The Mysterious 50 Ohm Impedance: Where It Came from and Why We Use It (2021) (resources.altium.com)
Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches (www.bbc.com)
io_uring support for libuv – 8x increase in throughput (github.com)
Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article (torrentfreak.com)
How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter (www.masteringemacs.org)
Lua: The Little Language That Could (matt.blwt.io)
The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (2006) (projecteuclid.org)
JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust” (pony.social)
Bcrypt at 25 (www.usenix.org)
Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (2017) (arstechnica.com)
Rust: The wrong people are resigning (gist.github.com)
Bayes is guaranteed to overfit (www.yulingyao.com)
YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube (bgr.com)
Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Venetians are pondering raising their entire city (www.economist.com)
The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person (daniel.haxx.se)
Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” Android malware that exploited 5 0-days (arstechnica.com)
HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands (arstechnica.com)
My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill (news.ycombinator.com)
Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? (www.npr.org)
Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold (openthemagazine.com)
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (imaginationlibrary.com)
Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers (matt-schellhas.medium.com)
ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important (chipsandcheese.com)
Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp (www.leefang.com)
A relay that changed the power industry (spectrum.ieee.org)
Why I Left Rust (www.jntrnr.com)
Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator (mastodon.delroth.net)
Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds (www.foxbusiness.com)
TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016) (www.vox.com)
No_color (no-color.org)
Integrating Zig and SwiftUI (mitchellh.com)
State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California (www.ocregister.com)
Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016) (idlewords.com)
The HTTP QUERY Method specification (httpwg.org)
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WebXR (immersiveweb.dev)
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora (old.reddit.com)
Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf] (doc.lagout.org)
Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused (simonwillison.net)
Suggestions to host 10TB data with a monthly +100TB bandwidth (news.ycombinator.com)
Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts (www.economist.com)
Hard stuff when building products with LLMs (www.honeycomb.io)
Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations (www.ietf.org)
A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT (www.nytimes.com)
Watch Tarkovsky's Best Films Online for Free (kottke.org)
India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone (www.bbc.com)
Oxidizing OCaml: Locality (blog.janestreet.com)
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KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger (github.com)
Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project (appsource.microsoft.com)
Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out (2013) (gist.github.com)
What is an A.I. chip and how does it work? (news.ycombinator.com)
Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust (servo.org)
Building a Personal VoIP System (www.sacredheartsc.com)
Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953) (whatisnuclear.com)
Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life? (tedium.co)
Fontemon: Video Game in a Font (www.coderelay.io)
What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups (www.supervised.news)
418 I'm a teapot (developer.mozilla.org)
You can now share your ChatGPT conversations publicly (chat.openai.com)
Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed Due to Nintendo DMCA (dolphin-emu.org)
Making $10k/m from a French learning app (www.highsignal.io)
Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018) (codingnest.com)
Phishing domains tanked after Meta sued Freenom (krebsonsecurity.com)
Am I the Unethical One? (dailynous.com)
Times New Bastard (github.com)
Micromouse: The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [video] (www.youtube.com)
Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back (www.nature.com)
0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years (play0ad.com)
There oughta be a bullet time video booth (there.oughta.be)
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GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure (www.dig.security)
Paper Airplane Designs (www.foldnfly.com)
Tree of Thoughts (github.com)
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I created a game to memorize the fretboard (www.fretboardfly.com)
Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy (deno.com)
A PhD student's perspective on research in NLP in the era of LLMs (arxiv.org)
XFS metadata corruption after upgrade to 6.3.3 kernel (bugzilla.redhat.com)
58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it (www.pewresearch.org)
AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club (www.wsj.com)
Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO? (news.ycombinator.com)
How the lemon was invented (www.trueorbetter.com)
Causal evidence that Alzheimer's may be caused by an infection (twitter.com)
The XY Problem (2014) (xyproblem.info)
That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something (utcc.utoronto.ca)
12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed (www.vibilagare.se)
Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019) (masteringmonero.com)
George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp (www.bbc.com)
Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension (carina.app)
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs (arxiv.org)
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers (media.ford.com)
Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario (theclimatebrink.substack.com)
Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers (blog.replit.com)
New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut (www.nature.com)
Jj: JSON Stream Editor (github.com)
Fluent 2 Design System (fluent2.microsoft.design)
