Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote

Link: https://twitter.com/StanfordGWU/status/1677048098080845824

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36622691

Air France Denied My Delay Compensation, So I Challenged Them and Won

Link: https://airdisputes.com/air-france-denied-my-delay-compensation-so-i-challenged-them-and-won/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624294

AI for AWS Documentation

Link: https://www.awsdocsgpt.com/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36619481

Demystifying Text Data with the Unstructured Python Library

Link: https://saeedesmaili.com/demystifying-text-data-with-the-unstructured-python-library/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616799

Six times faster than C

Link: https://owen.cafe/posts/six-times-faster-than-c/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618344

Threads profiles can't be deleted without removing your entire Instagram account

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23786029/instagram-threads-profiles-deleted-removing

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621526

Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine

Link: https://www.igalia.com/chats/ladybird

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620450

GPT-4 API General Availability

Link: https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621120

Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation

Link: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-tors-history-of-d-dos-attacks-strategy-for-mitigation/8145

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615849

PlanetScale Scaler Pro

Link: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-scaler-pro

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36617433

USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals

Link: https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/tap-water-study-detects-pfas-forever-chemicals-across-us

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36617822

Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better

Link: https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/open-source-with-profanity-in-comments-is-statistically-better-than-code-without-it/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584464

The case against self-closing tags in HTML

Link: https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615691

Declarative Enhancement for HTML

Link: https://twinspark.js.org/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613144

Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem

Link: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/partial-outage-on-30-june-2023/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616023

Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-baby-octopuses-hatch-from-a-surprising-deep-sea-nursery/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600179

Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02486

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614774

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth

Link: https://apnews.com/article/global-record-breaking-heat-july-27069b5380117534d78f1f40a6edc7a0

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616491

Lego building instructions

Link: https://archive.org/details/lego-set-instructions

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616398

DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash

Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/digitalocean-acquires-paperspace-expand-ai-120000933.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614924