Have you seen these dehumidifiers? Stop using them or you might die

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23835116/have-you-seen-these-dehumidifiers-stop-using-them-or-you-might-die

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164155

Scientists are only beginning to understand how PFAS impacting our health

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/pfas-toxic-chemicals.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145701

They Tried to Kill Me

Link: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145491

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143159

Modern CSV version 2

Link: https://www.moderncsv.com/modern-csv-2-is-now-available/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140159

How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?

Link: https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140013

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule

Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/isps-complain-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard-urge-fcc-to-scrap-new-rule/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37138681

Requiring ink to scan a document–yet another insult from the printer industry

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/the-printers-that-require-ink-to-scan-and-fax/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37138691

Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/archiving-hip-hop-history/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37119795

Show HN: Llama2 Embeddings FastAPI Server

Link: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llama_embeddings_fastapi_service

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133163

Code Is Not Literature (2014)

Link: https://gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37134520

Why host your own LLM?

Link: http://marble.onl/posts/why_host_your_own_llm.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133504

The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V

Link: https://github.com/Cube9999/vi

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100833

Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Faster-SunSpider

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37134092

Show HN: CSS Selectors – A Visual Guide

Link: https://fffuel.co/css-selectors/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37132754

The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm

Link: https://mindmatters.ai/2023/08/a-warning-from-the-unpublished-preface-to-orwells-animal-farm/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129768

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/montana-loses-fight-against-youth-climate-activists-in-landmark-ruling/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127606

JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/jwst-spots-giant-black-holes-all-over-the-early-universe-20230814/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37123792

Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet

Link: https://stackdiary.com/the-data-of-760000-discord-io-users-was-put-up-for-sale-on-the-darknet/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124187

Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts

Link: https://emiruz.com/post/2023-08-12-data-jobs/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120874