We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study

Link: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-problems.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575190

Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

Link: https://avestura.dev/blog/problems-of-c-and-how-zig-addresses-them

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572645

Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk

Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kAmgdEjq2eYQkB5PP/douglas-hofstadter-changes-his-mind-on-deep-learning-and-ai

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36569365

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575003

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

Link: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273229-foundationdb-a-distributed-key-value-store/fulltext

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572658

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573871

Wikipedia switches to CC BY-SA 4.0 license

Link: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/29/stepping-into-the-future-wikimedia-projects-transition-to-creative-commons-4-0-license/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570714

Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels

Link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/self-driving-cars-are-surveillance-cameras-on-wheels.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572401

Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth

Link: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/02/nvidias-h100-funny-l2-and-tons-of-bandwidth/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36569044

Data-Oriented Design (2018)

Link: https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/dodmain.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571110

Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567918

Perl 5.38

Link: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5380delta

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36569727

Simula – The forgotten programming language

Link: https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/simula-the-forgotten-programming

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550086

Googling for answers costs time (2020)

Link: https://prashanth.world/seo-ruining-programming-help/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565225

The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird

Link: https://collindonnell.com/the-xerox-smalltalk-80-gui-was-weird

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566638

Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang

Link: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/ericsson-to-whatsapp-the-story-of

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566167

Google search's death by a thousand cuts

Link: https://matt-rickard.com/google-searchs-death-by-a-thousand-cuts

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564042

WebAuthn Is Great and It Sucks (2020)

Link: https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/04/webauthn-great-and-it-sucks/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565405

Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (1984)

Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/apple-macintosh

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562958

Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months

Link: https://thedriven.io/2023/07/03/tesla-on-track-to-smash-targets-after-producing-almost-a-million-evs-in-first-6-months/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567725