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Show HN: A Girl Next Door Does Not Exist (NSFW)

Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem

Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)

Secret Identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)

Researchers reveal platform to study high-entropy alloy electrocatalysis

We Finally Know Why the TSA Is Cracking Down on Clear at Airport Security

Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss

The Transformer Blueprint

Real-Time Monitoring of Aerosols Generated from Toilet Flushing

Generally Intelligent (YC S17) Is Hiring Machine Learning Engineers

The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide

413. The Isle of Luing

Wordward Draw

The Python Steering Council intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional

LeMUR: LLMs for Audio and Speech

Annual EFF Awards Goe to Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal

LAN Party

WordPress Core to start using SQLite

A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic

Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

Chaos gardening is the carefree approach to gardening anyone can try

People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"

Meta Q2 2023 revenue is up 11% YOY

Treemaps Are Awesome!

Education Dept. opens inquiry into Harvard legacy admissions

Job applicants are battling AI résumé filters with ‘white fonting’

Sam Altman demands regulation in effort to limit competition

Threads and Goroutines

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Intel AVX10: The Successor to AVX-512

Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction

Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)

In Which I Claim Rich Hickey Is Wrong (2020)

Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable

Time to bring back asylums?

The Standard Model

Amsterdam bans cruise ships to limit visitors and curb pollution

Ask HN: What are some LLM prompts you've found useful?

Borderline personality disorder: a spurious condition unsupported by scie (cont)

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video]

Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind [video]

Coupled slow oscillations coordinate neuronal processing during human sleep

Economics, Anthropology and the Origin of Money as a Bargaining Counter

Complex Hearts

A framework to securely use LLMs in companies – Part 1: Overview of Risks

Birds and Human Flight

10NES

How to Convert Bytes to Grams

Facebook, Instagram face Norwegian ban from tracking users for ads

WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas

Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting

The deadly “dancing plague” of 1518

Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

From second thoughts on the germ theory to a full-blown host theory

Show HN: Recursive COW Pages in Userspace

Microsoft takes pains to obscure role in 0-days that caused email breach

Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG

Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)

Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools

Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library

When a Simple Blue Light Was the Hot New Anaesthetic in Dentistry

How is the speed of light measured? (1997)

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter

Breaking java.lang.String

Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps

Microarchitectural Attacks on Hardware RISC-V CPUs [pdf]

Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

Show HN: The full source code and assets for my custom game engine and game

Making a potato livecam with the Commodore 128 VDC and ComputerEyes

Postmortem: Co-founding a Web3 startup as a crypto skeptic young dev

Gandi.net updates pricing increases rates by up to 1000%

Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C

Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone

Fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe (2015)

Why engineers should focus on writing

Computationally optimal arrangements of barbell plates

The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go

Open Letter to Tim OReilly to Free the Perl Camel

Building a more efficient bike [video]

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky [video]

Is Htmx Gaining in Popularity?

Intel VT-rp Part 1. remapping attack and HLAT

The horrors of Pompeii

LXD Moves into Canonical

The location of this RSS feed has changed

Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote

Video: Iranian Navy Warship Fires on Oil Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

Heat Pumps The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

[ASAP] Highly Enantioselective Radical Cation [2 2] and [4 2] Cycloadditions by Chiral Iron(III) Photoredox Catalysis

Effective Git as a Solo Developer

Engineers at UMass Amherst harvest clean energy from thin air

You need to plan for token revocation

Velt (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Frontend Engineer in US

Booting RISC-V Linux on Star64 JH7110 SBC

The evolving Unix attitudes on handling signals in your code

Norway discovers Phosphate deposit large enough to supply world for 100 years

[ASAP] Stereocontrolled Radical Thiophosphorylation

Cs Biggest Mistake

43% of white Harvard students are legacy athlete or donor/staff related (2019)

Review of Going the Distance: The Rise of the Business Corporation 1400-1700

Jef Raskin's writings: Holes in the Histories (1994)

Moving data from iCloud may need to be made easier by EU law