I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts: https://github.com/dredozubov/polyrhythmix

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36510273

Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-cancer-risk-carcinogenic

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519942

Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry: https://morepablo.com/2023/06/creatives-industries.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523571

Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/google-set-to-remove-news-links-in-canada-meta-ends-contract-for-journalism-fellowship-as-bill-c-18-fallout-continues-1.6461557

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524662

Github.com is down: https://github.com/status

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523843

Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02167-7

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520925

Ask HN: Is GitHub down?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523878

Racket: Lisp for the modern day: https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/racket-the-scheme-you-should-try

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519359

Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam: https://old.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/comments/142j3yt/valve_is_not_willing_to_publish_games_with_ai/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36522665

Programming languages going above and beyond: https://whileydave.com/2023/06/27/programming-languages-going-above-and-beyond/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519497

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-29/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520658

OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs: https://erichartford.com/openorca

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515187

Canada’s new tech talent strategy: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36516237

Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1: https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/us-east-1-latency

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36511012

Kagi raises $670k: https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517149

The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition: https://awk.dev/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517525

Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/26/1075504/junk-websites-filled-with-ai-generated-text-are-pulling-in-money-from-programmatic-ads/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514063

Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-dialer-messages-app-3334980/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36516315

CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/stdlib-cli-tools

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515531

Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B: https://www.pismo.io/blog/visa-to-acquire-pismo/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36513135