Using Lidar to map tree shadows (tedpiotrowski.svbtle.com)
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Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery (adamsinger.substack.com)
US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it (www.wired.com)
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PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news (blog.mithrilsecurity.io)
Introduction to ActivityPub (2021) (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
How to keep lambda calculus simple (hirrolot.github.io)
Defecting from North Korea is now harder (www.nytimes.com)
Story Behind Hackathon Photo (frantic.im)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Cargo-semver-checks: Scan your Rust crate for semver violations (github.com)
Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company (www.eidel.io)
An index of all monthly dividend stocks (thedividendlist.com)
Quetzal-1 Satellite Goes Open Source (hackaday.com)
The Development of the C Language (1993) (www.bell-labs.com)
Fairphone 4 is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Stupid alloc – what if memory allocation was annoying (github.com)
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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning (0ver.org)
Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? (www.stylewarning.com)
KDE for Travelers (kde.org)
Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your Data for AI Training (www.pcgamer.com)
Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019) (web.archive.org)
Superrational (skunkledger.substack.com)
The Concise TypeScript Book (github.com)
Open sourcing the Nginx playground (jvns.ca)
You Suck at Excel (2015) [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Code Review Pyramid (2022) (www.morling.dev)
California needs real math education, not gimmicks (www.noahpinion.blog)
Machine Unlearning Challenge (ai.googleblog.com)
Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed (github.com)
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Open Letter to Tim O’Reilly to Free the Perl Camel (news.ycombinator.com)
Container Training (container.training)
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Build Personal ChatGPT Using Your Data (github.com)
Panel with photovoltaic material layered on silicon hits 33% efficiencies (arstechnica.com)
Learn Electronics by Practice (beletronics.wordpress.com)
An ARM Assembler Written in Lisp (forum.ulisp.com)
The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer (www.dev-eloper.com)
Spying on a smartphone remotely by the authorities: feasibility and operation (security.stackexchange.com)
Why Use Pascal? (castle-engine.io)
Thermochromic Breadboard (www.improwis.com)
Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt (blog.google)
Flickr Foundation is building a new bridge between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons (diff.wikimedia.org)
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
iVentoy (www.iventoy.com)
Langchain Is Pointless (old.reddit.com)
Bevy XPBD: A physics engine for the Bevy game engine (joonaa.dev)
A $182B Chip Maker: AMD's Labs – Full Documentary [video] (www.youtube.com)
Farmer ordered to pay $CAD82k after confusion over meaning of thumbs-up emoji (www.abc.net.au)
I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience (internettalk.substack.com)
Software engineers hate code (www.dancowell.com)
When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option (mastodon.gamedev.place)
Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift (anotherangrywoman.com)
A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (2017) (stevenheidel.medium.com)
Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud (developer.nvidia.com)
If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to nogil CPython (discuss.python.org)
LlamaIndex: Unleash the power of LLMs over your data (www.llamaindex.ai)
Khoj: An AI Personal Assistant for Your Digital Brain (khoj.dev)
My platforming game written in C 89 (zamfofex.neocities.org)
Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve (mystery-o-matic.com)
When did Alan Partridge first appear on television? (www.dirtyfeed.org)
FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes (fastapi.tiangolo.com)
The horrors of Pompeii (aeon.co)
The Horror Game of the Year Is a Doom II Mod (kotaku.com)
Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sinkholed: A DNS Horror Story (2019) (susam.net)
Windows 95 tips, tricks, and tweaks (2013) (windows95tips.com)
Day by Day – every day of my life (days.rory.codes)
Matrix Multiplication Using Only Addition (arxiv.org)
Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release (hachyderm.io)
Introduction to math for game developers (docs.godotengine.org)
DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens (www.darpa.mil)
Goroutines: The concurrency model we wanted all along (jayconrod.com)
ServiceNow Insecure Access Control to Full Admin Takeover (x64.sh)
ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails (jfloren.net)
Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014 (krebsonsecurity.com)
Tech debt metaphor maximalism (apenwarr.ca)
How the new Threads app is made (www.emergetools.com)
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (factoryfactoryfactory.net)
Sleeping through the technical interview (2022) (xeiaso.net)
TypeScript please give us types (github.com)
Going Rogue (www.filfre.net)
Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial (www.bmj.com)
Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones (www.thedrive.com)
ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution (www.washingtonpost.com)
Android Games on PC (play.google.com)
Physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs (news.mit.edu)
Civic honesty around the globe (2019) (www.science.org)
Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library (www.khronos.org)
The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews (www.careerfair.io)
Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013) (github.com)
Gitlab.com is down (status.gitlab.com)
Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages (arstechnica.com)
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LOLBAS: Living Off the Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries (lolbas-project.github.io)
Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows Update on Windows 95. 98, Me, 2000, and XP (windowsupdaterestored.com)
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Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry (lwn.net)
Escaping High School (skunkledger.substack.com)
Git and Jupyter Notebooks Guide (www.reviewnb.com)
Understand (1991) (ktxr.rs)
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More green spaces linked to slower biological aging (news.northwestern.edu)
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (techcrunch.com)
