Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire.
The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a…
Connecting a Garmin GPS 95 to a Flipper Zero, the serial adventures along the way, and finding the Netherland's first Geocache.
TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of retrieval quality, latency, and cost. voyage-3 outperforms OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% on aver…
Operating a business is risky: you can't ever be sure how many customers you'll have, or what they'll show up looking for. If you guess wrong, you'll either have too few workers to serve the crowd, or you'll pay workers to stand around and wait for customers. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital."
“Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby…
Some printers at a newspaper in the UK made a funny joke about fake islands
EPFL researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications such as noninvasive targeted drug delivery.
The millisecond compute layer used for sandboxes, headless browsers, CI/builds, functions / Agents / Databases and much more. Instant boot, VM-grade isolation, and millisecond scale-to-zero, so you can ship with superior economics. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts — you own the entire stack.
I maintain two builds of the Linux kernel, a linux/arm64 build for gokrazy, my Go appliance platform, which started out on the Raspberry Pi, and then a linux/amd64 one for router7, which runs on PCs. The update process for both of these builds is entirely automated, meaning new Linux kernel releases are automatically…
How do we prepare them for what we're not prepared for?
Over the course of working on PSRayTracing (PSRT), I've been trying to find all sorts of tricks and techniques to squeeze out more performance from this C++ project. Most of it tends to be alternative algorithms, code rewriting, and adjusting data structures. I thought sprinkling the final keyword like an all purpose…
10 years on, some things have changed and some did not
If you've used CSS, you know what a class name is. They're a very poor proxy for the web today. Let's stop using them.
The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study.
Apple is being sued by the DOJ, but most of the complaints aren’t about the App Store. I think, though, Apple’s approach to the App Store is what led to this case.
A coding anti-pattern that spreads it's tentacles across the codebase
The reward amounts on offer by the Google VRP have undergone a major overhaul: We're increasing reward amounts by up to 5x (with maximum rewards of up to $151,515)!
A great language strangled by governance
The Atari 520ST was released in the US in July 1985, but because Atari did not provide magazines with pre-production models (like Commodore did with the Amiga), it took a while before magazine reviews appeared.
The ideas behind Product Market Fit (PMF) were first articulated by Marc Andreessen in a detailed blog post around 2007 [https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html].
And how to combat it. The story of an EM who created a ChatGPT for the internal docs in a few hours
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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