Minify and Gzip (2022)

Link: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/minify-and-gzip

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734479

What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables for decades

Link: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/what-att-and-verizon-knew-about-toxic-lead-cables/a288b7d4-28f3-470e-b6c4-72341c97b3a0

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758680

Notes on Puzzles

Link: https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/notes-on-puzzles

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757492

Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36754366

The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality

Link: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757798

Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/Recent_research

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757520

Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?

Link: https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758433

British F-35Bs to Bring Vertical Landing Abilities to Highways

Link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/british-f-35bs-to-bring-vertical-landing-abilities-to-highways

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735529

Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Link: https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36756101

A Firefox-Only Minimap

Link: https://www.stefanjudis.com/a-firefox-only-minimap/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757542

Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/science/magpies-birds-nests.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36743286

Using XPath in 2023

Link: https://denizaksimsek.com/2023/xpath/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36752419

Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS

Link: https://getgrav.org/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36751375

Exploring Linear A

Link: https://lineara.xyz/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750743

TODO apps are meant for robots

Link: https://frantic.im/todo-for-robots/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745858

Show HN: Structured output from LLMs without reprompting

Link: https://automorphic.ai/playground

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750083

Red Programming Language

Link: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36752146

Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer

Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753032

LazyVim

Link: https://www.lazyvim.org/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753225

Citizen scientists observe gamma ray glow associated with lightning flash

Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103612

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748393