How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks? (pkolaczk.github.io)
How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz (tinytapeout.com)
AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity (www.reuters.com)
ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (1955) (xav.io)
High-Performance Graph Databases (arxiv.org)
The Drakon Language (drakonhub.com)
Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps (github.com)
TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language (toml.io)
Apple-1 ELIZA chatbot vs. ChatGPT [video] (www.youtube.com)
SpaceBadgers – Free and Libre SVG Badges (badgers.space)
Arch Linux: Git migration completed (archlinux.org)
Building a Handheld PC (bytewelder.com)
r9: Plan 9 in Rust (github.com)
DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet (arxiv.org)
The end of the accounting search (lwn.net)
The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked (twitter.com)
Study finds 90% of Australian teachers can't afford to live where they teach (phys.org)
Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
Suspicious iOS KeePass Client (old.reddit.com)
Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023 (dolphin-emu.org)
GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (arxiv.org)
KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis (docs.keydb.dev)
Writing Python like it's Rust (kobzol.github.io)
Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964) (www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
Japanese police make first YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay (japantoday.com)
Martin Amis has died (www.theguardian.com)
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already (spectrum.ieee.org)
A rant on bus stops (walkingtheworld.substack.com)
Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication (mw.lojban.org)
Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub (torrentfreak.com)
SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised (arstechnica.com)
Hitler’s Antarctic base: the myth and the reality (2007) [pdf] (www.histarmar.com.ar)
PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended (status.python.org)
GlitchTip: An open source, Sentry API compatible error tracking platform (gitlab.com)
“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4 (gist.github.com)
Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos (xtramagazine.com)
Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture (www.intel.com)
Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture (www.tomshardware.com)
Using ChatGPT for Home Automation (www.atomic14.com)
Carmakers like VW are bringing back buttons because drivers loathe touch screens (slate.com)
Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter (www.tweag.io)
Neeva (search engine with a privacy and AI focus) is shutting down (neeva.com)
Using Advanced Camera Tech and AI to Target the Poor (petapixel.com)
A digital payments revolution in India (www.economist.com)
Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT (cs.stanford.edu)
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books (www.andreasfragner.com)
U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce (spectrum.ieee.org)
FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says (www.wsj.com)
WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50 (www.businessinsider.com)
The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water (news.stanford.edu)
A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (2019) (www.wired.com)
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People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living (english.elpais.com)
My solar-powered blog is now on lithium iron phosphate (louwrentius.com)
Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018) (marckhoury.github.io)
Weekle – a web app to learn how to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)
YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline (github.com)
Rooms.xyz (rooms.xyz)
Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (openheartproject.com)
Devex: What actually drives productivity (queue.acm.org)
Axle OS (axleos.com)
Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service (iq.thc.org)
I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (axleos.com)
It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022) (www.newyorker.com)
Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel (netflixtechblog.com)
Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more? (www.theatlantic.com)
Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser (nyxt.atlas.engineer)
PyTorch for WebGPU (praeclarum.org)
Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights in France (torrentfreak.com)
D1: Improvements to performance and scalability (blog.cloudflare.com)
WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told (www.theguardian.com)
US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon (www.thedefensepost.com)
MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator (ai.facebook.com)
Migrating from Supabase (blog.val.town)
Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images (arxiv.org)
CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust (www.phoronix.com)
LangChain: The Missing Manual (www.pinecone.io)
Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared (2021) (www.themarshallproject.org)
US Supreme Court leaves protections for internet companies unscathed (www.reuters.com)
Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Typescale: A Tool for Easy CSS Typography (typescale.com)
Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below costs (papers.ssrn.com)
FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs (twitter.com)
Dandelion Root Recipes (practicalselfreliance.com)
Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage (www.science.org)
Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd (github.com)
Hands-Free Coding (2020) (www.joshwcomeau.com)
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine (nilsbakker.nl)
Apple bans ChatGPT use by employees, report says (mashable.com)
With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law (proton.me)
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (www.youtube.com)
Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998) (www.cs.cmu.edu)
20 Years of Gentoo (blog.nawaz.org)
Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen (twitter.com)
Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1% (ca.news.yahoo.com)
I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent (old.reddit.com)
Google banned me – open sourcing all my apps (old.reddit.com)
High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022) (www.zxch3n.com)