Customers don't want chat bots (creativegood.com)
Every person on the planet should have their own website (eftegarie.com)
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List of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions (gtfobins.github.io)
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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (projecteink.com)
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure (awesomekling.github.io)
Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google (docs.brew.sh)
Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 (blog.imaginationtech.com)
Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neurons (github.com)
French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics (www.engadget.com)
List (OPML) of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs (github.com)
Red flags in the Threads privacy policy (qz.com)
Bluesky partners with Namecheap to power domains as usernames (blueskyweb.xyz)
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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf] (cdn.sanity.io)
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Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs (www.collabora.com)
Multi-Layered Calendars (julian.digital)
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Annotated scripts of old Sierra games (www.benshoof.org)
“Self-reflecting” AI agents explore like animals (hai.stanford.edu)
Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote (twitter.com)
A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow (www.economist.com)
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AI for AWS Documentation (www.awsdocsgpt.com)
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Threads profiles can't be deleted without removing your entire Instagram account (www.theverge.com)
Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states (www.sacbee.com)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (www.semafor.com)
Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine (www.igalia.com)
GPT-4 API General Availability (openai.com)
Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation (forum.torproject.org)
USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals (www.usgs.gov)
PlanetScale Scaler Pro (planetscale.com)
Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ (www.cnn.com)
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Declarative Enhancement for HTML (twinspark.js.org)
Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem (www.fastmail.com)
Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens (arxiv.org)
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Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth (apnews.com)
Lego building instructions (archive.org)
DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash (finance.yahoo.com)
Stop trying to make social networks succeed (ploum.net)
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone (gazettengr.com)
/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs (uses.tech)
Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with some interesting tweaks (twitter.com)
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony (arstechnica.com)
Godot 4.1 Is Released (godotengine.org)
Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World (www.timeextension.com)
Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation (github.com)
Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile (techcrunch.com)
Starting design work in a spreadsheet (clearleft.com)
InternLM – new open source 7B LLM (github.com)
My Problem with the Four-Document Model (www.hillelwayne.com)
Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio] (podtail.com)
The many ways that digital minds can know – A better way to think about LLMs (moultano.wordpress.com)
FunctionTrace: Graphical Python Profiler (functiontrace.com)
Cloud Backed SQLite (sqlite.org)
How to foster shoshin (psyche.co)
Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself (blog.everstrike.io)
Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off (news.ycombinator.com)
Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules (www.documentcloud.org)
Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours (www.threads.net)
Heat Pumps – The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs (spectrum.ieee.org)
Threads Is Now Live (techcrunch.com)
What boosted your confidence as a new programmer? (news.ycombinator.com)
FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success (issue.freebsdfoundation.org)
Rejected GitHub profile achievements (github.com)
People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script (news.ycombinator.com)
The Overflowing Brain: Information overload and the limits of working memory (tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com)
Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram (nationalpost.com)
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The U.S. Copyright Office requires libraries to lie about fair use rights? (scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)
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Hacker News User Blogroll (dm.hn)
LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups (fly.io)
Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30M customer accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Token revocation (www.biscuitsec.org)
LLama.cpp now has a web interface (github.com)
Why is desalination so difficult? (practical.engineering)
Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers (deno.com)
The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System by Dennis M. Ritchie (1984) [pdf] (www.bell-labs.com)
Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (lapcatsoftware.com)
AI weights are not open “source” (opencoreventures.com)
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Ariane 5 User’s Manual (2011) [pdf] (www.arianespace.com)
Lobotomizing Gnome (2018) (eklitzke.org)
Regex Engine Internals as a Library (blog.burntsushi.net)
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013) (www.theguardian.com)
Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better (twitter.com)
The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements (stackoverflow.blog)
How many people have ever lived on Earth? (www.prb.org)
Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023 (www.ise.fraunhofer.de)
PhD Simulator (research.wmz.ninja)
Our Journey with Apache Arrow (Part 2): Adaptive Schemas and Sorting (arrow.apache.org)
Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the Online Safety Bill [pdf] (haddadi.github.io)
Functions and algorithms implemented purely with TypeScript's type system (github.com)
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands (demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net)
Is the aircraft in this image real? (aviation.stackexchange.com)
