Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics (erikdestefanis.substack.com)
OpenAI is getting sued for being biased with Y Combinator (twitter.com)
It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input (simonwillison.net)
Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website (www.bell-labs.com)
Over 70% of US household Covid spread started with a child (www.cidrap.umn.edu)
A not-so-quick introduction to the C++ allocator model (quuxplusone.github.io)
Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices (old.reddit.com)
WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (privacyinternational.org)
Child Labor Is on the Rise (www.newyorker.com)
Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit (hbr.org)
DreamBerd is a perfect programming language (github.com)
World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days (climatereanalyzer.org)
At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end (www.pcworld.com)
Pentagon contracting Starlink to provide satellite communications for Ukraine (defensescoop.com)
High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students (torrentfreak.com)
XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs (twitter.com)
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (xeiaso.net)
GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish (tylercipriani.com)
Rarbg on IPFS (ipfs.io)
Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts (climatejustice.rocks)
.ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf] (www.afnic.fr)
Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half (www.theguardian.com)
Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya (jacobin.com)
A new line drawing method for the cycle savvy (www.quiss.org)
Apple Virtualization Framework (developer.apple.com)
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button (www.oneusefulthing.org)
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them? (www.alpharail.co.nz)
A push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease (www.theguardian.com)
The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated (www.understandingai.org)
It Will Cost More Than Total Future Production to Clean Up California Oil Sites (www.propublica.org)
For the badge: Badges for badges' sake (forthebadge.com)
Classic components could be replaced by rubber in next-gen loudspeakers (www.polytechnique-insights.com)
StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style (styledrop.github.io)
GPS (2022) (ciechanow.ski)
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Sick Workers Connected to 41 Percent of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, CDC Reports (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps (old.reddit.com)
Still Love Telnet (bash-prompt.net)
Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) [video] (www.youtube.com)
CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022) (jeff-kaye.medium.com)
CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoring (arxiv.org)
Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive: Display (frame.work)
Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns (www.cnn.com)
Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode (howchoo.com)
Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes (arxiv.org)
How Reddit became the enemy [video] (www.youtube.com)
This site is no longer solar powered for now (www.andrewjvpowell.com)
OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request (humanloop.com)
Automating daily reports, because fuck it (gist.github.com)
Leaked source – CS:GO (lwss.github.io)
Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs (www.cam.ac.uk)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020) (www.washingtonpost.com)
Keyd: Linux Key Remapper (github.com)
Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions (hbr.org)
A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019) (www.thirtythreeforty.net)
What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News? (news.ycombinator.com)
Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits (www.mattb.nz)
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice (lwn.net)
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School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’ (www.theverge.com)
Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US diplomat (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats (github.com)
How to Decode QR Code on Your Own (Without Camera Scan) (blog.qartis.com)
Tomb Raider (www.filfre.net)
Woman with untreated TB finally in custody – held in “negative pressure” room (arstechnica.com)
The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020) (www.niskanencenter.org)
Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy (www.axios.com)
Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame (www.popsci.com)
US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’ (thehill.com)
The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support (discourse.nixos.org)
Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems (www.bihealth.org)
A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022) (www.wired.com)
In vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong (www.nature.com)
Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years (ukragroconsult.com)
Effect of repeated low-level red light on myopia prevention (jamanetwork.com)
He made linear algebra fun (news.mit.edu)
Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows (github.com)
Witch – macOS window switcher replacement (manytricks.com)
Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time (brute.fail)
Speed running Monkey Island (www.grumpygamer.com)
Render a neural network into CUDA/HIP code (github.com)
Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds (skybox.blockadelabs.com)
Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown (www.forbes.com)
The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom (www.wired.com)
California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working (www.wsj.com)
StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content (openletter.mousetail.nl)
Mercury – Convert Jupyter notebooks to web apps (runmercury.com)
Speeduino – Arduino based engine management (github.com)
Netflix Shareholders Vote to Reject Executive Pay Packages (www.nytimes.com)
Using Google’s code history to write more code (ai.googleblog.com)
System76's Coreboot Open Firmware Manages to Disable Intel Me for Raptor Lake (www.phoronix.com)
North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories (electrek.co)
Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr (www.cnn.com)
An open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer (the-analog-thing.org)
PostgreSQL and SQL:2023 (peter.eisentraut.org)
Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation” (github.com)
My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects – Mitchell Hashimoto (mitchellh.com)
Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language (macoy.me)
Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan (usa.kaspersky.com)
