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 The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source
https://pileofhacks.dev/post/the-optimised-version-of-7-zip-cant-be-built-from-source/
#ycombinator 
 48% less emissions if Germany had invested in nuclear (2002-2022)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14786451.2024.2355642
#ycombinator 
 Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil
https://status.proton.me/incidents/0frlp8crn7kx
#ycombinator 
 Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedback Device [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqHgCx4Lk_w
#ycombinator #video_feedback_device #video_feedback_kinetic_sculpture #video_feedback_fractals #fractal_art #light_herder 
 The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
#ycombinator 
 US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/06/2024/us-government-doj-antitrust-nvidia-semiconductor-chips-artificial-intelligence
#ycombinator 
 Kombucha-associated microbes alter host metabolism & suppress lipid accumulation
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011003
#ycombinator #Lipids #Gastrointestinal_tract #Diet #Caenorhabditis_elegans #Escherichia_coli #Tea #Food #Lipid_metabolism 
 A slightly more fun way to disable windows defender. (through the WSC API)
https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender
#ycombinator 
 Flexport is hiring an OR/ML guru to optimize global trade routing
https://boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/5806177?gh_jid=5806177
#ycombinator 
 ICQ will stop working from June 26
https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows
#ycombinator 
 RAG, fine-tuning, API calling and gptscript for Llama 3 running locally
https://github.com/helixml/helix/releases/tag/0.9.1
#ycombinator 
 Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me' documentary, dies from cancer
https://abcnews.go.com/US/morgan-spurlock-filmmaker-super-size-documentary-dies-cancer/story?id=110534964
#ycombinator #Article #110534964 
 Writing a Unix clone in about a month
https://drewdevault.com/2024/05/24/2024-05-24-Bunnix.html
#ycombinator 
 Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse-Engineering
https://op-co.de/blog/posts/samsung_wb850f_firmware/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: Alternatives to HashiCorp Packer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466931
#ycombinator 
 We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That Doesn't Scale
https://thenewstack.io/why-we-shift-testing-left-a-software-dev-cycle-that-doesnt-scale/
#ycombinator 
 Thomas Midgley Jr.: The man who almost destroyed the planet (twice)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html
#ycombinator 
 Cosmic Glitch: Scientists Discover an Anomaly in the Universe's Gravity
https://www.businessinsider.com/cosmic-glitch-makes-scientists-rethink-einstein-greatest-theory-2024-5
#ycombinator 
 Move Over, Tractor–The Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone
https://spectrum.ieee.org/arthur-erickson-drones-profile
#ycombinator #agriculture #careers #drones #type_departments 
 County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
#ycombinator 
 Declassified U.S. satellite photos show Belarus has new nuclear weapons sites
https://www.technology.org/2024/05/17/declassified-u-s-satellite-photos-show-belarus-has-new-nuclear-weapons-sites/
#ycombinator 
 Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/
#ycombinator 
 52% of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong
#ycombinator 
 Low-Cost Shield ArdEEG to Measure EEG with Arduino Uno R4 WiFi
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202405.1643/v1
#ycombinator 
 Hoot's WASM Toolkit
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/24/hoots-wasm-toolkit
#ycombinator #guile #hoot #scheme #compilers #igalia #wasm #webassembly #cps 
 Motion (YC W20) is hiring senior engineers looking for their next challenge
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/4f5f6a29-3af0-4d79-99a4-988ff7c5ba05?utm_source=hn
#ycombinator 
 "Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/pleas-for-open-sourcing-refunds-as-spotify-plans-to-brick-car-thing-devices/
#ycombinator 
 Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7
#ycombinator 
 Apple's M4 Has Reportedly Adopted the ARMv9 Architecture
https://wccftech.com/apple-m4-adopts-armv9-run-complex-workloads-efficiently/
#ycombinator 
 The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI
https://futurism.com/washington-post-pivot-ai
#ycombinator 
 FAA reveals flaw in Boeing 777 that could result in fuel tank exploding
https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/boeing-777-plane-fuel-tanks-could-explode-due-to-electrical-flaw/
#ycombinator #US_News #Business #airplanes #boeing #explosions #faa 
 Kabosu, the dog behind the 'doge' internet meme, has died
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kabosu-dog-doge-internet-meme-died-rcna4472
#ycombinator 
 Shiba Inu which inspired the 'doge' meme and became face of Dogecoin has died
https://news.sky.com/story/kabosu-dies-shiba-inu-which-inspired-the-doge-meme-and-became-face-of-dogecoin-has-died-12895009
#ycombinator 
 Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died
https://www.ign.com/articles/kabosu-the-dog-behind-the-doge-meme-has-died
#ycombinator 
 Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/24/day-tripper/
#ycombinator 
 2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution
https://www.sassnow.ski/rigid-body-collisions/1
#ycombinator 
 Bloop (YC S21) Is Hiring AI Engineers. Devin for Legacy Code (London, Onsite)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bloop/jobs/iCrEllp-applied-ai-software-engineer
#ycombinator 
 Scrum's Built-In 'Get Out of Jail Free Card' Against Criticism
https://mdalmijn.com/p/scrums-built-in-get-out-of-jail-free
#ycombinator 
 Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative
https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica
#ycombinator 
 OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/
#ycombinator #artificial_intelligence #openai #chatgpt #machine_learning #startups 
 Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-brazil-catastrophic-weather-spawns-spate.html
#ycombinator #Science #Physics_News #Science_news #Technology_News #Physics #Materials #Nanotech #Technology 
 ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
