How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people (eclecticlight.co)
Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot (twitter.com)
Chili Oil Notes (uptointerpretation.com)
Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style (petals.dev)
So You Think You Know C? (2020) [pdf] (wordsandbuttons.online)
Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making (www.theguardian.com)
Things that do not exist in Dimension Apple (maxread.substack.com)
Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models (github.com)
CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification (github.com)
Comp.lang.c is now full of spam (groups.google.com)
A High Throughput B+tree for SIMD Architectures (2020) [pdf] (www.ece.lsu.edu)
How HTTPS Works (2018) (howhttps.works)
Changing the Rules of Rust (without.boats)
I hacked macOS (asahilina.net)
Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (linearbookscanner.org)
Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade (e360.yale.edu)
Unity's Trap (www.pentadact.com)
How Valve built soundproof booths (www.dota2.com)
Fireball over Iceland (apod.nasa.gov)
Bounties Damage Open Source Projects (ziglang.org)
Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline (www.wsj.com)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (2017) (www.nist.gov)
Don't be afraid to be wrong (nlopes.dev)
Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution (journals.plos.org)
Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways (mariusbancila.ro)
The Early Days of American English (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model (jackcook.com)
America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it (americanaffairsjournal.org)
AMD’s Phoenix SoC (chipsandcheese.com)
Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 (wejn.org)
Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI (helpx.adobe.com)
Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? (www.youtube.com)
Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR (twitter.com)
Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakthrough Prize (www.nature.com)
Satya Nadella: “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022) (twitter.com)
Percy Ludgate (en.wikipedia.org)
Layoffs.fyi (layoffs.fyi)
Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power (newatlas.com)
Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training (github.com)
Unity's Self-Combustion Engine (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Java 21 makes me like Java again (wscp.dev)
Generative Image Dynamics (generative-dynamics.github.io)
Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health (www.architecturaluprising.com)
The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021) (letsencrypt.org)
I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013) (www.theguardian.com)
BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf] (www.cs.cit.tum.de)
Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible? (workplace.stackexchange.com)
Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage (status.bitwarden.com)
NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens (theconversation.com)
French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and others (www.cnn.com)
Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization (docs.google.com)
Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments (github.com)
The “Do Something About It” Club (chavanniclass.com)
Relational is more than SQL (fauna.com)
Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O (github.com)
ChessMonitor – Analytics for Lichess and Chess.com (www.chessmonitor.com)
exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser (www.exaequos.com)
GPT-4 is not getting worse (coagulopath.com)
Deno by Example (examples.deno.land)
Inflation in Austria (mastodon.gamedev.place)
Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons (pixelsea.neocities.org)
Introduction to Hilbert Space (2022) [pdf] (www.cphysics.org)
Marc Benioff: “I don’t work well in an office” (fortune.com)
Everyday uses for PVC water pipe (tomtilley.net)
enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001) (enroncorp.com)
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers (engineercodex.substack.com)
A Primer on Logic Programming (www.juxt.pro)
Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain (www.subdomain.center)
Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com)
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers (arstechnica.com)
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The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
Books for Game Developers (mrelusive.com)
“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases (pme.uchicago.edu)
Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics (www.efinancialcareers.com)
How do you manage your “family data warehouse”? (news.ycombinator.com)
Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch (thomassimon.dev)
Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective (sebastianraschka.com)
No Sacred Masterpieces, that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it (basta.substack.com)
The Evolution of Vi and Vim (pikuma.com)
Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)
Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software (kopia.io)
Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates (www.g1a55er.net)
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Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave (www.smithsonianmag.com)
On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (2016) (www.metzdowd.com)
Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one (arstechnica.com)
How to Store a Chess Game in 26 Bytes Using Bit-Level Magic (2022) (www.ezzeriesa.com)
Shrinkflation Tracker (www.shrinkflation.io)
MaplePad – RP2040 Dreamcast controller, VMU, and Purupuru (rumble pack) emulator (github.com)
Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C (github.com)
California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers (www.latimes.com)
Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website (csvbase.com)
How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language? (richarddawkins.substack.com)
Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking (www.theguardian.com)
Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all (www.ft.com)
United Auto Workers launches a historic strike against all Big 3 automakers (www.npr.org)
Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages (www.ritsumei.ac.jp)
Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant (www.marginalia.nu)
Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands (www.theguardian.com)
‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k (www.theguardian.com)
