India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/21/india-ban-on-rice-exports-raises-fear-of-global-food-price-rises

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36814627

In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"

Link: https://www.alessiofanelli.com/blog/llama2-isnt-open-source

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815255

By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways

Link: https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/fast-chargers-every-60-km-key-eu-motorways?a=FJA05&t%5B0%5D=Charging&curl=1

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36814754

90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813210

Paper Airplane Ideas and Tips

Link: https://www.foldnfly.com/runway.php

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784032

Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02374-2

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813564

Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

Link: https://primocms.org

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813086

Sub-Pixel Distance Transform

Link: https://acko.net/blog/subpixel-distance-transform/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809404

Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation immediately

Link: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/releases/tag/v0.46.6.1

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812256

Ability to See Expertise Is a Milestone Worth Aiming For

Link: https://commoncog.com/seeing-expertise-milestone-worth-aiming-for/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784864

My Beautiful Friend

Link: https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/my-beautiful-friend/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807071

Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

Link: https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/accelerator-report-quench-lhc-inner-triplet-magnet-causes-small-leak-major

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811018

I have written a JVM in Rust

Link: https://andreabergia.com/blog/2023/07/i-have-written-a-jvm-in-rust/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811554

Ask HN: What are some low cost payment processing alternatives to Stripe?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811026

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common

Link: https://www.evanjones.ca/nanosecond-collisions.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810818

Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home

Link: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/amazon-shuts-down-customers-smart-home.2392704/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810075

Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/movie-adds-oppenheimer-s-celebrity-just-how-good-physicist-was-he

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808001

Richard Rhodes wrote a classic book about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/richard-rhodes-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-ai/674777/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806922

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

Link: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-study-finds-billions-of-nanoplastics-released-when-microwaving/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809565

Lit: Simple, fast web components

Link: https://lit.dev/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806747