Engineering for Slow Internet(brr.fyi)
927 points by jader201 | 363 comments
A blog post from brr.fyi, written from Antarctica, on how software and websites behave on slow, high-latency internet and how engineers should design for it.
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This Message Does Not Exist(kmjn.org)
772 points by sebtron | 241 comments
A short blog essay musing on the ontological puzzles in an Outlook 365 error saying a message can't be saved because it no longer exists and can only be discarded.
Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection(hudsonrock.com)
677 points by zbangrec | 211 comments
Hudson Rock blog post investigating the Snowflake breach, reporting a hacker's claim that access was gained via an infostealer infection of an employee.
UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look(wiredjs.com)
662 points by nickca | 106 comments
Homepage of Wired Elements, an open-source set of common UI web components with a randomized hand-drawn, sketchy look for wireframes and mockups.
Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)
612 points by sohkamyung | 92 comments
Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.
Repairing my mug with Kintsugi(fellerts.no)
580 points by fellerts | 75 comments
Personal blog post describing repairing a broken ten-year-old coffee mug using the Japanese kintsugi technique.
How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)
551 points by tfvlrue | 257 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.
IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season(axios.com)
409 points by kjhughes | 264 comments
Axios news article reporting that the IRS will open its free Direct File online tax filing program to all states and D.C. for the 2025 tax season.
Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time(shademap.app)
369 points by wfme | 109 comments
ShadeMap is an interactive web map that simulates shadows cast by terrain, buildings and trees worldwide for any chosen date and time.
What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs(eugeneyan.com)
367 points by ViktorasJucikas | 117 comments
A practical guide by Eugene Yan and co-authors sharing lessons from a year of building LLM products, covering prompting, RAG, evaluation, operations, and strategy.
A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence(news.artnet.com)
365 points by geox | 256 comments
Artnet News article about a man told to build a fence hiding his boat, who had artist Hanif Panni paint the boat on the fence, which went viral.
Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses(standardebooks.org)
334 points by robin_reala | 118 comments
Standard Ebooks' free public-domain ebook edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, marking the project's 1,000th title.
60 kHz (2022)(ben.page)
227 points by jer0me | 141 comments
25 Years of Krita(krita.org)
184 points by TangerineDream | 66 comments
Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
156 points by bckr | 127 comments
De-googling, so far(blog.nradk.com)
144 points by nradk | 127 comments
![Screenshot of tmp.tonybox.net: Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/6/1/842fce6e-b14b-493d-afd1-ade9703e5b92.jpg)
Stop Using Discord(malenfant.net)
113 points by ColinWright | 72 comments
Multi-Array Queue(github.com)
85 points by vitpro2213 | 29 comments
Trinity keeps KDE 3 on life support(lwn.net)
55 points by signa11 | 40 comments
