90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813210
Web Environment Integrity API Proposal: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305
Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists: https://natesilver.substack.com/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818896
‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/07/21/world-of-warcraft-players-trick-ai-scraping-games-website-into-publishing-nonsense/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815744
In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights": https://www.alessiofanelli.com/blog/llama2-isnt-open-source
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815255
Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022): https://commoncog.com/seeing-expertise-milestone-worth-aiming-for/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784864
Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/accelerator-report-quench-lhc-inner-triplet-magnet-causes-small-leak-major
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811018
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG: https://primocms.org
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813086
An invitation to a secret society: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807763
Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common: https://www.evanjones.ca/nanosecond-collisions.html
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810818
Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02374-2
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813564
I have written a JVM in Rust: https://andreabergia.com/blog/2023/07/i-have-written-a-jvm-in-rust/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811554
Python Cheatsheet: https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806753
Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-study-finds-billions-of-nanoplastics-released-when-microwaving/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809565
Oxide Computer: Docs: https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/introduction
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806539
Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802582
Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2T9NpG8thZgJ:https://community.fly.io/t/service-interruption-cant-destroy-machine-deploy-or-restart/14227&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296
A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis: https://www.linyangchen.com/Typography-Fell-Types-font
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807108
Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it: https://addyosmani.com/blog/good-code/
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807028