• Readsy

On this day

The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

2021

view article

NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

2014

view article

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

2013

view article

A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

2006

view article

Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.

2003

view article

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-90, the final Spacelab mission.

1998

view article

The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

1992

view article

An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist.

1986

view article

Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

1982

view article

Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.

1978

view article

The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.

1975

view article

The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.

1971

view article

Apollo program: The damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.

1970

view article

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

1969

view article

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.

1969

view article

Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

1964

view article

Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

1961

view article

The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

1951

view article

The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.

1946

view article

World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.

1945

view article

Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.

1945

view article

Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

1944

view article

French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.

1942

view article

World War II: The Axis powers invasion of Yugoslavia is completed when it signs an armistice with Germany and Italy.

1941

view article

After negotiations between Catalan and Spanish provisional governments, the Catalan Republic proclaimed in April 14 becomes the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous government of Catalonia within the Spanish Republic.

1931

view article

The Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in Japanese-ruled Korea (Chōsen) in Keijō (now Seoul) by Kim Yong-bom and Pak Hon-yong.

1925

view article

Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

1912

view article

The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.

1907

view article

The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1905

view article

The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtian province, Taiwan and the Penghu to Japan.

1895

view article

Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.

1876

view article

Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.

1869

view article

American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.

1864

view article

American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

1863

view article

The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States; Virginia later becomes the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.

1861

view article

Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.

1797

view article

Citizens of Verona begin an unsuccessful eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces.

1797

view article

American Revolutionary War: Colbert's Raid: A Spanish garrison under Captain Jacobo du Breuil defeat British irregulars at Arkansas Post.

1783

view article

Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.

1524

view article

Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.

1521

view article

Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

1492

view article

Kaunas Castle falls to the Teutonic Order after a month-long siege.

1362

view article

The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.

1349

view article

Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.

1080

view article

Top Stories from Hacker News

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.05091: MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter Large Language Models on a Single GPU

326 points

57 comments

discussionsource

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

635 points

842 comments

discussionsource

Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

Live status of the Strait of Hormuz

484 points

209 comments

discussionsource

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

113 points

33 comments

discussionsource

Git commands I run before reading any code

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

2332 points

509 comments

discussionsource

ML promises to be profoundly weird

613 points

602 comments

discussionsource

They're made out of meat (1991)

Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter or adapt in any way without first checking with the author. Thanks.

636 points

180 comments

discussionsource

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

138 points

71 comments

discussionsource

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

432 points

66 comments

discussionsource

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

1923 points

328 comments

discussionsource

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

392 points

367 comments

discussionsource

LittleSnitch for Linux

Discover powerful applications such as Little Snitch Mini, Little Snitch, LaunchBar and Micro Snitch.

1376 points

459 comments

discussionsource

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

399 points

130 comments

discussionsource

I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

Portfolio of Oliver Seifert, a Software Engineer & Electronics Technician from Bern, Switzerland.,I imported the entire Linux kernel git history into pgit's PostgreSQL-backed storage. 1,428,882 commits, 24.4 million file versions, 20 years of development. Here's what the kernel looks like when you can just ask.

162 points

45 comments

discussionsource

The Importance of Being Idle

318 points

209 comments

discussionsource

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire

411 points

48 comments

discussionsource

Understanding Traceroute

I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.

177 points

25 comments

discussionsource

What does it mean to “write like you talk”?

Subordinate clauses, phrasal modifications, and metadiscourse

103 points

87 comments

discussionsource

Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets

Customers make hundreds of thousands of dollars as records show substantial bets made before announcement

168 points

137 comments

discussionsource