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Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on replaced iPad screens https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/apple-pencils-cant-draw-straight-on-third-party-replacement-ipad-screens/

2023-07-30 00:55:01

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

2023-07-29 19:00:02

Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919175

2023-07-29 18:50:02

Using C++ as a scripting language, part 8 https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/using-c-as-a-scripting-language-part-8-d366fd98676

2023-07-29 18:45:02

Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (1997) https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/c.html

2023-07-29 16:50:01

US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ndaa-lobbying-privacy-loophole/

2023-07-29 14:35:02

So you want to build your own open source chatbot https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/

2023-07-29 14:35:02

SQLite-Utils https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/index.html

2023-07-29 09:45:01

IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? https://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-blue-lightning-worlds-fastest-386/comment-page-1/

2023-07-29 04:50:02

Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast https://www.tremor.so/

2023-07-29 04:35:02

Google Employee Accuses WEI-Opponents of Being “Criminals” https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_kGO22g/m/0doc7unxAQAJ

2023-07-29 01:55:07

SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/07/23/spacex-punched-a-hole-in-the-ionosphere/

2023-07-28 23:50:01

Threads users down by more than a half https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66336058

2023-07-28 21:25:02

Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cryptographer-who-ensures-we-can-trust-our-computers-20230727/

2023-07-28 21:00:02

List of APIs that require declared reasons https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=z6fu1dcu

2023-07-28 20:10:02

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-play-deficit

2023-07-28 20:05:02

“Web Environment Integrity” is an attack on the free Internet https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet

2023-07-28 19:40:02

Why is DNS still hard to learn? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/

2023-07-28 18:00:02

California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education https://edsource.org/2023/california-moves-to-silence-stanford-researchers-who-got-state-data-to-study-education-issues/694920

2023-07-28 17:35:02

Watch TV from the 90s (and Earlier) https://my90stv.com/

2023-07-28 16:50:03

Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist https://twist.com/

2023-07-28 15:05:01

On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LongTermSupportNoMoreFree

2023-07-28 14:45:01

OpenPipes: Build your open-source virtual pipe organ system https://openpipes.org/

2023-07-28 14:40:02

Finding “Discs of Tron” on the Roadside https://arcadeblogger.com/2023/07/22/environmental-discs-of-tron-roadside-pickup/

2023-07-28 14:30:01

VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router) https://blog.kroy.io/2020/05/04/vyos-from-scratch-edition-1/

2023-07-28 13:50:02

How to Check 2 SQL Tables Are the Same https://github.com/remysucre/blog/blob/main/posts/sql-eq.md

2023-07-28 12:35:02

Removal of Google from W3C over the Implementation of Web Environment Integrity https://mastodon.social/@tolmasky/110780599992085798

2023-07-28 08:30:02

TeamTopologies https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TeamTopologies.html

2023-07-28 05:50:02

Unpacking Xilinx 7-Series Bitstreams (2018) https://www.kc8apf.net/2018/05/unpacking-xilinx-7-series-bitstreams-part-1/

2023-07-28 01:55:02

Tesla has a range inflation problem https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/27/tesla-has-a-range-inflation-problem/

2023-07-27 20:20:01

Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2023/07/fiber-infused-ink-enables-3d-printed-heart-muscle-beat

2023-07-26 10:30:02

Where Did Our Belief in Abundance Come From? https://www.discoursemagazine.com/abundance/2023/07/19/where-did-our-belief-in-abundance-come-from/

2023-07-25 23:55:01

Alpine Linux does not make the news https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/25/Alpine-does-not-make-news.html

2023-07-25 21:00:02

Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’ https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/world/gulf-stream-atlantic-current-collapse-climate-scn-intl/index.html

2023-07-25 12:35:02

I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020) https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103469996345323076

2023-07-25 08:35:02

Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-expiration-full-letter/

2023-07-24 23:25:01

Wind and Solar Will Be 25% of Total U.S. Generating Capacity Within Three Years https://electricenergyonline.com/article/energy/category/climate-change/82/1033617/wind-solar-will-be-25-of-total-u-s-generating-capacity-within-three-years-as-they-grow-by-over-100-gw-.html

2023-07-24 21:35:02

Cash Amnesia https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/indulging-guilty-pleasure-dont-put-it-card

2023-07-24 08:35:02

Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction https://blog.myscale.com/2023/07/17/teach-your-llm-vector-sql/

2023-07-23 23:30:02

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/23/queen-brian-may-3d-atlas-bennu-asteroid

2023-07-23 21:20:02

LeCun: Qualcomm working with Meta to run Llama-2 on mobile devices https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1683138295155372032

2023-07-22 22:20:01

A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-07-21/caltech-nobel-laureate-rudy-marcus-turns-100-and-gets-back-to-work

2023-07-21 23:45:01

Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013) https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

2023-07-21 16:20:01

Revisiting the “Cansole”, because my TV doesn't have the right connectors https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/revisiting-cansole-my-silly-pong-game.html

2023-07-21 06:05:05

Top Software Trends Reports for 2023 http://www.ofbizian.com/2023/07/top-20-must-read-software-reports.html

