What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415386

Biggest shell programs

Link: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Programs-in-the-World

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42346274

Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-workweek-intl-hnk/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203

Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03817-0

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42229531

Phased Array Microphone (2023)

Link: https://benwang.dev/2023/02/26/Phased-Array-Microphone.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215552

Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/amazon-to-invest-another-4-billion-in-anthropic-openais-biggest-rival.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215126

WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08107

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208964

Emacs Code Conversion Language

Link: https://emacsninja.com/posts/code-conversion-language.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207282

Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

Link: https://www.securityweek.com/apple-confirms-zero-day-attacks-hitting-intel-based-macs/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42189581

Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

Link: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713

Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes

Link: https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iph66057d0f6/ios

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42104378

Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)

Link: https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2023/02000/a_short_history_of_saturated_fat__the_making_and.10.aspx

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957637

Yes, we did discover the Higgs

Link: https://theoryandpractice.org/2024/10/Yes,%20we%20did%20discover%20the%20Higgs!/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926907

USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

Link: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/unlocking-arkansas-hidden-treasure-usgs-uses-machine-learning-show-large

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916322

Don't Publish with IEEE

Link: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912625

Why pay for a search engine

Link: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833833

America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/plumbers-hvac-skilled-trades-millionaires-2b62bf6c

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828896

Leonard Cohen: The Anti-Rock Star

Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/christophe-lebold-leonard-cohen-book/679573/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594510

Radiology-specific foundation model

Link: https://harrison.ai/harrison-rad-1/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496699

Ten Things to Know about the Great Wave

Link: https://www.artic.edu/articles/1139/10-things-to-know-about-the-great-wave

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474449