A forum engine written in Assembly (asm32.info)
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WordPress introduces 100 year domain registrations (wordpress.com)
Overthewire.org (overthewire.org)
WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com)
Anti-AI Hype LLM Reading List (gist.github.com)
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Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004) (www.scribd.com)
Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla (www.bugzilla.org)
Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase (about.sourcegraph.com)
Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages (gist.github.com)
The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch (www.nytimes.com)
Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (ericdraken.com)
This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times (xeiaso.net)
Linux on a Commodore 64 (github.com)
Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust (briansmith.org)
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching (www.washingtonpost.com)
If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you (twitter.com)
Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll (github.com)
Thoughts about what worked in math circles (buttondown.email)
Airbnb allowing host to place cameras in the room where I would be sleeping (old.reddit.com)
Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022) (www.theguardian.com)
Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough (cacm.acm.org)
A video of the transformation of a single cell into a salamander (pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com)
90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals (scienceswitch.com)
n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool (n8n.io)
Let Maintainers Be Maintainers (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture (slack.engineering)
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment (www.theregister.com)
Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com (mastodon.social)
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The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect (www.theverge.com)
NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016) (github.com)
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Clean mount lists in Linux (dbohdan.com)
As I get older, I just don't care about new technology (old.reddit.com)
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Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (algoritmos-iii.github.io)
Untouchable number (en.wikipedia.org)
Support ActivityPub for merge requests (gitlab.com)
66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work (www.cnbc.com)
FFmpeg Explorer (ffmpeg.lav.io)
Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu (stgraber.org)
Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules (www.vice.com)
We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake (aeon.co)
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now (2022) (karpathy.github.io)
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Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide (resend.com)
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Breaking copy protection on a 1983 game for Apple 2 (ia804502.us.archive.org)
The EU's war on behavioral advertising (thisisunpacked.substack.com)
Web scraping for me, but not for thee (blog.ericgoldman.org)
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Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List (github.com)
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Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law (www.techdirt.com)
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50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity (blocksandfiles.com)
Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset (github.com)
Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs (www.404media.co)
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do (www.nbcnews.com)
OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform (opentf.org)
A place where no humans will tread for 100k years (www.bbc.com)
America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers (www.economist.com)
Cyberpunk in the Nineties (1998) (www.streettech.com)
Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists (arxiv.org)
Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities (unicornriot.ninja)
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores (gizmodo.com)
Factorio: Space Age (factorio.com)
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Corrupted Blood incident (en.wikipedia.org)
Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown (runme.dev)
Domain Repetition (iquilezles.org)
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Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python (vmartin.fr)
Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager (www.os-js.org)
Bram Moolenaar's programming language, Zimbu (thenewstack.io)
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The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced (www.nature.com)
Undiscovered electronics/maker YouTube channels (news.ycombinator.com)
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Ig Nobel Prize Winner Higashiyama Atsuki and the “Between-Legs Effect” Mystery (www.nippon.com)
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Skin health can be used to predict a number of seemingly unconnected factors (www.bbc.com)
SQLite 3.43 (sqlite.org)
Japan’s 72 Microseasons (2015) (www.nippon.com)
Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services (blog.torproject.org)
Artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back (www.ucsf.edu)
Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web (www.shimmer.care)
FreeBSD on Firecracker (www.usenix.org)
Microsoft’s Revocation of the Verisign Class 3 Public Primary G5 Root Cert (airlockdigital.com)
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Hacker News Guidelines (news.ycombinator.com)
Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea (daily.jstor.org)
No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy (www.theguardian.com)
DOJ sues SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring (www.justice.gov)
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules (www.statnews.com)
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Rust 1.72.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)
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Open source LLM with 32k Context Length (blog.abacus.ai)
Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia (techcrunch.com)
Code Llama, an AI tool for coding (about.fb.com)
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Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’ (venturebeat.com)
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (1963) (patents.google.com)
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Pytudes (github.com)
Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012) (www.theguardian.com)
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Odd and unsafe baby car seats from the past (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
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Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B (www.theverge.com)
ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool” (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024 (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Image constructed using quantum entanglement of photons (phys.org)
HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies (opencoreventures.com)
SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017) (seaglass.cs.washington.edu)
Fast vector similarity using Rust and Python (github.com)
Ridiculous captcha at GitHub to reset your password (github.com)
Common mistakes in salary negotiation (interviewing.io)
An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful) (grahamhelton.com)
Apple’s treatment of small games developer makes a textbook antitrust case (9to5mac.com)
My favorite prime number generator (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger (www.rmit.edu.au)
AI Real-Time Human Full-Body Photo Generator (generated.photos)
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Enhance Rust errors with file and line details (crates.io)
MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac (goodsnooze.gumroad.com)
A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet (www.404media.co)
AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis (www.michiganmedicine.org)
Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation (www.theguardian.com)
Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020) (www.timr.co)
A half-hour to learn Rust (2020) (fasterthanli.me)
Mastering Emacs (www.masteringemacs.org)
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What happened to Wirecutter? (www.theatlantic.com)
No One Wants Simplicity (lukeplant.me.uk)
Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands (www.rijksoverheid.nl)
Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022) (www.packtpub.com)
Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon (twitter.com)
macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits (developer.apple.com)
Where to find open source house plans? (news.ycombinator.com)
Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (old.reddit.com)
Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing (www.isro.gov.in)
Zrepl – ZFS replication (zrepl.github.io)
Writing a Package Manager (antonz.org)
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated (www.quantamagazine.org)
PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts (pglocks.org)
Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager (github.com)
Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email (skiff.com)
Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis (www.moorfields.nhs.uk)
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 (www.phoronix.com)
AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users (github.com)
My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS (mastodon.social)
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension (bigthink.com)
Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar (www.bitecode.dev)
OpenCopilot – Build and embed open-source AI copilots into your product (github.com)
How to Solve It (1945) (www.math.utah.edu)
A State Official Refused to Release Water for West Maui Fires (www.civilbeat.org)
Whisper.api: Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription (github.com)
Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode (figma.com)
Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration (godly.website)
Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy” (old.reddit.com)
Broken Ownership (blog.alexewerlof.com)
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates (openai.com)
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Experian fined $650k for not letting you opt out of its spammy emails (www.theverge.com)
FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes (flakehub.com)
SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation (about.fb.com)
Structured logging with slog (go.dev)
Architecture diagrams enable better conversations (www.unravelled.dev)
The new science of meditation (www.vox.com)
STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM32MP1 (www.st.com)
1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’ (www.vintag.es)
Kullback–Leibler divergence (en.wikipedia.org)
Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes (www.businessinsider.com)
Prettymapp – Create beautiful maps from OpenStreetMap data in a streamlit webapp (github.com)
Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea (www.techradar.com)
Inkscape possible domain compromise (discourse.nixos.org)
The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15 (www.404media.co)
Northvolt raises $1.2B convertible note from BlackRock (sifted.eu)
The first conformant M1 GPU driver (rosenzweig.io)
The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features (gizmodo.com)
Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips (frunc.de)
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Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (www.theverge.com)
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents (manu.zone)
Impermanence (nixos.wiki)
Unix is both a technology and an idea (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Why KPIs are destroying businesses (blog.promaton.com)
Stolen from Apple (2004) (www.folklore.org)
NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF (www.nytimes.com)
Compuserve (www.compuserve.com)
Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering (www.arm.com)
SolarPi experiment 2: Finally something that works (blog.rfox.eu)
I walked across Luxembourg (blog.ioces.com)
Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel (scienceswitch.com)
Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free (blog.0x7d0.dev)
FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts (www.hillelwayne.com)
Jeff Bezos on AI (1998) [video] (www.jessewright.com)
Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters (www.economist.com)
Ego Death (krisnova.net)
The broad set of computer science problems faced at cloud database companies (davidgomes.com)
What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process? (news.ycombinator.com)
Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads (blog.podman.io)
Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power (www.pewresearch.org)
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Early Days of AI (blog.eladgil.com)
Why Open Source? (getconvoy.io)
Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices (security.googleblog.com)
I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) (accu.org)
Flatpak is not the future (2021) (ludocode.com)
uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
P2panda: P2P protocol for secure, energy-efficient local-first web applications (p2panda.org)
When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020) (newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants (www.economist.com)
Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead (www.theregister.com)
All of the vehicle license plates available in America (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512 (lemire.me)
5 years ago Valve released Proton (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase (www.namecheap.com)
CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret TETRA primitives [video] (media.ccc.de)
Steve Jobs: Fast boot times saves lives (www.folklore.org)
I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images (minimaxir.com)
9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept 1, 2023 (i.imgur.com)
Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper (www.kansascity.com)
Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021) (longreads.com)
Don't Fire Your Illustrator (sambleckley.com)
Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post (www.fakehn.com)
The ideal viewport doesn't exist (viewports.fyi)
Study: Inflammation drives social media use (www.buffalo.edu)
Be careful of the examples you use. They stick (blog.thinkst.com)
Precompiled binaries removed from serde v1.0.184 (github.com)
Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks (kjhealey.medium.com)
GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? (alexplescan.com)
Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries (arunraghavan.net)
16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU (www.jiristepanovsky.cz)
StableVideo: Text-Driven Consistency-Aware Diffusion Video Editing (rese1f.github.io)
OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product (github.com)
GNU Radio software-defined radio (SDR) implementation of a LoRa transceiver (github.com)
It’s lambdas all the way down (itsbehnam.com)
My talk with Kris Nova about being homeless. See you on the other side, friend (kubecuddle.transistor.fm)
We’re All Just Temporarily Abled (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation (www.nature.com)
Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results (medicalxpress.com)
FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs (twitter.com)
macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported (eclecticlight.co)
TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken (timeguessr.com)
Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife (www.akshaykhot.com)
Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level (medicalxpress.com)
Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs (thedataquarry.com)
Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store (daringfireball.net)
A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one? (abcnews.go.com)
JSON Schema Store (www.schemastore.org)
An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco (petapixel.com)
Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy (eclecticlight.co)