Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/19/google_cuts_internet/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797471

Octos – HTML live wallpaper engine

Link: https://github.com/underpig1/octos

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36824595

Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (2003)

Link: https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/news/tomacco.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36824856

MSX-DOS

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797650

I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach

Link: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-cell-carcinoma-and-the-treatments-that-might-save-me-are-just-out-of-reach/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827438

Why even let users set their own passwords?

Link: https://www.devever.net/~hl/passwords

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36826111

I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021)

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-thought-i-wanted-be-faculty-member-then-i-served-hiring-committee

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825204

Apple's interactive television box: Hacking the set top box System 7.1 in ROM

Link: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/07/apples-interactive-television-box.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823565

AWS networking concepts in a diagram

Link: https://miparnisariblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/aws-networking-concepts/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823516

What we talk about when we talk about System Design

Link: https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2023/07/12/Design.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823375

Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration (1996)

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20030218034509/http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/dtg/davidhov/pap.htm

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821871

Plane – open-source Jira alternative

Link: https://plane.so

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36824450

Putting the “You” in CPU

Link: https://cpu.land/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823605

Bun v0.7.0

Link: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v0.7.0

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823723

ElKaWe – Electrocaloric heat pumps

Link: https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/research/lighthouse-projects-fraunhofer-initiatives/fraunhofer-lighthouse-projects/elkawe.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823524

Internet search tips

Link: https://gwern.net/search

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822880

Confronting failure as a core life skill

Link: https://buildinghealthier.substack.com/p/confronting-failure-as-a-core-life

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784114

Book Review: The Laws of Trading

Link: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-laws-of-trading

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820105

FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs

Link: https://stability.ai/blog/freewilly-large-instruction-fine-tuned-models

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818923

NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP

Link: https://nativephp.com/docs/1/getting-started/introduction

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820555