Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

Link: https://twitter.com/llanga/status/1676846870520291329

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612835

Stop trying to make social networks succeed

Link: https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614788

/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

Link: https://uses.tech

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613543

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

Link: https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037

Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”

Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/judge-rules-white-house-pressured-social-networks-to-suppress-free-speech/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614678

Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603163

Godot 4.1 Is Released

Link: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-1-is-here/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614114

Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World

Link: https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-making-of-noctis-the-no-mans-sky-forerunner-whose-creator-retreated-from-the-world

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610343

Encyclopaedia Metallum

Link: https://www.metal-archives.com/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584180

Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

Link: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611355

Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612434

Starting design work in a spreadsheet

Link: https://clearleft.com/thinking/starting-design-work-in-a-spreadsheet

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607064

InternLM – new open source 7B LLM

Link: https://github.com/InternLM/InternLM

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612306

My Problem with the Four-Document Model

Link: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/problems-with-the-4doc-model/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610846

Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]

Link: https://podtail.com/podcast/future-tense-full-program-podcast/cory-doctorow-platform-capitalism-and-the-curse-of/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611245

Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming

Link: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36583743

The many ways that digital minds can know – A better way to think about LLMs

Link: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/the-many-ways-that-digital-minds-can-know/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603573

FunctionTrace: Graphical Python Profiler

Link: https://functiontrace.com

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605730

Cloud Backed SQLite

Link: https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610595

How to foster shoshin

Link: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-cultivate-shoshin-or-a-beginners-mind

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36601290