What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated (www.bitecode.dev)
The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity” (rants.org)
You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky (youareatlas.com)
Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Developer (yrashk.medium.com)
The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server (pboyd.io)
Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator (askmisterwizard.com)
An Introduction to APIs (zapier.com)
A dive into the AMD driver workflow (geohot.github.io)
Khoj – Chat Offline with Your Second Brain Using Llama 2 (github.com)
San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups (sfcompute.org)
Richard Feynman's 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University (www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback (www.openwall.com)
X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014) (medium.com)
Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem (newsletter.mollywhite.net)
I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one week of empathy training (shkspr.mobi)
Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’ (www.asiafinancial.com)
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages (www.mpg.de)
The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore (mstdn.ca)
Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier (amiaopensource.github.io)
Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux (github.com)
Emacs 29.1 Released (emacsredux.com)
How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits (www.propublica.org)
Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (www.quantamagazine.org)
Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging (news.cuanschutz.edu)
Button Pushes You (2022) (despens.systems)
Fighting for the open web [image] (www.davidrevoy.com)
Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth (news.cornell.edu)
Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar (www.nature.com)
Welcome to Wikifunctions (www.wikifunctions.org)
How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? (kidswholovemath.substack.com)
Snowflake (snowflake.torproject.org)
ASML EUV Lithography Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track (spectrum.ieee.org)
Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on replaced iPad screens (arstechnica.com)
Room Temperature Superconductor Drama and Hope (twitter.com)
Observable API Proposal (github.com)
Functions are vectors (thenumb.at)
Alcohol without the hangover – scientists are finding ways (www.wsj.com)
The Hacker's Dictionary (www.hackersdictionary.com)
GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot (libreboot.org)
Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub (benhoyt.com)
The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on (www.iflscience.com)
Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis (philbooth.me)
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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data (www.reuters.com)
Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers (theintercept.com)
Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet (www.uclahealth.org)
Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor (www.airgradient.com)
Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate (www.slowboring.com)
1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo (mainichi.jp)
US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf] (armyoe.files.wordpress.com)
Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models (llm-attacks.org)
“Gzip beats BERT?” Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results (kenschutte.com)
If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity (www.strongtowns.org)
Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill (news.ycombinator.com)
Using C++ as a scripting language, part 8 (fwsgonzo.medium.com)
Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (1997) (math.ucr.edu)
Cyberdecks (2013) (blog.rfox.eu)
What Happened to Vivaldi Social? (thomasp.vivaldi.net)
Mess with DNS (messwithdns.net)
Fabricated data in research about honesty (www.npr.org)
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ (www.wired.com)
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger (techreport.com)
SQLite-Utils (sqlite-utils.datasette.io)
So you want to build your own open source chatbot (hacks.mozilla.org)
Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement (www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com)
IRC is the only viable chat protocol (koshka.love)
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation (venturebeat.com)
IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? (www.os2museum.com)
U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf] (www.marines.mil)
LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler (lpython.org)
F# RISC-V Instruction Set formal specification (github.com)
The Resilience of Costco (2018) (minesafetydisclosures.com)
Rain Panels: Harvesting the energy of falling raindrops (thedebrief.org)
Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 (www.science.org)
Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast (www.tremor.so)
Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional (discuss.python.org)
Plans develop for high-speed rail in the PNW (southseattleemerald.com)
How to Roman Republic 101 (acoup.blog)
Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft (www.quantamagazine.org)
No-GIL mode coming for Python (lwn.net)
SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere (spaceweatherarchive.com)
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017) (www.cambridge.org)
An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs (scopeblog.stanford.edu)
Pyro: A Universal, Probablistic Programming Language (pyro.ai)
Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation (www.latimes.com)
List of APIs that require declared reasons (developer.apple.com)
US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone (www.counterpointresearch.com)
Cities with their own psychological disorders (www.atlasobscura.com)
Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
“Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)
Flash Museum (flashmuseum.org)
Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat (seas.harvard.edu)
Why is DNS still hard to learn? (jvns.ca)
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (news.ycombinator.com)
How to use a Python multiprocessing module (developers.redhat.com)
Cap'n Proto 1.0 (capnproto.org)
On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education (edsource.org)
Cophone – Mobile work phones running in the cloud (cophone.io)
Watch TV from the 90s (and Earlier) (my90stv.com)
VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router) (blog.kroy.io)
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse (blockworks.co)
RT-2 AI model translates vision and language into robotic actions (blog.google)
