Technical Knowledge Journey

Generative Zoology with Neural Networks 5 by cortesi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection 9 by prostoalex | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The possible disappearance of a massive star in the galaxy PHL 293B 11 by karxxm | 0 comments on Hacker News.

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste 24 by sahin-boydas | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA 9 by pseudolus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Taming Advanced Compilation bugs in ClojureScript projects 10 by k1ll3rf0x | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Rapid improvement in Alzheimer’s disease after fecal microbiota transplant 3 by voisin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI bias 62 by Yuqing7 | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse” 5 by Hooke | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) 10 by newswasboring | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Timeshared Robots 5 by tlb | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Braille, and the Evolution of Software Development 4 by brendt_gd | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why I left Substack and the Email Renaissance 13 by kevin_indig | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Apple machine learning in 2020: What’s new? 8 by dsr12 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns 32 by Nettles | 8 comments on Hacker News.

IBM releases RTL source code for A2I Blue Gene/Q processor core 13 by ajdlinux | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011) 13 by luu | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Mapping Anything with BSicons 6 by zetter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

China Passed Security Law in Hong Kong. Goes into Effect July First 63 by rootsudo | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Curve Detecting Neurons 3 by sdenton4 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The True Cost of Dollar Stores: What Discount chains do to poor communities? 4 by haltingproblem | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Lua 5.4.0 Released 36 by smlckz | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong? 12 by Lilian_Lee | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Sightbit deploys AI on beaches to help lifeguards spot distressed swimmers 6 by dsavant | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro 44 by OMGCable | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light 10 by alister | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Implementing a System Call for OpenBSD 9 by soheilpro | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Keep Your Stuff, for Life 20 by vincent_s | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Friedrich Hayek on Evolution and Spontaneous Order (1983) 3 by eigenvalue | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Antic Cyber Graphics Software (Prehistory of Autodesk 3D Studio) 5 by pavlov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Learning to Cartoonize Using White-Box Cartoon Representations 1 by gitgud | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Draftbit (YC W18) Is Hiring a Technical Product Lead – Build Apps Visually 1 by Brushfire | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned 28 by ko3us | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Featherweight Java: A Minimal Core Calculus for Java and GJ (2002) [pdf] 9 by sendilkumarn | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A Spark of Insight into Neanderthal Behavior 6 by diodorus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Break Up Google 105 by robin_reala | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018) 12 by prospero | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Taxonomic vandalism and the Raymond Hoser problem (2013) 6 by blegh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

UCSF forced to pay more than $1 million ransom to perpetrators of malware attack 9 by tlrobinson | 5 comments on Hacker News.

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991) 16 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Windows98 Running in the Browser 30 by tectonic | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback 3 by lowmemcpu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Taking Up Animation as a Hobby 8 by luu | 3 comments on Hacker News.

USPS loses on average $1.10 for each package it delivers from China 44 by rjzzleep | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer 46 by betocmn | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report 14 by yasp | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E (802.11 n/AC/ax) – educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions 35 by rdslw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II 18 by caution | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns 44 by bryanrasmussen | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration 13 by zdw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium 56 by samspenc | 36 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: 8-bit CPU simulator in C 8 by rzach | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Pareto Front Sort for Python 5 by kummappp | 1 comments on Hacker News.

India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads 12 by pseudolus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year 32 by saadalem | 29 comments on Hacker News.

How to finish your side project 17 by hugozap | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Parallax effect in browser using web-camera 5 by munrocket | 3 comments on Hacker News.

A principled approach to GraphQL query cost analysis 5 by davisjam314 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, landmark gene study finds 17 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Kindness for Mean Girls 33 by tenslisi | 28 comments on Hacker News.

Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox 6 by bpc945 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

TwisterOS – Raspberry Pi – Win or OS X UI and run x86 apps on ARM (box86,DosBox) 5 by jordybg | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Building a high performance JSON parser 29 by grey-area | 3 comments on Hacker News.

FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player 45 by farmerbb | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Our AWS bill is less than 2% of revenue. Here's how we did it 5 by grwthckrmstr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub 41 by DaniAkash | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4 8 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game 3 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying on Millions of iPhone Users 60 by dsr12 | 23 comments on Hacker News.