Reddit Is Killing 3rd-Party Apps, the Best Way to Read the Site (kotaku.com)
Undetectable Watermarks for Language Models (eprint.iacr.org)
27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (mcgst.com)
Notes on training BERT from scratch on an 8GB consumer GPU (sidsite.com)
“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware (arstechnica.com)
The work is never just “the work” (2022) (davestewart.co.uk)
Radiation-hardened Quine: A quine that works after any one character is deleted (github.com)
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft [pdf] (www.bmj.com)
HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume (hnresumetojobs.com)
Usenet over NNCP (www.complete.org)
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences (www.economist.com)
How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap (www.andrewheiss.com)
The Rise and Fall of Evidence Based Medicine (1998) [pdf] (www.researchgate.net)
Who got hired from HN? (news.ycombinator.com)
Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust (eventhelix.com)
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41% since 2021 investment (techcrunch.com)
A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says (www.vice.com)
Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say (arstechnica.com)
It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7 (2019) (hsivonen.fi)
No salary wastes everyone's time (news.ycombinator.com)
Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs (brave.com)
Who wants to be hired? (June 2023) (news.ycombinator.com)
What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022) (elliottslaughter.com)
Vectorization: Introduction (cvw.cac.cornell.edu)
Most Important Papers for Quantitative Traders (www.qmr.ai)
Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit? (news.ycombinator.com)
Judge rules Wyoming corner crossers did not trespass (www.hcn.org)
OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March (twitter.com)
Own-goal football (2022) (generalist.academy)
StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data (stonks.news)
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (daily.jstor.org)
SQL: 2023 Has Been Released (www.iso.org)
Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (gaultier.github.io)
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Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems (www.theverge.com)
Who is hiring? (June 2023) (news.ycombinator.com)
Two men got jobs at Amazon just to steal copies of Zelda (kotaku.com)
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Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset (www.theverge.com)
Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project by Lukas Henkel (resources.altium.com)
Privacy: One of the Most Fundamental Human Rights, yet Constantly Under Threat (escapebigtech.info)
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The unsung hero of the Apple Watch is its hidden buttons (www.theverge.com)
I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to (the-guild.dev)
Autoimmune disease can attack the brain, cause psychiatric symptoms (www.washingtonpost.com)
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? (www.theatlantic.com)
EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime (old.reddit.com)
Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino (www.vice.com)
Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill for Apollo (arstechnica.com)
I think Zig is hard but worth it (ratfactor.com)
Industry docs reveal makers of 'forever chemicals' covered up health dangers (phys.org)
RISE: Accelerate the development of open source software for RISC-V (linuxfoundation.eu)
I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design (csspro.com)
Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler (www.distcc.org)
Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites (netherlands.postsen.com)
Iguana: fast SIMD-optimized decompression (sneller.io)
More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store (palant.info)
DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter (thebulletin.org)
Lost John Coltrane recording, from experimental phase with Eric Dolphy, emerges (www.npr.org)
1000W 12V –> 220V Inverter (www.instructables.com)
FTC says Ring employees illegally surveilled customers, failed to stop hackers (www.ftc.gov)
Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0 (twitter.com)
Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy (codeberg.org)
Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022) (www.reproof.app)
OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal (github.com)
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training (technomancers.ai)
Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision (openai.com)
Historical code from reddit.com (github.com)
You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID (pgp.governikus.de)
Zulip 7.0: Threaded open-source team chat (blog.zulip.com)
Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes (news.ycombinator.com)
YouTube Download Websites Disappearing from Google Search Results (news.ycombinator.com)
Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20M per Year Under New API Pricing (www.macrumors.com)
OpenAI's plans according to sama (humanloop.com)
Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20M per Year (daringfireball.net)
Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration (spritely.institute)
Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware (www.cisa.gov)
The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself (aisnakeoil.substack.com)
Slide to Unlock (cs.uwaterloo.ca)
Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps (old.reddit.com)
San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic? (dustin-godevais.medium.com)
When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs: A short debugging story (neon.tech)
India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks (www.nature.com)
Box64 and RISC-V (box86.org)
AI Camera with No Lens (www.theprompt.io)
AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research (www.nature.com)
Batten Down Fix Later (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point (locusmag.com)
Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Backdoor (www.wired.com)
20um self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid (also blood) at 3mm/s (www.colorado.edu)
Factories in Space (www.factoriesinspace.com)
What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4? (news.ycombinator.com)
Iconic Torrent Site Rarbg Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop (torrentfreak.com)
Chain-of-Thought Hub: Measuring LLMs' Reasoning Performance (github.com)
Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers (zealdocs.org)
Prince Rupert's drop (en.wikipedia.org)
AVX512 intrinsics for JDK’s Arrays.sort methods (github.com)
Rarbg Is No More (web.archive.org)
Less than 168 hours since Photoshop dropped the new “Generative Fill” feature (twitter.com)
