A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009)

Link: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36471999

Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh

Link: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/turmeric-lead-risk-detect/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481693

P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)

Link: https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken&page=P1030680

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36483445

Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity

Link: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-physicists-superconductivity.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479776

ChatHN: Chat with Hacker News using OpenAI function calling

Link: https://github.com/steven-tey/chathn

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480570

Every factorial is a power

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/23/every-factorial-is-a-power/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479387

IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits

Link: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36483276

Suit Alleges Recreation.Gov Cluttered with Junk Fees, Seeks Millions in Refunds

Link: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/02/update-lawsuit-alleges-recreationgov-cluttered-junk-fees-seeks-refunds

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481279

The World’s Empty Office Buildings Have Become a Debt Time Bomb

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/commercial-real-estate-reset-is-causing-distress-from-san-francisco-to-hong-kong

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480571

Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature

Link: https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673326463297392640

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480007

Show HN: Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration

Link: https://mofi.loud.red/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480687

A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afters users were 95% fake

Link: https://fortune.com/2023/06/25/irl-shutting-down-startup-admits-95-percent-of-messaging-app-users-were-fake/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475376

Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years

Link: https://www.thedrive.com/news/oregon-finally-legalizes-pumping-your-own-gas-after-72-years

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479974

Databricks Strikes $1.3B Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML

Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478734

Generate invoices from the command line

Link: https://github.com/maaslalani/invoice

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36472378

U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

Link: https://text.npr.org/1184034017

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480122

Devtools for Mobile Browsers

Link: https://eruda.liriliri.io/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478528

I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)

Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36479882

Text Rendering Hates You (2019)

Link: https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478892

How Integers and Floats Work

Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/23/new-zine--how-integers-and-floats-work/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475974