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 Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story
https://twitter.com/maldr0id/status/1710625763534201117
#ycombinator 
 Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again
https://www.thefp.com/p/crypto-fooled-us-once-fool-us-again
#ycombinator 
 How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans (2019)
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/big-pharma-reaps-profits-hurting-everyday-americans/
#ycombinator 
 The final seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash – A reconstruction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/
#ycombinator 
 Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
https://berry-lang.github.io/
#ycombinator 
 Moving Marginalia to a New Server
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/90-new-server-design/
#ycombinator 
 “Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/jury-awards-229m-to-victims-of-real-water-tainted-with-rocket-fuel-chemical/
#ycombinator 
 Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
https://nerdyarticles.com/a-clutter-free-life-with-paperless-ngx/
#ycombinator 
 Subtraction is functionally complete
https://orlp.net/blog/subtraction-is-functionally-complete/
#ycombinator 
 New MIT Desalination System Produces Freshwater That's "Cheaper Than Tap Water"
https://scitechdaily.com/mits-new-desalination-system-produces-freshwater-that-is-cheaper-than-tap-water/
#ycombinator 
 A Clutter-Free Life: Going Paperless with Paperless-Ngx
https://nerdyarticles.com/a-clutter-free-life-with-paperless-ngx/
#ycombinator 
 At least 1k birds died from colliding with one Chicago building in one day
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/07/chicago-mccormick-place-building-bird-deaths-windows
#ycombinator 
 Shell Using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool
https://kotaku.com/shell-big-oil-roadtrips-fortnite-map-collab-tiktok-ign-1850907435
#ycombinator #Twitch #TikTok #Fortnite #Shell_Gas #Business #Finance #Shell #Social_influence #Windows_games #Shell_plc #Video_hosting #Fads_and_trends #Welcome_to_Hell #Instagram #Phillips_66 #Internet_celebrity #Video_software #Video_game_livestreaming #Kotaku 
 John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
https://www.amii.ca/latest-from-amii/john-carmack-and-rich-sutton-agi/
#ycombinator 
 Companies that are beating the West
https://restofworld.org/2023/rest-vs-west/
#ycombinator 
 A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of 'Childbearing Age.'
https://jezebel.com/childbearing-age-medication-denied-lawsuit-1850899899
#ycombinator #Roe #Wade #Maternal_health #Family #Facebook #Roe_v_Wade #Headache #Miscarriage #Women_shealth #Social_Issues #her_Ehlers #Cluster_headache #Health #Medical #Pharma #Birth_control #Pregnancy #Obstetrics #Dana_Sussman #Law #Crime #Abortion #Tara_Rule #Albany_Medical_Health_Partners #Jezebel 
 Subtraction Is Functionally Complete
https://orlp.net/blog/subtraction-is-functionally-complete/
#ycombinator 
 Auto Xylophone with Homemade Solenoids
https://rachad47.github.io/rwae/Xylophone.html
#ycombinator 
 The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
#ycombinator 
 The Honeypot Diaries: Thousands of Daily Attacks on My Home Network
https://simone.org/honeypot-diaries/
#ycombinator 
 Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga/
#ycombinator 
 Documented source code for Elite on the NES
https://github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm
#ycombinator 
 RISC-V chip technology emerges as new battleground in US-China tech war
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-china-tech-war-risc-v-chip-technology-emerges-new-battleground-2023-10-06/
#ycombinator #NRLPA_ODAT #EREP #ANLINS #ARTI #CHIP #CHIP1 #CMPNY #COMS #COMS08 #COMS1 #CWP #DIP #EXCLSV #GEN #HREP #ITSE #ITSE08 #MLAISV #NEWS1 #POL #PUBL #PXP #REGS #SCI #SECUR #SEMI #SEN #SWIT #TCOM #TECH #TECH08 #TEEQ #TEEQ08 #TEL #TMT #WASH #CEEU #WEU #EASIA #AMERS #EUROP #NAMER #ASXPAC #EMRG #ASIA #FIN #NRLPA_OIP #LEGAL #REUTERS_LEGAL 
 Android Devices with Backdoored Firmware Found in US Schools
https://www.securityweek.com/android-devices-with-backdoored-firmware-found-in-us-schools/
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: What to read after? Personalised AI book recommendations
https://whattoreadafter.xyz/ai-librarian
#ycombinator 
 US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03135-x
#ycombinator 
 SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization
https://github.com/okuvshynov/slowllama
#ycombinator 
 Charles H. Bennett's Shadows (ca. 1856)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shadows/
#ycombinator 
 Redox OS Development Priorities for 2023/24
https://www.redox-os.org/news/development-priorities-2023-09/
#ycombinator 
 23andMe scraping incident leaked data on 1.3M users
https://therecord.media/scraping-incident-genetic-testing-site
#ycombinator 
 You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/06/miku_baby_monitor/
#ycombinator 
 America Needs to Build More (and Better) Ships
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/economic-strength-for-maritime-security
#ycombinator 
 Deepfakes start ringing in voters' ears
https://aipoliticalpulse.substack.com/p/the-deepfake-issue
#ycombinator 
 Why audio-only deepfakes are uniquely threatening to elections
https://aipoliticalpulse.substack.com/p/the-deepfake-issue