2023-07-20 21:05:02

In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-moon-landing-was-opposed-by-majority

2023-07-19 18:00:01

‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/14/video-games-gambling-big-spenders

2023-07-10 15:55:02

Harvard ethics prof fabricated multiple behavioral science studies https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-ethics-professor-allegedly-fabricated-multiple-behavioral-science-studies/

2023-07-08 17:00:02

ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning https://0ver.org/

2023-07-06 20:40:01

Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/83770853308/update-single-fire-hydrant-nets-nyc-33000-a

2023-07-06 11:05:02

Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours https://www.threads.net/t/CuWGPjwrfq9

2023-07-05 09:55:02

Bret Victor update http://worrydream.com/July2023/

2023-07-02 07:50:02

How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation https://careercutler.substack.com/p/how-you-can-15x-your-salary-through

2023-07-01 20:20:01

The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer/110635621269494973

2023-07-01 00:55:02

MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

2023-06-30 01:05:02

More than $200B in Covid loans potentially stolen by fraudsters, watchdog says https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/fraudsters-stole-200-billion-in-covid-loans-watchdog.html

2023-06-29 19:55:01

The new desktop Outlook is a bad idea https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/office-365/new-desktop-outlook-is-a-bad-idea-heres-why

2023-06-28 19:55:01

The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Facebook and Google Users https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/23/meet-the-secretive-surveillance-wizards-helping-the-fbi-and-ice-wiretap-facebook-and-google-users/

2023-06-27 16:25:01

FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans https://www.thedrive.com/news/fedex-accused-of-largest-odometer-rollback-fraud-in-history-with-used-vans

2023-06-27 16:25:01

Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-emails-open-next-to-web-links-in-microsoft-edge-b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0

2023-06-26 02:30:02

Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1 https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/

2023-06-23 20:15:01

Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC https://verdagon.dev/blog/vale-memory-safe-cpp

2023-06-23 16:20:01

The History of Coffee https://www.ncausa.org/about-coffee/history-of-coffee

2023-06-23 14:50:02

The Pentagon’s $52k trash can https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can/

2023-06-23 09:55:02

Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq313q00

2023-06-19 21:45:01

Show HN: My recommendation engine for Hacker News https://hn-recommend.julienc.me

2023-06-19 21:40:04

Theseus DHT Protocol https://wootfish.github.io/theseus.dht/

2023-06-19 21:25:03

Hurl: A terrible but cute idea for a language https://ntietz.com/blog/introducing-hurl/

2023-06-19 21:15:01

Database Gyms [pdf] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/papers/p27-lim.pdf

2023-06-19 21:05:02

ELO Everything https://eloeverything.co/

2023-06-19 19:30:03

Debugger Ghidra Class https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/master/GhidraDocs/GhidraClass/Debugger

2023-06-19 19:05:02

PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/934940/3abb2d4086680b78/

2023-06-16 15:20:01

The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

2023-06-16 00:35:03

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-grow-up-and-behave-like-an-adult-company

2023-06-15 17:25:01

Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content https://phys.org/news/2023-06-network-channels-saturate-youtube-pro-bolsonaro.html

2023-06-12 00:15:02

Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (2012) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

2023-06-11 13:40:01

CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day https://neodyme.io/blog/csgo_from_zero_to_0day/

2023-06-11 01:15:02

Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/generative-ai-support-on-vertexai

2023-06-10 14:35:06

Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration

2023-06-09 05:10:02

The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-online-georgia/

2023-06-07 02:05:01

Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/

2023-06-06 22:20:02

Stable Diffusion renders pretty images which are QR Readable https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/

2023-06-06 18:00:03

Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback https://twitter.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1665792422914453506

2023-06-03 23:25:01

Still Love Telnet https://bash-prompt.net/guides/telnet/

2023-06-03 21:00:02

Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/investing/payment-apps-safety/index.html

2023-06-02 22:00:03

Sensor Fingerprints: Camera Identification and Beyond https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-7621-5_4

2023-06-01 22:45:02

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program https://openai.com/blog/openai-cybersecurity-grant-program

2023-05-28 19:15:02

Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016) https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

2023-05-25 16:35:01

Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/05/animal-siblings.html

2023-05-25 00:15:01

OpenAI Outage https://status.openai.com/incidents/jbt079x532bg

2023-05-24 19:50:01

PyPI Was Subpoenaed https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/

2023-05-24 04:40:02

New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/meet-nightmare-hammerhead-worm/

2023-05-22 02:20:02

How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks? https://pkolaczk.github.io/memory-consumption-of-async/

2023-05-18 09:10:01

Montana becomes the first US state to ban TikTok https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/tiktok-ban-montana

2023-05-18 07:05:05

Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio communications https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/majority-of-eu-countries-support-scanning-of-audio-communications/

2023-05-18 07:05:05

US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/a-us-senator-just-used-chatgpt-for-opening-remarks-at-a-hearing

2023-05-16 16:30:02

OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-chief-goes-before-us-congress-propose-licenses-building-ai-2023-05-16/

2023-05-12 18:55:02

I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249