Designing a Language Without a Parser (thunderseethe.dev)
Bret Victor update (worrydream.com)
I Hate the News (2006) (www.aaronsw.com)
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That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job (cohost.org)
Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields (varun.ca)
“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress (journals.plos.org)
A Slack clone in 5 lines of bash (the-dam.org)
MongoDB Protocol for SQLite (github.com)
LXD is now under Canonical (linuxcontainers.org)
Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux (usebottles.com)
Type system updates: moving from research into development (elixir-lang.org)
Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI (spectrum.ieee.org)
Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites (www.theguardian.com)
What gets to the front page of Hacker News? (randomshit.dev)
The Ancient Roman Secret to Concrete Resilience in Seawater (als.lbl.gov)
How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries (www.kodingkitty.com)
CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal (noyb.eu)
ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged (github.com)
Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf] (github.com)
Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it (shant.nu)
Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia (makie.org)
Firefox 115 Now Available with Intel GPU Video Decoding on Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI (www.engadget.com)
How to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market) (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
An Architectural Overview of QNX – inside the industry's only true microkernel [pdf] (cseweb.ucsd.edu)
libjpeg-turbo 3.0 has been released, and why there may never be a 3.1 (groups.google.com)
Could you share your personal blog here? (news.ycombinator.com)
Red Hat Is Not Linux (2020) (web.archive.org)
Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories (www.nature.com)
Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) (www.amusingplanet.com)
Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom (nltimes.nl)
A curated list of uBlock origin filters (letsblock.it)
Passwords Are Fine (herman.bearblog.dev)
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Disabling Matrix Portalling (libera.chat)
The Lone Banana Problem in AI (www.digital-science.com)
More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the Steam Deck (mastodon.cloud)
Who wants to be hired? (July 2023) (news.ycombinator.com)
GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers (www.theregister.com)
Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly (codex.flywire.ai)
Why there may never be a libjpeg-turbo 3.1 (groups.google.com)
Sourcegraph is no longer Open Source (github.com)
No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work (www.wsj.com)
SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can (blog.turso.tech)
A header-only C implementation of C++ (github.com)
Makepad- Synthesizer Written in Rust (makepad.nl)
Companies must stop using Google Analytics (www.imy.se)
OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature (help.openai.com)
How to do market research for product? (news.ycombinator.com)
Degrees What? (degreeswhat.com)
Things that surprised me while running SQLite in production (www.joseferben.com)
Learning needs to be effortful to be effective (giansegato.com)
Leaking Bitwarden's Vault with a Nginx vulnerability (labs.hakaioffsec.com)
Threads, an Instagram app (apps.apple.com)
Norway discovers Phosphate deposit large enough to supply world for 100 years (www.independent.co.uk)
Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor? (michael.stapelberg.ch)
A Dive into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures (conduition.io)
MartyPC, cycle accurate IBM PC/XT emulator (www.vogons.org)
Automate Your Network (github.com)
Against Alcohol (2022) (www.thefitzwilliam.com)
The Animated Elliptic Curve (curves.xargs.org)
C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) (www.digitalmars.com)
SlowDownAndWasteMemory() (github.com)
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths (www.nan.fyi)
Where in the USA Is This? (pudding.cool)
Joins 13 Ways (justinjaffray.com)
Google’s quantum computer instantly makes calculations that take rivals 47 years (www.smh.com.au)
43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019) (www.nbcnews.com)
We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study (techxplore.com)
Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of 'landmark year' (www.theregister.com)
SUSE Liberty Linux: secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in. (www.suse.com)
Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them (avestura.dev)
Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk (www.lesswrong.com)
Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. – open-source, self hosted, J.A.R.V.I.S. (github.com)
Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it (www.washingtonpost.com)
FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store (cacm.acm.org)
Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage? (movingthelimit.com)
Who is hiring? (July 2023) (news.ycombinator.com)
Wikipedia switches to CC BY-SA 4.0 license (diff.wikimedia.org)
Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels (www.schneier.com)
Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth (chipsandcheese.com)
Data-Oriented Design (2018) (www.dataorienteddesign.com)
Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber? (news.ycombinator.com)
Perl 5.38 (perldoc.perl.org)
Googling for answers costs time (2020) (prashanth.world)
The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird (collindonnell.com)
Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang (thechipletter.substack.com)
Disabled at 22 million commits (programming.dev)
Google search's death by a thousand cuts (matt-rickard.com)
Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months (thedriven.io)
Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL (woa-project.github.io)
WebAuthn Is Great and It Sucks (2020) (sec.okta.com)
Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (1984) (spectrum.ieee.org)
AI and the Automation of Work (www.ben-evans.com)
AMIGAlive – Play Amiga games online with people across the world (www.amigalive.com)
55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021) (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers (pedestrianobservations.com)
A toy programming language in 137 lines of Python code (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
What Do We Owe Our Teams? (www.mironov.com)
My Meeting with David Bohm (johnhorgan.org)
A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources (github.com)
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