#ycombinator 
 A 20MP Sensor in a Film Canister Reinvigorates Vintage Analog Cameras
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/06/a-20mp-sensor-in-a-film-canister-reinvigorates-vintage-analog-cameras/
#ycombinator 
 More Than 80 Percent of Americans Can't Afford New Cars
https://jalopnik.com/more-than-80-percent-of-americans-can-t-afford-new-cars-1850906956
#ycombinator #Private_transport #Business #Finance #Crown_Limited #McBride #Greg #Car #Jalopnik 
 X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format
#ycombinator 
 The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil
https://www.space.com/ozone-hole-antarctica-three-times-size-of-brazil
#ycombinator 
 Ozempic linked to stomach paralysis, other gastrointestinal issues: UBC study
https://globalnews.ca/news/10006543/ozempic-stomach-paralysis-ubc-study/
#ycombinator #Ozempic #Stomach_Paralysis #Wegovy #weight_loss_drugs #Canada #Health #Lifestyle 
 Tell HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375
#ycombinator 
 What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]
https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf
#ycombinator 
 Open-ribbon – A Project to reverse engineer the PS1 music game Vib-Ribbon
https://github.com/open-ribbon/open-ribbon
#ycombinator 
 Exploratory Data Analysis Using Awk
https://awk.dev/eda.html
#ycombinator 
 Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It's already paying off
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1203182131/kentucky-free-child-care-day-care-workers
#ycombinator 
 Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: An Explosion in Unexpected Place
https://scitechdaily.com/hubbles-hitchcock-moment-a-bizarre-explosion-in-unexpected-place/
#ycombinator 
 Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojure Deref 2023-10-06)
https://clojure.org/news/2023/10/06/deref
#ycombinator #clojure #programming 
 Petscii Side-Scrolling Platformer by Jimbo
https://jimbo.itch.io/petscii-side-scrolling-platformer
#ycombinator 
 Google Faces Grilling over Alleged Unfair Ad Practices in Antitrust Trial
https://www.pymnts.com/cpi_posts/google-faces-grilling-over-alleged-unfair-ad-practices-in-antitrust-trial/
#ycombinator 
 Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/epic-games-unreal-engine-charge
#ycombinator 
 Humans are biased. Generative AI is even worse
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/
#ycombinator 
 EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer, x86 Misses Out
https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/10/04/eu-grabs-arm-for-first-exaflop-supercomputer-x86-misses-out/
#ycombinator 
 Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/06/google_bundeskartellamt_data_processing/
#ycombinator 
 Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/who_me/
#ycombinator 
 Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2023/10/04/
#ycombinator 
 Will workers hired as Remote all be laid off in next wave?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790004
#ycombinator 
 Show HN: Another way to use an old tablet as an extra screen
https://github.com/alex028502/extra-screen
#ycombinator 
 Opening up access to GOV.UK Forms: an online form builder
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/10/03/how-were-opening-up-access-to-gov-uk-forms/
#ycombinator 
 Airbnb guest stays at LA rental for 500 days without paying, refuses to leave
https://www.foxla.com/news/airbnb-guest-refuses-to-leave-brentwood-rental-home-after-500-days-without-paying
#ycombinator #Los_Angeles_County #La_Los_Angeles_County #Brentwood #News #Series #Instastories 
 OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is the Whole Game Studio [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlgkzjndpak
#ycombinator #chatgpt #gaming 
 Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-2023-latest-news-intl/index.html
#ycombinator #world #Live_updates_Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Narges_Mohammadi 
 CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2023/37C3
#ycombinator 
 “Google is clearly buying its way to squelch competitors“
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-its-way
#ycombinator 
 Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
https://ollama.ai/blog/ollama-is-now-available-as-an-official-docker-image
#ycombinator 
 Ring Is Cashing in on the UFO Craze to Promote Its Surveillance Dystopia
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y8m3/ring-is-cashing-in-on-the-ufo-craze-to-promote-its-surveillance-dystopia
#ycombinator 
 Gboard Hat Version
https://landing.google.co.jp/caps/
#ycombinator 
 Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1159559.page
#ycombinator 
 X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/x_twitter_links_details/
#ycombinator 
 U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/BudgetaryCosts
#ycombinator 
 Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations
https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/sort_safety/text.md
#ycombinator 
 A Database for Game Engines
https://enginesdatabase.com/
#ycombinator #Game #Development #Engine 
 Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data
https://www.rerun.io/blog/release-0.9
#ycombinator 
 Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/03/bookingcom-makes-a-fortune-so-why-is-it-leaving-its-bills-to-small-hotels-unpaid
#ycombinator