#ycombinator 
 Why the US government's overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-has-a-microsoft-problem/
#ycombinator #microsoft #cybersecurity #us_government #china #russia #hacking #security 
 Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/never-forget-that-utterly-ridiculous-pepsi-logo-design-document
#ycombinator 
 Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/login/
#ycombinator #reddit #reddit_com #vote #comment #submit 
 An approach to design high-power lithium sulfur batteries
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-approach-high-power-lithium-sulfur.html
#ycombinator #Science #Physics_News #Science_news #Technology_News #Physics #Materials #Nanotech #Technology 
 Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/mass-timber-is-great-but-it-will
#ycombinator 
 Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272
#ycombinator 
 Detect when your installed Firefox addons have changed owners
https://github.com/maxtheaxe/under-new-management-firefox
#ycombinator 
 Devin, the First AI Software Engineer
https://www.cognition-labs.com/blog
#ycombinator 
 The Accidental Discovery of a New Vulnerability in Google's OAuth Implementatio [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77doS9hCe8A
#ycombinator #ビデオ #カメラ付き携帯電話 #動画機能付き携帯電話 #アップロード #チャンネル #コミュニティ #YouTube #ユーチューブ 
 Deterministic Simulation Testing for Our Entire SaaS
https://www.warpstream.com/blog/deterministic-simulation-testing-for-our-entire-saas
#ycombinator 
 Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube
https://www.wired.com/story/your-kid-may-be-watching-ai-generated-videos-on-youtube/
#ycombinator #artificial_intelligence #children #youtube #video #social_media #kids 
 Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679574
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)
https://crates.io/crates/csv-to-usv
#ycombinator 
 How AI is disrupting the demand for software engineers: data from 20M jobs
https://bloomberry.com/how-ai-is-disrupting-the-tech-job-market-data-from-20m-job-postings/
#ycombinator 
 Ask HN: What not going to change in future?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678993
#ycombinator 
 More options for apps distributed in the European Union
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=8c1m8hqt
#ycombinator 
 On reddit: Someone in IT trolled me for over a decade
https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1bcvj6f/someone_in_it_trolled_me_for_over_a_decade_have_i/
#ycombinator #reddit #reddit_com #vote #comment #submit 
 DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year
https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notices-took-down-20517-github-projects-last-year-240308/
#ycombinator 
 I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-01-27-sourcehut-no-more/
#ycombinator 
 Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from Websites in EU
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/12/apple-announces-app-downloads-from-websites/
#ycombinator #Featured #European_Union 
 A glimpse into the universe where Windows died with the 1980s
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/trying_ms_prerelease_os2_2/
#ycombinator 
 Ultratec Technology Timeline
https://www.ultratec.com/about/timeline/
#ycombinator 
 The internet is slipping out of our reach
https://injuly.in/blog/darker-internet/index.html
#ycombinator 
 Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1767384751269150828
#ycombinator 
 Interactive SQLite Documentation
https://docs.sqlitecloud.io/docs/sqlite
#ycombinator #sqlite #raft #cloud #database #distributed_system #high_availability #database_sharing #crdt #offline_first #sqlite_server 
 SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764032892663906313
#ycombinator 
 Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents
https://www.engadget.com/japan-will-no-longer-require-floppy-disks-for-submitting-some-official-documents-212048844.html
#ycombinator #news #gear #japan #floppy_disk 
 Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?
https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471
#ycombinator 
 Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app
https://notesnook.com/
#ycombinator 
 The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS attack since last weekend
https://www.blender.org
#ycombinator 
 Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-argues-imessage-should-be-regulated-by-the-eus-digital-markets-act/
#ycombinator 
 Why you should probably be using SQLite
https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite
#ycombinator #web_development #programming #javascript #full_stack #remix 
 Energy, WiFi and RAM use by Android messaging apps
https://decentim.grafana.net/public-dashboards/92602d3a4aa842ce97812d310077691d
#ycombinator 
 Metric Time
https://metric-time.com/
#ycombinator 
 Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/autopay-money-management-credit-cards-c546b62c
#ycombinator #wsjlifework #Credit_Types_Services #Credit_Cards #Banking_Credit #Financial_Services #Financial_Technology #Electronic_Payment_Systems #Technology #Corporate_Industrial_News #SYND #WSJ_PRO_WSJ_com #corporate #industrial_news #credit_types #services #banking #credit 
 MondayDB: A new in-house data engine from monday.com
https://medium.com/@liranbrimer/nice-to-meet-you-mondaydb-architecture-6d201b41e660
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: This is what social media could be
https://bloom.tendtoyourgarden.xyz/
#ycombinator #bloom #community #digital_garden 
 Could Earth be the only planet with intelligent life?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/earth-only-planet-intelligent-life/
#ycombinator 
 Dramatic Increase in DPRK-Russia Border Rail Traffic After Kim-Putin Summit
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/dramatic-increase-in-dprk-russia-border-rail-traffic-after-kim-putin-summit/
#ycombinator 
 The government dug a deep hole for itself with Bills C-11 and C-18
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-government-dug-a-deep-hole-for-itself-with-bills-c-11-and-c-18-and/
#ycombinator #column #opinion #Andrew_Coyne #Coyne #government #content #bill #internet #media #fee #publisher #publishers #Liberal_Party #Netflix #Amazon 
 Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
https://twitter.com/maldr0id/status/1710625763534201117
#ycombinator