The Tetris Effect

Link: https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060305

Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-students-shoot-down-a-widely-believed-math-conjecture-20230810/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076933

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source

Link: https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073938

Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?

Link: https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/grokking/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076210

MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076523

Sixto Rodriguez, subject of 'Searching for Sugarman' documentary, dies at 81

Link: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/singer-songwriter-sixto-rodriguez-subject-searching-sugarman-documentary-102133209

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37065288

Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (2015)

Link: http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37045803

'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down

Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3jwb/unbelievable-astronomer-claims-direct-evidence-of-gravity-breaking-down

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073494

Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/workplace_monitoring_select_committee/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37074095

Doctors on TikTok

Link: https://thewalrus.ca/medical-tiktok/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37071472

Speed Test

Link: https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073885

The Future of the Vim Project

Link: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/dq9Wu5jqVTw

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37074452

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072530

Has Google Translate been fixed yet?

Link: https://isgooglefixed.tw/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072851

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years

Link: https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072588

Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler

Link: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/paul-graham/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37070218

Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming [pdf]

Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3570638

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37067894

Archive of novelty answering machine recordings

Link: http://www.noveltyansweringmachine.com/audio/index.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37063774

Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground

Link: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061127

Why Static Languages Suffer from Complexity (2022)

Link: https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/why-static-languages-suffer-from-complexity.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37063695