How does Linux start a process (iq.thc.org)
Arm jumps 18% in market debut to notch $60B valuation (www.reuters.com)
TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)
TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers (www.nbcmiami.com)
Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach (www.twipla.com)
Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming (ramatak.com)
Find my cat: open-source Cat Tracker (www.findmycat.io)
Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library (github.com)
Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics (github.com)
A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Willingham sends Fables into the public domain (billwillingham.substack.com)
Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner (links.plex.tv)
An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide (www.procustodibus.com)
B612 Font Family (b612-font.com)
Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AMD’s 7900 XTX (chipsandcheese.com)
Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative (nuejs.org)
Linear code is more readable (blog.separateconcerns.com)
Godot Development Fund (fund.godotengine.org)
Cannabis use disorder and subsequent risk of depression and bipolar disorder (jamanetwork.com)
An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python stdlib (www.bitecode.dev)
Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of Service Changes (www.gamerbraves.com)
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf)
MenuetOS (menuetos.net)
Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay (mobilegamer.biz)
iNaturalist receives $10M Grant, becomes independent 501c3 (baynature.org)
Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds (www.eurekalert.org)
Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater (actu.epfl.ch)
A clever “perpetual motion” device [video] (www.youtube.com)
In a Git repository, where do your files live? (jvns.ca)
Googlers told to avoid words like ‘share’ and ‘bundle,’ US says (www.bloomberg.com)
Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea (github.com)
Improved freemusicdemixer – AI music demixing in the browser (freemusicdemixer.com)
Can I take ducks home from the park? (dynomight.net)
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Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Whonix – an OS focused on anonymity, privacy and security (www.whonix.org)
Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes (www.nature.com)
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates (blog.google)
How far back in time can I take my website's design? (ajxs.me)
How I stay reasonably anonymous online (2022) (tmp.bearblog.dev)
This post will not go viral (www.houseofstrauss.com)
Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels (www.eea.europa.eu)
So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine (impromptugames.com)
Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, not better, over time (nothinghuman.substack.com)
Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website (community.adobe.com)
My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden (matthieu.io)
Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake (www.theguardian.com)
Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship (tails.net)
Arm IPO to kick off today (www.theregister.com)
Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects (2015) (johnnydecimal.com)
A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications (github.com)
PostgreSQL 16 (www.postgresql.org)
How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch? (ipapi.is)
Solar (patrickcollison.com)
I got paid to live in Antarctica (wandereatwrite.com)
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)
Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte (workerorganizing.org)
XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap (wiki.xfce.org)
Let's write a treesitter major mode for Emacs (www.masteringemacs.org)
The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021) (www.guo.io)
How mobile apps illegally share your personal data (noyb.eu)
RPG in a Box: A grid-based, voxel-style game engine built on Godot (www.rpginabox.com)
I paid for Sublime Text (github.com)
Kr8s – a Python client library for Kubernetes (github.com)
Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum (kraktoos.com)
Game Development Post-Unity (www.computerenhance.com)
Marvel visual effects artists unanimously vote to unionize (www.cnbc.com)
Skip the API, ship your database (fly.io)
Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge (prize.hutter1.net)
CIA bribed its own team to reject lab-leak theory, whistleblower claims (www.science.org)
Don’t mess with a genius (2010) (shreevatsa.wordpress.com)
Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter (github.com)
VoCore – Coin-sized Linux Computer (vocore.io)
Unity to Godot Docs (docs.godotengine.org)
Lantern – a PostgreSQL vector database for building AI applications (docs.lantern.dev)
Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds (www.pcgamer.com)
Against LLM Maximalism (explosion.ai)
When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished (retool.com)
Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries (www.science.org)
Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)
WASI Support in Go (go.dev)
RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains (blog.jetbrains.com)
The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) (www.science.org)
Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize (www.rollingstone.com)
Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine (paladin-t.github.io)
Why Fennel? (fennel-lang.org)
Unity silently removed clause that let you use TOS from version you shipped with (old.reddit.com)
SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas (www.cnbc.com)
Appeals Court Upholds Public.Resource.Org’s Right to Post Public Laws Online (www.eff.org)
PF bug in macOS Sonoma release candidate (mullvad.net)
A DIY near-IR spectrometer (caoyuan.scripts.mit.edu)
What Is Wrong with TOML? (hitchdev.com)
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Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus (meduza.io)
A CD Spectrometer (www.cs.cmu.edu)
S32 Unix Clock (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Lessons from YC AI Startups (www.ignorance.ai)
Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion (stability.ai)
Openmoji (github.com)
There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other (jpkoning.blogspot.com)
LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua (love2d.org)
Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video (www.youtube.com)
70B Llama 2 at 35tokens/second on 4090 (github.com)
iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation (www.anfr.fr)
