The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion

Link: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-seeks-to-launch-a-nuclear-powered-rocket-engine-in-four-years/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102610

Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk

Link: https://www.ugu.rs/blog/auditory-illusions-with-samples-from-daft-punk/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37103802

Record Labels Hit Internet Archive with New $400M+ Copyright Lawsuit

Link: https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-hit-internet-archive-with-new-400m-copyright-lawsuit-230812/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100140

Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MpdZkGj5AI

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094599

Internet Archive: “Our Fight Is Far from Over”

Link: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/our-fight-is-far-from-over/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096149

Zero Motorcycles steps up and makes its service manuals free

Link: https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/zero-motorcycles-steps-up-and-makes-its-service-manuals-free/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085138

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper

Link: https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096015

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/80percent-of-bosses-say-they-regret-earlier-return-to-office-plans.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093854

Web Environment Integrity has no standing at W3C; understanding new W3C work

Link: https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/web-environment-integrity-has-no-standing-at-w3c/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093632

Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088087

Judge to revoke bail for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/judge-to-revoke-bail-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-over-witness-tampering.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37092861

Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models

Link: https://www.anyscale.com/blog/fine-tuning-llama-2-a-comprehensive-case-study-for-tailoring-models-to-unique-applications

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090632

Pentium floating-point division bug (1994)

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37065391

The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)

Link: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-crash-of-air-france-flight-447-8a7678c37982

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37089363

YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban

Link: https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-site-goes-offline-as-hosting-provider-enforces-court-ordered-ban-230809/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37089545

Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with

Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowsersAndHTTPStatusCodes

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085449

What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers

Link: https://spacelift.io/blog/hashicorps-license-change

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088548

Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife

Link: https://theconversation.com/feral-desert-donkeys-are-digging-wells-giving-water-to-parched-wildlife-159909

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37087303

Fastest Branchless Binary Search

Link: https://mhdm.dev/posts/sb_lower_bound/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086796

I fixed a bug the other day

Link: https://www.javiergonzalez.io/blog/i-fixed-a-bug/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37084262