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it (www.engadget.com)
Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules (www.engadget.com)
Sci-Hub Founder Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge (torrentfreak.com)
Finding “Discs of Tron” on the Roadside (arcadeblogger.com)
How to Check 2 SQL Tables Are the Same (github.com)
Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor (graphite.rs)
The design thinking movement is absurd (2018) (sts-news.medium.com)
LeMUR: LLMs for Audio and Speech (www.assemblyai.com)
Kill dwm.exe on Windows for less input lag and better performance (github.com)
How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success (www.vox.com)
Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? (news.ycombinator.com)
Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks (www.msn.com)
Faster filesystem access with Directfs (gvisor.dev)
Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source (spectrum.ieee.org)
LLMs Unleashed: The Power of Fine-Tuning (lucaspauker.com)
Intel returns to profitability after two quarters of losses (www.cnbc.com)
Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why (www.caltech.edu)
Visa-free travel to Europe for U.S. citizens to end in 2024,requiring ETIAS form (www.npr.org)
Annual EFF Awards Goe to Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal (www.eff.org)
Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards (www.bbc.com)
Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh (fabiensanglard.net)
Austral Programming Language (austral-lang.org)
eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators (www.opensignal.com)
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
No One Wants to Talk to Your Chatbot (lucas-mcgregor.medium.com)
Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo (www.techdirt.com)
Epilogue of my time working at Twitter (esthercrawford.medium.com)
PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres (news.ycombinator.com)
DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables (unix.stackexchange.com)
Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI (arxiv.org)
BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system (bloomberg.github.io)
This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years (www.cnn.com)
SQLite Begin Concurrent (www.sqlite.org)
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X (www.leteyski.com)
LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT (tatsu-lab.github.io)
Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law (www.techdirt.com)
How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductivity–This Time for Real? (scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)
Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn (twitter.com)
EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling (www.theverge.com)
Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites (www.theregister.com)
Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020) (twistedsifter.com)
KernType – A Letter Spacing Game (type.method.ac)
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
An Internet Canvas (paper.mmm.dev)
Mind Grenade (2019) (www.fourmilab.ch)
TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids (val.packett.cool)
Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset (2022) (blog.marcua.net)
Chidori – Declarative framework for AI agents (Rust, Python, and Node.js) (github.com)
Visualizing every job in the world (duarteocarmo.com)
Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow (jlericson.com)
Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Your Chromebook, Your Way (eupnea-linux.github.io)
macOS in QEMU (ARM edition) [pdf] (kvm-forum.qemu.org)
Jupyter Notebook 7 (blog.jupyter.org)
A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride (www.theguardian.com)
Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing (www.neelc.org)
Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem (mail.tarsnap.com)
Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub (discuss.systems)
It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp (log.schemescape.com)
“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (dwdraju.medium.com)
Exway doesn't care about USB-C conformity (ericswpark.com)
WordPress Core to start using SQLite (make.wordpress.org)
How to build toxic software teams (badsoftwareadvice.substack.com)
Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online (www.eff.org)
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default (openjdk.org)
Smart Contract Security Field Guide (scsfg.io)
Continue – Open-source coding autopilot (github.com)
Data brokers selling license plate location and analytics data (www.tlo.com)
US conducted ‘multi-decade’ secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says (www.theguardian.com)
Memory Copy Hunting (tigerbeetle.com)
Apple's infamously strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020) (reclaimthenet.org)
Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid more demand (www.nbcnews.com)
Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be (www.science.org)
Study shows glyphosate impairs learning in bumblebees (phys.org)
Rethinking Window Management (blogs.gnome.org)
Quad9 blocks pirate site globally after Sony demanded €10k fine (torrentfreak.com)
UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process (easydns.com)
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (techcrunch.com)
FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon (www.politico.com)
Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight (arstechnica.com)
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Sinead O’Connor has died (www.irishtimes.com)
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web Environment Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes work (www.pagetable.com)
Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset (overturemaps.org)
Florida ocean temps surge to 100F; mass coral bleaching event is found in reefs (www.cnn.com)
Community Note correcting Musk’s anti-vax tweet mysteriously disappears (old.reddit.com)
When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape During the 1980s (www.openculture.com)
A world where people pay for software (1sub.dev)
Mold 2.0 (github.com)
Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning (timdettmers.com)
Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
My Netlify account has been suspended, I don’t know why? (answers.netlify.com)
Google vs. the Open Web (interpeer.io)
Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys (news.ycombinator.com)
Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium (github.com)
Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly (futurism.com)
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial (www.digikey.com)
The Internet Free Zone (1997) (arachnoid.com)
Expo – open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web (github.com)
