Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iii-the-inside-view https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801150
Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story https://twitter.com/maldr0id/status/1710625763534201117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
Brave layoffs https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/06/brave-lays-off-9-of-its-workforce/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801043
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800810
Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system https://nerdyarticles.com/a-clutter-free-life-with-paperless-ngx/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800951
Half a million kinksters can't be wrong https://asteriskmag.com/issues/04/half-a-million-kinksters-can-t-be-wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797789
John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI https://www.amii.ca/latest-from-amii/john-carmack-and-rich-sutton-agi/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37799579
Subtraction is functionally complete https://orlp.net/blog/subtraction-is-functionally-complete/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800062
Looking back on SaaS product strategy https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-saas-product-strategy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797503
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800507
Braid is dead, long live Braid https://amandapeyton.com/blog/2023/10/braid-is-dead-long-live-braid/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797696
Android devices with backdoored firmware found in US schools https://www.securityweek.com/android-devices-with-backdoored-firmware-found-in-us-schools/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797679
Show HN: Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time on the web https://dotbigbang.com/game/1af877e9bfdb47088611f55982b7570f/prestons-diamond-wars?mp=playdw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797606
Lasers deflected using air https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=2951&two_columns=0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796428
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/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798178
SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization https://github.com/okuvshynov/slowllama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796863
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27722/why-did-the-motorola-68000-processor-family-fall-out-of-use-in-personal-computer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796292
Fail2Ban https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37795100
Exploratory data analysis for humanities data https://awk.dev/eda.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792916
23andMe scraping incident leaked data on 1.3M users https://therecord.media/scraping-incident-genetic-testing-site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37795652
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793941
Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes https://shortbread.ai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792444
AMD may get across the CUDA moat https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/10/05/how-amd-may-get-across-the-cuda-moat/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793635
Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37794379
Chicago independently abolishes subminimum wage for tipped workers https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-council-votes-eliminate-lower-tipped-minimum-wage-20231006-xg5vpkqcxnfqhe5fqogxrpbcua-story.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37794874
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37794809
Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792690
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/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791116
Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojure Deref 2023-10-06) https://clojure.org/news/2023/10/06/deref https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792294
Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/long-gone-dec-is-still-powering-the-world-of-computing/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789514
Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all https://www.creativebloq.com/news/epic-games-unreal-engine-charge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792030
Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2023/10/04/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790174
Making Hard Things Easy https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791002
Thread-per-core https://without.boats/blog/thread-per-core/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37790745
Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-2023-latest-news-intl/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788847
Nine ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010) https://blog.regehr.org/archives/28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785706
Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/10/04/productivity-has-grown-faster-in-western-europe-than-in-america https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789290
Llama 2 Everywhere (L2E): Standalone, Binary Portable, Bootable Llama 2 https://github.com/trholding/llama2.c https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785442
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/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789107
Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser https://www.retrogames.cz/play_493-DOS.php https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785680
CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2023/37C3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788153
Gaia-1 a 9B parameter generative world model for autonomous driving https://wayve.ai/thinking/scaling-gaia-1/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782670
Google's agreement with Samsung prevented Branch from launching: testimony https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-its-way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37786653
Rails 7.1 Released https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.1.0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787130
Test Anything Protocol https://testanything.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37783025
Gboard Hat Version https://landing.google.co.jp/caps/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785920
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image https://ollama.ai/blog/ollama-is-now-available-as-an-official-docker-image https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37786525
ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/now-more-than-ever-chromeos-is-linux-with-googles-desktop-environment/#google_vignette https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37783081
I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot https://blog.replit.com/building-my-first-slack-bot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782626
Vivaldi on iOS https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-launches-on-ios/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781125
Astronomers Watched a Star Disappear. Now JWST Might Have Some Answers https://www.universetoday.com/163473/astronomers-watched-a-massive-star-just-disappear-now-jwst-might-have-some-answers/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780514
Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps https://store.app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782513
NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/seeds-bounty/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37784499
Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/03/windows-copilots-is-showing-third-party-ads-to-windows-users/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781266
Generative AI could make search harder to trust https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatbot-hallucinations-are-poisoning-web-search/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781231
HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on printers when ink runs low https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/hp-fails-derail-claims-bricks-scanners-multifunction-printers-102286365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781862
How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782493
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781612
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781022
U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/BudgetaryCosts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782218
Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) https://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778531
Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/lenovo_pc_boss_4_in/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778771
Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book https://www.scylladb.com/2023/10/02/introducing-database-performance-at-scale-a-free-open-source-book/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778069
September was the most anomalously hot month ever https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/september-was-the-most-anomalously-hot-month-ever/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776854
Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search https://bitmagnet.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777347
Where does my computer get the time from? https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778496
US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/02/fcc-space-debris-fine-dish-network-satellite https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777440
How Transformers Work https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37774676
Krita fund has no corporate support https://fund.krita.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777301
F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist https://f3d.app// https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37775574
Divan: Fast and Simple Benchmarking for Rust https://nikolaivazquez.com/blog/divan/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37773599
US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37775649
Why HTTP/3 is eating the world https://blog.apnic.net/2023/09/25/why-http-3-is-eating-the-world/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777050
Google Docs adds tracking to links in document exports https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776492
Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776204
A drop in salaries and in the number of jobs available in the Bay Area https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/10/04/us-tech-workers-are-experiencing-a-drop-in-salaries-and-in-the-number-of-jobs-available-in-the-bay-area/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37773731
Security weaknesses of Copilot generated code in GitHub https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770233
Show HN: Sqinn-Go is a Golang library for accessing SQLite databases in pure Go https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769633
AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02920-y https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772206
Delta finds fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/delta-fourth-major-us-airline-fake-jet-aircraft-engine-parts-forged-airworthiness-documents-uk-company-aog/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37775073
The Diorama Engine https://dioragame.com/devlog/?log=3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37771041
LLMs confabulate not hallucinate https://www.beren.io/2023-03-19-LLMs-confabulate-not-hallucinate/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37773918
Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jt.2009.16 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37774580
Intel to set its FPGA unit free to pursue its own path https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/04/intel-to-set-its-fpga-unit-free-to-pursue-its-own-path/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767831
Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field https://simpleflying.com/ural-airlines-prepares-fly-airbus-a320-from-field/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770627
MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive https://minios.dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769546
1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023 https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770523
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster https://brettscott.substack.com/p/tech-doesnt-make-our-lives-easier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767335
Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company https://blog.vespa.ai/vespa-is-becoming-its-own-company/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769962
Eliminating Radio Interference from Apple Charger https://oh8hub.substack.com/p/eliminating-radio-interference-from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37769139
"You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here" https://twitter.com/rustykitty_/status/1709316764868153537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767205
How the Baltic states became the hub of crypto money laundering and fraud https://vsquare.org/tales-from-the-crypto-money-laundering-fraud-sanctions-estonia-lithuania-russia/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37768586
Language Models Represent Space and Time https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765663
Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on https://www.svix.com/blog/strong-typing-hill-to-die-on/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764326
How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments https://lithub.com/how-us-intelligence-agencies-hid-their-most-shameful-experiments/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766711
Pixel 8 Pro https://store.google.com/product/pixel_8_pro?hl=en-US https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37766446
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4 https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20231003/fema-and-fcc-plan-nationwide-emergency-alert-test-oct-4-test-messages-will https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764226
Show HN: Shuttle – Build and ship backends without writing infrastructure files https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37763822
Think Before You Speak: Training Language Models with Pause Tokens https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764382
1.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition https://annas-blog.org/worldcat-scrape.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764088
OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation https://lwn.net/Articles/946497/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765158
The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax” https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-ftc-sues-to-break-up-amazon-over https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37763424
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764581
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