Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous (horstmann.com)
Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager (paisa.fyi)
Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s Carbon Footprint (www.scientificamerican.com)
GitHub Actions could be so much better (blog.yossarian.net)
Tailscale Kubernetes Operator (tailscale.com)
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Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community (www.phoronix.com)
Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year (www.bbc.co.uk)
Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol (signal.org)
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Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months (www.reuters.com)
AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4 (tty.neveragain.de)
The Bogus CVE Problem (lwn.net)
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser (adayinthelifeof.nl)
Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all (www.cam.ac.uk)
Open source AI will win (varunshenoy.substack.com)
Luiz André Barroso has died (www.wired.com)
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India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates (www.bbc.com)
Nintendo 3DS Architecture (www.copetti.org)
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Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam (www.esper.io)
LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter (developer.apple.com)
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Polyfills gone rogue (marvinh.dev)
Most UI applications are broken real-time applications (thelig.ht)
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The WebP 0day (blog.isosceles.com)
USPS In-Person Identity Proofing (faq.usps.com)
NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa (webbtelescope.org)
Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies (news.ycombinator.com)
The urgent need for memory safety in software products (www.cisa.gov)
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Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study (medicalxpress.com)
Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones (www.wsj.com)
Google sued for negligence after man died following map directions (apnews.com)
Odin – the integration of LLMs with Obsidian note taking (github.com)
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix (matrix.org)
Why Kakoune (andreyor.st)
Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account (defcon.social)
My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup (github.com)
Insider trade on Splunk acquisition for 45,650% return (twitter.com)
The SEC cracks down on greenwashing (www.semafor.com)
Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot) (gist.github.com)
An INI Critique of TOML (2021) (github.com)
Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families (www.theguardian.com)
Ship of Fools (successfulsoftware.net)
Airlines Are Just Banks Now (www.theatlantic.com)
BrainTree has been down for more than 7 hours now (www.paypal-status.com)
Strong arrows: a new approach to gradual typing (elixir-lang.org)
Nippon Television has just acquired Studio Ghibli (www.catsuka.com)
How Container Networking Works: Practical Explanation (iximiuz.com)
Cisco Acquires Splunk (www.splunk.com)
India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots (www.theregister.com)
Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released (erlangforums.com)
Framework – We are not sustainable (frame.work)
OpenBSD/ARM64 on Hetzner Cloud (www.undeadly.org)
Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018) (developers.redhat.com)
Generative AI's Act Two (www.sequoiacap.com)
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Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives (lemm.ee)
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UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users (www.eff.org)
Neurons in Large Language Models: Dead, N-Gram, Positional (arxiv.org)
Apache Pinot 1.0 (pinot.apache.org)
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work (arstechnica.com)
Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu)
XML is better than YAML – Hear me out (changelog.com)
Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022 (www.census.gov)
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Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
We Are Not Sustainable (frame.work)
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Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat (www.booklet.group)
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Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors (www.tri.global)
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Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It (jacobin.com)
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DALL·E 3 (openai.com)
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‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit (www.fruitnet.com)
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (www.cs.cmu.edu)
British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest (www.theguardian.com)
uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions (github.com)
ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps (electric-sql.com)
Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf] (oag.ca.gov)
Svelte 5: Runes (svelte.dev)
SeaGOAT – local, “AI-based” grep for semantic code search (github.com)
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Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C (github.com)
100 Parking Tickets (2004) (100parkingtickets.com)
A simple web server written in Awk (github.com)
OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu (github.com)
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FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones (www.faa.gov)
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Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue (www.theverge.com)
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Circles do not exist (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill (www.bbc.co.uk)
Graph Neural Networks use graphs when they shouldn't (arxiv.org)
YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform (www.nytimes.com)
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Fixing for loops in Go 1.22 (go.dev)
MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says (www.reviewjournal.com)
How many medical studies are faked or flawed? (web.archive.org)
Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader (pressprogress.ca)
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iFixit – We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
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GraalVM for JDK 21 (medium.com)
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JDK 21 Release Notes (jdk.java.net)
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64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’? (tigerbeetle.com)
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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (pluralistic.net)
VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III (vcmi.eu)
The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary (torrentfreak.com)
Making IIIF Official at the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
U.K. finally rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme (www.science.org)
OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps (twitter.com)
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I digitalized Berlin's registration form (nicolasbouliane.com)
Forty years of GNU and the free software movement (www.fsf.org)
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Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine (mwmbl.org)
Your WiFi Can See You (mrereports.substack.com)
George Orwell Complete Works (www.george-orwell.org)
Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition (www.wcnews.com)
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Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence (2021) (ai.meta.com)
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Goodbye HTML Gmail (news.ycombinator.com)
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Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator (akuity.io)
F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected (www.thedrive.com)
FTC Warns Pharma: May Go After Them for Sham Patents Designed to Delay Generics (www.techdirt.com)
Godot is not the new Unity – The anatomy of a Godot API call (sampruden.github.io)
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Apple TV, now with more Tailscale (tailscale.com)
Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support (blogs.windows.com)
HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative (github.com)
iOS 17 is available today (www.apple.com)
California's Delete Act will make erasing consumers' data easier (www.techspot.com)
Replanting Logged Forests with Diverse Seedlings Accelerates Restoration (www.technologynetworks.com)
The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020) (journals.sagepub.com)
Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)
iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates (leancrew.com)
US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet (time.com)
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers (www.wiz.io)
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Japan's Hometown Tax (www.kalzumeus.com)
When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays (alic.dev)
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NSA’s Backdoor Key (2002) (www.cypherspace.org)
OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era (www.openra.net)
Wasmer – Run, Publish and Deploy any code, anywhere (wasmer.io)
How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021) (blog.the-pans.com)
How much garden you would need to survive on (lifehacker.com)
Plants can detect sound (www.economist.com)
What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (www.sqlite.org)
Donut math: how donut.c works (www.a1k0n.net)
Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari (oblador.github.io)
Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform (cloud.google.com)
AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B (toonk.io)
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems (dataswamp.org)
Demo of megatextures running on n64 hardware (github.com)
Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Homebrew Website Club (indieweb.org)
Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization (arxiv.org)
LaTeX for tabletop (vladar.bearblog.dev)
Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN (connor.zip)