Paragon Graphite is a Pegasus spyware clone used in the US (www.gamingdeputy.com)
A Sun-like star orbiting a boson star (arxiv.org)
Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015) (ericsink.com)
Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization (arxiv.org)
I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” (rachelbythebay.com)
Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? (news.ycombinator.com)
The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020) (www.nature.com)
WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg (github.com)
Who owns this camera, Nikon? Me or you? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Nvidia DGX GH200: 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System (developer.nvidia.com)
Mandatory Certification Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence (www.txnd.uscourts.gov)
A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking (www.alignmentforum.org)
Noncompete clauses violate labor law, NLRB lawyer says (www.wsj.com)
IRS can get financial info of third parties without notice to third parties [pdf] (www.supremecourt.gov)
Hacking a Philips Sonicare Toothbrush (kuenzi.dev)
UseHooks – A Collection of Server Component Safe React Hooks (usehooks.com)
Makers beware, Etsy will ruin your small business (news.ycombinator.com)
New horror revealed in sargassum blob (caymannewsservice.com)
Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Atlassian's Jira (github.com)
Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented” (arstechnica.com)
Purdue Pharma can protect Sackler owners in opioid bankruptcy, court rules (www.ca2.uscourts.gov)
Albert Camus (plato.stanford.edu)
I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup (github.com)
Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phones Require Warrants (www.eff.org)
Modern CPUs have a backstage cast (www.devever.net)
Where have you found community outside of work? (news.ycombinator.com)
Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io (www.databricks.com)
React is 10 years old (twitter.com)
Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great (www.wired.co.uk)
JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard (jmap.io)
I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog. Their lawyers are trying to ruin me (twitter.com)
Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future (www.lyft.com)
Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams (fly.io)
WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets (wasmer.io)
Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code? (2022) (forums.swift.org)
Statement on AI Risk (www.safe.ai)
I have gained admin access to numerous GCloud Organizations by accident (news.ycombinator.com)
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Nvidia is now a $1T company (www.theverge.com)
Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
The FBI as advanced persistent threat (www.theregister.com)
The UX Research Reckoning is Here (medium.com)
NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed (spectrum.ieee.org)
How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul (simone.org)
One Click Deepfake (github.com)
A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store (one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
The metaverse was never alive in the first place (www.fastcompany.com)
Rust has been forked to the Crab Language (github.com)
A chiral aperiodic monotile (arxiv.org)
You can serve static data over HTTP (ignore.pl)
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016) (tech.davis-hansson.com)
Sigils are underappreciated (2022) (raku-advent.blog)
How to hire a pop star for your private party (www.newyorker.com)
The Johari Window (en.wikipedia.org)
The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook) (github.com)
Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person (block21m.substack.com)
Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics (mslivo.itch.io)
LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay (www.interactions.org)
An open-source alternative to QuickBooks (bigcapital.ly)
DNSSEC KSK rollover breaks DNS resolution for .nz domains (status.internetnz.nz)
My first superoptimizer (austinhenley.com)
XFS Metadata Corruption on Linux 6.3 Tracked Down to One Missing One-Line Patch (www.phoronix.com)
HBO Max new Captcha system (twitter.com)
Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code (alentred.medium.com)
CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think (www.npr.org)
A 1914 silent film considered lost was rescued from a vault (www.wsj.com)
Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
A terminal case of Linux (fasterthanli.me)
Software bugs that cause real-world harm (pointersgonewild.com)
Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for (www.wsj.com)
Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain (simonschreibt.de)
Using computers more freely and safely (2022) (akkartik.name)
C++17’s useful features for embedded systems (interrupt.memfault.com)
‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints (www.theguardian.com)
Thanks, David Peter (duncanlock.net)
Removing the support for forwarded ports (mullvad.net)
Fitting 44% More Data on a C64/1541 Floppy Disk (www.pagetable.com)
300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time (www.nray.dev)
Cloudflare Workers Introduces Connect() API to Create TCP Sockets (www.infoq.com)
Production AI systems are hard (methexis.substack.com)
India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces (www.altnews.in)
When feedback is not a gift (softwaredoug.com)
DESKTOP2 – A Graphical User Interface for DOS (www.mevis-research.de)
Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer (github.com)
Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA (cloud.google.com)
New Arm cores deliver up to 40% better performance (www.phonescoop.com)
Don Bateman, inventor of the GPWS, has died (avherald.com)
Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications (github.com)
A measles vaccine painlessly delivered via sticker shows promising early results (www.npr.org)
Functional Programming in Lean (leanprover.github.io)
Tom Hanks on the rewards and reality of making movies (www.newyorker.com)
Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino (www.8newsnow.com)
China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf] (media.defense.gov)
Build Your Own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com)
Illinois to Become First State to Ban Book Bans (bookriot.com)
Ian Hacking has died (www.nytimes.com)
Let us serve you, but don't bring us down (blog.archive.org)
Mastering CSS blend modes (www.kodingkitty.com)
The Never Married, a New Normal (www.psychologytoday.com)
Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5 released (sbcl.org)
WordPress Turns 20 (ma.tt)
Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System (jacobin.com)
Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm (www.salon.com)
Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit (baremaps.apache.org)
Txti is shutting down (txti.es)