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The size of an empire cannot be larger than 1 month of travel from capital
posted on Fri Jan 06 15:25:38 UTC 2023 by agomez314 | view on HN
The article discusses how transportation technologies have shaped the world by determining the size of empires.
Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
posted on Fri Jan 06 14:51:09 UTC 2023 by rolph | view on HN
This article is about how some protein genes can arise from stretches of the genome that once encoded aimless strands of RNA instead, and how this has been a mystery.
posted on Fri Jan 06 13:35:38 UTC 2023 by baobabKoodaa | view on HN
The favorite object of the assistant curator at the Museum of Science and Industry is a device that was used to resuscitate canaries in coal mines, which he finds interesting because of the history behind it and because it is not in pristine condition.
U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
posted on Fri Jan 06 16:25:57 UTC 2023 by getToTheChopin | view on HN
The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.4% per year over the past 151 years.
Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
posted on Fri Jan 06 14:47:13 UTC 2023 by gabythenerd | view on HN
The article discusses the success of the Dwarf Fortress game and how the people who supported it from the beginning and those who helped along the way are responsible for its success.
Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice
posted on Fri Jan 06 06:46:55 UTC 2023 by signa11 | view on HN
This book is a practical guide to understanding low-level concurrency in the Rust programming language.
My bad habit of hoarding information
posted on Fri Jan 06 09:45:32 UTC 2023 by techn00 | view on HN
The article discusses the author's habit of collecting information from tech-focused websites and never looking at it again.
Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
posted on Fri Jan 06 16:17:10 UTC 2023 by Kaibeezy | view on HN
The article discusses the Great Salt Lake in Utah and how it is changing due to climate change and water development.
The Tyranny of Nicespeak (2001)
posted on Fri Jan 06 16:04:47 UTC 2023 by robtherobber | view on HN
The article is about how the way English is spoken has changed in a way that is detrimental to the language.
GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about creative commons licensing
posted on Fri Jan 06 13:26:47 UTC 2023 by doener | view on HN
The article discusses a lawsuit that has been filed against Microsoft and GitHub alleging that they have violated the DMCA, among other things.
Changing firmware config that doesn't want to be changed
posted on Thu Jan 05 05:55:39 UTC 2023 by zdw | view on HN
The article is about a CAPTCHA test that is required to validate requests.
FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
posted on Fri Jan 06 11:02:17 UTC 2023 by telis | view on HN
Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art
posted on Fri Jan 06 15:24:03 UTC 2023 by kamban | view on HN
A man was banned from a popular subreddit for his art that looked like it was made by AI, but he was actually just a very good artist.
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
posted on Fri Jan 06 13:51:58 UTC 2023 by sebg | view on HN
The article discusses how the number of hyperprolific authors has increased over the years, and how they attribute their success to a variety of reasons such as hard work, mentorship, and leadership.
Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing) Is Hiring Sr Ruby Engineers
posted on Fri Jan 06 12:01:16 UTC 2023 by AnhTho_FR | view on HN
The article discusses the Lago company and their mission to create a 'Modern Pricing Stack' for product-led companies.
VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers
posted on Fri Jan 06 02:46:42 UTC 2023 by georgehill | view on HN
This article is about a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis that uses discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model.
posted on Fri Jan 06 12:35:28 UTC 2023 by nine_k | view on HN
The P programming framework provides a unified framework for modeling, specifying, implementing, testing, and verifying complex distributed systems.
Debugging Lisp: trace options, break on conditions
posted on Wed Jan 04 22:25:50 UTC 2023 by akkartik | view on HN
This article covers the basics of the trace function in Common Lisp, including how to break on a condition and how to enrich the trace output.
Please Sell My Personal Information
posted on Fri Jan 06 12:58:20 UTC 2023 by surprisetalk | view on HN
The author is proud of the corporation the reader works for, and believes that they deserve every dollar they make.
posted on Thu Jan 05 21:20:35 UTC 2023 by jeremylevy | view on HN
In Level 2 of the article, the author introduces using HTTP verbs and HTTP response codes, which is a departure from Level 1, where only POST was used.
Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
posted on Fri Jan 06 01:32:55 UTC 2023 by cdme | view on HN
The article is about how buying a domain name through Hover does not have any monthly fees and does not automatically renew.
Spammy syscalls in strace dumps
posted on Fri Jan 06 05:08:59 UTC 2023 by zdw | view on HN
The article discusses how TCP_NODELAY can cause issues with Nagle's algorithm, which is used to batch up small writes to avoid spamming the network with tiny packets, and how this can be a problem if a program is writing to stdout a byte at a time.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
posted on Fri Jan 06 09:23:15 UTC 2023 by Dicey84 | view on HN
posted on Fri Jan 06 09:31:48 UTC 2023 by drallison | view on HN
Ask HN: What's on your home server?
posted on Fri Jan 06 05:00:49 UTC 2023 by _moof | view on HN
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust
posted on Fri Jan 06 05:21:19 UTC 2023 by cod1r | view on HN
The article discusses the author's experience building a custom Rust toolchain, and how they eventually found success.
Switzerland: snow flown in by helicopter in attempt to keep ski slopes open
posted on Fri Jan 06 13:49:17 UTC 2023 by _Microft | view on HN
The ski area managers of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland want to keep their pistes open by all means, so they had the snow flown onto the green meadow by helicopter.
Ask HN: Is there some academic research on software fragility?
posted on Fri Jan 06 16:44:31 UTC 2023 by fedeb95 | view on HN
No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)
posted on Fri Jan 06 08:09:25 UTC 2023 by ZephyrBlu | view on HN
The article discusses how early-stage startups are often under-financed, which makes manufacturing one of the most critically dangerous periods in a young company’s life, and how this lack of capital makes it difficult for startups to mimic Apple products.
Zelda: Link's Awakening game engine documentation (2021)
posted on Fri Jan 06 01:28:45 UTC 2023 by adamdegas | view on HN
The Link's Awakening game engine is made up of two main systems, the render loop and the V-blank interrupt handler, that work together to pre-compute each frame while the previous one is being drawn by the PPU.