We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitter lesson (astralcodexten.substack.com)
Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com)
A command-line murder mystery (2014) (github.com)
Where do you discuss computer related stuff now? (lobste.rs)
Hyperlink maximalism (2022) (thesephist.com)
Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia (9to5google.com)
Social engineering campaign targeting tech employees spreads through NPM malware (socket.dev)
Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language (github.com)
Treemaps are awesome (blog.phronemophobic.com)
Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013) (mcfunley.com)
Unicode is harder than you think (mcilloni.ovh)
Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’ (www.cnn.com)
Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv (github.com)
The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org)
Onnx Runtime: “Cross-Platform Accelerated Machine Learning” (onnxruntime.ai)
“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract (teamster.org)
Arc Browser 1.0 (arc.net)
Way ahead of it's time: The Remote Lounge NYC (docpop.org)
A comprehensive guide to running Llama 2 locally (replicate.com)
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Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture (www.texastribune.org)
PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language (github.com)
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (arxiv.org)
Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow (doctorow.medium.com)
Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing (devblogs.microsoft.com)
At this company, we are family (pboyd.io)
Warning of forthcoming collapse of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (www.nature.com)
The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable” (www.rnz.co.nz)
Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? (alicegg.tech)
The remote work dominates on HN:Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote (blog.spatial.chat)
OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool (decrypt.co)
Chicago’s Railroad Problem (homesignalblog.wordpress.com)
Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal (github.com)
Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games (boilingsteam.com)
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
Meta-Transformer: A unified framework for multimodal learning (kxgong.github.io)
What We Know About LLMs (willthompson.name)
Invoice Dragon – An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free (invoicedragon.com)
I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020) (mastodon.sdf.org)
A Python Job Board for Python Developers (www.pycareer.io)
From Python to Elixir Machine Learning (www.thestackcanary.com)
The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today (cdm.link)
A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir (andrealeopardi.com)
Artie (YC S23) – Real time data replication to data warehouses (news.ycombinator.com)
Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism (www.wired.com)
Common Pitfalls in Go Benchmarking (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer (pirg.org)
Cephalopods use RNA editing to modify their nervous sytems (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [pdf] (algorithmicbotany.org)
NAT Types (www.roxlu.com)
Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools (vscode.dev)
Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his Sparc4 was running slow (infosec.exchange)
Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft (themessenger.com)
Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) (www.intel.com)
Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API (github.com)
The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts (www.abc.net.au)
People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (www.atlasobscura.com)
Python: Overlooked core functionalities (erikvandeven.medium.com)
Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X” (tsdr.uspto.gov)
A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2 (brev.dev)
Wasm_of_OCaml (github.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Wind and Solar Will Be 25% of Total U.S. Generating Capacity Within Three Years (electricenergyonline.com)
Elixir is still safe (paraxial.io)
How capacity planners credibly estimate application performance (queue.acm.org)
Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% (slimemoldtimemold.com)
Apple Vision Pro developer kit (developer.apple.com)
Transformer Attention is off by one (www.evanmiller.org)
40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight (www.damninteresting.com)
Atari Has Launched Collectible Arcade Circuit Boards of Retro Classics (retrododo.com)
I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator (projectionlab.com)
Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation (pikchr.org)
X, the moonshot factory (x.company)
I built a transit travel time map (map.henryn.xyz)
Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios (www.vice.com)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS (jessems.com)
Zenbleed (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
Which recently research paper blow your mind? (news.ycombinator.com)
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives (arstechnica.com)
Driver.js: Product tours, highlights, contextual help and more (driverjs.com)
Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) (www.compart.com)
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (techcrunch.com)
Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015) (chcollins.com)
Young people are flocking to astrology (www.washingtonpost.com)
Bruce Lee and Me (kareem.substack.com)
OpenBSD: AMD processor microcode support added to -current (undeadly.org)
My Pen Plotting Journey (adamfuhrer.com)
VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared (web.archive.org)
Inkscape 1.3 (inkscape.org)
Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity (www.pcgamer.com)
Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction (blog.myscale.com)
Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008) (www.scientificamerican.com)
The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (2011) (math.stanford.edu)
Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
Welcome Debian riscv64 (blog.aurel32.net)
Court strikes down limits on filming of police in Arizona (apnews.com)
An invariant from category theory solves a problem in mathematical ecology [pdf] (www.maths.ed.ac.uk)
U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption (therecord.media)
Resilience in Complex Systems (2021) (irhum.github.io)
Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid (www.theguardian.com)
Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable (iconbuddy.app)
Never run ldd on unknown executables (catonmat.net)
Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations (www.nytimes.com)