Why is desalination so difficult?

Link: https://practical.engineering/blog/2023/6/28/why-is-desalination-so-difficult

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602909

The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System by Dennis M. Ritchie (1984) [pdf]

Link: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36598254

Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers

Link: https://deno.com/blog/v1.35

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36599893

Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews

Link: https://github.com/karanpratapsingh/system-design

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36599706

AI weights are not open “source”

Link: https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-06-27-ai-weights-are-not-open-source/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36601622

Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

Link: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602193

Ariane 5 User’s Manual (2011) [pdf]

Link: https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ariane5_users_manual_Issue5_July2011.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36598062

How to think about `async`/`await` in Rust

Link: http://cliffle.com/blog/async-inversion/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570321

Regex Engine Internals as a Library

Link: https://blog.burntsushi.net/regex-internals/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600263

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600020

Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better

Link: https://twitter.com/sigma__dev/status/1676505365935005696

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36599217

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements

Link: https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/06/26/the-hardest-part-of-building-software-is-not-coding-its-requirements/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597709

How many people have ever lived on Earth?

Link: https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593206

PhD Simulator

Link: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597534

Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023

Link: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36598618

Our Journey with Apache Arrow (Part 2): Adaptive Schemas and Sorting

Link: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/06/26/our-journey-at-f5-with-apache-arrow-part-2/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36594695

Open Letter from Security Researchers in Relation to the Online Safety Bill [pdf]

Link: https://haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenletter.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596610

Functions and algorithms implemented purely with TypeScript's type system

Link: https://github.com/ronami/meta-typing

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36595512

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands

Link: http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2023/07/03/unescodemoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-the-netherlands/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460

Designing a Language Without a Parser

Link: https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/type-inference/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591079