I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python (github.com)
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023 (dolphin-emu.org)
Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit (www.theregister.com)
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison (www.pcgamer.com)
Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words (cohost.org)
‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007) (papers.ssrn.com)
Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021) (www.oxfordlearning.com)
Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use (github.com)
Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio (mastodon.social)
US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago (www.cnn.com)
I’ll never be an astronaut (shaunoconnell.com)
Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed (astro.build)
How do you look for jobs in 2023? (news.ycombinator.com)
Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92 (www.washingtonpost.com)
The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity (www.okdoomer.io)
You Won’t Believe This One Weird CPU Instruction (2019) (vaibhavsagar.com)
Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening? (old.reddit.com)
The CNET Lesson: Content Pruning Is Dumb for News Content, Don’t Do It (tedium.co)
Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser (www.pdftool.org)
Symmetry in Chaos (paulbourke.net)
The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained (physics.aps.org)
Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie' (www.businessinsider.com)
Far Manager: files and archives in Windows (www.farmanager.com)
Flying Toasters Screensaver After Dark in CSS (www.bryanbraun.com)
Cargo Cult Science by Richard P. Feynman (1974) [pdf] (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell (blog.podman.io)
Thermodynamic Linear Algebra (arxiv.org)
The first messenger without user IDs (simplex.chat)
Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created (finance.yahoo.com)
Render nuked my entire account with no notice (news.ycombinator.com)
VirGL – A virtual 3D GPU for use inside QEMU virtual machines (docs.mesa3d.org)
Ode to the M1 (fabiensanglard.net)
Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer (www.righto.com)
Reading Ancient Scrolls (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
A Blog Post with Every HTML Element (www.patrickweaver.net)
OP drew these corals with mathematical equations (twitter.com)
NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally (github.com)
Tijuana's illegal sewer hookups linked to cross-border pollution (www.kpbs.org)
CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf] (dreamsongs.com)
What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014) (blog.janestreet.com)
Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner (marionrecord.com)
Securing Your PostgreSQL DB with Roles and Privileges (rlopzc.com)
NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs for free (software.nasa.gov)
The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result (www.nature.com)
Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk (www.ugu.rs)
Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions (jasoneckert.github.io)
Deep Learning Systems (CMU Course) (dlsyscourse.org)
My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story (old.reddit.com)
Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server (jvns.ca)
Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home (thehandbasket.substack.com)
Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01 (seiya.me)
The Carrot Problem (www.atvbt.com)
Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps (finance.yahoo.com)
20 Years of Vim (www.contextualize.ai)
Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix (www.techdirt.com)
Record Labels Hit Internet Archive with New $400M+ Copyright Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations? (scicomp.stackexchange.com)
I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter (reddit.com)
Do we really need a specialized vector database? (modelz.ai)
If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots (www.economist.com)
Pip Imports in Deno (github.com)
How a startup loses its spark (blog.johnqian.com)
tRPC – Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy (trpc.io)
West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs (www.wvgazettemail.com)
Multiple Incidents: B789 deviated from localizer, descended below safe altitude (avherald.com)
Open-source proxy server for Llama2, GPT-4, Claude2 with Logging,Cache (github.com)
I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004) (www.computerworld.com)
HyperUI: Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components (www.hyperui.dev)
The inability to simultaneously verify sentience, location, and identity (arxiv.org)
Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution (torrentfreak.com)
Pykoi – a Python library for LLM data collection and fine tuning (www.cambioml.com)
Beginner's Guide to Llama Models (agi-sphere.com)
Fooocus: OSS for image generation by ControlNet author (github.com)
We need scientific dissidents (www.chronicle.com)
Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Our fight is far from over (blog.archive.org)
Zero Motorcycles makes its service manuals free (www.hagerty.com)
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper (kansasreflector.com)
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans (www.cnbc.com)
Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work (www.w3.org)
Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily (news.ycombinator.com)
GSMA considers giving away mobile device locations through API (www.gsma.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover (themessenger.com)
RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations (www.rfc-editor.org)
Mpire: A Python package for easier and faster multiprocessing (github.com)
Judge to revoke bail for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering (www.cnbc.com)
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have (blog.danslimmon.com)
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy (www.theregister.com)
Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes (www.ipp.mpg.de)
Infisical – open-source HashiCorp Vault alternative (github.com)
Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models (www.anyscale.com)
WipEout (1995) Source Code Rewrite (phoboslab.org)
The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
Tailscale vs. Narrowlink (narrowlink.com)
YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban (torrentfreak.com)
Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with (utcc.utoronto.ca)
OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change (github.com)
What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers (spacelift.io)
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007) (www.marktarver.com)
Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (theconversation.com)
Shamir Secret Sharing (max.levch.in)
Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction (cis.temple.edu)
Fastest Branchless Binary Search (mhdm.dev)
There is no hard takeoff (geohot.github.io)
I fixed a bug the other day (www.javiergonzalez.io)
Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser (ofrak.com)
SQLite Functions for Working with JSON (www.sqlite.org)
Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git (github.com)
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (simonwillison.net)
A Grumman F11 Tiger Shot Itself Down (2021) (www.planeandpilotmag.com)
Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators (www.wsj.com)
Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels (evergreenoffgrid.com)
Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release (blog.mozilla.org)
Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost (graphite.dev)
Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life (news.harvard.edu)
Llama 2 on ONNX runs locally (github.com)
A Modern C Development Environment (interrupt.memfault.com)
Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (2015) (www.woodtv.com)
Was Y Combinator worth it? (tableflow.com)
Source code for Quake 2 rerelease (github.com)
My Overkill Home Network (blog.networkprofile.org)
Robbie Robertson has died (www.nytimes.com)
“Please do not make it public” (Tencent’s Sogou Input Method) (citizenlab.ca)
HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License (www.hashicorp.com)
Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark (wiki.makerdiary.com)
MIT Pirate Certificate (physicaleducationandwellness.mit.edu)
Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time (www.theguardian.com)
What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019) (daily.jstor.org)
eSignature for Google Docs and Google Drive (Beta) (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association (www.suse.com)
Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI (aerolite.dev)
MetaGPT: Meta Programming for Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework (arxiv.org)
Vim Boss (neovim.io)
The Tetris Effect (nonzerosum.games)
Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold (www.quantamagazine.org)
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source (github.com)
Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists (dynomight.net)
MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names (learn.microsoft.com)
Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize? (pair.withgoogle.com)
The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data (www.confiant.com)
Sixto Rodriguez has died (abcnews.go.com)
Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns (www.theregister.com)
'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)
Doctors on TikTok (thewalrus.ca)
MilkyTracker 1.04 (milkytracker.org)
Speed Test (speed.cloudflare.com)
Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols (vpncentral.com)
The Future of the Vim Project (groups.google.com)
If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban (harrisbricken.com)
After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn (gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
Has Google Translate been fixed yet? (isgooglefixed.tw)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years (maritime-executive.com)
Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler (conversationswithtyler.com)
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be crumbling into chaos (futurism.com)
What Is Happening with ChatGPT? (chat.openai.com)
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
Archive of novelty answering machine recordings (www.noveltyansweringmachine.com)
Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground (hackaday.com)
Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022) (hirrolot.github.io)
Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation' (kuow.org)
Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (blog.mlc.ai)
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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
I don't want to host services but I do (ergaster.org)
Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)
Java 21: What’s New? (www.loicmathieu.fr)
When did Postgres become cool? (www.crunchydata.com)
The Garden of Computational Delights (arbesman.net)
Get notified when sites update their terms of service (tosnotify.com)
Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics (automaton-media.com)
Maui wildfires are 'apocalyptic' as people jump into the ocean to flee (www.cnn.com)
Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (github.com)
Supabase Local Dev: migrations, branching, and observability (supabase.com)
The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays (lunduke.substack.com)
Refine (YC S23) – Open-Source Retool for Enterprise (news.ycombinator.com)
B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want (www.cbc.ca)
Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP (github.com)
Ancient Earth globe (dinosaurpictures.org)
Mozilla finds CPU bug (bad store forwarding) in Samsung Galaxy S20 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge (github.com)
Unity Weta Tools (unity.com)
Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office (www.washingtonpost.com)
I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs (github.com)
Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer' (www.extremetech.com)
WeWork Warns of Possible Bankruptcy (www.cnbc.com)
Canonical's interview process step by step (by step by step by) (old.reddit.com)
The Fear of AI Just Killed a Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
New part day: Finally a 100% new Commodore 64 can be built (1nt3r.net)
Mullvad VPN – Infrastructure Audit Completed by Open Security (mullvad.net)
Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world (www.theregister.com)
Swap_8_and_9: A simple import can modify the Python interpreter (kenschutte.com)
Pure Bash Bible (github.com)
Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying) (blog.briankitano.com)
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap (blog.openstreetmap.org)
PyPI Requires 2FA for New User Registrations (blog.pypi.org)
FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression (www.fda.gov)
A Critical Problem (2017) (nucleardiner.wordpress.com)
Testing Intel’s Arc A770 GPU for Deep Learning (christianjmills.com)
G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics (omrelli.ug)
Inception: A simple XOR can cause a Microarchitectural Stack Overflow (comsec.ethz.ch)
LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis (drive.google.com)
Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia (news.ycombinator.com)
PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management (packaging-con.org)
Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation (milksad.info)
Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative (www.easyful.com)
The Last 1% (jaredramsey.com)
mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites (mcaptcha.org)
Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time (www.iflscience.com)
Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar (www.theguardian.com)
ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console (chimeraos.org)
Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module (linuxgizmos.com)
Android 14 introduces first-of-its-kind cellular connectivity security features (security.googleblog.com)
Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster (blog.aquasec.com)
What happened in this GPT-3 conversation? (chat.openai.com)
StableCode (stability.ai)
Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company (www.washingtonpost.com)
LCD, Please – de-make of “Papers, please”, celebrating 10 years since launch (dukope.itch.io)
Chat with your data using LangChain, Pinecone, and Airbyte (airbyte.com)
Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB (www.ory.dev)
Downfall Attacks (downfall.page)
Uninstall the NightOwl macOS app now (robins.one)
Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999) (bruces.medium.com)
GPT-4 can't reason (www.preprints.org)
Homebrew Is Awesome (danthesalmon.com)
Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams (google.github.io)
CISA Releases Its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan (www.cisa.gov)
Go 1.21 Released (go.dev)
Bye, Gemini (www.makeworld.space)
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
Banks Hit with Millions in Fines for Using Signal and WhatsApp (www.cnbc.com)
Jailer, a unique open-source database tool (github.com)
How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance? (www.economist.com)
Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China (www.dallasfed.org)
EFF denounces Google's WEI proposal (www.eff.org)
Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust (github.com)
Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data (www.magicearth.com)
Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Amazon Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, but Hired Firms to Prevent Them from Unionizing (www.vice.com)
Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) (www.adriancooney.ie)
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim (arstechnica.com)
Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org (archive.org)
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)
TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP to build fab in Germany (pr.tsmc.com)
Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly (matt-rickard.com)
The Alexander Piano (www.alexanderpiano.nz)
Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
What are the big/important problems to work on? (news.ycombinator.com)
Run Firefox on ChromeOS (support.mozilla.org)
Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence (kidswholovemath.substack.com)
Doculite – Use SQLite as a Document Database (www.npmjs.com)
To opt out of Grammarly AI training requires business account with 500+ users (front-end.social)
Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022) (www.science.org)
Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions (arxiv.org)
Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples (arxiv.org)
Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses (www.cancer.columbia.edu)
Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust (aeroxplorer.com)
I would rather see my books get pirated than this (janefriedman.com)
ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation (chainforge.ai)
How to stop the “login with Google” pop up window? (support.google.com)
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel (www.vulture.com)
True shape of lithium revealed for the first time (phys.org)
Raku: A Language for Gremlins (buttondown.email)
A beginner's guide to Git version control (developers.redhat.com)
Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React (github.com)
How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop (github.com)
Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers (mofi.loud.red)
MIT Press: Open Access Materials (archive.org)
The combined power of F# and C# (steven-giesel.com)
Linux Guide for Power Users (xnacly.me)
How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features (blog.zoom.us)
Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out (stackdiary.com)
Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way (mhatta.medium.com)
Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code (www.phind.com)
Axilla – Open-source TypeScript framework for LLM apps (github.com)
Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” (kottke.org)
GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs (news.ycombinator.com)
What's the coolest physical thing you've made? (news.ycombinator.com)
Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka (www.warpstream.com)
Fantastic Learning Resources (matklad.github.io)
Police Raid Worldcoin Warehouse in Nairobi (www.capitalfm.co.ke)
Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation (chipsandcheese.com)
Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code (www.archsense.dev)
If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose (slate.com)
Turning my Framework laptop into a tiny desktop (arstechnica.com)
Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue (bugs.chromium.org)
Some tactics for writing in public (jvns.ca)
The $1M shot that changed sports contests forever (www.espn.com)
Vocal minority sets online discourse, distorting real-life perception (www.fastcompany.com)
Not Using Zoom (the.webm.ink)
PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default (www.techpowerup.com)
Orb is a free and open source web desktop (gitlab.com)
My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack (getwaitlist.com)
Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (github.com)
What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally (agi-sphere.com)
Ongoing compilation table of LK-99 reproduction claims (forums.spacebattles.com)
British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever (www.t3.com)
Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016) (timonoko.github.io)
Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek (calnewport.com)
Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano (whipsaw.com)
Midjourney API and Diffusion and Dalle2 on Picogen (picogen.io)
GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler (platform.openai.com)
Google Maps has become an eyesore (www.fastcompany.com)
Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match (www.nytimes.com)
We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C (github.com)