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
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
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
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