The Silent (R)evolution of SAT (cacm.acm.org)
Hacker News in Slow Italian (hn.lingually.ai)
MIT Course: Generative AI for Constructive Communication (ai4comm.media.mit.edu)
Chatbot Arena Leaderboard (lmsys.org)
Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023 (thedriven.io)
Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost (www.businessinsider.com)
Neanderthal Flute (www.nms.si)
HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN (www.val.town)
Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet (coloradosun.com)
Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google (gitlab.com)
Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German News Site (jalopnik.com)
Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs (gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu)
Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 (bit.kevinslin.com)
War Is a Racket (1935) (archive.org)
Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode (www.theregister.com)
ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase (supabase.com)
IUP – Cross platform C GUI library (www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
Kissinger's killing fields (theintercept.com)
New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI (www.bbc.com)
Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights (www.youtube.com)
Cases where full scans are better than indexes (www.jefftk.com)
PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 (www.postgresql.org)
Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church (www.medievalists.net)
Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go (notes.eatonphil.com)
Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University) (news.ycombinator.com)
Alien was released 44 years ago today (twitter.com)
Germany Falls into Recession (www.cnn.com)
US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories (www.arabnews.com)
Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals (news.ucsc.edu)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics (2013) [pdf] (www.math.cmu.edu)
Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates (studyfinds.org)
How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset (lightning.ai)
Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages (deno.com)
The QR-code menu is being shown the door (www.nytimes.com)
VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework (github.com)
Image background removal without annoying subscriptions (pixian.ai)
How do you not take criticism of your work personally? (news.ycombinator.com)
“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? () [pdf] (goto.ucsd.edu)
World of Goo Remastered (play.google.com)
Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform (news.ycombinator.com)
How does archive.is bypass paywalls? (news.ycombinator.com)
PicoGUS: Emulate ISA Sound Cards (GUS, Adlib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS) with a Pico (github.com)
HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site (helphub.commandbar.com)
Neeva acquired by Snowflake (www.snowflake.com)
Win32 App Isolation (github.com)
Minix development has been abandoned? (git.minix3.org)
I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022) (www.owlfolio.org)
Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub (github.com)
UCLA Computer Grad Constructs “Crown Jewel of Cryptography” (www.acm.org)
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (xorvoid.com)
Building a Raspberry Pi based ultrasound imaging development platform (kelu124.gitbooks.io)
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (arxiv.org)
Kenny Log-Ins (www.kennylog-in.com)
The tiny corp raised $5.1M (geohot.github.io)
ChainForge: An open-source visual programming environment for testing prompts (github.com)
OpenAI Outage (status.openai.com)
The Brand New Thunderbird Logo (blog.thunderbird.net)
A psychiatrist reflects on Philip K. Dick’s substance abuse and mental health (www.thecompanion.app)
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive (www.theregister.com)
M.U.L.E. 40th Anniversary Special (www.carpeludum.com)
Fish Folk – open-source Bevy game (github.com)
Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls (abcnews.go.com)
DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices (microsoft.github.io)
Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood (medium.com)
AMD has a one-liner to help speed up Linux system resume time (www.phoronix.com)
The teens behind the Mirai botnet (spectrum.ieee.org)
The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives (github.com)
Tina Turner has died (www.independent.co.uk)
Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface (www.nature.com)
PyPI Was Subpoenaed (blog.pypi.org)
SFPD Obtained Live Access to Business Camera Network in Anticipation of Protest (www.eff.org)
European Commission Calls for Pirate Site Blocking Around the Globe (torrentfreak.com)
Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record (www.esa.int)
Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust (github.com)
Why the original transformer figure is wrong, and some other tidbits about LLMs (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
Has anyone switched from a professional job to a (more) manual one? (news.ycombinator.com)
SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0 (wasmlabs.dev)
Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups (www.cnbc.com)
Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (fermatslibrary.com)
A guide to closures in Rust (hashrust.com)
A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress (www.publicbooks.org)
SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance (www.aclu.org)
You don't need a modal window (youdontneedamodalwindow.dev)
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Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip (www.theverge.com)
Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips (www.wsj.com)
50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS (blog.koehntopp.info)
Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Revolutionary Scalable Model Architecture (www.artisana.ai)
New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm (www.texasmonthly.com)
Meta Open-Sources Computer Vision Foundation Model DINOv2 (www.infoq.com)
The damage to lunar orbiting spacecraft caused by the ejecta of lunar landers (arxiv.org)
Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies (www.cnn.com)
Regent – 100% Electric Coastal Travel (www.regentcraft.com)
Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas (shaneosullivan.wordpress.com)