My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919) (archive.org)
Seven.zip (7-zip.org)
Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic (github.com)
Unit Testing eBPF Programs (who.ldelossa.is)
A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB (liliputing.com)
The simple joys of scaling up (motherduck.com)
The American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal (english.elpais.com)
The Case for Bash (2021) (www.neversaw.us)
CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (simonwillison.net)
Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos” (twitter.com)
Apple’s new headset meets reality (www.bloomberg.com)
NYC skyscrapers sit vacant (www.bloomberg.com)
The myth of the $600 hammer (1998) (www.govexec.com)
How to Quit Cars (www.newyorker.com)
Windows XP Activation: Game Over (tinyapps.org)
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TikTok is now banned in Montana (www.theverge.com)
Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std (github.com)
Cargo Cult AI (queue.acm.org)
ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks (github.com)
Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement (petapixel.com)
Passage by 1Password (blog.1password.com)
SpaceTop, an innovative laptop without a screen (www.pcworld.com)
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Ireland’s DPC set to hit Meta with record privacy fine over US data transfers (www.irishtimes.com)
Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (news.ycombinator.com)
The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009) (gist.github.com)
The Great CPU Stagnation (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code (fortran-lang.discourse.group)
Why is my dryer radioactive? (physics.stackexchange.com)
CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue (loro-dev.notion.site)
OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS (openai.com)
The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK (rssdsaisection.substack.com)
Apple to Mass Produce Its Own MicroLED Displays for iPhones (www.macrumors.com)
One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (www.bbc.com)
The oldest known blueprints depict Stone Age ‘megastructures’ (www.vice.com)
Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok (www.reuters.com)
Who wants to be tracked? (www.quantable.com)
User Driven UI (garden.bradwoods.io)
Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (www.vice.com)
Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days (finance.yahoo.com)
Where have all the hackers gone? (morepablo.com)
Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service (requestmetrics.com)
Langton’s ant (en.wikipedia.org)
User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (userinyerface.com)
Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)
Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com)
Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games (github.com)
European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects (blog.opensource.org)
Language models cost 10x more in some languages than others (blog.yenniejun.com)
DuckDB 0.8 (duckdb.org)
Simulated Hospital (github.com)
Using Bun.js as a Bundler (shaneosullivan.wordpress.com)
Postgres query lock explainer (github.com)
What happened with ASUS routers this morning? (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
85% of jobs are filled via networking (www.zippia.com)
Framework Laptop 13 Review (www.theguardian.com)
Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child (ishadeed.com)
The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it (www.wired.com)
Understanding database indexes in PostgreSQL (blog.mastermind.dev)
On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017) (time.com)
Petrucci Music Library (imslp.org)
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Logitech Partners with iFixit for Self-Repairs (www.theverge.com)
Add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain (github.com)
DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US (help.duckduckgo.com)
Numbers every LLM Developer should know (github.com)
The Regenerating Power of Big Basin’s Redwoods (worldsensorium.com)
Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat (www.aidemos.info)
Pandas vs. Julia – cheat sheet and comparison (datascientyst.com)
Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers (beepberry.sqfmi.com)
World's largest open source company dataset (blog.bigpicture.io)
Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way (med.stanford.edu)
Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper (news.ycombinator.com)
Stability AI Releases StableStudio, the Open-Source Future of DreamStudio (stability.ai)
AI-powered coding, free of charge with Colab (blog.google)
Controlled burns help prevent wildfires. Regulations make them nearly impossible (boulderbeat.news)
Wizards of the Coast Raids YouTuber’s House to Take Back Magic Cards (kotaku.com)
The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review (smyachenkov.com)
I Still Use Windows 95 (2008) (web.archive.org)
Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig (quad9.net)
DIY Book Binding (www.diybookbinding.com)
The IRS is building its own online tax filing system (text.npr.org)
Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a New Job (www.bloomberg.com)
Slack issues (status.slack.com)
Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams (9to5google.com)
Retro Computer Museum (retrocomputermuseum.co.uk)
Planned obsolescence: Apple attacked for the “serialization” of its spare parts (www.lemonde.fr)
Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I) (stephenramsay.net)
OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it (news.ycombinator.com)
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence (www.theguardian.com)
Give your brain time to think and remember (github.com)
CO2 Heat Pumps Found to Offer High Efficiency at Low Ambient Temperature (r744.com)
WebGPU hits 40% availability 2 weeks after Chrome releases support (web3dsurvey.com)
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Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true (www.theverge.com)
On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
Renewables supplied 65% of new US utility-scale generating capacity in Q1 2023 (electrek.co)
My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame (www.jamez.it)
Beware offers of “help” with your projects (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT (bratgpt.com)
Rekt.network (rekt.network)
Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials (www.gamespot.com)
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (raganwald.com)
A little web server in C (github.com)
Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate (stability.ai)
So, how do you refill an aquifer? (heatmap.news)
Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux (social.treehouse.systems)
Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones (krebsonsecurity.com)
Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs (www.leefang.com)
Updating our inactive account policies (blog.google)
GitHub Incident (www.githubstatus.com)
EU Artificial Intelligence Act (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset (www.nature.com)
Is YC becoming less of a home for hackers and more for MBA-types? (news.ycombinator.com)
Bun v0.6.0 – Bun's new JavaScript bundler and minifier (bun.sh)
LMQL: A query language for programming (large) language models (github.com)
A guidance language for controlling LLMs (github.com)
ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Calls on Congress to Adopt Safety Standards for AI Systems (www.wsj.com)
Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice (www.alcademics.com)
Bard generates clean JSON only if you threaten to take a human life (twitter.com)
Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent? (thehftguy.com)
Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP (old.reddit.com)
The Sourdough Framework (github.com)
Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy (fortran-lang.discourse.group)
Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights (www.erlang.org)
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service (blog.cloudflare.com)
Oblivus GPU Cloud – Affordable and scalable GPU servers from $0.29/hr (oblivus.com)
SQLite Release 3.42.0 (sqlite.org)
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) [video] (archive.org)
OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI (www.reuters.com)
Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features (www.apple.com)
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (www.science.org)
JPMorgan Chase & Co tracks employees to distopian extents (old.reddit.com)
Seaflooding (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Server-sent events (developer.mozilla.org)
Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers (spectrum.ieee.org)
European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming to blame (www.pnas.org)
A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert (www.hcn.org)
CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley (sp23.datastructur.es)
Ultimate Electronics (2021) (ultimateelectronicsbook.com)
Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo (www.platformer.news)
My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated (blog.visionarycto.com)
Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database builder for communities (www.sortabase.com)
Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive? (assistedeverything.substack.com)
Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT? (www.janromme.com)
Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s (www.amygoodchild.com)
GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including Nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations (www.infoq.com)
Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins (www.nih.gov)
EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona (clic.epfl.ch)
StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length (arxiv.org)
The groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system (www.freethink.com)
Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet (www.kaspersky.com)
random(random(random(random()))) (openprocessing.org)
It Wasn't AI (itwasntai.com)
Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App (github.com)
LTESniffer – An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper (github.com)
Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple (www.ripleys.com)
Pixpaint (warms.maxbittker.repl.co)
I built my first Cyberdeck (github.com)
Taxonomy of Procrastination (dynomight.net)
This Word Does Not Exist (www.thisworddoesnotexist.com)
Stories We’ve Seen Too Often (strangehorizons.com)
Blizzard says mandatory return-to-office policy has 'cost some amazing people' (www.pcgamer.com)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants (www.washingtonpost.com)
The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up (www.wired.com)
Kafka vs. Redpanda Performance – Do the claims add up? (jack-vanlightly.com)
Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI (twitter.com)
Basic SAT model of x86 instructions using Z3, autogenerated from Intel docs (github.com)
Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents? (www.theguardian.com)
A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky (spectrum.ieee.org)
We Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video] (www.youtube.com)
LobbyFacts – Exposing Lobbying in the European Institutions (www.lobbyfacts.eu)
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr (theintercept.com)
Willow – Open-Source Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant Hardware (github.com)
Come back, c2.com, we still need you (wiki.c2.com)
Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023 (www.macrumors.com)
Heart attack deaths drop over past two decades (www.acc.org)
Vice files for Bankruptcy (www.bloomberg.com)
Uncensored Models (erichartford.com)
Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles (stratechery.com)
F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio] (fossandcrafts.org)
What's your favorite GPT powered tool? (news.ycombinator.com)
Gambling firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games (www.theguardian.com)
The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages (gist.github.com)
Bark: A transformer based text to audio system (github.com)
Combinatory Logic (plato.stanford.edu)
Mormon whistleblower says is his church is a “clandestine hedge fund” (www.cbsnews.com)
How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975) (archive.org)
Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy (www.nytimes.com)
This Blog is hosted on my Android phone (androidblog.a.pinggy.io)
Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office (www.techradar.com)
Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal (github.com)
JavaScript state machines and statecharts (xstate.js.org)
Companies to pay $615,000 in investigation over faked net neutrality comments (apnews.com)
Vore: A new RSS feed reader (j3s.sh)
Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages (apnews.com)
Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide (github.com)
The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire (www.atlasobscura.com)
ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter (2021) (chipsandcheese.com)