“This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees (www.404media.co)
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware (devblogs.microsoft.com)
How long it took different companies to find product-market fit (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
Some notes on local-first development (bricolage.io)
Interactive Map of Linux Kernel (makelinux.github.io)
Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold (www.nationalobserver.com)
Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all (www.howmuchrent.com)
Credit card debt collection (www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition (blog.janestreet.com)
Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux (securelist.com)
Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools (apnews.com)
WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s (twitter.com)
The Rules of Margin Collapse (www.joshwcomeau.com)
Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public) (obsidian.md)
How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers? (thepalindrome.org)
Black currants were banned in the USA (2017) (foodtolive.com)
‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake (www.thesun.co.uk)
Notes from building a blog in Django (til.simonwillison.net)
The Death of Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Simulating History with ChatGPT (resobscura.substack.com)
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max (www.apple.com)
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus (www.apple.com)
QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs (blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)
Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4 (news.ycombinator.com)
The New Godot Development Fund (godotengine.org)
Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise (www.sony-semicon.com)
The Relativity of Wrong (1989) (hermiene.net)
New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds (ethz.ch)
Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms? (news.ycombinator.com)
We built the fastest CI in the world and it failed (earthly.dev)
You're barely managing (barely-managing.bearblog.dev)
A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality (disagreeableme.blogspot.com)
Unity plan pricing and packaging updates (blog.unity.com)
A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis (www.today.com)
Reasons to not use your own domain for email (www.bautista.dev)
Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack (cointelegraph.com)
How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today? (news.ycombinator.com)
Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack (blog.arxiv.org)
Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal (blog.appsignal.com)
NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life (www.theguardian.com)
Advanced x86: Virtualization with Intel VT-x (opensecuritytraining.info)
CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome) (chromereleases.googleblog.com)
Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default (caddyserver.com)
You Don't Need UUID (henvic.dev)
Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy (martypc.blogspot.com)
The Power of Prolog (www.metalevel.at)
Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS (github.com)
OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life (www.openssl.org)
The Pinouts Book: Pinout functions for 130 commonly used components (pinouts.org)
Death by a Thousand Microservices (renegadeotter.com)
A systematic approach to debugging (ntietz.com)
Neopets is still around (www.dualshockers.com)
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows (www.theregister.com)
The meeting of the minds that launched AI (spectrum.ieee.org)
MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing (www.casino.org)
YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes (github.com)
Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL (antimatter15.com)
Firefox addon to quarantine a tab to use offline with private data (news.ycombinator.com)
uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0 (github.com)
A LLM+OLAP Solution (doris.apache.org)
Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C (felixk15.github.io)
Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study (newsroom.heart.org)
WiFi can read through walls (news.ucsb.edu)
Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014) (nicisdigital.wordpress.com)
Why did Visual Basic die? (news.ycombinator.com)
Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes (phylactery.org)
Ray and Tom Magliozzi, MIT 1999 Commencement Address [video] (www.youtube.com)
In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests (mastodon.energy)
Beyond OpenAPI (antonz.org)
The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine. (twitter.com)
Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B (www.nasa.gov)
30 years of The X-Files (arstechnica.com)
Intuitively Understanding Harris Corner Detector (comsci.blog)
UK air traffic control meltdown (jameshaydon.github.io)
Nvidia’s AI supremacy is only temporary (petewarden.com)
X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions (arstechnica.com)
9/11 in Realtime (911realtime.org)
The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection (marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net)
Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin (medicalxpress.com)
Static Hermes: Compile JavaScript to speed it up 300x (in microbenchmarks) (tmikov.blogspot.com)
Networking for introverts (www.economist.com)
Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013) (pcwalton.github.io)
How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
RISC-V SBI and the full boot process (popovicu.com)
Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads (theconversation.com)
Mistakes You Should Never Make (2014) (www.sethbannon.com)
To make dishwashers great again? (2020) (www.greenbuildinglawupdate.com)
Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope (phys.org)
HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin (yeokhengmeng.com)
A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions (www.simplemobiletools.com)
Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less (www.vendr.com)
RestGPT (github.com)
What I have changed my mind about in software development (henrikwarne.com)
A design system for the federal government (designsystem.digital.gov)
The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make (benhoyt.com)
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users (www.ctrl.blog)
Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity (www.thelancet.com)
Why is the ocean salty? (2022) (www.usgs.gov)
Is air conditioning making cities hotter? (www.euronews.com)
My mental model of Clojure transducers (blog.danieljanus.pl)