Update on Sharing (about.netflix.com)
Google open-sources Rust crate audits (opensource.googleblog.com)
Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and Nat (im.salty.fish)
Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Google (github.com)
Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot (www.oneusefulthing.org)
Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings (edconway.substack.com)
Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11 (blogs.windows.com)
I'm open sourcing Harmonic, the Android Hacker News client (github.com)
Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support (nginx.org)
Emacs Web Buttons (erkin.party)
Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software (kanboard.org)
Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation (www.3dbrew.org)
How to start a Go project in 2023 (boyter.org)
Podman Desktop 1.0 (developers.redhat.com)
Elephants may be domesticating themselves (www.science.org)
Removing PGP from PyPI (blog.pypi.org)
I Block Ads (coryd.dev)
Nintendo sued for “immoral” Mario Kart lootboxes (www.axios.com)
Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street (www.bloomberg.com)
Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns (www.nytimes.com)
A mental-health crisis is gripping science – toxic research culture is to blame (www.nature.com)
Why I Use Elm in 2023 (taylor.town)
Apple Announces Multibillion Deal with Broadcom to Make Components in the USA (www.macrumors.com)
Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts (news.ycombinator.com)
Crypto giant Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue (www.reuters.com)
Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise (yoshuabengio.org)
Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M (techcrunch.com)
Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber (blog.waymo.com)
Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014) (metalintheory.com)
Demystifying Tupper's Formula (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian (vanillaos.org)
How Microsoft faked errors in Windows 3 on top of DR DOS (www.geoffchappell.com)
GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion (github.com)
Ableton Push 3 (www.ableton.com)
DB-GPT, an LLM tool for database (github.com)
Is 20M of rows still a valid soft limit of MySQL table in 2023? (yishenggong.com)
FBI abused spy law but only like 280k times in a year (www.theregister.com)
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) (slate.com)
Salt Lake 2002 – not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error (www.vogons.org)
Psychic - An open-source integration platform for unstructured data (github.com)
SimCity 4, the greatest citybuilder of all time, was released 20 years ago (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Blotter – An interactive, never ending music video (www.twitch.tv)
Parallels in the ways that humans and ML models acquire language skills (www.quantamagazine.org)
Reddit comments and submissions from 2005-06 to 2022-12 collected by Pushshift (academictorrents.com)
MIT students give longtime professor standing ovation after last lecture (www.boston.com)
Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs (www.seattletimes.com)
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (arxiv.org)
RCE on MikroTik routers with IPv6 RA enabled (blog.mikrotik.com)
Hoarding (www.michaelsamsel.com)
The Open Buddhist University (buddhistuniversity.net)
More Than 600k Students and Teachers Use Z-Library (torrentfreak.com)
What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020) (www.mrdbourke.com)
Intel Announces Aurora GenAI, ChatGPT Competitor with 1T Parameters (wccftech.com)
Lem v2.0.0 – Common Lisp IDE with high expansibility (github.com)
Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption (www.wired.com)
Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it (stackoverflow.blog)
iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit (9to5mac.com)
CRDT Benchmarks (jsonjoy.com)
How to move from dev role to management/team lead role? (news.ycombinator.com)
Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages (github.com)
Is anyone hosting their own Jitsi server? (news.ycombinator.com)
Meta preps new social app (liahaberman.substack.com)
Pytrees (jax.readthedocs.io)
US states agree breakthrough deal to prevent Colorado River from drying up (www.theguardian.com)
Black holes might be defects in spacetime (phys.org)
Io Uring (nick-black.com)
UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition (www.theregister.com)
The Many Faces of Distinct in PostgreSQL (2017) (hakibenita.com)
Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation (en.wikipedia.org)
Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds (www.science.org)
Growing Up Alyssa (rosenzweig.io)
Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search (dropbox.tech)
The time I accidentally spent a year combatting fraud (www.brightball.com)
SR-71 pilot, photographer and storyteller Brian Shul dies at 75 (newatlas.com)
PSA: Cancelling HP Instant Ink subscription prevents cartridges from being used (news.ycombinator.com)
For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen (www.nature.com)
A highly intuitive visual guide on how memory allocation works, step by step (samwho.dev)
Noyb win: € 1.2B fine against Meta over EU-US data transfers (noyb.eu)
VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads (blog.checkpoint.com)
Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025 (www.artnews.com)
Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S. (www.wsj.com)
Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing (old.reddit.com)
Toaster: Pure CSS 3D Editor (petertyliu.github.io)
Deep Sleep May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s (www.wsj.com)
Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types (github.com)
Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser (www.engine.study)
Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple (www.engineersneedart.com)
Cloud GPU Resources and Pricing (fullstackdeeplearning.com)
PrivateGPT (github.com)
An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects (lauren.vortex.com)
Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift (github.com)
Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
Be aware of people trying to scam contractors (news.ycombinator.com)
Plain Text Accounting (plaintextaccounting.org)
Testing a Formally Verified Compiler (hal.science)
Noise is all around us (thewalrus.ca)
I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have? (news.ycombinator.com)