-end-of-eus-chat-control-csar-mass-surveillance-plans/

1673
258
Is something bugging you?

https://antithesis.com/blog/is_something_bugging_you/

1179
418
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-defeats-patent-troll-sable-at-trial

1074
410
I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was-illegally-fired-by-amazon-for-speaking-out-about-a-coworkers-death/

564
438
Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/

1181
626
FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-makes-ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal

1156
674
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data

550
193
My favourite Git commit (2019)

https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit

714
398
Infinite Craft

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

1177
675
Apple Vision Pro review

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-review-39f2d82e

681
1066
--libcurl

https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/libcurl

692
132
Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

https://www.ign.com/articles/disney-unveils-the-holotile-floor-inching-us-closer-to-a-real-life-holodeck

823
294
Portable EPUBs

https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/#epub-content%2FEPUB%2Findex.xhtml$

659
232
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

2108
2485
FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/business/ftc-turbotax-free-services/index.html

879
253
What's that touchscreen in my room?

https://laplab.me/posts/whats-that-touchscreen-in-my-room/

1890
560
Dave Mills has died

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html

731
79
Losing my son

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/i-lost-my-son/

2437
396
Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-word-begins-with-y-and-looks-like-an-axe-in-this-picture

1220
289
US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternative-purchase-option/

911
1300
I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

https://www.amazon.com/fulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown/dp/B0CM82FJL2

1325
736
Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/technology/google-layoffs.html

862
1265
A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/a-huge-battery-has-replaced-hawaiis-last-coal-plant

666
466
Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-gets-a-jit.html

1081
521
FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boeing-737-max-9-grounding-after-alaska-airlines-door-blows-midflight.html

861
838
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

1051
288
Niklaus Wirth has died

https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347

1902
403
1D Pac-Man

https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku

1790
230
Standard Ebooks

https://standardebooks.org/

701
153