December 2024 Archive
211.
U.S. math scores drop on major international test (chalkbeat.org)
212.
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
213.
A Replacement for BERT (huggingface.co)
214.
Mistakes as a new manager (terriblesoftware.org)
215.
Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement (chess.com)
216.
Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com)
217.
A Minecraft server written in COBOL (github.com)
218.
Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)
219.
Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (drive.google.com)
220.
EmacsConf 2024 Notes (sachachua.com)
221.
Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (igorstechnoclub.com)
222.
Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022) (jmeiners.com)
223.
Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor (github.com)
224.
They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard (kevinboone.me)
225.
I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig (jonot.me)
226.
Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too? (quantamagazine.org)
227.
Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch (github.com)
228.
A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)
229.
Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003) (historylink.org)
230.
Darktable 5.0.0 (darktable.org)
231.
<dialog>: The Dialog Element (developer.mozilla.org)
232.
MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown (github.com)
233.
Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
234.
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe (openttd.org)
235.
US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 (reuters.com)
236.
Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide (doctorswithoutborders.org)
237.
Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)
238.
Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond (ft.com)
239.
Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] (media.ccc.de)
240.
OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’ (daringfireball.net)