The Great Libraries of Rome

L: https://aeon.co/essays/romes-libraries-were-shrines-to-knowledge-and-imperial-power

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998027

Catching up on the weird world of LLMs

L: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994532

Google Maps has become an eyesore

L: https://www.fastcompany.com/90930810/google-maps-eyesore-5-examples-apple-maps

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030044

Efficient keyboard layout for English and Spanish

L: https://github.com/christoofar/canaria

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029913

What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally

L: https://agi-sphere.com/llama-2/

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028150

Scientists develop pill able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research

L: https://www.cityofhope.org/city-hope-scientists-develop-targeted-chemotherapy-able-kill-all-solid-tumors-preclinical-research

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029674

The Design and Implementation of Userland Exec (2014)

L: https://grugq.github.io/docs/ul_exec.txt

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025843

Uber CEO Stunned When He Heard Cost of 3-Mile Uber Ride

L: https://futurism.com/the-byte/uber-ceo-ride-cost

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029081

95 Tesla Deaths Due to Fires, Autopilot: Timeline of Fatalities

L: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-deaths

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029565

Why 16th century European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants [video]

L: https://aeon.co/videos/why-european-artists-shifted-their-focus-from-power-to-peasants-in-the-16th-century

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37002568

Cloth Simulation

L: https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028247

Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere [pdf]

L: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028310

Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation

L: https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36995940

Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano

L: https://whipsaw.com/2023/06/05/unveiling-ravenchord-a-radical-piano-redesign-from-dan-harden/

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028223

If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose

L: https://slate.com/business/2023/01/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weight-joe-biden.html

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028595

The Physics of Readability

L: https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/physics-of-readability

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003148

Ancient DNA reveals the living descendants of enslaved people through 23andMe

L: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02478-9

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028182

We are pleased to announce that DreamBerd has been renamed to C

L: https://github.com/TodePond/C

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37028043

A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]

L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJsVqc0ywM

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001992

Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings

L: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tarot-arcana/id1539747669

C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027639