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME 4 by thristian | 0 comments on Hacker News.

WebTransport API 12 by Jarred | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Comedy of Heirs: Catching a glimpse of heaven in the confines of Tristram Shandy 2 by pepys | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Stonehenge: Neolithic monument found near sacred site 4 by diodorus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: GIF Directions 10 by jack_riminton | 6 comments on Hacker News.

UCSF admits it paid NetWalker more than $1M ransom 4 by hakh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Deep Learning – The “Why” Question (2018) 5 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.

It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously 22 by starmftronajoll | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Diamond-Square Algorithm 4 by _fourzerofour | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Volley (YC W18) is hiring a Head of Engineering to build voice-controlled games 1 by jameswilsterman | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Open letter from a Texas county judge about his Covid mask order 34 by beervirus | 15 comments on Hacker News.

A Treatise on Font Rasterisation (2010) 4 by threeme3 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Multistate Disagreement over the Length of the Foot to End 3 by danso | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Patient 91: How Vietnam saved a British pilot and kept a clean Covid-19 sheet 5 by onetimemanytime | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids 12 by prostoalex | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Zuckerberg Loses $7B as Firms Boycott Facebook Ads 6 by Ice_cream_suit | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Myths about Patents and Trademarks in startups 4 by samdung | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A new material for light-matter interactions 3 by dnetesn | 0 comments on Hacker News.

HonKit: A Fork of GitBook 13 by matsuu | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Silurian Hypothesis: Were There Civilizations on Earth Before Humans? (2018) 6 by rfreytag | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Matting and Hinging of Works of Art on Paper (1981) [pdf] 3 by brudgers | 0 comments on Hacker News.

University of California, SF, just paid $1.14M in ransom 43 by 1024core | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Algorithm-Visualizer 24 by walker_tw | 8 comments on Hacker News.

NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software 2 by luu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Milton Glaser, Master Designer of ‘I love NY’ Logo, has died 22 by wallflower | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust 13 by redbluemonkey | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Cradle of Cantonese Cuisine Welcomes Robot Chef Overlords 4 by rmason | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly 6 by lukastyrychtr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Flexport is hiring engineers in Amsterdam (we’ll get you a visa) 1 by thedogeye | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper 17 by thesephist | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Tons of microplastic rain onto western US 28 by lerie1982 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Let's use more of Firefox, only YOU can stop Chrome from becoming the next IE 47 by smart_jackal | 16 comments on Hacker News. For those who don't know (or belong to a newer generation), Microsoft's IE (Internet Explorer) was one browser that had almost monopolized itself globally for many years mostly during the early nineties decade. They managed to do it but the backlash was such that the public pressure practically caused a storm that made Bill Gates sit in front of the jury and answer some hard questions. And today, I'm seeing history is repeating all over again, only Chrome has taken IE's place but there is no storm coming this time. Unlike our predecessors, we are giving in to convenience, we are acting like its not a botheration at all. PLEASE DON'T DO IT . Consider the sheer browser market share that Chrome enjoys and Google's data interests for a moment, and it might already be too late for us. If a web service insists only on Chrome for best pe...

Re-Stacking the GUI Stack 6 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

KiwiCo Eureka Crate: Monthly Science Kit Subscription 6 by paulchap | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Math Behind the Rolling Shutter Phenomenon 11 by reddotX | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Fix Your Timestep 15 by replyifuagree | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Gopherspace in the Year 2020 6 by sT370ma2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Clock Signal: A latency-hating emulator of 8- and 16-bit platforms 17 by AnthonBerg | 1 comments on Hacker News.

There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff 65 by kackbein | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Invest in Main Street 10 by apsec112 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Snowden: Tech Workers Are Complicit in How Their Companies Hurt Society 73 by AndrewBissell | 26 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox 56 by mmettler | 31 comments on Hacker News.

Turn recipe websites into plain text 33 by vincent_s | 6 comments on Hacker News.

CHM Releases New Recordings and Personal Stories with AI Expert Systems Pioneers 3 by umangkeshri | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Boston Bans Use of Facial Recognition Technology 25 by psychanarch | 7 comments on Hacker News.